Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (29%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HINES, JANA A | 1 | 53.0% | +39.6% |
| HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1 | 48.9% | +22.8% |
| WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | 1 | 41.7% | +0.0% |
| FERNANDEZ, SUSAN EMILY | 1 | 52.3% | +60.9% |
| JONES-FOSTER, ERICA NICOLE | 1 | 50.0% | +47.5% |
| AFREMOVA, VERA | 1 | 50.7% | +29.2% |
| FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH | 1 | 52.0% | -6.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17392837 | CONSISTENCY OF CROP YIELD THROUGH BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN FIXATION | FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH | 12d |
| 18020040 | IMPROVED PLANT NITROGEN CONSISTENCY THROUGH THE SUPPLY OF WHOLE PLANT NITROGEN FROM A NITROGEN FIXING MICROBE | WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | — |
| 17605374 | GENE TARGETS FOR NITROGEN FIXATION TARGETING FOR IMPROVING PLANT TRAITS | AFREMOVA, VERA | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17924916 | DE-REPRESSION OF NITROGEN FIXATION IN GRAM-POSITIVE MICROORGANISMS | FERNANDEZ, SUSAN EMILY | 50d overdue |
| 18632573 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVING ENGINEERED MICROBES THAT FIX NITROGEN | HINES, JANA A | — |
| 18269248 | SEED TREATMENT SYSTEMS, METHODS, and AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITIONS | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | — |
| 17792670 | CONSORTIA OF MICROORGANISMS FOR SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DELIVERY OF NITROGEN | JONES-FOSTER, ERICA NICOLE | — |
| 17605374 | GENE TARGETS FOR NITROGEN FIXATION TARGETING FOR IMPROVING PLANT TRAITS | AFREMOVA, VERA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1645 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| 1651 | 1 |
| 1656 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18632573 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVING ENGINEERED MICROBES THAT FIX NITROGEN | HINES, JANA A | 1645 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18269248 | SEED TREATMENT SYSTEMS, METHODS, and AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITIONS | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1614 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18020040 | IMPROVED PLANT NITROGEN CONSISTENCY THROUGH THE SUPPLY OF WHOLE PLANT NITROGEN FROM A NITROGEN FIXING MICROBE | WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | 1663 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 17924916 | DE-REPRESSION OF NITROGEN FIXATION IN GRAM-POSITIVE MICROORGANISMS | FERNANDEZ, SUSAN EMILY | 1651 | §112 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Nov 11, 2022 |
| 17792670 | CONSORTIA OF MICROORGANISMS FOR SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DELIVERY OF NITROGEN | JONES-FOSTER, ERICA NICOLE | 1656 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
| 17605374 | GENE TARGETS FOR NITROGEN FIXATION TARGETING FOR IMPROVING PLANT TRAITS | AFREMOVA, VERA | 1653 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2021 |
| 17392837 | CONSISTENCY OF CROP YIELD THROUGH BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN FIXATION | FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH | 1617 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Aug 03, 2021 |
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