Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Weatherly Ip Solutions, LLC

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Weatherly IP Solutions, LLC handles Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals matters and has 695 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 93.83%, indicating that most recorded resolved applications reached allowance.

There are 8 pending office actions, and allowed matters average 1.99 office actions. These figures give practitioners both an outcome reference and an indication of response activity associated with successful cases.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=695 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

93.8%
Allowance Rate
n=695
+0.41σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=695
2.0
OAs to Allowance
n=578
-0.58σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=578
566 days
Time to Allowance
n=578
+5.2pp
Interview Lift
n=695
5.7%
RCE Rate
n=695
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=695

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

77.8%
§101 Overcome
n=27
90.7%
§102 Overcome
n=140
76.1%
§103 Overcome
n=71
89.8%
§112 Overcome
n=393

Specialization & Scale

A01H, C12N, A01G
Top CPC Subclasses
67%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=695
3
Practitioners
n=695
231.7
Apps / Practitioner
n=695

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

3
Hard (43%)
2
Medium (29%)
2
Easy (29%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§112 only1 (14%)
Double-patenting only1 (14%)
Double-patenting + other2 (29%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (43%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
86% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN 3 72.3% +21.4%
ZHENG, LI 1 83.5% +13.0%
VU, JIMMY T 1 86.3% +7.6%
KEOGH, MATTHEW R 1 78.5% +14.4%
SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 1 66.9% +46.0%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18916091 SYNCHRONIZATION OF LIGHTING NETWORKS FOR AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION VU, JIMMY T 28d

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18677865 Soybean Cultivar 3284306 KEOGH, MATTHEW R 26d overdue
19187642 Stevia Cultivar '320032' With Super High Rebaudioside A Content ZHENG, LI —
18418736 METHOD FOR MANAGING PAIN SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE —

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
18677865 Soybean Cultivar 3284306 KEOGH, MATTHEW R 26d overdue
18767320 Inbred Broccoli line BP-1 ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN 19d overdue
18767758 Inbred Broccoli Line BP-2 ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN 18d overdue
19234655 IDENTIFICATION OF RESISTANCE GENES FROM WILD RELATIVES OF BANANA AND THEIR USES IN CONTROLLING PANAMA DISEASE ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN —
19187642 Stevia Cultivar '320032' With Super High Rebaudioside A Content ZHENG, LI —
18418736 METHOD FOR MANAGING PAIN SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE —

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16624
28441
16631
16331

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19234655 IDENTIFICATION OF RESISTANCE GENES FROM WILD RELATIVES OF BANANA AND THEIR USES IN CONTROLLING PANAMA DISEASE Eg Crop Science, Inc. ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN 1662 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 11, 2025
19187642 Stevia Cultivar '320032' With Super High Rebaudioside A Content Purecircle Usa Inc. ZHENG, LI 1662 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 23, 2025
18916091 SYNCHRONIZATION OF LIGHTING NETWORKS FOR AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION Xiant Technologies, Inc. VU, JIMMY T 2844 §112Other Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 15, 2024
18767758 Inbred Broccoli Line BP-2 Sakata Seed Corporation ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN 1662 §112DP Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Jul 09, 2024
18767320 Inbred Broccoli line BP-1 Sakata Seed Corporation ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN 1662 §112DP Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Jul 09, 2024
18677865 Soybean Cultivar 3284306 Confluence Genetics, LLC KEOGH, MATTHEW R 1663 §102§112 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending May 29, 2024
18418736 METHOD FOR MANAGING PAIN UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 1633 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 22, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Weatherly Ip Solutions, LLC's patent allowance rate?

93.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Weatherly Ip Solutions, LLC were allowed, across 695 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Weatherly Ip Solutions, LLC average before allowance?

1.99 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Weatherly Ip Solutions, LLC have?

7 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 6 clients, before 5 examiners in 4 art units.

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