Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
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
Pro Farm Group Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's current filings are being reviewed across different technical groups within the USPTO, which may require distinct prosecution strategies for each application. The use of 2 distinct art units for only 2 actions suggests that the company's chemistry filings cover multiple technical categories.
ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action is among the 2 total pending office actions for the portfolio. The presence of 2 examiners across 2 art units means that the company must manage 2 separate examination timelines and sets of examiner preferences simultaneously. For the practitioner, this distribution indicates that the company's active patent strategy is not concentrated in a single technical niche, but is instead spread across multiple specialized groups.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | 1 | 45.7% | +61.3% |
| KNIGHT, SAMANTHA JO | 1 | 31.3% | +73.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18526759 | Methods of use for Muscodor albus strain producing volatile organic compounds | ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17987584 | SEED TREATMENT COMPOSITIONS THAT INCREASE MICROORGANISM LONGEVITY | KNIGHT, SAMANTHA JO | 15d |
| 18526759 | Methods of use for Muscodor albus strain producing volatile organic compounds | ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18526759 | Methods of use for Muscodor albus strain producing volatile organic compounds | ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | 1793 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 17987584 | SEED TREATMENT COMPOSITIONS THAT INCREASE MICROORGANISM LONGEVITY | KNIGHT, SAMANTHA JO | 1614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
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