Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
12 pending office actions • 12 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
The State Of Israel Ministry Of Agriculture And Rural Development Agricultural Research Organization manages a company patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office actions. This single matter is being processed within 1 distinct art units. This indicates a very focused current prosecution footprint for the organization in this specific technical field. The concentration in a single art unit suggests that the organization's intellectual property strategy is currently focused on a particular technological niche.
The examination is being conducted by 1 distinct examiners. This means that the entirety of the organization's current pending workload is under the review of a single individual. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is STEINKE, SEAN JAMES. This examiner is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending office actions total, the prosecution success for the organization currently depends entirely on the interaction with STEINKE, SEAN JAMES. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the specific style of this examiner to ensure the best possible outcome for the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (42%) |
| §112 only | 3 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEVENS, MARK V | 1 | 65.5% | +41.6% |
| RAMIREZ, DELIA M | 1 | 65.1% | +56.3% |
| XU, XIAOYUN | 1 | 59.9% | +31.6% |
| XU, QING | 1 | 50.9% | +55.2% |
| JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER LINDSAY | 1 | 48.6% | +78.3% |
| SAEED, ALI S | 1 | 31.6% | +33.8% |
| FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH | 1 | 52.1% | -6.2% |
| BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1 | 34.9% | +46.5% |
| ROBINSON, KEITH O NEAL | 1 | 91.6% | +3.8% |
| WILSON, MICHAEL C | 1 | 41.5% | +17.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271008 | METHODS FOR IMPROVING FRUIT QUALITY | ROBINSON, KEITH O NEAL | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18197151 | GENETICALLY EDITED ALBINO-RED GERMLINES OF TILAPIA FISH | WILSON, MICHAEL C | 1d overdue |
| 18628884 | MICROBIAL COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RUMEN MICROFLORA AND USES THEREOF | XU, QING | — |
| 18376498 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER | JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER LINDSAY | — |
| 18024075 | COMPOSITIONS ISOLATED FROM DATE PALM TREE | KERSHAW, KELLY P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18368040 | ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS DERIVED FROM BACILLUS | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 32d overdue |
| 18197151 | GENETICALLY EDITED ALBINO-RED GERMLINES OF TILAPIA FISH | WILSON, MICHAEL C | 1d overdue |
| 18992397 | BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF SOFT ROT AND BIOFILMS BY MICROBIAL PREDATORS ENCAPSULATED IN CARRIERS | STEVENS, MARK V | — |
| 18757644 | CELLS COMPRISING MOGROSIDE PATHWAY ENZYMES AND USES THEREOF | RAMIREZ, DELIA M | — |
| 18700312 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EARLY DETECTION OF BOVINE MASTITIS USING ENHANCED CHEMILUMINESCENCE | XU, XIAOYUN | — |
| 18628884 | MICROBIAL COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RUMEN MICROFLORA AND USES THEREOF | XU, QING | — |
| 18376498 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER | JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER LINDSAY | — |
| 18376519 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING FUNGAL INFECTIONS IN PLANTS | SAEED, ALI S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1656 | 1 |
| 1691 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1626 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 1661 | 1 |
| 1638 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18992397 | BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF SOFT ROT AND BIOFILMS BY MICROBIAL PREDATORS ENCAPSULATED IN CARRIERS | STEVENS, MARK V | 1613 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18757644 | CELLS COMPRISING MOGROSIDE PATHWAY ENZYMES AND USES THEREOF | RAMIREZ, DELIA M | 1652 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18700312 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EARLY DETECTION OF BOVINE MASTITIS USING ENHANCED CHEMILUMINESCENCE | XU, XIAOYUN | 1797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18628884 | MICROBIAL COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RUMEN MICROFLORA AND USES THEREOF | XU, QING | 1656 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18376498 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER | JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER LINDSAY | 1691 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18376519 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING FUNGAL INFECTIONS IN PLANTS | SAEED, ALI S | 1616 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18371366 | ACTIVE COATING BASED ON PICKERING EMULSIONS | FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH | 1626 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18368040 | ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS DERIVED FROM BACILLUS | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1655 | §103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18271008 | METHODS FOR IMPROVING FRUIT QUALITY | ROBINSON, KEITH O NEAL | 1661 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 18197151 | GENETICALLY EDITED ALBINO-RED GERMLINES OF TILAPIA FISH | WILSON, MICHAEL C | 1638 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 18024075 | COMPOSITIONS ISOLATED FROM DATE PALM TREE | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 17609479 | TERPENE SYNTHASES AND TRANSPORTERS | STANKOVIC, BRATISLAV | 1662 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialThe Agricultural Research Organization (Israel) has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 12 examiners.
Mark V Stevens has the most, with 1 of The Agricultural Research Organization (Israel)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
