Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
UPL Corporation Limited has 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This workload is split between 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for one of the pending actions. The focus remains entirely within the biotechnology sector for these active matters.
The 2 distinct examiners are located in 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's applications are being reviewed in different specialized sections of the patent office. Even with a small number of 2 pending actions, the portfolio is spread across multiple administrative units rather than being concentrated in a single art unit.
WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. In this portfolio, the workload is divided among the 2 examiners. Each examiner, including WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH, handles a portion of the current pending workload for the company.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1 | 52.9% | +42.1% |
| OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1 | 50.0% | +61.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18028661 | COMBINATIONS OF CHLOROACETANILIDE HERBICIDES WITH SAFENERS | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247530 | PHOTOSTABLE COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF REDUCING OR CONTROLLING WEED POPULATION APPLYING SAID COMPOSITION | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 21d |
| 18028661 | COMBINATIONS OF CHLOROACETANILIDE HERBICIDES WITH SAFENERS | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18247530 | PHOTOSTABLE COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF REDUCING OR CONTROLLING WEED POPULATION APPLYING SAID COMPOSITION | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1612 | §112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18028661 | COMBINATIONS OF CHLOROACETANILIDE HERBICIDES WITH SAFENERS | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1619 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
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