Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre Limited currently has 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, with QIAN, SHIZHI serving as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The cases are distributed across 5 distinct art units.
The presence of 6 distinct examiners for the 6 pending office actions indicates that every matter is being reviewed by a different individual. QIAN, SHIZHI is responsible for 1 pending case, which shows that the workload is spread across the assigned staff. This structure requires the company to adapt to 6 different examination styles simultaneously.
With 5 distinct art units involved, the technical and procedural expectations will vary across the Chemistry & Materials filings. Since QIAN, SHIZHI handles 1 pending case, the practitioner must maintain separate communication channels for each matter. The prosecution strategy should focus on the specific requirements of the 5 distinct art units while addressing the unique feedback from each examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIAN, SHIZHI | 1 | 62.0% | +46.2% |
| JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | 1 | 41.3% | -13.4% |
| HOBAN, MATTHEW E | 1 | 60.4% | +25.6% |
| ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 1 | 41.0% | +23.3% |
| LIANG, ANTHONY M | 1 | 83.7% | +9.2% |
| OGUNTADE, ELIZABETH BISOLA | 1 | 50.0% | +100.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536120 | Hybrid Printing of Copper Conductive Material | LIANG, ANTHONY M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18916683 | RAPID, SINGLE-STEP AND REAGENTLESS ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSING METHODS, COMPOSITIONS AND DEVICES FOR NANOMOLAR DETECTION OF C-REACTIVE PROTEIN | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| 18912551 | VASCULAR NETWORK INSPIRED FLUIDIC SYSTEM FOR SPATIOTEMPORAL REGULATION OF FLUID COMPONENTS | JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | — |
| 18607538 | MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORM FOR DIGITAL DROPLET BIOASSAY WITH SPATIALLY PROGRAMMABLE THERMAL CYCLER | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | — |
| 18485856 | PASSIVE METHOD FOR IMPROVING SENSITIVITY OF BIOASSAY WITH SEGREGATIVE PHASE SEPARATION | OGUNTADE, ELIZABETH BISOLA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18916683 | RAPID, SINGLE-STEP AND REAGENTLESS ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSING METHODS, COMPOSITIONS AND DEVICES FOR NANOMOLAR DETECTION OF C-REACTIVE PROTEIN | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| 18610295 | MAGNETIC HYDROGEL WITH A TERNARY MAGNETIC COMPOSITE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME | HOBAN, MATTHEW E | — |
| 18607538 | MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORM FOR DIGITAL DROPLET BIOASSAY WITH SPATIALLY PROGRAMMABLE THERMAL CYCLER | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | — |
| 18485856 | PASSIVE METHOD FOR IMPROVING SENSITIVITY OF BIOASSAY WITH SEGREGATIVE PHASE SEPARATION | OGUNTADE, ELIZABETH BISOLA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1734 | 2 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18916683 | RAPID, SINGLE-STEP AND REAGENTLESS ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSING METHODS, COMPOSITIONS AND DEVICES FOR NANOMOLAR DETECTION OF C-REACTIVE PROTEIN | QIAN, SHIZHI | 1795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18912551 | VASCULAR NETWORK INSPIRED FLUIDIC SYSTEM FOR SPATIOTEMPORAL REGULATION OF FLUID COMPONENTS | JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | 1742 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18610295 | MAGNETIC HYDROGEL WITH A TERNARY MAGNETIC COMPOSITE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME | HOBAN, MATTHEW E | 1734 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18607538 | MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORM FOR DIGITAL DROPLET BIOASSAY WITH SPATIALLY PROGRAMMABLE THERMAL CYCLER | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 1799 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2024 |
| 18536120 | Hybrid Printing of Copper Conductive Material | LIANG, ANTHONY M | 1734 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18485856 | PASSIVE METHOD FOR IMPROVING SENSITIVITY OF BIOASSAY WITH SEGREGATIVE PHASE SEPARATION | OGUNTADE, ELIZABETH BISOLA | 1677 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAdvanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre Limited has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Shizhi Qian has the most, with 1 of Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
