Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Auburn University has 10 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 10 actions are distributed among 10 distinct examiners, resulting in a perfect match between the number of examiners and pending matters. This indicates that no single examiner is currently reviewing more than 1 application for the university. The portfolio is active across 8 distinct art units.
OMAR MORALES is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. The involvement of 8 distinct art units for 10 pending actions shows that the university's biotechnology and pharmaceutical innovations are technically diverse and fall into many different specialized examination categories. Managing 10 pending office actions across 10 distinct examiners requires a broad approach to prosecution, as each application is being reviewed by a different person. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner's feedback will necessarily predict the outcome of other pending matters in the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 + other | 3 (30%) |
| §103 only | 3 (30%) |
| §102 only | 2 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORALES, OMAR | 1 | 59.7% | +16.5% |
| SOUGH, HYUNG SUB | 1 | 18.8% | +22.5% |
| JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 1 | 45.0% | +12.9% |
| EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 1 | 60.0% | +31.0% |
| YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW | 1 | 87.2% | +24.4% |
| GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 1 | 50.9% | +43.2% |
| ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | 1 | 72.2% | +21.5% |
| HOU, FRANK S | 1 | 68.3% | +34.8% |
| HEINCER, LIAM J | 1 | 55.8% | +26.0% |
| CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1 | 41.7% | +32.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18641741 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR AUTOMATED TEST PATTERN GENERATION FOR LOGIC CIRCUITS WITH BOOLEAN SATISFIABILITY ANALYSIS | YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895724 | PHYSICAL COMPONENTS USING DATA ELEMENT MAPPING AND ANALYSIS | SOUGH, HYUNG SUB | — |
| 18797756 | USE OF PECTIN OR PECTIN-RELATED SACCHARIDES TO ENHANCE EFFICACY OF PLANT GROWTH-PROMOTING RHIZOBACTERIA (PGPR) STRAINS FOR PROMOTING GROWTH AND HEALTH IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | — |
| 18708010 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING CARDIAC EVENTS | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | — |
| 18634149 | CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTAL MODIFICATION FOR ADSORBENTS AND SENSORS | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18207797 | METHOD TO DELIVER CHEMICALS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS TO PLANT CELLS USING CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTALS AS A CARRIER | ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | 42d overdue |
| 18324555 | HIGH ENTROPY OXIDES AND METHODS OF SYNTHESIS AND USE THEREOF | HOU, FRANK S | 7d |
| 18641741 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR AUTOMATED TEST PATTERN GENERATION FOR LOGIC CIRCUITS WITH BOOLEAN SATISFIABILITY ANALYSIS | YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW | 15d |
| 19091980 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE ROLLOVER PREVENTION | MORALES, OMAR | — |
| 18895724 | PHYSICAL COMPONENTS USING DATA ELEMENT MAPPING AND ANALYSIS | SOUGH, HYUNG SUB | — |
| 18797756 | USE OF PECTIN OR PECTIN-RELATED SACCHARIDES TO ENHANCE EFFICACY OF PLANT GROWTH-PROMOTING RHIZOBACTERIA (PGPR) STRAINS FOR PROMOTING GROWTH AND HEALTH IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | — |
| 18708010 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING CARDIAC EVENTS | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | — |
| 18634149 | CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTAL MODIFICATION FOR ADSORBENTS AND SENSORS | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3747 | 1 |
| 2192 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2111 | 1 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19091980 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE ROLLOVER PREVENTION | MORALES, OMAR | 3747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 18895724 | PHYSICAL COMPONENTS USING DATA ELEMENT MAPPING AND ANALYSIS | SOUGH, HYUNG SUB | 2192 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18797756 | USE OF PECTIN OR PECTIN-RELATED SACCHARIDES TO ENHANCE EFFICACY OF PLANT GROWTH-PROMOTING RHIZOBACTERIA (PGPR) STRAINS FOR PROMOTING GROWTH AND HEALTH IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | — | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18708010 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING CARDIAC EVENTS | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 3791 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18641741 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR AUTOMATED TEST PATTERN GENERATION FOR LOGIC CIRCUITS WITH BOOLEAN SATISFIABILITY ANALYSIS | YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW | 2111 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18634149 | CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTAL MODIFICATION FOR ADSORBENTS AND SENSORS | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18207797 | METHOD TO DELIVER CHEMICALS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS TO PLANT CELLS USING CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTALS AS A CARRIER | ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | 1662 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 18324555 | HIGH ENTROPY OXIDES AND METHODS OF SYNTHESIS AND USE THEREOF | HOU, FRANK S | 1692 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18304855 | SOY-SUBSTITUTED COLD-SET RESINS | HEINCER, LIAM J | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 17789161 | ELECTROCHEMICAL PROXIMITY ASSAY | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1683 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2022 |
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