Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Mosaic Company operates in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions. Both of these actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a concentrated technical focus for the company's current filings. Having 2 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit means that all of the company's active matters are being handled by the same technical department at the USPTO, which can lead to more consistent examination results.
There are 2 distinct examiners assigned to the portfolio. Katherine Peebles is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. The use of 2 distinct examiners within a single art unit for only 2 pending office actions shows that the company's matters are being handled by different individuals within the same technical group. This ensures that each of the 2 pending office actions is reviewed by a separate examiner, including Katherine Peebles, while maintaining a unified art unit focus.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 1 | 35.5% | +48.6% |
| LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1 | 78.4% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19171664 | FERTILIZER COMPOSITION CONTAINING A CARBON-BASED ADDITIVE AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 38d overdue |
| 18574268 | INCORPORATION OF ALGINATE INTO FERTILIZER FOR QUALITY AND AGRONOMICAL BENEFITS | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19171664 | FERTILIZER COMPOSITION CONTAINING A CARBON-BASED ADDITIVE AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 38d overdue |
| 18574268 | INCORPORATION OF ALGINATE INTO FERTILIZER FOR QUALITY AND AGRONOMICAL BENEFITS | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19171664 | FERTILIZER COMPOSITION CONTAINING A CARBON-BASED ADDITIVE AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 1617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 18574268 | INCORPORATION OF ALGINATE INTO FERTILIZER FOR QUALITY AND AGRONOMICAL BENEFITS | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
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