Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Tianjin Institute Of Industrial Biotechnology Chinese Acadaemy Of Sciences is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L, and is being processed within a distinct art unit. This individual is the busiest examiner for the institute, currently handling the pending office action.
With a pending office action distributed across an examiner and art unit, the institute's current prosecution is highly concentrated. This suggests a focused effort on a specific technological development within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector. The pending office action represents the only active point of contention or review currently facing the institute's patent applications.
The involvement of the examiner and art unit means that the institute's immediate patenting success relies on the specific feedback from FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L. Practitioners should focus on the pending office action as the primary driver of the institute's current intellectual property status, as there are no other active examiners or art units involved in their current prosecution profile.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (20%) |
| §112 only | 2 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | 1 | 70.8% | +42.7% |
| SINGH, SATYENDRA K | 1 | 61.5% | +67.7% |
| RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1 | 73.6% | +26.4% |
| REGLAS, GEORGIANA C | 1 | 37.7% | +36.1% |
| LEITH, NANCY J | 1 | 74.7% | +44.1% |
| EPSTEIN, TODD MATTHEW | 1 | 60.9% | +43.4% |
| WHITEMAN, BRIAN A | 1 | 68.5% | +16.7% |
| NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE | 1 | 73.3% | +18.2% |
| LIPPOLIS, ALEXANDRA ROSE | 1 | 46.9% | +59.0% |
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 1 | 60.2% | +25.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17603008 | Recombinant microorganism for producing L-valine, construction method and application thereof | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 406d overdue |
| 17636607 | BASE EDITING SYSTEMS FOR ACHIEVING C TO A AND C TO G BASE MUTATION AND APPLICATION THEREOF | LIPPOLIS, ALEXANDRA ROSE | 35d overdue |
| 18712509 | ACID-RESISTANT YEAST STRAIN FOR EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF SUCCINIC ACID, AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | — |
| 18694709 | METHOD FOR PREPARING STARCH USING CARBON DIOXIDE, RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM, AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | — |
| 18016804 | Mutant of Pyruvate Carboxylase Gene Promoter and Use Thereof | WHITEMAN, BRIAN 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17603008 | Recombinant microorganism for producing L-valine, construction method and application thereof | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 406d overdue |
| 17636607 | BASE EDITING SYSTEMS FOR ACHIEVING C TO A AND C TO G BASE MUTATION AND APPLICATION THEREOF | LIPPOLIS, ALEXANDRA ROSE | 35d overdue |
| 18042867 | STARCH BIOSYNTHESIS METHOD | EPSTEIN, TODD MATTHEW | 3d overdue |
| 17786997 | A RECOMBINANT FILAMENTOUS FUNGUS FOR PRODUCING ETHANOL AND ITS CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION | NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE | 21d |
| 18712509 | ACID-RESISTANT YEAST STRAIN FOR EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF SUCCINIC ACID, AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | — |
| 18712520 | ACID-RESISTANT YEAST STRAIN FOR EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF L-MALIC ACID, AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | SINGH, SATYENDRA K | — |
| 18694709 | METHOD FOR PREPARING STARCH USING CARBON DIOXIDE, RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM, AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | — |
| 18260861 | PROTEIN HAVING L-PROLINE EFFLUX FUNCTION, AND USE THEREOF | REGLAS, GEORGIANA C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1652 | 3 |
| 1656 | 2 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| 1651 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1637 | 1 |
| 2178 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18712509 | ACID-RESISTANT YEAST STRAIN FOR EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF SUCCINIC ACID, AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | 1652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18712520 | ACID-RESISTANT YEAST STRAIN FOR EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF L-MALIC ACID, AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | SINGH, SATYENDRA K | 1657 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18694709 | METHOD FOR PREPARING STARCH USING CARBON DIOXIDE, RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM, AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18260861 | PROTEIN HAVING L-PROLINE EFFLUX FUNCTION, AND USE THEREOF | REGLAS, GEORGIANA C | 1651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18269046 | MDH GENE-BASED POLYNUCLEOTIDE HAVING PROMOTER ACTIVITY AND USE THEREOF | LEITH, NANCY J | 1656 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18042867 | STARCH BIOSYNTHESIS METHOD | EPSTEIN, TODD MATTHEW | 1652 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 18016804 | Mutant of Pyruvate Carboxylase Gene Promoter and Use Thereof | WHITEMAN, BRIAN A | 1682 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2023 |
| 17786997 | A RECOMBINANT FILAMENTOUS FUNGUS FOR PRODUCING ETHANOL AND ITS CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION | NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE | 1656 | §112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17636607 | BASE EDITING SYSTEMS FOR ACHIEVING C TO A AND C TO G BASE MUTATION AND APPLICATION THEREOF | LIPPOLIS, ALEXANDRA ROSE | 1637 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Feb 18, 2022 |
| 17603008 | Recombinant microorganism for producing L-valine, construction method and application thereof | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 406d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2021 |
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