Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
South China Agricultural University holds a patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The university currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different specialized unit.
JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 action. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the university's biotechnology and pharmaceutical research spans different classification areas within the patent office. This diversity in examiners and art units means that the university must adapt its prosecution strategy to the specific requirements and tendencies of 2 different administrative groups.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 1 | 87.5% | +21.9% |
| WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | 1 | 47.1% | +100.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18914003 | GENES FOR REGULATING ROOT GROWTH ANGLE AND LOGING RESISTANCE IN MAIZE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 9d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17775590 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING BODY SIZE AND WEIGHT OF PIG BASED ON DEEP LEARNING | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | 60d overdue |
| 18914003 | GENES FOR REGULATING ROOT GROWTH ANGLE AND LOGING RESISTANCE IN MAIZE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18914003 | GENES FOR REGULATING ROOT GROWTH ANGLE AND LOGING RESISTANCE IN MAIZE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 1662 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 17775590 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING BODY SIZE AND WEIGHT OF PIG BASED ON DEEP LEARNING | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | 2188 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2022 |
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