Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Microterra Biotec Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO, in 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner is LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO, who has 1 pending office action. This single filing represents the entire current pending portfolio for the company within the chemistry and materials sector.
The concentration of the workload within 1 distinct art unit and with a single examiner indicates a specific prosecution path. This single point of interaction with the office means the company can focus its resources on addressing the specific technical requirements of one official. To advance the application, the company must satisfy the criteria of the 1 distinct art unit while responding to the individual feedback provided by the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1 | 8.9% | +12.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041326 | Lemna (Duckweed) and Other Feedstocks | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 182d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041326 | Lemna (Duckweed) and Other Feedstocks | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 182d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19041326 | Lemna (Duckweed) and Other Feedstocks | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 182d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
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