Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 1 of 5 (20%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Qingdao Kingagroot Chemical Compound Co. Ltd. is managing 4 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners, which means every pending matter is under the review of a different individual. These examiners are distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating a variety of technical classifications.
The busiest examiner, MEYER, GEORGE WILLIAM, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates that the 4 pending office actions are distributed evenly among the 4 distinct examiners. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's biotechnology and pharmaceutical filings cover several technical sub-sectors. Practitioners must coordinate across multiple examiners and departments to ensure consistent prosecution results for these chemical compounds.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEYER, GEORGE WILLIAM | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| HIRT, ERIN E | 1 | 40.3% | +23.0% |
| MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN | 1 | 88.9% | +5.8% |
| PALLAY, MICHAEL B | 1 | 55.8% | +34.0% |
| SHARMA, SANTOSH | 1 | 73.5% | +28.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18019498 | HERBICIDE-RESISTANT PROTEIN, AND GENE AND USE THEREOF | MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN | 7d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838151 | PPO2 POLYPEPTIDE HAVING TOLERANCE TO PPO INHIBITOR HERBICIDE AND APPLICATION | MEYER, GEORGE WILLIAM | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17627221 | HERBICIDAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING R-TYPE PYRIDYLOXY CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE AND USE THEREOF | PALLAY, MICHAEL B | 12d |
| 18848548 | HETEROCYCLE-SUBSTITUTED AROMATIC COMPOUND, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, HERBICIDAL COMPOSITION, AND USE THEREOF | HIRT, ERIN E | — |
| 17058261 | A METHOD FOR GENERATING NEW MUTATION IN ORGANISM AND USE THEREOF | SHARMA, SANTOSH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1663 | 2 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18838151 | PPO2 POLYPEPTIDE HAVING TOLERANCE TO PPO INHIBITOR HERBICIDE AND APPLICATION | MEYER, GEORGE WILLIAM | 1662 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 18848548 | HETEROCYCLE-SUBSTITUTED AROMATIC COMPOUND, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, HERBICIDAL COMPOSITION, AND USE THEREOF | HIRT, ERIN E | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18019498 | HERBICIDE-RESISTANT PROTEIN, AND GENE AND USE THEREOF | MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 17627221 | HERBICIDAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING R-TYPE PYRIDYLOXY CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE AND USE THEREOF | PALLAY, MICHAEL B | 1617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | AI Ready | Jan 14, 2022 |
| 17058261 | A METHOD FOR GENERATING NEW MUTATION IN ORGANISM AND USE THEREOF | SHARMA, SANTOSH | 1663 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2020 |
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