Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Tropic Biosciences UK Limited

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (17%)
2
Unknown (33%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
§112 only1 (17%)
No statute on record2 (33%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

5
Life Sciences
83% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
17% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON 1 80.1% +16.3%
CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 1 60.0% +66.7%
MEHTA, ASHWIN D 1 73.5% +3.2%
SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES 1 80.5% +9.7%
ZAHORIK, AMANDA MARY 1 60.9% +52.6%
MCKILLOP, JOHN CHARLES 1 53.5% +42.4%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue 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

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17438920 MODIFYING THE SPECIFICITY OF NON-CODING RNA MOLECULES FOR SILENCING GENES IN EUKARYOTIC CELLS MCKILLOP, JOHN CHARLES 78d overdue
18720593 MODIFIED AGROBACTERIA FOR EDITING PLANTS DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON 66d overdue
17439344 PRODUCTION OF dsRNA IN PLANT CELLS FOR PEST PROTECTION VIA GENE SILENCING ZAHORIK, AMANDA MARY 50d overdue
18575208 METHOD FOR EDITING BANANA GENES CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 11d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1662 2
6211 1
1663 1
1636 1
1637 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18720593 MODIFIED AGROBACTERIA FOR EDITING PLANTS DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON 1662 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2024
18575208 METHOD FOR EDITING BANANA GENES CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 1662 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2023
18571140 DELAY OR PREVENTION OF BROWNING IN BANANA FRUIT MEHTA, ASHWIN D 6211 Other Non-Final OA 46d Pending Dec 15, 2023
18149627 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING SHELF-LIFE OF BANANA SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES 1663 §103 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Jan 03, 2023
17439344 PRODUCTION OF dsRNA IN PLANT CELLS FOR PEST PROTECTION VIA GENE SILENCING ZAHORIK, AMANDA MARY 1636 §112 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2021
17438920 MODIFYING THE SPECIFICITY OF NON-CODING RNA MOLECULES FOR SILENCING GENES IN EUKARYOTIC CELLS MCKILLOP, JOHN CHARLES 1637 Other Final Rejection 78d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2021

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