Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UPL Corporation Limited

8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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%)
5
Medium (62%)
2
Easy (25%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (50%)
§102 only1 (12%)
§112 only2 (25%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W 1 41.1% -20.2%
LOVE, TREVOR M 1 43.1% +25.4%
JACKSON, SHAWQUIA 1 77.9% -3.4%
CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 1 60.0% +66.7%
HEITMEIER, KENDALL NICOLE 1 65.5% +30.4%
VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE 1 53.2% +21.4%
HOLT, ANDRIAE M 1 48.7% +21.6%
KETCHAM, KAREN A 1 19.6% +36.1%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17765665 HERBICIDE COMPOSITIONS KETCHAM, KAREN A 59d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17765665 HERBICIDE COMPOSITIONS KETCHAM, KAREN A 59d overdue
18566831 HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING WEEDS USING THE SAME LOVE, TREVOR M 5d overdue
18263939 PLANT DEFENCE GENE EXPRESSION CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 13d
18102848 HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE 21d
17925202 HERBICIDAL COMBINATION AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING HERBICIDE RESISTANT WEEDS HOLT, ANDRIAE M 33d
18164064 FUNGICIDAL COMBINATIONS HEITMEIER, KENDALL NICOLE 61d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1614 2
1616 1
1611 1
1626 1
1662 1
1621 1
1612 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18292515 COMBINATIONS OF TRIAZOLINONE HERBICIDES WITH SAFENERS SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W 1616 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2024
18566831 HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING WEEDS USING THE SAME LOVE, TREVOR M 1611 §102 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2023
18466489 PROCESS FOR PREPARATION OF IPCONAZOLE & ITS INTERMEDIATES JACKSON, SHAWQUIA 1626 §112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 13, 2023
18263939 PLANT DEFENCE GENE EXPRESSION CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 1662 §112 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Aug 02, 2023
18164064 FUNGICIDAL COMBINATIONS HEITMEIER, KENDALL NICOLE 1621 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Feb 03, 2023
18102848 HERBICIDAL COMBINATIONS VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jan 30, 2023
17925202 HERBICIDAL COMBINATION AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING HERBICIDE RESISTANT WEEDS HOLT, ANDRIAE M 1614 Other Non-Final OA 33d Pending Nov 14, 2022
17765665 HERBICIDE COMPOSITIONS KETCHAM, KAREN A 1614 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2022

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