Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
63 pending office actions • 45 art units • 62 examiners • 0 of 63 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 66 patents granted in the last 365 days
Carnegie Mellon University manages a portfolio with 59 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 58 distinct examiners and 43 distinct art units. The count of 43 distinct art units relative to the 59 pending actions indicates a broad technological footprint within the medical and mechanical sectors.
The workload is decentralized, as evidenced by the 58 distinct examiners handling the 59 pending office actions. WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE is the busiest examiner and accounts for 2 pending office actions. This busiest examiner pending count of 2 represents a small fraction of the total 59 actions, suggesting that no single examiner's tendencies dominate the university's prosecution experience.
Practitioners must prepare for diverse examiner behaviors given the 43 distinct art units involved. The ratio of 59 pending office actions to 58 distinct examiners highlights that the pending matters are reviewed by many different individuals. This diversity requires a flexible prosecution strategy that can adapt to the varied standards across the patent office groups.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 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. 26 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 only | 2 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 8 (13%) |
| §103 only | 24 (38%) |
| §102 only | 2 (3%) |
| §112 only | 2 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 22 (35%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (2%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 2 | 49.8% | +26.0% |
| ANWARI, MACEEH | 1 | 81.1% | +5.8% |
| GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 57.7% | +40.0% |
| HAN, CHARLES J | 1 | 69.3% | +41.6% |
| RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 1 | 73.4% | +33.8% |
| OTT, PATRICK S | 1 | 67.9% | +23.2% |
| CRIBBS, MALCOLM | 1 | 88.9% | +14.7% |
| AHMED, MASUD | 1 | 82.5% | +13.2% |
| ELSHAER, ALAAELDIN M | 1 | 36.1% | +30.5% |
| BILODEAU, DUSTIN E | 1 | 88.5% | +8.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18876290 | Biodegradable Hydrogel Actuator with Shape Morphing Capability for Soft Robotics and Methods of Fabrication | AHMED, MASUD | 65d |
| 19155311 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATING AND INTERACTING VIA CONVERSATION | ANWARI, MACEEH | — |
| 18945098 | FEW-SHOT OBJECT DETECTION WITH VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS | BILODEAU, DUSTIN E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17769626 | MONOLAYER CELL PATCH IN AN EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX SCAFFOLD | XU, QING | 45d overdue |
| 18033677 | Sensing Device | CLARKE, ADAM S | 44d overdue |
| 18607995 | DISCOVERING NEIGHBORHOOD CLUSTERS AND USES THEREFOR | GILLS, KURTIS | 35d overdue |
| 18012048 | Polymer Carriers for Delivery of Agrochemicals in Crop Plants | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 9d overdue |
| 18011401 | System and Method for Application-Dependent Selection of Batteries with Differentiable Programming | COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD | 9d overdue |
| 18316200 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MEASURE CAR-T CELL QUALITY | SKIBINSKY, ANNA | 8d |
| 17576141 | MICRONEEDLE ARRAYS FOR CANCER THERAPY APPLICATIONS | BROWE, DAVID | 22d |
| 18700522 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL 3D GRAPHENE-BASED HIGH-PERFORMANCE CATALYSTS | FERRE, ALEXANDRE F | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17184109 | EXOSKELETON DEVICE AND CONTROL SYSTEM | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 6d |
| 19085327 | Endoscopic Submucosal Drug Delivery System | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 35d |
| 18876290 | Biodegradable Hydrogel Actuator with Shape Morphing Capability for Soft Robotics and Methods of Fabrication | AHMED, MASUD | 65d |
| 19270373 | A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR DETECTING HEALTH RISKS AND CAUSING TREATMENT RESPONSIVE TO THE DETECTION | GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 19223877 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Generating Dynamic Routes in a Transportation Network | HAN, CHARLES J | — |
| 19080129 | Two-Dimensional Materials, Their Composite Thin Films, and the Formation Thereof | OTT, PATRICK S | — |
| 19063255 | IMPLEMENTING A PRIVACY INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS | CRIBBS, MALCOLM | — |
| 18873099 | A CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT TOOL AND METHOD FOR PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION | ELSHAER, ALAAELDIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| 1794 | 2 |
| 3796 | 2 |
| 1635 | 2 |
