Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tropic Biosciences UK Limited currently has 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are concentrated within 4 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, PAGE, BRENT T, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows a significant overlap at the art unit level, with only 4 distinct art units for 6 pending actions.
With these 6 pending office actions, the company must navigate various individual examination styles. However, the fact that these cases are housed in only 4 distinct art units suggests that some examiners are working in the same administrative groups. This could lead to more consistent application of legal standards or shared prior art across the portfolio. Practitioners should look for commonalities within the 4 distinct art units while preparing for the unique preferences of the 6 distinct examiners.
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 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAGE, BRENT T | 1 | 82.4% | +10.7% |
| DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON | 1 | 80.0% | +16.3% |
| CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 1 | 44.0% | +70.1% |
| YU, DAVID TUYANG | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 1 | 76.5% | +14.9% |
| VYAS, KEYUR ANILKUMAR | 1 | 50.0% | +58.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720593 | MODIFIED AGROBACTERIA FOR EDITING PLANTS | DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON | 66d overdue |
| 18281163 | METHOD FOR SILENCING GENES | YU, DAVID TUYANG | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19210663 | MODIFYING THE SPECIFICITY OF PLANT NON-CODING RNA MOLECULES FOR SILENCING GENE EXPRESSION | PAGE, BRENT T | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18149627 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING SHELF-LIFE OF BANANA | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 89d overdue |
| 18720593 | MODIFIED AGROBACTERIA FOR EDITING PLANTS | DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON | 66d overdue |
| 18575208 | METHOD FOR EDITING BANANA GENES | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 11d overdue |
| 19210663 | MODIFYING THE SPECIFICITY OF PLANT NON-CODING RNA MOLECULES FOR SILENCING GENE EXPRESSION | PAGE, BRENT T | — |
| 16648779 | MODIFYING THE SPECIFICITY OF NON-CODING RNA MOLECULES FOR SILENCING GENE EXPRESSION IN EUKARYOTIC CELLS | VYAS, KEYUR ANILKUMAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1663 | 2 |
| 1662 | 2 |
| 1635 | 1 |
| 1637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19210663 | MODIFYING THE SPECIFICITY OF PLANT NON-CODING RNA MOLECULES FOR SILENCING GENE EXPRESSION | PAGE, BRENT T | 1663 | §101§102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 18720593 | MODIFIED AGROBACTERIA FOR EDITING PLANTS | DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON | 1662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18575208 | METHOD FOR EDITING BANANA GENES | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 1662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18281163 | METHOD FOR SILENCING GENES | YU, DAVID TUYANG | 1635 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18149627 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING SHELF-LIFE OF BANANA | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 1663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 89d overdue | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
| 16648779 | MODIFYING THE SPECIFICITY OF NON-CODING RNA MOLECULES FOR SILENCING GENE EXPRESSION IN EUKARYOTIC CELLS | VYAS, KEYUR ANILKUMAR | 1637 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialTropic Biosciences UK Limited has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 6 examiners.
Brent T Page has the most, with 1 of Tropic Biosciences UK Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
