Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
54 pending office actions • 36 art units • 52 examiners • 0 of 54 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 52 patents granted in the last 365 days
Case Western Reserve University has 56 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters span 54 distinct examiners and 37 distinct art units, combining broad examiner coverage with repeated activity across technical groups. MORALES, JON ERIC C is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters.
The docket requires both centralized oversight and art-unit-sensitive prosecution planning. The examiner count indicates that most matters are not concentrated with one reviewer, while the art-unit count provides a basis for identifying related examination patterns. Counsel can track recurring claim language, disclosure support, and cited references across the portfolio, then adapt responses to the individual record. The busiest examiner identifies only a small portion of the overall workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 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. 12 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 | 9 (17%) |
| §103 only | 9 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (2%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 7 (13%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 25 (46%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORALES, JON ERIC C | 2 | 85.4% | +10.0% |
| MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 2 | 60.7% | +43.5% |
| DIETRICH, JOSEPH M | 1 | 81.1% | +8.8% |
| HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 1 | 49.2% | +40.6% |
| KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | 1 | 73.1% | +60.8% |
| SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 1 | 83.7% | +8.2% |
| BERTRAM, ERIC D | 1 | 81.3% | +12.4% |
| KLEIN, BROOKE L | 1 | 54.2% | +54.2% |
| KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 1 | 42.0% | +61.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18973181 | THERAPY DELIVERY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR NON-DAMAGING NEURAL TISSUE CONDUCTION BLOCK | MORALES, JON ERIC C | — |
| 18950244 | PATTERNED STIMULATION INTENSITY FOR NEURAL STIMULATION | MORALES, JON ERIC C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16630271 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING MYELIN DISORDERS | AUDET, MAURY A | 112d overdue |
| 18546648 | SUBCUTANEOUS PHOTOBIOMODULATION | KUO, JONATHAN T | 51d overdue |
| 17331375 | BIOLOGICAL SAMPLING DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | KREMER, MATTHEW | 30d overdue |
| 18517080 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING USHER SYNDROME III | NGUYEN, QUANG | 10d overdue |
| 18109406 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF REDUCING SERUM CHOLESTEROL AND PCSK9 | WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 4d overdue |
| 17624347 | PRIMING MEDIA AND METHODS FOR STEM CELL CULTURE AND THERAPY | JOHNSON, ALLISON MARIE | 34d |
| 18649018 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MR IMAGING USING PULSE SEQUENCES OPTIMIZED USING A SYSTEMATIC ERROR INDEX TO CHARACTERIZE ARTIFACTS | MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | 54d |
| 19120301 | PAIN MANAGEMENT VIA VENTRAL SPINAL CORD STIMULATION | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19120301 | PAIN MANAGEMENT VIA VENTRAL SPINAL CORD STIMULATION | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | — |
| 19084469 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE-BASED CATHETER LOCALIZATION | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | — |
| 19073427 | ASSIST-AS-NEEDED FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION (FES) BASED ON MEASURED USER EFFORT | BERTRAM, ERIC D | — |
| 19032819 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TIME-RESOLVED FORWARD MODEL FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMAGING (MR-ARFI) | KLEIN, BROOKE L | — |
| 18878811 | SYNTHETIC SUPRACRESTAL DENTAL IMPLANT FIBERS | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | — |
| 18973181 | THERAPY DELIVERY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR NON-DAMAGING NEURAL TISSUE CONDUCTION BLOCK | MORALES, JON ERIC C | — |
| 18950244 | PATTERNED STIMULATION INTENSITY FOR NEURAL STIMULATION | MORALES, JON ERIC C | — |
| 17855515 | BIOLOGICAL SAMPLING DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 5 |
| 3791 | 5 |
| 3792 | 3 |
| 3797 | 3 |
| 1624 | 2 |
| 1653 | 2 |
| 1622 | 2 |
| 1658 | 2 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19209185 | INTRAVERTEBRAL DIRECT CURRENT BLOCK OF SPINAL TRANSMISSION OF NEURAL SIGNALS | DIETRICH, JOSEPH M | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19120301 | PAIN MANAGEMENT VIA VENTRAL SPINAL CORD STIMULATION | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19084469 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE-BASED CATHETER LOCALIZATION | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19074968 | ELECTRICALLY ANESTHETIZING A PERIPHERAL NERVE WITH ON-DEMAND ELECTRICAL NERVE BLOCK FOR CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 3796 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19073427 | ASSIST-AS-NEEDED FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION (FES) BASED ON MEASURED USER EFFORT | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 3796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19032819 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TIME-RESOLVED FORWARD MODEL FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMAGING (MR-ARFI) | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 3797 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18992764 | TRANSIENT ELECTRODES AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEURAL MODULATION AND RECORDING | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18878811 | SYNTHETIC SUPRACRESTAL DENTAL IMPLANT FIBERS | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18973181 | THERAPY DELIVERY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR NON-DAMAGING NEURAL TISSUE CONDUCTION BLOCK | MORALES, JON ERIC C | 3796 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18967052 | MELT PROCESSED VIRAL NANOPARTICLE CONSTRUCTS | TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | 1615 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18950244 | PATTERNED STIMULATION INTENSITY FOR NEURAL STIMULATION | MORALES, JON ERIC C | 3796 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18932666 