| 3774 | 2 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19155311 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATING AND INTERACTING VIA CONVERSATION | ANWARI, MACEEH | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19270373 | A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR DETECTING HEALTH RISKS AND CAUSING TREATMENT RESPONSIVE TO THE DETECTION | GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L | 3683 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19223877 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Generating Dynamic Routes in a Transportation Network | HAN, CHARLES J | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19085327 | Endoscopic Submucosal Drug Delivery System | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19080129 | Two-Dimensional Materials, Their Composite Thin Films, and the Formation Thereof | OTT, PATRICK S | 1794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19063255 | IMPLEMENTING A PRIVACY INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS | CRIBBS, MALCOLM | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 18876290 | Biodegradable Hydrogel Actuator with Shape Morphing Capability for Soft Robotics and Methods of Fabrication | AHMED, MASUD | 3657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 65d | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18873099 | A CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT TOOL AND METHOD FOR PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION | ELSHAER, ALAAELDIN M | 3687 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18945098 | FEW-SHOT OBJECT DETECTION WITH VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS | BILODEAU, DUSTIN E | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18931335 | POINT-OF-CARE MULTIPLEXING BIOSENSOR ARRAY AND SCALABLE METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18914612 | MONOTONIC AMPLITUDE PULSE TRAINS FOR NON-INVASIVE NEUROSTIMULATION | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18901964 | VECTOR DATAFLOW ARCHITECTURE FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS | LINDLOF, JOHN M | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18894976 | NON-INVASIVE METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING SPREADING DEPOLARIZATION IN HUMAN BRAINS | HULBERT, AMANDA K | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18829215 | System and Method for Interacting with a Mobile Device Using Finger Pointing | GIESY, ADAM | 2622 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18844243 | TRAINING SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING COCHLEAR IMPLANT PROCEDURES | SAINT-VIL, EDDY | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18843490 | INSTRUMENTED COCHLEAR IMPLANT | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18822521 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE PERFORMANCE OF A SOFTWARE PROGRAM | CHOWDHURY, ZIAUL A. | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18791565 | SIMULTANEOUS MAP AND DYNAMIC OBJECT RECONSTRUCTION FROM LIDAR | GOCO, JOHN PATRICK | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18742524 | Method for Non-Invasive or Minimally-Invasive Stimulation of Deep Brain Targets | JAHAN, ISRAT | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18709685 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING COMPLEX CONCAVE POLYGONS AS BOUNDING BOXES | STREGE, JOHN B | 2669 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18707951 | Automated Perineal Care System | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | 3754 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18707434 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING PROPERTIES OF ELECTROLYTES | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18700522 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL 3D GRAPHENE-BASED HIGH-PERFORMANCE CATALYSTS | FERRE, ALEXANDRE F | 1788 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18698912 | Loading of Extracellular Signaling Molecules Into Lipid-Bound Vesicles for Therapeutic Applications | PAK, MICHAEL D | 1645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18607995 | DISCOVERING NEIGHBORHOOD CLUSTERS AND USES THEREFOR | GILLS, KURTIS | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18690998 | TREATMENT OF MOTOR IMPAIRMENT AND/OR PROPRIOCEPTION IMPAIRMENT DUE TO NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER OR INJURY | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18689589 | Multidirectional Gesturing For On-Display Item Identification and/or Further Action Control | NGUYEN, TUAN S | 2179 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18589910 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED POLICY LEARNING FOR ROBOTS | DASGUPTA, SHOURJO | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18441844 | REACTIVE CONDENSATION PARTICLE COUNTER FOR THE DETECTION OF TRACE ATMOSPHERIC GASES | BERA, HENA RAKESHKUMAR | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18568091 | METHODS FOR ENGINEERING AND USE OF CILIATED ORGANOIDS HAVING NATIVE-LIKE, APICAL-OUT POLARITY | GRABER, JAMES J | 1631 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18530591 | METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A DECISION FOR UPGRADING AND/OR DEPLOYING SOFTWARE ON MULTIPLE HETEROGENOUS DEVICES | NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH | 2199 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18493517 | ADAPTIVE DEPTH COMPLETION | MENDEZ MUNIZ, DYLAN JOHN | 2675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18284993 | Laser-Based Fast Micromanufacturing of Test Device for Rapid Detection of Pathogens | HOFFMAN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 1677 