Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Valent BioSciences LLC is managing 5 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 5 actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the filings are grouped into 2 primary technical classifications. However, the examination is decentralized, as there are 5 distinct examiners assigned to the 5 pending office actions. This means that every pending action is being reviewed by a different individual.
The busiest examiner, HWU, JUNE, is responsible for 1 pending action, which is consistent with the distribution of examiners to pending actions across the portfolio. For practitioners, this distribution across 5 distinct examiners requires managing different sets of examiner preferences and styles, even though they are contained within only 2 distinct art units. The strategy for these 5 pending office actions must be tailored to each of the 5 distinct examiners while accounting for the shared administrative environment of the distinct art units in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HWU, JUNE | 1 | 91.3% | -2.0% |
| ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | 1 | 52.4% | +26.7% |
| CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | 1 | 52.9% | +21.1% |
| DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO | 1 | 50.0% | +21.5% |
| VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE | 1 | 53.1% | +24.1% |
| ROBINSON, KEITH O NEAL | 1 | 91.6% | +3.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17901137 | 1-AMINO-1-CYCLOPROPANECARBOXYLIC ACID FOR THINNING OF FRUITS | ROBINSON, KEITH O NEAL | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19293288 | METHODS OF IMPROVING STRESS TOLERANCE, GROWTH AND YIELD IN PLANTS | HWU, JUNE | — |
| 19080145 | AMINOETHOXYVINYLGLYCINE AND 1-AMINO-1-CYCLOPROPANECARBOXYLIC ACID AND USES THEREOF | ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | — |
| 18944146 | (S)-ABSCISIC ACID FOR REDUCING FRUIT DROP | CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | — |
| 18663567 | STONE FRUIT QUALITY | DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17963270 | MIXTURE OF PYRETHROIDS AND MILBEMYCINS AND USES THEREOF | VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE | 17d overdue |
| 19080145 | AMINOETHOXYVINYLGLYCINE AND 1-AMINO-1-CYCLOPROPANECARBOXYLIC ACID AND USES THEREOF | ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | — |
| 18944146 | (S)-ABSCISIC ACID FOR REDUCING FRUIT DROP | CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | — |
| 18663567 | STONE FRUIT QUALITY | DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1661 | 2 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19293288 | METHODS OF IMPROVING STRESS TOLERANCE, GROWTH AND YIELD IN PLANTS | HWU, JUNE | 1661 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19080145 | AMINOETHOXYVINYLGLYCINE AND 1-AMINO-1-CYCLOPROPANECARBOXYLIC ACID AND USES THEREOF | ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 18944146 | (S)-ABSCISIC ACID FOR REDUCING FRUIT DROP | CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18663567 | STONE FRUIT QUALITY | DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 17963270 | MIXTURE OF PYRETHROIDS AND MILBEMYCINS AND USES THEREOF | VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2022 |
| 17901137 | 1-AMINO-1-CYCLOPROPANECARBOXYLIC ACID FOR THINNING OF FRUITS | ROBINSON, KEITH O NEAL | 1661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2022 |
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