Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Nipomo Native Seeds, LLC is currently managing 5 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, indicating a range of perspectives being applied to the portfolio. The prosecution activity is further organized into 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's biological innovations span multiple specialized sub-groups at the patent office.
BUI, PHUONG T is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing 2 pending office actions. This examiner handles a portion of the 5 active matters, while the remaining cases are spread among the other examiners. This concentration with a single official requires a focused strategy for that specific relationship while maintaining separate approaches for the other active cases.
The presence of 2 distinct art units shows that the filings are not all confined to a single administrative silo. With 4 distinct examiners involved, the company faces a diverse set of examination styles. This distribution suggests a more complex prosecution landscape than a single-application portfolio. Practitioners must coordinate across these units to ensure consistency in the pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 4 (80%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUI, PHUONG T | 2 | 81.2% | +23.2% |
| ZHENG, LI | 1 | 83.6% | +12.9% |
| KEOGH, MATTHEW R | 1 | 78.3% | +14.5% |
| STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 1 | 67.3% | +29.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18676062 | Romaine Lettuce Cultivar Pozo | ZHENG, LI | 41d |
| 18676071 | Iceberg Lettuce Cultivar NNS-2109 | BUI, PHUONG T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18675572 | Iceberg Lettuce Cultivar NNS-3133 | BUI, PHUONG T | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18676062 | Romaine Lettuce Cultivar Pozo | ZHENG, LI | 41d |
| 18675572 | Iceberg Lettuce Cultivar NNS-3133 | BUI, PHUONG T | — |
| 18675565 | Iceberg Lettuce Cultivar Bison | KEOGH, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18676231 | Iceberg Lettuce Cultivar NNS-2132 | STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | — |
| 18676071 | Iceberg Lettuce Cultivar NNS-2109 | BUI, PHUONG T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1663 | 4 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18676062 | Romaine Lettuce Cultivar Pozo | ZHENG, LI | 1662 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18675572 | Iceberg Lettuce Cultivar NNS-3133 | BUI, PHUONG T | 1663 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18675565 | Iceberg Lettuce Cultivar Bison | KEOGH, MATTHEW R | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18676231 | Iceberg Lettuce Cultivar NNS-2132 | STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 1663 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18676071 | Iceberg Lettuce Cultivar NNS-2109 | BUI, PHUONG T | 1663 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
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