Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
15 pending office actions • 8 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
UPL Corporation Limited maintains a presence in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area with 15 pending office actions. This volume of activity is distributed across 14 distinct examiners, indicating a broad engagement with various USPTO personnel. The company's prosecution strategy spans 8 distinct art units, reflecting a range of technical subject matter within the life sciences sector.
VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 2 pending office actions. While most examiners are handling single matters, the involvement of 14 distinct examiners suggests that the company's patent outcomes are not dependent on any single individual's discretion. The 8 distinct art units involved further demonstrate the breadth of the company's research and development efforts.
Managing 15 pending office actions requires coordination across the various examining groups identified. VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE, with 2 pending office actions, holds the highest individual workload for this applicant. This profile suggests an active prosecution pipeline that requires navigating the specific nuances of many different examining groups within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field.
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 (7%) |
| §103 only | 2 (13%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (47%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PURDY, KYLE A | 1 | 41.0% | +35.7% |
| ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | 1 | 51.8% | +27.5% |
| RUNYAN, SILVANA C | 1 | 82.5% | +17.0% |
| BAZARGANI, ARYA AHMADI | 1 | 62.5% | +31.3% |
| ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | 1 | 51.9% | +39.0% |
| BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | 1 | 37.1% | +49.3% |
| GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V | 1 | 63.1% | +33.8% |
| SONG, JIANFENG | 1 | 56.4% | +33.0% |
| ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1 | 30.0% | +53.1% |
| ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA | 1 | 51.6% | +29.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263939 | PLANT DEFENCE GENE EXPRESSION | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 13d |
| 18877427 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | PURDY, KYLE A | — |
| 18877001 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | RUNYAN, SILVANA C | — |
| 18874469 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | — |
| 18867767 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18832605 | METHOD OF IMPROVING PLANT GROWTH | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | — |
| 18041648 | A LIQUID AGROCHEMICAL COMPOSITION | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | — |
| 18013639 | SYNERGISTIC HERBICIDE COMBINATIONS, COMPOSITIONS AND USE THEREOF | VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18877427 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | PURDY, KYLE A | — |
| 18877040 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | — |
| 18877001 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | RUNYAN, SILVANA C | — |
| 18875399 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | BAZARGANI, ARYA AHMADI | — |
| 18874469 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | — |
| 18867767 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18843473 | FUNGICIDE COMPOSITION | GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V | — |
| 18835471 | FUNGICIDE COMPOSITION | SONG, JIANFENG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1613 | 4 |
| 1612 | 3 |
| 1616 | 2 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| 1621 | 1 |
| 1623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18877427 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | PURDY, KYLE A | 1611 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18877040 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | 1612 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18877001 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | RUNYAN, SILVANA C | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18875399 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | BAZARGANI, ARYA AHMADI | 1613 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18874469 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | 1613 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18867767 | HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UNDESIRED VEGETATION | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | 1613 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18843473 | FUNGICIDE COMPOSITION | GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V | 1615 | §112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18835471 | FUNGICIDE COMPOSITION | SONG, JIANFENG | 1613 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18832605 | METHOD OF IMPROVING PLANT GROWTH | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1616 | §101§102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18832577 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING FUNGI | ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA | 1612 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18263939 | PLANT DEFENCE GENE EXPRESSION | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 1662 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18041648 | A LIQUID AGROCHEMICAL COMPOSITION | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1616 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 18164064 | FUNGICIDAL COMBINATIONS | HEITMEIER, KENDALL NICOLE | 1621 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 18013639 | SYNERGISTIC HERBICIDE COMBINATIONS, COMPOSITIONS AND USE THEREOF | VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE | 1612 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
| 18085182 | FUNGICIDAL COMBINATIONS | HIRAKIS, SOPHIA P | 1623 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialUPL Corporation Limited has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 15 examiners.
Kyle A Purdy has the most, with 1 of UPL Corporation Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
