Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
12 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bar-Ilan University has 12 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are assigned to 12 distinct examiners and 11 distinct art units, showing that nearly every pending action follows a separate examiner path while one art unit receives more than one matter.
SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for multiple pending actions in the reported data, so prosecution management should emphasize coordinated portfolio oversight alongside individualized responses to each examiner and art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1 | 63.7% | +11.8% |
| BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| TEJANI, ANKIT D | 1 | 81.0% | +16.3% |
| ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1 | 41.2% | +65.2% |
| FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1 | 45.6% | +35.4% |
| DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN | 1 | 75.0% | +23.3% |
| ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID | 1 | 90.9% | +11.5% |
| SABOUR, GHAZAL | 1 | 34.2% | +35.0% |
| NGUYEN, LAM S | 1 | 78.9% | +0.3% |
| MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 1 | 66.1% | +21.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570313 | BIODEGRADABLE PVA/PVP HYDROGELS, USES AND PREPARATION THEREOF | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 5d overdue |
| 18291980 | AI-Based Tool for Assessing Motor Visuo-Spatial Gestalt and Memory Abilities | TEJANI, ANKIT D | 6d |
| 18713668 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING PRESENCE OF A NUCLEIC ACID | BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE | — |
| 18289130 | OPTICAL EMISSION BIOSENSING USING MAGNETIC BEADS WITH A FAST AGGREGATION TIME | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | — |
| 18492315 | UTILIZING WEAK MEASUREMENTS TO REVEAL INFORMATION CONTENT VIA AN INTERCEPT AND RESEND PROCESS ON A QUANTUM INTERCONNECT LINK | DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN | — |
| 18492330 | DETECTION OF NOISE AND EAVESDROPPING ATTEMPTS ON A QUANTUM COMMUNICATION NETWORK BY PROBING AUXILIARY DEGREES OF FREEDOM | ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID | — |
| 18195980 | DETERMINING A STATE OF A MEDICAL CONDITION BASED ON A MICROBIOME SAMPLE | SABOUR, GHAZAL | — |
| 18013628 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING ANTISENSE GUIDE RNA FOR RNA EDITING | BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570313 | BIODEGRADABLE PVA/PVP HYDROGELS, USES AND PREPARATION THEREOF | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 5d overdue |
| 18291980 | AI-Based Tool for Assessing Motor Visuo-Spatial Gestalt and Memory Abilities | TEJANI, ANKIT D | 6d |
| 18748675 | BIOCHIP SENSOR FOR DETECTING OF MOLECULES | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | — |
| 18289130 | OPTICAL EMISSION BIOSENSING USING MAGNETIC BEADS WITH A FAST AGGREGATION TIME | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | — |
| 18492315 | UTILIZING WEAK MEASUREMENTS TO REVEAL INFORMATION CONTENT VIA AN INTERCEPT AND RESEND PROCESS ON A QUANTUM INTERCONNECT LINK | DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN | — |
| 18492330 | DETECTION OF NOISE AND EAVESDROPPING ATTEMPTS ON A QUANTUM COMMUNICATION NETWORK BY PROBING AUXILIARY DEGREES OF FREEDOM | ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID | — |
| 18195980 | DETERMINING A STATE OF A MEDICAL CONDITION BASED ON A MICROBIOME SAMPLE | SABOUR, GHAZAL | — |
| 18112614 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION BY ELECTROLYSIS | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 4100 | 2 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| 1683 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| 1671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18748675 | BIOCHIP SENSOR FOR DETECTING OF MOLECULES | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18713668 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING PRESENCE OF A NUCLEIC ACID | BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE | 1683 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2024 |
| 18291980 | AI-Based Tool for Assessing Motor Visuo-Spatial Gestalt and Memory Abilities | TEJANI, ANKIT D | 3796 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18570313 | BIODEGRADABLE PVA/PVP HYDROGELS, USES AND PREPARATION THEREOF | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1616 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18289130 | OPTICAL EMISSION BIOSENSING USING MAGNETIC BEADS WITH A FAST AGGREGATION TIME | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1758 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18492315 | UTILIZING WEAK MEASUREMENTS TO REVEAL INFORMATION CONTENT VIA AN INTERCEPT AND RESEND PROCESS ON A QUANTUM INTERCONNECT LINK | DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN | 4100 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18492330 | DETECTION OF NOISE AND EAVESDROPPING ATTEMPTS ON A QUANTUM COMMUNICATION NETWORK BY PROBING AUXILIARY DEGREES OF FREEDOM | ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID | 4100 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18195980 | DETERMINING A STATE OF A MEDICAL CONDITION BASED ON A MICROBIOME SAMPLE | SABOUR, GHAZAL | 1686 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18025878 | CLUSTER QUANTUM STATE GENERATION BASED ON PHASE MODULATED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR | NGUYEN, LAM S | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
| 18112614 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION BY ELECTROLYSIS | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 1794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 18014507 | DETECTING AND QUANTIFYING A VIRAL TARGET NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE | ALLEN, MICHAEL D | 1671 | §112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
| 18013628 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING ANTISENSE GUIDE RNA FOR RNA EDITING | BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C | 1684 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBar-Ilan University has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 12 examiners.
Caitlyn Mingyun Sun has the most, with 1 of Bar-Ilan University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
