Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Agriculture And Food Research Organization currently has 5 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct art units, showing a broad technical footprint within the patent office's life sciences divisions. This distribution suggests that the company's research and development efforts span several specialized sub-fields of biotechnology.
The prosecution workload is spread among 5 distinct examiners, which means each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. QAYYUM, ZESHAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This indicates that the busiest examiner handles 1 active case, with the remaining actions assigned to other distinct examiners. This high ratio of examiners to actions requires the company to adapt to many different examination styles simultaneously.
The presence of 5 pending office actions across 4 distinct art units suggests a complex prosecution strategy involving multiple facets of Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. Because the company interacts with 5 distinct examiners, practitioners must tailor their approaches to multiple sets of examiner preferences and interpretations across the portfolio's active applications. This diversity in the prosecution landscape may lead to varying timelines for resolution across the different art units.
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 | 40.5% | +30.8% |
| ZHENG, LI | 1 | 83.6% | +12.9% |
| ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL | 1 | 59.2% | +42.1% |
| WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | 1 | 85.3% | +9.9% |
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 3 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 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 | — | §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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