Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
112 pending office actions • 75 art units • 105 examiners • 0 of 112 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 164 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University has 115 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The portfolio involves 108 distinct examiners across 79 distinct art units. This represents a broad prosecution workload with extensive examiner coverage and substantial distribution across biotechnology examination groups.
MELENDEZ, ARMAND is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The largest identified examiner grouping is small compared with the overall workload, so examiner-specific practices will affect only a limited portion of the portfolio. Counsel should use centralized tracking for recurring claim and disclosure themes, while preserving application-specific strategies across the art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 30 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. 30 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 3 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 17 (15%) |
| §103 only | 26 (23%) |
| §102 only | 2 (2%) |
| §112 only | 5 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 10 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 48 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 2 | 46.1% | +43.1% |
| BALL, JOHN C | 2 | 78.8% | +16.1% |
| ZEMAN, ROBERT A | 2 | 54.2% | +27.9% |
| CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 2 | 44.0% | +70.1% |
| GILL, RACHEL B | 2 | 65.4% | +28.8% |
| CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 2 | 41.1% | +50.8% |
| DEBERRY, REGINA M | 2 | 50.2% | +30.8% |
| LEUNG, JENNIFER A | 1 | 61.8% | +12.2% |
| AYAD, TAMIR | 1 | 42.3% | +48.1% |
| COLE, VICTOR | 1 | 92.0% | +10.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17742236 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDUCTIVE ANOMALY DETECTION FOR ATTRIBUTED NETWORKS | BEAN, GRIFFIN TANNER | 79d overdue |
| 19099528 | MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS AND RELATED ASPECTS FOR GENERATING DISEASE MAPS OF POPULATIONS | KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE | 38d overdue |
| 17806697 | URINE COLOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF THE SAME | BAVA, JANKI MAHESH | 28d overdue |
| 18811439 | HYGROSCOPIC POLYMER COMPOSITES AND RELATED MANUFACTURING METHODS | TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 25d overdue |
| 17938175 | DE-BONDING OF THICK FILMS FROM CARRIER AND METHODS THEREOF | GATES, BRADFORD M | 23d overdue |
| 18322442 | METHODS FOR DIAGNOSING GASTRIC INTESTINAL METAPLASIA | ZEMAN, ROBERT A | 17d overdue |
| 18576311 | AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 3d overdue |
| 17933495 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING MICROHARDNESS PROPERTIES OF WELDS | CHAVEZ, RENEE D | 2d overdue |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18705189 | A METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF SELF-REPLICATING, NUCLEIC ACID-LOADED, VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLES (VLP-NA) AND THE USES THEREOF | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 29d overdue |
| 18322442 | METHODS FOR DIAGNOSING GASTRIC INTESTINAL METAPLASIA | ZEMAN, ROBERT A | 17d overdue |
| 18576311 | AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 3d overdue |
| 18032080 | FORMULATION FOR WOUND HEALING | DEBERRY, REGINA M | 27d |
| 18073975 | DRY-JET WET-SPINNING OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL CARBON FIBERS | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 34d |
| 17993355 | ABSORPTION OF SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS FROM CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 49d |
| 19276116 | THERMALLY DRIVEN NITROGEN AND AMMONIA PRODUCTION | LEUNG, JENNIFER A | — |
| 19231062 | METHOD OF FORMING A POLYMER COMPOSITE AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1786 | 5 |
| 1681 | 4 |
| 3791 | 4 |
| 1742 | 3 |
| 1795 | 3 |
| 1645 | 3 |
| 1682 | 3 |
| 1677 | 3 |
| 1726 | 2 |
| 1662 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19276116 | THERMALLY DRIVEN NITROGEN AND AMMONIA PRODUCTION | LEUNG, JENNIFER A | 1774 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19231062 | METHOD OF FORMING A POLYMER COMPOSITE AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1742 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19224677 | HOLE CONTACT FOR ELECTRONIC AND OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES | AYAD, TAMIR | 1726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19131381 | Stepped Impedance Quasi-Optical THZ Filters Using Metamaterial Dielectric Layers | COLE, VICTOR | 2843 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 19176782 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS VISION-GUIDED OBJECT COLLECTION FROM WATER SURFACES WITH A CUSTOMIZED MULTIROTOR | KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE | 3666 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19171029 | GRAPHENE-NICKEL COMPOSITE WIRES | RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19051527 | MACHINE LEARNING ENHANCED ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS | NGUYEN, LINH V | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19099528 | MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS AND RELATED ASPECTS FOR GENERATING DISEASE MAPS OF POPULATIONS | KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE | 3687 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 19030131 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SINGLE MOLECULE DETECTION | NOGUEROLA, ALEXANDER STEPHAN | 1795 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19011264 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATTRIBUTING IMAGE GENERATIVE MODELS USING LATENT FINGERPRINTS | ISLAM, MEHRAZUL NMN | 2662 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 19009454 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS LAYER-LESS PRINTING OF METAL OBJECTS | AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | 1743 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18985827 | DEEP RESIDUAL INCEPTION ENCODER-DECODER NETWORK FOR AMYLOID PET HARMONIZATION | SHERALI, ISHRAT I | 2667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18983321 | HIGH DENSITY AND MULTIPLEXED NANOPORE DEVICES WITH TRANSVERSE TUNNELING JUNCTION FOR BIOMOLECULE DETECTION AND SEQUENCING | BALL, JOHN C | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18970142 | Imidazole Compounds for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes | NOLAN, JASON MICHAEL | 1623 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18954128 | OSCILLATORY STRAIN-ASSISTED VOXEL SHAPING AND JOINING FOR 3D-PRINTING | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18912922 | ZONE-SPECIFIC MACHINE LEARNING