Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Performance Plants Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Jayanta Chatterjee. The prosecution is further localized within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated technical focus for the company's current patent activities. Jayanta Chatterjee serves as the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action.
The involvement of 1 distinct examiner suggests that the company's current patent strategy relies on a single individual's assessment. With 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector, the portfolio's immediate progress is tied to the review process of 1 distinct art unit. Jayanta Chatterjee's role as the busiest examiner involves managing 1 pending office action, which accounts for all current activity. This structure indicates a narrow but direct path for the company's pending intellectual property matters.
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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 1 | 44.0% | +70.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579239 | METHODS OF INCREASING PLANT PRODUCTIVITY AND TOLERANCE TO WATER & NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579239 | METHODS OF INCREASING PLANT PRODUCTIVITY AND TOLERANCE TO WATER & NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 1662 | §112 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPerformance Plants Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jayanta Chatterjee has the most, with 1 of Performance Plants Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.