Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Weedout Ltd. operates within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners, meaning that each active matter is being evaluated by a different person. This distribution requires the applicant to manage two separate examiner relationships to advance the 2 pending office actions effectively.
The portfolio's activity is located in 2 distinct art units. This indicates that each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different technical group at the patent office. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's biotechnology and pharmaceutical innovations are diverse enough to be classified into separate technical categories. Practitioners must navigate the specific guidelines and standards of these 2 distinct art units to achieve successful outcomes.
MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L is the busiest examiner for this applicant, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners in total, MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L handles a portion of the company's active matters. Practitioners should focus on the 1 busiest examiner pending office action while also developing a distinct strategy for the other examiner, as the 2 distinct art units involved may present different challenges for the company's patent applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | 1 | 74.3% | +25.2% |
| CHI, AMANDA LYNN | 1 | — | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701282 | METHODS OF WEED CONTROL | CHI, AMANDA LYNN | 14d |
| 19476191 | METHODS OF WEED CONTROL | MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19476191 | METHODS OF WEED CONTROL | MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1663 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19476191 | METHODS OF WEED CONTROL | MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | 1663 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
| 18701282 | METHODS OF WEED CONTROL | CHI, AMANDA LYNN | 1613 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialWeedout Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Christina L Meadows has the most, with 1 of Weedout Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