FOR MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | ISLAM, ROWNAK | 2474 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18906157 | GESTURE SENSOR USING RADIO-FREQUENCY SIGNALS | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3648 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18901457 | MONOCRYSTALLINE NICKEL-TITANIUM FILMS ON SINGLE CRYSTAL SILICON SUBSTRATES USING SEED LAYERS | DUMBRIS, SETH M | 1784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18888830 | DONOR-ACCEPTOR TYPE THERMALLY ACTIVATED DELAYED FLUORESCENT MATERIALS BASED ON IMIDAZO[1,2-F]PHENANTHRIDINE AND ANALOGUES | HABTE, KAHSAY | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18886736 | PATHOGEN-INACTIVATING FACIAL MASK | VO, TU A | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18886876 | HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOON PAYLOAD WITH ATTITUDE CONTROL AND PREDICTIVE SCHEDULING, FOR AEROBIOLOGICAL SAMPLING AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING | BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18826610 | ENGINEERED BACTERIAL RIBOSOME COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS | ZEMAN, ROBERT A | 1645 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18811439 | HYGROSCOPIC POLYMER COMPOSITES AND RELATED MANUFACTURING METHODS | TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 1722 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18809107 | ACTIVE VIOLIN SHOULDER RESTS | DONELS, JEFFREY | 2837 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18788731 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTIFYING MULTISCALE COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPES OF CLONAL DIVERSITY IN GLIOBLASTOMA | FITZPATRICK, ATIBA O | 2677 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18781405 | METAL-ASSISTED DELAYED FLUORESCENT EMITTERS CONTAINING TRIDENTATE LIGANDS | AULAKH, CHARANJIT | 1621 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18766467 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A DYNAMIC QUADRUPED WITH TUNABLE, COMPLIANT LEGS | KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE | 3611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18757817 | BLUE AND NARROW BAND GREEN AND RED EMITTING METAL COMPLEXES | JEON, SEOKMIN | 1786 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18665475 | DROPLET INJECTOR FOR TIME-RESOLVED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY WITH XFELS | GORDON, BRIAN R | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18661485 | SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS WITH 3D INKJET-PRINTED MICROSTRUCTURES AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18654445 | BIO-GRAFTED SILICA AS AN ADSORBENT OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS | LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI | 1742 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18705189 | A METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF SELF-REPLICATING, NUCLEIC ACID-LOADED, VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLES (VLP-NA) AND THE USES THEREOF | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 1662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18638531 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TIME-SYNCHRONIZED TOPOLOGY AND STATE ESTIMATION IN REAL-TIME UNOBSERVABLE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS | KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG | 2857 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18701890 | HIGH SENSITIVITY DNA LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION ASSAY (DLISA) FOR DETECTION OF INFECTIOUS SARS-COV-2 VIRUS AND VARIANTS | GILL, RACHEL B | 1671 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18701892 | DNA ORIGAMI SUBUNIT VACCINE FOR PREVENTION OF SARS-CoV-2 VARIANT INFECTION | GILL, RACHEL B | 1645 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18701901 | Neutralizing Trivalent Protein-DNA Molecules (TRI-PDBODY) for SARS-COV-2 Infection Treatment | WANG, RUIXUE | 1672 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18700992 | PROGRAMMABLE DELIVERY PLATFORMS FOR RNA STRUCTURES | GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE | 1637 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18700676 | MEMBRANE-EMBEDDED NANOPORE AND USES THEREOF | WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C | 1681 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18633298 | Metal-Assisted Delayed Fluorescent Emitters Employing Benzo-imidazo-phenanthridine and Analogues | CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S | 1625 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18700372 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR DETECTING NEUROLOGICAL AND/OR PHYSICAL CONDITIONS | WELCH, HALLE MARGARET | 3796 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 83d | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18631875 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR HLA HAPLOTYPE SEQUENCING | YU, TIAN NMN | 1681 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18628195 | AUTOMATED OPTICAL MICROPIPETTE ELECTRODE GUIDANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD | XU, XIAOYUN | 1797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18621914 | BIOMARKERS FOR AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS STRATIFICATION | SALMON, KATHERINE D | 1682 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18694303 | METHODS FOR PARALLEL LAMP ASSAYS AT A SINGLE TEMPERATURE USING TEMPERATURE-SHIFTING AGENTS | BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE | 1683 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18692247 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING LAYERED SORBENT FILMS USING ADHESIVE | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18691489 | MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES TO ENHANCE DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS | RHO, YONG DOO | 2147 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18598601 | URINE COLLECTION, STORAGE, AND TESTING ASSEMBLY | KREMER, MATTHEW | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18441809 | METHODS FOR SEQUENCING BIOPOLYMERS | WILDER, CYNTHIA B | 1681 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18683200 | A METHOD FOR SINGLE-CELL DNA SEQUENCING VIA IN SITU GENOMIC AMPLIFICATION AND COMBINATORIAL BARCODING | OLSON, ALEXANDRA NADINE | 1684 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18437948 | Stress-Responsive Composites | ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | 1767 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialArizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University has 112 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 75 art units and 105 examiners.
Armand Melendez has the most, with 2 of Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
