Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tropic Biosciences UK Limited has 6 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical review within the company's life sciences portfolio. The involvement of 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's biotechnology innovations span several specialized sub-disciplines. This requires the company to maintain a prosecution strategy that is consistent yet flexible enough to meet the specific demands of 4 different technical groups. Managing 6 separate actions across 5 examiners allows for a variety of perspectives on the company's intellectual property.
SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. These 2 actions represent 2 of the 6 total pending actions for the company, while the remaining actions are handled by the other 4 distinct examiners. Having 2 actions with a single examiner allows the company to potentially identify patterns in that examiner's feedback, which could inform the strategy for those specific cases. However, with 5 distinct examiners in total, the overall success of the 6 pending actions remains dependent on a variety of individual examiner perspectives across the 4 art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 2 | 76.9% | +14.4% |
| PAGE, BRENT T | 1 | 82.4% | +10.8% |
| DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON | 1 | 80.1% | +16.5% |
| YU, DAVID TUYANG | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| VYAS, KEYUR ANILKUMAR | 1 | 49.4% | +60.8% |
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 |
| 19210663 | MODIFYING THE SPECIFICITY OF PLANT NON-CODING RNA MOLECULES FOR SILENCING GENE EXPRESSION | PAGE, BRENT T | — |
| 17439158 | INTRODUCING SILENCING ACTIVITY TO DYSFUNCTIONAL RNA MOLECULES AND MODIFYING THEIR SPECIFICITY AGAINST A GENE OF INTEREST | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | — |
| 16648779 | MODIFYING THE SPECIFICITY OF NON-CODING RNA MOLECULES FOR SILENCING GENE EXPRESSION IN EUKARYOTIC CELLS | VYAS, KEYUR ANILKUMAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1663 | 3 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 17439158 | INTRODUCING SILENCING ACTIVITY TO DYSFUNCTIONAL RNA MOLECULES AND MODIFYING THEIR SPECIFICITY AGAINST A GENE OF INTEREST | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 1663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2021 |
| 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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