Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Instituto Nacional De Technologia Agropecuaria is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The prosecution profile for this company is highly concentrated, with only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved. This suggests that the company's current patent efforts are focused on a specific innovation that falls within a single technical classification at the patent office.
The busiest examiner, KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V, is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 action constitutes the total pending workload for the company, making the examiner's specific feedback the primary focus for the legal team. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution environment is stable and lacks the complexity of multi-unit filings.
Practitioners can dedicate their resources to understanding the specific preferences of KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V, rather than managing diverse examiner behaviors across different units. A detailed review of the examiner's past actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals can provide a roadmap for resolving the 1 pending office action. The company's success in this 1 distinct art unit will be determined by the outcome of this pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 1 | 69.5% | +25.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17313747 | HERBICIDE-RESISTANT RICE PLANTS, POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING HERBICIDE-RESISTANT ACETOHYDROXYACID SYNTHASE LARGE SUBUNIT PROTEINS, AND METHODS OF USE | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17313747 | HERBICIDE-RESISTANT RICE PLANTS, POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING HERBICIDE-RESISTANT ACETOHYDROXYACID SYNTHASE LARGE SUBUNIT PROTEINS, AND METHODS OF USE | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 1662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 06, 2021 |
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