Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Agriculture And Food Research Organization has 5 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units. This high level of dispersion means that every active matter is being reviewed by a different official in a different unit. Such a spread requires a broad prosecution strategy that can adapt to five different sets of examiner preferences and art unit standards.
QAYYUM, ZESHAN is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action under their review. Since there are 5 pending actions in total, the workload is evenly distributed, with each of the 5 distinct examiners responsible for exactly one case. This lack of concentration suggests that the company's agricultural and food-related biotechnology innovations are being vetted across a wide range of technical specialties. Practitioners should be prepared for diverse feedback across these 5 separate prosecution tracks.
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 (20%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QAYYUM, ZESHAN | 1 | 40.7% | +30.9% |
| ZHENG, LI | 1 | 83.5% | +13.0% |
| ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL | 1 | 58.3% | +43.1% |
| WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 1 | 85.2% | +10.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18463453 | PIG REARING SUPPORT APPARATUS, PIG REARING SUPPORT METHOD, AND NON-VOLATILE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PIG REARING SUPPORT PROGRAM | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 16d overdue |
| 18841145 | DOUBLE-FLOWERED TORENIA PLANT WITH EXCELLENT ORNAMENTAL PROPERTIES, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | ZHENG, LI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846160 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT METHOD, AND AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT DEVICE | QAYYUM, ZESHAN | — |
| 18571109 | NOVEL BACTERIUM THAT CONTRIBUTES TO MASS PRODUCTION OF PROPIONIC ACID PRECURSOR SUBSTANCES | WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18463453 | PIG REARING SUPPORT APPARATUS, PIG REARING SUPPORT METHOD, AND NON-VOLATILE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PIG REARING SUPPORT PROGRAM | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 16d overdue |
| 18846160 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT METHOD, AND AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT DEVICE | QAYYUM, ZESHAN | — |
| 18841145 | DOUBLE-FLOWERED TORENIA PLANT WITH EXCELLENT ORNAMENTAL PROPERTIES, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | ZHENG, LI | — |
| 18833504 | COMPOSITION FOR INHIBITING AFLATOXIN PRODUCTION | ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3697 | 1 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| 1627 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18846160 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT METHOD, AND AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT DEVICE | QAYYUM, ZESHAN | 3697 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18841145 | DOUBLE-FLOWERED TORENIA PLANT WITH EXCELLENT ORNAMENTAL PROPERTIES, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | ZHENG, LI | 1662 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18833504 | COMPOSITION FOR INHIBITING AFLATOXIN PRODUCTION | ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL | 1627 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18571109 | NOVEL BACTERIUM THAT CONTRIBUTES TO MASS PRODUCTION OF PROPIONIC ACID PRECURSOR SUBSTANCES | WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | 1653 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18463453 | PIG REARING SUPPORT APPARATUS, PIG REARING SUPPORT METHOD, AND NON-VOLATILE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PIG REARING SUPPORT PROGRAM | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 2663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNational Agriculture And Food Research Organization has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Zeshan Qayyum has the most, with 1 of National Agriculture And Food Research Organization's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
