Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Institute Of Environment And Sustainable Development In Agriculture Caas has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, with FEACHER, LORENA R serving as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The entire pending portfolio is situated within 1 distinct art unit.
The use of 2 distinct examiners for the pending office actions indicates that each case is being handled by a different individual. This requires the applicant to manage separate examiner relationships and adapt to their individual examination styles. However, because both examiners are located within 1 distinct art unit, the company can expect a certain level of procedural consistency across both cases.
FEACHER, LORENA R is responsible for 1 pending office action, which represents a portion of the company's current pending workload. This distribution suggests that the company's prosecution efforts are balanced between the distinct examiners. Practitioners can leverage their experience within the 1 distinct art unit to inform their strategies for both of the 2 pending office actions. This structure emphasizes the importance of individual examiner engagement within a unified technical framework.
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 only | 1 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FEACHER, LORENA R | 1 | 28.5% | +32.1% |
| RHO, YONG DOO | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18803309 | METHOD FOR MATCHING CROP AND LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY PRODUCTION IN THE SAME REGION BASED ON COMBINATION OF PLANTING AND BREEDING | FEACHER, LORENA R | 31d overdue |
| 18653172 | ENSEMBLE LEARNING-BASED OPTIMIZED EVALUATION METHOD FOR IMPROVEMENT EFFECT OF ORGANIC MATERIALS ON SOIL QUALITY | RHO, YONG DOO | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18803309 | METHOD FOR MATCHING CROP AND LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY PRODUCTION IN THE SAME REGION BASED ON COMBINATION OF PLANTING AND BREEDING | FEACHER, LORENA R | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18803309 | METHOD FOR MATCHING CROP AND LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY PRODUCTION IN THE SAME REGION BASED ON COMBINATION OF PLANTING AND BREEDING | FEACHER, LORENA R | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18653172 | ENSEMBLE LEARNING-BASED OPTIMIZED EVALUATION METHOD FOR IMPROVEMENT EFFECT OF ORGANIC MATERIALS ON SOIL QUALITY | RHO, YONG DOO | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
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