Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Northeast Agricultural University has 2 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing separate examination paths.
DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Neither examiner nor art-unit concentration appears in the listed data. Practitioners should manage the matters independently while checking for common technical themes that could support consistent prosecution positions.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN | 1 | 41.4% | -44.4% |
| O'HERN, BRENT T | 1 | 78.5% | +19.4% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18927173 | PHOSPHATES-FREE WATER HOLDING AGENT RICH IN AMINO ACIDS AND USE THEREOF IN EMULSIFIED MEAT PRODUCTS | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19231598 | USE OF SOYBEAN GENE GLYMA.13G252100 IN REGULATING RESISTANCE OF SOYBEAN TO PHYTOPHTHORA | DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN | 1662 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 18927173 | PHOSPHATES-FREE WATER HOLDING AGENT RICH IN AMINO ACIDS AND USE THEREOF IN EMULSIFIED MEAT PRODUCTS | O'HERN, BRENT T | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNortheast Agricultural University has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Victoria Lynn Deleo has the most, with 1 of Northeast Agricultural University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
