Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Seminis Vegetable Seeds LLC has 6 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The actions involve 6 examiners across 2 art units, indicating complete examiner dispersion but concentrated technical-unit allocation.
SHEN, YANXIN NMN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Art-unit coordination may provide more operational value than examiner grouping, because the matters share limited technical environments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 4 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHEN, YANXIN NMN | 1 | 84.6% | +26.4% |
| STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 1 | 68.2% | +27.7% |
| ZHENG, LI | 1 | 83.5% | +13.0% |
| BUI, PHUONG T | 1 | 81.2% | +23.4% |
| KUBELIK, ANNE R | 1 | 75.8% | -1.1% |
| SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 1 | 76.5% | +14.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18427058 | TOMATO HYBRID SVTM9040 AND PARENTS THEREOF | BUI, PHUONG T | 43d overdue |
| 18890226 | PEPPER PLANTS WITH IMPROVED DISEASE RESISTANCE | ZHENG, LI | 40d |
| 19324504 | NOVEL QTLS CONFERRING RESISTANCE TO CUCURBIT APHID-BORNE YELLOW VIRUS | SHEN, YANXIN NMN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18100115 | TOMATO HYBRID SVTM9334 AND PARENTS THEREOF | KUBELIK, ANNE R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18427058 | TOMATO HYBRID SVTM9040 AND PARENTS THEREOF | BUI, PHUONG T | 43d overdue |
| 18057669 | LETTUCE PLANTS HAVING RESISTANCE TO DOWNY MILDEW | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 26d |
| 18890226 | PEPPER PLANTS WITH IMPROVED DISEASE RESISTANCE | ZHENG, LI | 40d |
| 19324504 | NOVEL QTLS CONFERRING RESISTANCE TO CUCURBIT APHID-BORNE YELLOW VIRUS | SHEN, YANXIN NMN | — |
| 18960768 | ONION HYBRID SVNT1608 | STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1663 | 5 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19324504 | NOVEL QTLS CONFERRING RESISTANCE TO CUCURBIT APHID-BORNE YELLOW VIRUS | SHEN, YANXIN NMN | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 18960768 | ONION HYBRID SVNT1608 | STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 1663 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18890226 | PEPPER PLANTS WITH IMPROVED DISEASE RESISTANCE | ZHENG, LI | 1662 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18427058 | TOMATO HYBRID SVTM9040 AND PARENTS THEREOF | BUI, PHUONG T | 1663 | §112 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18100115 | TOMATO HYBRID SVTM9334 AND PARENTS THEREOF | KUBELIK, ANNE R | 1663 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 18057669 | LETTUCE PLANTS HAVING RESISTANCE TO DOWNY MILDEW | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 1663 | §112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSeminis Vegetable Seeds LLC has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 6 examiners.
Yanxin Nmn Shen has the most, with 1 of Seminis Vegetable Seeds LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
