Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
18 pending office actions • 3 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (6%) |
| §103 only | 10 (56%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 3 | 77.8% | +13.4% |
| STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 3 | 67.6% | +28.8% |
| MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN | 1 | 89.1% | +6.6% |
| BYRNES, DAVID R | 1 | 77.9% | +22.4% |
| KUMAR, VINOD | 1 | 82.7% | +20.4% |
| IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED | 1 | 87.3% | +12.2% |
| KEOGH, MATTHEW R | 1 | 78.3% | +14.5% |
| KUBELIK, ANNE R | 1 | 75.8% | -1.0% |
| ZHENG, LI | 1 | 83.6% | +12.8% |
| COLLINS, CYNTHIA E | 1 | 82.4% | +8.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18703773 | PLANT GENOME EDITING METHODS | KUMAR, VINOD | 70d |
| 18255671 | PEST AND PATHOGEN RESISTANT SOYBEAN PLANTS | ZHENG, LI | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18302601 | GENE EDITED SOYBEAN PLANTS WITH ENHANCED TRAITS | COLLINS, CYNTHIA E | 9d overdue |
| 19180744 | IMPROVED POLYNUCLEOTIDES FOR EXPRESSION OF RNA-GUIDED NUCLEASES AND DNA BINDING PROTEINS IN SOYBEAN | MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN | — |
| 18623512 | GENETICALLY ENHANCED MAIZE PLANTS | IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED | — |
| 18021377 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED VARIANT EFFECT ASSESSMENT AND USES THEREOF | LIU, GUOZHEN | — |
| 17772106 | BASE-EDITING SYSTEMS | SPENCER, ANDREA LYNNE MORRIS | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18481069 | INIR19 TRANSGENIC SOYBEAN WITH JUNCTION POLYNUCLEOTIDE DELETIONS | STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 10d overdue |
| 18452330 | INIR4 TRANSGENIC MAIZE WITH JUNCTION SEQUENCE DELETIONS | STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 10d overdue |
| 18481358 | INIR11 TRANSGENIC MAIZE WITH JUNCTION SEQUENCE DELETIONS | KEOGH, MATTHEW R | 8d overdue |
| 18452225 | INIR17 TRANSGENIC MAIZE WITH JUNCTION SEQUENCE DELETIONS | STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 61d |
| 18703773 | PLANT GENOME EDITING METHODS | KUMAR, VINOD | 70d |
| 18960955 | GENETIC REGULATORY ELEMENT | BYRNES, DAVID R | — |
| 18799936 | INHT26 TRANSGENIC SOYBEAN | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | — |
| 18623512 | GENETICALLY ENHANCED MAIZE PLANTS | IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1663 | 10 |
| 1662 | 6 |
| 1631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19180744 | IMPROVED POLYNUCLEOTIDES FOR EXPRESSION OF RNA-GUIDED NUCLEASES AND DNA BINDING PROTEINS IN SOYBEAN | MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN | 1663 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 18960955 | GENETIC REGULATORY ELEMENT | BYRNES, DAVID R | 1662 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18799936 | INHT26 TRANSGENIC SOYBEAN | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 1663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18703773 | PLANT GENOME EDITING METHODS | KUMAR, VINOD | 1663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18623512 | GENETICALLY ENHANCED MAIZE PLANTS | IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED | 1662 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18481358 | INIR11 TRANSGENIC MAIZE WITH JUNCTION SEQUENCE DELETIONS | KEOGH, MATTHEW R | 1663 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 18481069 | INIR19 TRANSGENIC SOYBEAN WITH JUNCTION POLYNUCLEOTIDE DELETIONS | STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 1663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18462778 | MODIFIED MON89788 SOYBEAN TRANSGENIC HERBICIDE TOLERANCE LOCUS | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 1663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18452225 | INIR17 TRANSGENIC MAIZE WITH JUNCTION SEQUENCE DELETIONS | STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 1663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 18452330 | INIR4 TRANSGENIC MAIZE WITH JUNCTION SEQUENCE DELETIONS | STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 1663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 18357624 | INSECT RESISTANT INIR6 TRANSGENIC MAIZE PLANTS LACKING A SELECTABLE MARKER AND JUNCTION | KUBELIK, ANNE R | 1663 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18255671 | PEST AND PATHOGEN RESISTANT SOYBEAN PLANTS | ZHENG, LI | 1662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18302601 | GENE EDITED SOYBEAN PLANTS WITH ENHANCED TRAITS | COLLINS, CYNTHIA E | 1662 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
| 18021377 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED VARIANT EFFECT ASSESSMENT AND USES THEREOF | LIU, GUOZHEN | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 18162681 | INHT26 TRANSGENIC SOYBEAN | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 1663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
| 18007112 | EXPEDITED BREEDING OF TRANSGENIC CROP PLANTS BY GENOME EDITING | ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | 1662 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 18007019 | EXCISABLE PLANT TRANSGENIC LOCI WITH SIGNATURE PROTOSPACER ADJACENT MOTIFS | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 1662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
| 17772106 | BASE-EDITING SYSTEMS | SPENCER, ANDREA LYNNE MORRIS | 1631 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial