Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Weatherly IP Solutions, LLC handles patent prosecution in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area, with 691 career applications on record. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 93.79 percent. Its prosecution history shows an average of 1.99 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm is managing 8 pending office actions.
The 691 career applications and 93.79 percent allowance rate establish the firm's historical performance in this sector. The 1.99 average helps practitioners understand the typical procedural requirements for reaching an allowance. With 8 pending office actions, the firm maintains its presence in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. This data set reflects the firm's documented experience and current workload within the patent office. The recorded metrics provide a baseline for procedural duration in this specific field. Practitioners can evaluate the intensity of examiner interaction and resource requirements based on these historical figures. These statistics offer a view of the firm's prosecution profile.
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.
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.
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 | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | 3 | 72.2% | +21.5% |
| ZHENG, LI | 1 | 83.6% | +12.9% |
| VU, JIMMY T | 1 | 86.5% | +7.5% |
| KEOGH, MATTHEW R | 1 | 78.3% | +14.5% |
| SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | 1 | 83.4% | +20.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18916091 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF LIGHTING NETWORKS FOR AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION | VU, JIMMY T | 28d |
| 17757404 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE STIMULATION OF BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS IN AN ORGANISM | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18677865 | Soybean Cultivar 3284306 | KEOGH, MATTHEW R | 26d overdue |
| 19187642 | Stevia Cultivar '320032' With Super High Rebaudioside A Content | ZHENG, LI | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
| 17757404 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE STIMULATION OF BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS IN AN ORGANISM | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Xiant Technologies | 2 |
| Sakata Seed | 2 |
| Eg Crop Science, Inc. | 1 |
| Ingredion | 1 |
| Confluence Genetics | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 3 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19234655 | IDENTIFICATION OF RESISTANCE GENES FROM WILD RELATIVES OF BANANA AND THEIR USES IN CONTROLLING PANAMA DISEASE | Eg Crop Science, Inc. | ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | 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 |
| 18767320 | Inbred Broccoli line BP-1 | Sakata Seed Corporation | ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | 1662 | §112DP | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18767758 | Inbred Broccoli Line BP-2 | Sakata Seed Corporation | ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | 1662 | §112DP | Final Rejection | 18d 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 |
| 17757404 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE STIMULATION OF BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS IN AN ORGANISM | Xiant Technologies, Inc. | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2022 |
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