Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nanjing Agricultural University manages 3 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These cases are assigned to 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. This distribution requires a separate prosecution strategy for each of the 3 pending office actions. The lack of examiner overlap means that the university must navigate three different sets of examination styles.
CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units involved, the university's current life sciences portfolio is spread across multiple specialized areas. This one-to-one-to-one ratio between 3 actions, 3 examiners, and 3 art units highlights the variety of agricultural and biotechnological research currently under review. Each of the 3 pending office actions represents a unique technical hurdle in the biotechnology sector. The resolution of these 3 pending office actions will define the university's immediate progress at the patent office.
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%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 1 | 44.0% | +70.1% |
| BUCK, MATTHEW R | 1 | 83.3% | +14.4% |
| WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18931118 | COMBINED SEEDER FOR FULL STRAW MULCHING CONDITION OPERATION | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18475615 | USE OF INDICA RICE OsRNR10 GENE | WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865711 | USE OF GLYCINE MAX ASPARTATE KINASE/HOMOSERINE DEHYDROGENASE FAMILY GENE GmAK-HSDH | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | — |
| 18931118 | COMBINED SEEDER FOR FULL STRAW MULCHING CONDITION OPERATION | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18865711 | USE OF GLYCINE MAX ASPARTATE KINASE/HOMOSERINE DEHYDROGENASE FAMILY GENE GmAK-HSDH | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 1662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18931118 | COMBINED SEEDER FOR FULL STRAW MULCHING CONDITION OPERATION | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 3672 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18475615 | USE OF INDICA RICE OsRNR10 GENE | WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | 1663 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNanjing Agricultural University has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Jayanta Chatterjee has the most, with 1 of Nanjing Agricultural University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
