Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
11 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 48 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stine Seed Farm Inc. has 11 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 3 examiners and 2 art units, showing meaningful docket concentration within a limited examination structure.
KUMAR, VINOD is the busiest examiner, with 5 pending matters. This assignment is a practical focal point for docket review and response consistency, while the remaining matters require coordination with the other examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (45%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUMAR, VINOD | 5 | 82.8% | +20.3% |
| KUBELIK, ANNE R | 5 | 75.8% | -1.1% |
| ZHENG, LI | 1 | 83.5% | +13.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822972 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 91132218 | ZHENG, LI | 9d |
| 19097756 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 95470038 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 19097723 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 99250038 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 19097734 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 94411038 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 19097710 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 91080218 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 18960105 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 36570317 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822972 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 91132218 | ZHENG, LI | 9d |
| 19097756 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 95470038 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 19097723 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 99250038 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 19097734 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 94411038 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 19097710 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 91080218 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 18960105 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 36570317 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1663 | 9 |
| 1662 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19097756 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 95470038 | KUMAR, VINOD | 1663 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19097723 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 99250038 | KUMAR, VINOD | 1663 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19097734 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 94411038 | KUMAR, VINOD | 1663 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19097710 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 91080218 | KUMAR, VINOD | 1663 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19034306 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 04150104 | KUBELIK, ANNE R | 1663 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19028802 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 92111703 | KUBELIK, ANNE R | 1663 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19022639 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 04240208 | KUBELIK, ANNE R | 1662 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19006409 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 96261528 | KUBELIK, ANNE R | 1663 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 19004169 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 93352428 | KUBELIK, ANNE R | 1663 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18960105 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 36570317 | KUMAR, VINOD | 1663 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18822972 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 91132218 | ZHENG, LI | 1662 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialStine Seed Farm Inc. has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Vinod Kumar has the most, with 5 of Stine Seed Farm Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
