Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aston University has 3 pending office actions currently active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. Each of these 3 pending office actions is assigned to a different art unit, as there are distinct art units involved in the portfolio. This distribution suggests that the university's research is diversified across different sub-sectors of biotechnology.
CAMPANELL, FRANCIS C is listed as the busiest examiner, though he only manages 1 pending office action. In fact, because there are distinct examiners for the pending office actions, every case is being reviewed by a unique individual. This distribution means that no examiner has a dominant influence over the university's patent outcomes. Practitioners must prepare for distinct examiners who may have different standards for patentability within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field. The lack of overlap across the art units further emphasizes the need for a customized prosecution strategy for each application, with 1 pending office action per 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMPANELL, FRANCIS C | 1 | 73.0% | +9.5% |
| OTTON, ALICIA L | 1 | 65.0% | +9.3% |
| SAEED, ALI S | 1 | 31.6% | +33.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17621495 | MESOPOROUS POLYMERIC PARTICULATE MATERIAL | SAEED, ALI S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17621495 | MESOPOROUS POLYMERIC PARTICULATE MATERIAL | SAEED, ALI S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1699 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18854302 | BIO OILS | CAMPANELL, FRANCIS C | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18277718 | TREATMENT OF BRAIN INJURIES | OTTON, ALICIA L | 1699 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 17621495 | MESOPOROUS POLYMERIC PARTICULATE MATERIAL | SAEED, ALI S | 1616 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialAston University has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Francis C Campanell has the most, with 1 of Aston University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
