Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Pairwise Plants Services Inc.

19 pending office actions • 7 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
2
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
14
Medium (74%)
3
Easy (16%)
2
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (58%)
§102 only3 (16%)
§112 only3 (16%)
No statute on record2 (11%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

18
Life Sciences
95% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
5% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA 4 67.8% +28.7%
SHEN, YANXIN NMN 2 100.0% +0.0%
REGA, KYLE THOMAS 2 62.4% +43.9%
ORDAZ, CHRISTIAN JOSE 1 64.3% +100.0%
WESTON, ALYSSA G 1 63.0% +49.7%
STOCKDALE, JESSICA NICOLE 1 43.3% +44.0%
MCKNIGHT, CIARA A 1 61.8% +34.7%
MEHTA, ASHWIN D 1 73.5% +3.2%
IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED 1 87.6% +11.8%
SHARMA, SANTOSH 1 75.0% +26.2%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18850637 METHODS FOR PRODUCING AN ORGANOGENIC CALLUS AND COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS RELATING THERETO SHEN, YANXIN NMN 3d overdue
18364482 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVING YIELD TRAITS IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED 50d
18598144 MODIFICATION OF BRASSINOSTEROID SIGNALING PATHWAY GENES FOR IMPROVING YIELD TRAITS IN PLANTS SHEN, YANXIN NMN 70d

Interview Candidates (12)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18669588 METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MERISTEM SIZE FOR CROP IMPROVEMENT STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA 42d overdue
18645465 METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MERISTEM SIZE FOR CROP IMPROVEMENT STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA 42d overdue
18342761 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CONTROLLING MERISTEM SIZE FOR CROP IMPROVEMENT STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA 42d overdue
17162053 COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR BASE DIVERSIFICATION REGA, KYLE THOMAS 37d overdue
18626460 RECRUITMENT METHODS AND COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECRUITMENT WESTON, ALYSSA G 30d overdue
17084721 TYPE V CRISPR-CAS BASE EDITORS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF REGA, KYLE THOMAS 9d overdue
18340934 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MODIFYING SHADE AVOIDANCE IN PLANTS SHARMA, SANTOSH 5d overdue
18309891 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ENHANCING YIELD AND DISEASE RESISTANCE STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA 7d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1663 11
1662 2
1636 2
1633 1
1656 1
6211 1
1652 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18850637 METHODS FOR PRODUCING AN ORGANOGENIC CALLUS AND COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS RELATING THERETO SHEN, YANXIN NMN 1663 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2024
18726446 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TRICHOME REMOVAL ORDAZ, CHRISTIAN JOSE 1663 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jul 03, 2024
18669588 METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MERISTEM SIZE FOR CROP IMPROVEMENT STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA 1663 Other Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending May 21, 2024
18645465 METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MERISTEM SIZE FOR CROP IMPROVEMENT STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA 1663 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2024
18626460 RECRUITMENT METHODS AND COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECRUITMENT WESTON, ALYSSA G 1633 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2024
18598144 MODIFICATION OF BRASSINOSTEROID SIGNALING PATHWAY GENES FOR IMPROVING YIELD TRAITS IN PLANTS SHEN, YANXIN NMN 1663 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Mar 07, 2024
18442164 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MODIFYING SHADE AVOIDANCE IN PLANTS STOCKDALE, JESSICA NICOLE 1663 Other Non-Final OA 55d Pending Feb 15, 2024
18391959 ENGINEERED PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF MCKNIGHT, CIARA A 1656 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18447343 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CONTROLLING MERISTEM SIZE FOR CROP IMPROVEMENT MEHTA, ASHWIN D 6211 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Aug 10, 2023
18364482 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVING YIELD TRAITS IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED 1662 §103 Final Rejection 50d Pending Aug 03, 2023
18342761 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CONTROLLING MERISTEM SIZE FOR CROP IMPROVEMENT STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA 1663 §112 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2023
18340934 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MODIFYING SHADE AVOIDANCE IN PLANTS SHARMA, SANTOSH 1663 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Jun 26, 2023
18309891 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ENHANCING YIELD AND DISEASE RESISTANCE STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA 1663 §112 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 01, 2023
17995483 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INCREASING RESISTANCE TO EAR ROT AND STEM ROT DISEASE IN MAIZE KALLIS, RUSSELL 1663 §102 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2022
17937485 METHODS FOR IMPROVING FLORET FERTILITY AND SEED YIELD MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L 1663 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 03, 2022
17847285 MODIFICATION OF HECT E3 UBIQUITIN LIGASE GENES TO IMPROVE YIELD TRAITS RADOSAVLJEVIC, ALEKSANDAR 1662 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2022
17459166 ENGINEERED PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF RAMIREZ, DELIA M 1652 §112 Non-Final OA 117d overdue Pending Aug 27, 2021
17162053 COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR BASE DIVERSIFICATION REGA, KYLE THOMAS 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Jan 29, 2021
17084721 TYPE V CRISPR-CAS BASE EDITORS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF REGA, KYLE THOMAS 1636 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2020

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