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
Select Harvests Limited manages a patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area with 2 pending office actions. These 2 actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating that the company is engaging with multiple reviewers simultaneously. The prosecution is also split across 2 distinct art units, which suggests the applications cover different technical sub-specialties.
The busiest examiner identified is WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This means that the 2 pending office actions are split, with WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE handling 1 of them. This distribution requires the company to manage separate prosecution tracks within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
Practitioners should be prepared to navigate the different requirements of 2 distinct art units. Since each of the 2 pending office actions is with a different examiner, the strategy must be adapted to different sets of examiner feedback. The 1 busiest examiner pending action is a portion of the current total workload for Select Harvests Limited.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| SILVA RAINBOW, HEATHER ELISE | 1 | 33.3% | +50.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18024725 | A PROCESS FOR PREPARING FERTILIZER COMPOSITIONS | SILVA RAINBOW, HEATHER ELISE | 9d overdue |
| 18489420 | PRODUCTION OF TRICHODERMA SPP FUNGI USING ALMOND HULL AS A GROWTH MEDIUM | WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18024725 | A PROCESS FOR PREPARING FERTILIZER COMPOSITIONS | SILVA RAINBOW, HEATHER ELISE | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18489420 | PRODUCTION OF TRICHODERMA SPP FUNGI USING ALMOND HULL AS A GROWTH MEDIUM | WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | 1653 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18024725 | A PROCESS FOR PREPARING FERTILIZER COMPOSITIONS | SILVA RAINBOW, HEATHER ELISE | 1731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
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