Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bar-Ilan University is managing a robust company patent portfolio with 12 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 9 distinct art units, which demonstrates a very broad range of research and development interests. The prosecution involves 12 distinct examiners, meaning that the pending office actions are being handled by different individuals.
BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W is identified as the busiest examiner, though this individual is responsible for 1 of the 12 pending office actions. This lack of examiner overlap suggests that the university's patent strategy must account for 12 different examination styles. With 12 pending office actions and 9 distinct art units, the portfolio is highly diversified across the patent office's specialized divisions.
The involvement of 12 distinct examiners highlights the complexity of managing many active applications simultaneously within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector. This data reflects a high level of innovation and a wide-reaching intellectual property strategy for Bar-Ilan University. The university must coordinate across 9 distinct art units to advance its patent filings. The 12 pending office actions represent the university's current active pipeline.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W | 1 | 66.7% | +31.8% |
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1 | 63.5% | +11.9% |
| TEJANI, ANKIT D | 1 | 81.0% | +16.9% |
| ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1 | 45.2% | +70.9% |
| FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1 | 45.7% | +35.3% |
| DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN | 1 | 75.0% | +23.1% |
| ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID | 1 | 89.7% | +12.5% |
| SABOUR, GHAZAL | 1 | 37.8% | +43.2% |
| NGUYEN, LAM S | 1 | 78.8% | +0.2% |
| MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 1 | 66.1% | +21.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18845060 | BACTERIAL COMPOSITION FOR USE IN TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER | BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W | — |
| 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 |
| 18845060 | BACTERIAL COMPOSITION FOR USE IN TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER | BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W | — |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 4100 | 2 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| 1671 | 1 |
| 1684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18845060 | BACTERIAL COMPOSITION FOR USE IN TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER | BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18748675 | BIOCHIP SENSOR FOR DETECTING OF MOLECULES | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 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 | — | §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 | PARKIN, JEFFREY S | 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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