Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Newleaf Symbiotics Inc. has 5 pending office actions currently active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 5 actions are being handled by a matching number of distinct examiners, which indicates a broad distribution of the company's prosecution efforts. This variety of examiners means that the company's legal team must address different sets of examiner feedback and preferences across its pending applications.
The portfolio is spread across 3 distinct art units, showing that the company's biological innovations fall under the jurisdiction of several different specialized groups. The busiest examiner, FAN, WEIHUA, is currently assigned 1 pending office action. With each of the pending actions assigned to a different examiner, the portfolio lacks any single point of concentration. This structure suggests that the company's success in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector is subject to the independent reviews of different officials across the 3 separate art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAN, WEIHUA | 1 | 83.4% | +12.6% |
| DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 1 | 47.6% | +21.1% |
| SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| LYONS, MARY M | 1 | 65.5% | +41.5% |
| PURDY, KYLE A | 1 | 41.0% | +35.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17255270 | SELECTION AND GENETIC MODIFICATION OF PLANT ASSOCIATED METHYLOBACTERIUM | LYONS, MARY M | 30d overdue |
| 18004937 | MICROBIAL INOCULANT FORMULATIONS | SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17255270 | SELECTION AND GENETIC MODIFICATION OF PLANT ASSOCIATED METHYLOBACTERIUM | LYONS, MARY M | 30d overdue |
| 17056797 | MICROBIAL MICROCAPSULE COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND RELATED METHODS | PURDY, KYLE A | 18d overdue |
| 19299056 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CONTROLLING ROOT LESION NEMATODES | FAN, WEIHUA | — |
| 18488471 | METHYLOBACTERIUM STRAINS FOR CONTROLLING CORN ROOTWORM | DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1645 | 2 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19299056 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CONTROLLING ROOT LESION NEMATODES | FAN, WEIHUA | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 18488471 | METHYLOBACTERIUM STRAINS FOR CONTROLLING CORN ROOTWORM | DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 1645 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 18004937 | MICROBIAL INOCULANT FORMULATIONS | SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | 1615 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 10, 2023 |
| 17255270 | SELECTION AND GENETIC MODIFICATION OF PLANT ASSOCIATED METHYLOBACTERIUM | LYONS, MARY M | 1645 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2020 |
| 17056797 | MICROBIAL MICROCAPSULE COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND RELATED METHODS | PURDY, KYLE A | 1611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Nov 19, 2020 |
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