Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
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
Oil Crops Research Institute Chinese Academy Of Agricultural Sciences has 2 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE is the named busiest examiner, handling 1 pending action.
The distribution indicates that prosecution is not confined to one examination channel. Counsel should review each action separately, preserve consistency in the biotechnology record, and account for art-unit-specific treatment when developing amendments or arguments.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE | 1 | 38.3% | +47.2% |
| CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | 1 | 64.1% | +53.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18664303 | MICROBIAL AGENT WITH FUNCTIONS OF PREVENTING AND CONTROLLING AFLATOXIN AND AFLATOXIGENIC STRAIN THEREOF AND PROMOTING YIELD INCREASE OF CROPS AND USE THEREOF | EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564618 | INDICATOR MOLECULE FOR TOXIGENICITY OF AFLATOXIGENIC FUNGI AND USE THEREOF | CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | 24d overdue |
| 18664303 | MICROBIAL AGENT WITH FUNCTIONS OF PREVENTING AND CONTROLLING AFLATOXIN AND AFLATOXIGENIC STRAIN THEREOF AND PROMOTING YIELD INCREASE OF CROPS AND USE THEREOF | EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1657 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18664303 | MICROBIAL AGENT WITH FUNCTIONS OF PREVENTING AND CONTROLLING AFLATOXIN AND AFLATOXIGENIC STRAIN THEREOF AND PROMOTING YIELD INCREASE OF CROPS AND USE THEREOF | EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE | 1657 | §101§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18564618 | INDICATOR MOLECULE FOR TOXIGENICITY OF AFLATOXIGENIC FUNGI AND USE THEREOF | CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | 1645 | §112 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialOil Crops Research Institute Chinese Academy Of Agricultural Sciences has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jessica Faye Edwards has the most, with 1 of Oil Crops Research Institute Chinese Academy Of Agricultural Sciences's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
