Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
9 pending office actions • 2 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. has 11 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 9 distinct examiners and 2 art units, combining substantial examiner breadth with concentration in a small number of technical units.
BUI, PHUONG T is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. Those repeated assignments create an opportunity to coordinate related claim and argument positions, while the other examiner assignments require separate prosecution planning.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 1 (11%) |
| §112 only | 6 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (11%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUI, PHUONG T | 3 | 81.2% | +23.4% |
| KUMAR, VINOD | 1 | 82.8% | +20.3% |
| SHARMA, SANTOSH | 1 | 72.8% | +29.8% |
| LOGSDON, CHARLES | 1 | 71.9% | +11.0% |
| MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | 1 | 74.3% | +25.2% |
| FAN, WEIHUA | 1 | 83.3% | +12.7% |
| KINGDON, CATHY | 1 | 80.3% | +2.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17855475 | BREEDING WITH QTLS FOR DISEASE RESISTANCE AND BULB COLOR IN ONION | KINGDON, CATHY | 2d overdue |
| 19201334 | TOMATO HYBRID SVTM9033 AND PARENTS THEREOF | BUI, PHUONG T | — |
| 18917584 | PEPPER HYBRID SVPB3274 AND PARENTS THEREOF | BUI, PHUONG T | — |
| 18917545 | SWEET CORN HYBRID SVSK4540 AND PARENTS THEREOF | BUI, PHUONG T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18754616 | A NOVEL QTL FOR PURPLE COLOR IN BRASSICA OLERACEA | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 18474696 | ONION VARIETY SVNB3693 | LOGSDON, CHARLES | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18183373 | TOMATO HYBRID SVTE8804 AND PARENTS THEREOF | FAN, WEIHUA | 85d overdue |
| 18323616 | CUCUMBER HYBRID SVCS0294 AND PARENTS THEREOF | MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | 33d |
| 19201334 | TOMATO HYBRID SVTM9033 AND PARENTS THEREOF | BUI, PHUONG T | — |
| 18917584 | PEPPER HYBRID SVPB3274 AND PARENTS THEREOF | BUI, PHUONG T | — |
| 18917545 | SWEET CORN HYBRID SVSK4540 AND PARENTS THEREOF | BUI, PHUONG T | — |
| 18754616 | A NOVEL QTL FOR PURPLE COLOR IN BRASSICA OLERACEA | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 18737525 | TOMATO PLANTS WITH IMPROVED DISEASE RESISTANCE | SHARMA, SANTOSH | — |
| 18474696 | ONION VARIETY SVNB3693 | LOGSDON, CHARLES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1663 | 8 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19201334 | TOMATO HYBRID SVTM9033 AND PARENTS THEREOF | BUI, PHUONG T | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 18917584 | PEPPER HYBRID SVPB3274 AND PARENTS THEREOF | BUI, PHUONG T | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18917545 | SWEET CORN HYBRID SVSK4540 AND PARENTS THEREOF | BUI, PHUONG T | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18754616 | A NOVEL QTL FOR PURPLE COLOR IN BRASSICA OLERACEA | KUMAR, VINOD | 1663 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18737525 | TOMATO PLANTS WITH IMPROVED DISEASE RESISTANCE | SHARMA, SANTOSH | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18474696 | ONION VARIETY SVNB3693 | LOGSDON, CHARLES | 1662 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18323616 | CUCUMBER HYBRID SVCS0294 AND PARENTS THEREOF | MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | 1663 | §112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18183373 | TOMATO HYBRID SVTE8804 AND PARENTS THEREOF | FAN, WEIHUA | 1663 | — | Non-Final OA | 85d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
| 17855475 | BREEDING WITH QTLS FOR DISEASE RESISTANCE AND BULB COLOR IN ONION | KINGDON, CATHY | 1663 | §112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSeminis Vegetable Seeds Inc. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 7 examiners.
Phuong T Bui has the most, with 3 of Seminis Vegetable Seeds Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
