Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
12 pending office actions • 2 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nunhems B.V. is managing 12 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 12 actions are distributed among 11 distinct examiners, indicating that the pending matters are being reviewed by many different officials. This distribution of 11 distinct examiners for 12 pending office actions requires the company to engage with a variety of individual examiner styles and technical viewpoints. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate these different perspectives across the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals portfolio.
The portfolio is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's biotechnology innovations are focused on specific technical categories. Matthew R Keogh is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This makes him responsible for 2 of the 12 total pending actions. The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's research is categorized into a limited number of specialized administrative groups within the USPTO.
With 11 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the prosecution environment involves many individual perspectives within a narrow administrative range. The company must coordinate its strategy across the 2 different administrative divisions to ensure consistency. The presence of 12 pending office actions across 11 distinct examiners highlights the need for a flexible approach to meet various procedural expectations. Applicants should focus on the specific requirements of the 2 distinct art units while addressing the feedback from the 11 distinct examiners involved. Matthew R Keogh represents a point of overlap with 2 actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 7 (58%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEOGH, MATTHEW R | 2 | 78.3% | +14.5% |
| FAN, WEIHUA | 1 | 83.4% | +12.6% |
| MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN | 1 | 88.9% | +5.8% |
| MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | 1 | 76.1% | +23.2% |
| KALLIS, RUSSELL | 1 | 86.9% | +7.9% |
| IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED | 1 | 87.4% | +12.2% |
| RADOSAVLJEVIC, ALEKSANDAR | 1 | 81.7% | +8.7% |
| BUI, PHUONG T | 1 | 81.2% | +23.2% |
| KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 1 | 69.5% | +25.8% |
| KINGDON, CATHY | 1 | 80.3% | +2.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18072334 | LETTUCE VARIETY NUN 09185 LTL | KINGDON, CATHY | 32d overdue |
| 18521305 | LETTUCE VARIETY NUN 08237 LTL | RADOSAVLJEVIC, ALEKSANDAR | 6d |
| 18798285 | TOMATO VARIETY NUN 00333 TOP | MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN | 15d |
| 18605199 | WATERMELON VARIETY NUN 32117 WMW | KALLIS, RUSSELL | 43d |
| 18488781 | MELON VARIETY NUN 71570 MEM | BUI, PHUONG T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823297 | CUCUMBER VARIETY NUN 97080 CUL | FAN, WEIHUA | 19d |
| 18597524 | DOWNY MILDEW RESISTANT LETTUCE MUTANT | IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED | 34d |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18672984 | WATERMELON VARIETY NUN 12201 WMW | MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | 5d overdue |
| 18823297 | CUCUMBER VARIETY NUN 97080 CUL | FAN, WEIHUA | 19d |
| 18597524 | DOWNY MILDEW RESISTANT LETTUCE MUTANT | IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED | 34d |
| 19000570 | TOMATO VARIETY NUN 00343 TOP | KEOGH, MATTHEW R | — |
| 19000569 | WATERMELON VARIETY NUN 32202 WMW | KEOGH, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18488781 | MELON VARIETY NUN 71570 MEM | BUI, PHUONG T | — |
| 18342484 | SPECIES OF TOBAMOVIRUS | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1663 | 7 |
| 1662 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19000570 | TOMATO VARIETY NUN 00343 TOP | KEOGH, MATTHEW R | — | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 19000569 | WATERMELON VARIETY NUN 32202 WMW | KEOGH, MATTHEW R | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18823297 | CUCUMBER VARIETY NUN 97080 CUL | FAN, WEIHUA | 1663 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18798285 | TOMATO VARIETY NUN 00333 TOP | MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18672984 | WATERMELON VARIETY NUN 12201 WMW | MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18605199 | WATERMELON VARIETY NUN 32117 WMW | KALLIS, RUSSELL | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 43d | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18597524 | DOWNY MILDEW RESISTANT LETTUCE MUTANT | IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED | 1662 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18521305 | LETTUCE VARIETY NUN 08237 LTL | RADOSAVLJEVIC, ALEKSANDAR | 1662 | §112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18488781 | MELON VARIETY NUN 71570 MEM | BUI, PHUONG T | 1663 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 18342484 | SPECIES OF TOBAMOVIRUS | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 1662 | DPOther | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18072334 | LETTUCE VARIETY NUN 09185 LTL | KINGDON, CATHY | 1663 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17924321 | TOMATO PLANTS HAVING SUPPRESSED MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION | SPEED, DEQUANTARIUS JAVON | 1663 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2022 |
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