Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
13 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 44 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stine Seed Farm Inc. currently has 13 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. Despite the volume of actions, the portfolio is concentrated among 4 distinct examiners. This concentration suggests that a small group of individuals has a significant influence over the company's current prosecution outcomes. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of these few individuals.
The prosecution activity is further localized within 2 distinct art units. This narrow range indicates a specialized focus within the biotechnology sector. KUMAR, VINOD is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 5 pending office actions. This individual handles a significant portion of the total 13 pending actions, making their examination style a critical factor for the company's strategy. The presence of 4 distinct examiners across only 2 art units implies that different examiners within the same specialized groups are reviewing the company's applications simultaneously. The workload handled by KUMAR, VINOD represents the highest point of examiner concentration in the portfolio.
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 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (54%) |
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 | 82.7% | +20.4% |
| KUBELIK, ANNE R | 5 | 75.8% | -0.7% |
| ZHENG, LI | 2 | 83.6% | +12.9% |
| FAN, WEIHUA | 1 | 83.4% | +12.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18782869 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 90112218 | ZHENG, LI | 31d overdue |
| 18776056 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 92001528 | FAN, WEIHUA | 26d overdue |
| 18822972 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 91132218 | ZHENG, LI | 9d |
| 19097756 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 95470038 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 19097723 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 99250038 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 19097710 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 91080218 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 19097734 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 94411038 | 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18782869 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 90112218 | ZHENG, LI | 31d overdue |
| 18776056 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 92001528 | FAN, WEIHUA | 26d overdue |
| 18822972 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 91132218 | ZHENG, LI | 9d |
| 19097756 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 95470038 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 19097723 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 99250038 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 19097710 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 91080218 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 19097734 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 94411038 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| 18960105 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 36570317 | KUMAR, VINOD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 3 |
| 1663 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19097756 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 95470038 | KUMAR, VINOD | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19097723 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 99250038 | KUMAR, VINOD | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19097710 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 91080218 | KUMAR, VINOD | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19097734 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 94411038 | KUMAR, VINOD | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19034306 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 04150104 | KUBELIK, ANNE R | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19028802 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 92111703 | KUBELIK, ANNE R | — | §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 | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 19004169 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 93352428 | KUBELIK, ANNE R | — | §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 |
| 18782869 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 90112218 | ZHENG, LI | 1662 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18776056 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 92001528 | FAN, WEIHUA | 1663 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
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