Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
BIOMERIEUX has 10 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 10 distinct examiners across 7 distinct art units. Examiner assignments are fully distributed, while several matters are handled within the same art units.
TURK, NEIL N is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger listed concentration, so the portfolio requires broad examiner-specific oversight rather than reliance on a single relationship. The repeated art-unit assignments provide a basis for reviewing recurring examination positions and cited-art patterns.
Counsel may benefit from maintaining a consolidated record of claim amendments, arguments, and interview outcomes. That record can support consistent materials-related positions across the portfolio while preserving the file-specific analysis required by each examiner and art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TURK, NEIL N | 1 | 51.0% | +44.2% |
| JOHANNSEN, DIANA B | 1 | 53.2% | +42.8% |
| WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1 | 58.0% | +48.4% |
| SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 1 | 67.7% | +7.7% |
| HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1 | 69.8% | +36.3% |
| GORDON, BRIAN R | 1 | 65.3% | +19.0% |
| THOMPSON, MILANA KAYE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN | 1 | 66.8% | +25.2% |
| WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1 | 49.5% | +27.4% |
| DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | 1 | 33.3% | +41.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17911074 | MOLECULAR TECHNOLOGY FOR DETECTING A GENOME SEQUENCE IN A BACTERIAL GENOME | THOMPSON, MILANA KAYE | 1d overdue |
| 18728280 | MODULE FOR MAGNETICALLY EXTRACTING COMPONENTS FROM A SAMPLE | TURK, NEIL N | — |
| 18632901 | Methods For Determining Antimicrobial Drug Resistance | JOHANNSEN, DIANA B | — |
| 18700573 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS CARD COMPRISING A PRETREATMENT CHAMBER PROVIDED WITH SOLID BODIES | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | — |
| 18265565 | DETECTION METHOD FOR SAMPLE PRESENCE AND DEVICE ASSOCIATED | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | — |
| 18000866 | DEVICE FOR HOLDING TUBES USED FOR ANALYSING SAMPLES BY MEANS OF NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES AND METHOD FOR USING SUCH A DEVICE | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | — |
| 17917579 | AUTOMATIC SAMPLING METHOD FOR HANDLING WHOLE BLOOD | GORDON, BRIAN R | — |
| 17910982 | MOLECULAR TECHNOLOGY FOR PREDICTING A PHENOTYPIC TRAIT OF A BACTERIUM FROM ITS GENOME | VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728280 | MODULE FOR MAGNETICALLY EXTRACTING COMPONENTS FROM A SAMPLE | TURK, NEIL N | — |
| 18632901 | Methods For Determining Antimicrobial Drug Resistance | JOHANNSEN, DIANA B | — |
| 18700573 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS CARD COMPRISING A PRETREATMENT CHAMBER PROVIDED WITH SOLID BODIES | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | — |
| 18000866 | DEVICE FOR HOLDING TUBES USED FOR ANALYSING SAMPLES BY MEANS OF NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES AND METHOD FOR USING SUCH A DEVICE | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | — |
| 17917579 | AUTOMATIC SAMPLING METHOD FOR HANDLING WHOLE BLOOD | GORDON, BRIAN R | — |
| 17910982 | MOLECULAR TECHNOLOGY FOR PREDICTING A PHENOTYPIC TRAIT OF A BACTERIUM FROM ITS GENOME | VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN | — |
| 17246972 | METHODS FOR QUANTITATIVE AMPLIFICATION | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | — |
| 17251297 | METHOD FOR DETECTING AND/OR IDENTIFYING AT LEAST ONE TARGET MICROORGANISM PRESENT ON A SURFACE | DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 3 |
| 1687 | 2 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18728280 | MODULE FOR MAGNETICALLY EXTRACTING COMPONENTS FROM A SAMPLE | TURK, NEIL N | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18632901 | Methods For Determining Antimicrobial Drug Resistance | JOHANNSEN, DIANA B | 1682 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18700573 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS CARD COMPRISING A PRETREATMENT CHAMBER PROVIDED WITH SOLID BODIES | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1758 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18265565 | DETECTION METHOD FOR SAMPLE PRESENCE AND DEVICE ASSOCIATED | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18000866 | DEVICE FOR HOLDING TUBES USED FOR ANALYSING SAMPLES BY MEANS OF NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES AND METHOD FOR USING SUCH A DEVICE | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1796 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
| 17917579 | AUTOMATIC SAMPLING METHOD FOR HANDLING WHOLE BLOOD | GORDON, BRIAN R | 1798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
| 17911074 | MOLECULAR TECHNOLOGY FOR DETECTING A GENOME SEQUENCE IN A BACTERIAL GENOME | THOMPSON, MILANA KAYE | 1687 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17910982 | MOLECULAR TECHNOLOGY FOR PREDICTING A PHENOTYPIC TRAIT OF A BACTERIUM FROM ITS GENOME | VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN | 1686 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17246972 | METHODS FOR QUANTITATIVE AMPLIFICATION | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1687 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 03, 2021 |
| 17251297 | METHOD FOR DETECTING AND/OR IDENTIFYING AT LEAST ONE TARGET MICROORGANISM PRESENT ON A SURFACE | DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | 1657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialBIOMERIEUX has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 10 examiners.
Neil N Turk has the most, with 1 of BIOMERIEUX's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