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18552362 | System and Method for Prediction of Molecular Dynamics and Chemical Properties Using Equivariant Neural Operators | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18283252 | Method of Manufacturing Porous Structures With Controllable and Directionally Tunable Porosity Via Freeze Casting | BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18369331 | ELECTRODE SURFACE ENGINEERING IN LITHIUM ION BATTERIES | WEINER, LAURA S | 1723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18272141 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Sensor Drift Compensation | ZAYKOVA-FELDMAN, LYUDMILA | 2857 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 18259479 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCAL SPATIAL FEATURE POOLING FOR FINE-GRAINED REPRESENTATION LEARNING | ISLAM, MEHRAZUL NMN | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18259477 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASS-IDENTITY-PRESERVING DATA AUGMENTATION | SCHWARTZ, RAPHAEL M | 2671 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18267134 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Classification of Diseases Based on Expansion Microscopic Images | BONANSINGA, AARON TIMOTHY | 2673 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18316200 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MEASURE CAR-T CELL QUALITY | SKIBINSKY, ANNA | 1635 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18035832 | Intradermal Delivery of Extracellular Vesicle-Encapsulated Curcumin Using Dissolvable Microneedle Arrays | JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE | 1613 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18033677 | Sensing Device | CLARKE, ADAM S | 2858 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
| 18249885 | USER-SPACE EMULATION FRAMEWORK FOR HETEROGENEOUS SOC DESIGN | DINH, PAUL | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18131393 | Method, System, and Computer Program Product for Estimating Intracranial Pressure Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy | MARMOR II, CHARLES ALAN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
| 18119197 | TIP-LOADED MICRONEEDLE ARRAYS FOR TRANSDERMAL INSERTION | VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
| 18022440 | FLUORINATED ELECTRODES AND BATTERIES CONTAINING THE SAME | ESSEX, STEPHAN J | 1727 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
| 18157709 | EXPANDABLE IMPLANTABLE CONDUIT | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
| 18012048 | Polymer Carriers for Delivery of Agrochemicals in Crop Plants | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1616 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
| 18011401 | System and Method for Application-Dependent Selection of Batteries with Differentiable Programming | COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD | 2188 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2022 |
| 17925918 | ELECTROCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF METAL SUPERHYDRIDES | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | 1794 | §112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2022 |
| 17868267 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEST-TIME ADAPTATION VIA CONJUGATE PSEUDOLABELS | SITIRICHE, LUIS A | 2126 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jul 19, 2022 |
| 17792919 | Neuromodulation Using Electrical Stimulation | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jul 14, 2022 |
| 17741271 | METHOD FOR BIOMATERIAL FUNCTIONALIZATION WITH IMMOBILIZED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES | YOUTCHOM PENDIE, EMMANUEL LED | 1647 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2022 |
| 17769626 | MONOLAYER CELL PATCH IN AN EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX SCAFFOLD | XU, QING | 1656 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
| 17576141 | MICRONEEDLE ARRAYS FOR CANCER THERAPY APPLICATIONS | BROWE, DAVID | 1617 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jan 14, 2022 |
| 17486419 | TRACKING OF INSTRUMENT MOTIONS USING AN INERTIAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | WOO, JAE KYUN | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2021 |
| 17284244 | METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVE AND LONG-TERM NEUROMODULATION USING ULTRASOUND | SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2021 |
| 17184109 | EXOSKELETON DEVICE AND CONTROL SYSTEM | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Feb 24, 2021 |
| 16972873 | Modified Nucleobases with Uniform H-Bonding Interactions, Homo- and Hetero-Basepair Bias, and Mismatch Discrimination | LEE, ANDREW P | 1691 | — | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2020 |
| 16931408 | Methods and Systems for Noninvasive Mind-Controlled Devices | KHUU, HIEN DIEU THI | 2116 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2020 |
| 16955508 | Bivalent Nucleic Acid Ligands and Uses Therefor | SHIN, DANA H | 1635 | DPOther | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2020 |
| 16606055 | Nanowire-Mesh Templated Growth of Out-of-Plane Three-Dimensional Fuzzy Graphene | TUROCY, DAVID P | 1718 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Oct 17, 2019 |
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