Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. There are currently 3 pending office actions associated with this company. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, which suggests the intellectual property covers multiple technical niches within the broader biotechnology field. For a practitioner, this distribution requires monitoring developments in more than one specialized division of the patent office.
The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, matching the total count of 3 pending office actions. ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner holds 1 action, the workload is evenly distributed among the 3 distinct examiners involved in the company's current filings.
The presence of 2 distinct art units implies that the pending office actions may face different examination standards based on their specific unit assignments. ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN manages a portion of the total pending actions. This lack of concentration among the 3 distinct examiners suggests that no single examiner's personal tendencies will dominate the outcome of the current portfolio prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | 1 | 45.7% | +61.3% |
| DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN | 1 | 41.4% | -44.4% |
| SWITZER, JULIET CAROLINE | 1 | 42.4% | +54.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17830731 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING M1 GENERATION PLANT MUTANTS RESULTING FROM PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS AND FOR ACQUIRING MUTANT, IDENTIFICATION OF GENOTYPING PRIMER FOR ORYZA SATIVA MUTATION, MUTANT GENE, AND USE THEREOF | SWITZER, JULIET CAROLINE | 45d overdue |
| 19037407 | APPLICATION OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCE IN IMPROVING SEED VIGOR AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING SEED VIGOR | ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17830731 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING M1 GENERATION PLANT MUTANTS RESULTING FROM PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS AND FOR ACQUIRING MUTANT, IDENTIFICATION OF GENOTYPING PRIMER FOR ORYZA SATIVA MUTATION, MUTANT GENE, AND USE THEREOF | SWITZER, JULIET CAROLINE | 45d overdue |
| 19037407 | APPLICATION OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCE IN IMPROVING SEED VIGOR AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING SEED VIGOR | ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19037407 | APPLICATION OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCE IN IMPROVING SEED VIGOR AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING SEED VIGOR | ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 17997117 | METHOD FOR PREPARING RICE PHOTOSENSITIVE MALE STERILE MATERIAL AND RELATED GENES THEREOF | DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN | 1662 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
| 17830731 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING M1 GENERATION PLANT MUTANTS RESULTING FROM PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS AND FOR ACQUIRING MUTANT, IDENTIFICATION OF GENOTYPING PRIMER FOR ORYZA SATIVA MUTATION, MUTANT GENE, AND USE THEREOF | SWITZER, JULIET CAROLINE | 1682 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
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