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INDUCING NEURAL PLASTICITY | PAGUIO FRISING, MICHELLE F | 1651 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18914696 | VENTRAL SPINAL CORD STIMULATION FOR AT LEAST PARTIAL RESTORATION OF MOTOR FUNCTION | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 3796 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18901645 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ESTIMATE FORCE OF AN INSTRUMENT | KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18851170 | DETECTING AND MEASURING FAST OPTICAL SIGNALS (FOS) FROM ONE OR MORE CORNEAL NERVES FOR MONITORING A PATIENT'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS | LANGHALS, RENEE C | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18849757 | WIRELESS, BATTERYLESS BLOOD PRESSURE SENSOR IMPLANT | UCHITEL, EMILY RUTH ABIGAIL | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18728949 | ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE 1 INHIBITORS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | ROMERO, KRISTEN WANG | 1624 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18721744 | TISSUE-SPECIFIC MANGANESE BASED MRI CONTRAST AGENTS | LEWOCZKO, EVAN MICHAEL | 1612 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18716576 | SOLID PARTICLES COMPRISING DECELLULARIZED CARDIAC TISSUE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME | PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | 1613 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18680965 | INTACT MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR DIRECT PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING DOSIMETRY USING COVALENT LABELING | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1797 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18649018 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MR IMAGING USING PULSE SEQUENCES OPTIMIZED USING A SYSTEMATIC ERROR INDEX TO CHARACTERIZE ARTIFACTS | MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | 2858 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18626999 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING VASCULAR DISEASE | BOWERS, ERIN M | 1653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18608354 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING TISSUE INJURY | COPPINS, JANET L | 1628 | §103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18691868 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DETECTING BIOMARKERS ASSOCIATED WITH RISK OF PRESSURE INJURIES | KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18687441 | TREATMENT OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES WITH HDAC INHIBITORS | VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN | 1622 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18687438 | METHODS AND COMPOSITION FOR TREATING NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES | BARRON, SEAN C | 1653 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18686729 | DEVICES, SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR EXERCISING WITH MUSCLE STIMULATION | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 3611 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18394838 | PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING AND REPROCESSING A RECYCLABLE ETHYLENE-VINYL ESTER POLYMER | MONTGOMERY, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1765 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18545231 | PREDICTING NEO-ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY RESPONSE FROM PRE-TREATMENT BREAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HER2 STATUS | LIU, GUOZHEN | 1686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18517080 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING USHER SYNDROME III | NGUYEN, QUANG | 1631 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18561384 | PEPTIDE DRUG CONJUGATES SPECIFIC TO FIBRONECTIN ISOTYPES FOR CANCER THERAPY | REYNOLDS, FRED H | 1658 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18468009 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE DECISION MAKING FOR UTILITY NETWORKS | ROY, SANCHITA | 2146 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18367356 | BIOACTIVE AGENT SPATIAL PATTERNED BIODEGRADABLE HYDROGELS | BURKE, MATTHEW RYAN | 1619 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18456958 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORK LEAKAGE DETECTION AND/OR LOCALIZATION | WU, NICHOLAS S | 2148 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18546648 | SUBCUTANEOUS PHOTOBIOMODULATION | KUO, JONATHAN T | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18264161 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-REAGENT CHEMICAL LABELING OF BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES | COLE, HOUSTON DAVID | 1796 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18323553 | COMBINATION OF RADIOMIC AND PATHOMIC FEATURES IN THE PREDICTION OF PROGNOSES FOR TUMORS | BURKE, TIONNA M | 2178 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18315298 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING ANNOTATION ACCURACY IN MRI DATA USING MR FINGERPRINTING AND DEEP LEARNING | BURLESON, MICHAEL L | 2681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18176877 | INHIBITION OF URACIL DNA GLYCOSYLASE IN THE OPEN CONFORMATION | BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN | 1624 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 18109406 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF REDUCING SERUM CHOLESTEROL AND PCSK9 | WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 1622 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 18167438 | METHODS OF SENSITIZING CANCER TO IMMUNOTHERAPY | SHUPE, ELIZABETH A | 1643 | §103 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
| 18019993 | METHODS AND AGENTS FOR THE DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF CANCER | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 18056249 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMIC OCULAR TRAINING USING THERAPEUTIC GAMES | ALSOMAIRY, SELWA ABDO | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17897278 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA DETECTION AND MONITORING | LEE, MICHELLE J | 3786 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2022 |
| 17815563 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA ANALYTICS FOR VIRTUAL ENERGY AUDITS AND VALUE CAPTURE ASSESSMENT OF BUILDINGS | SINGLETARY, TYRONE E | 3625 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2022 |
| 17855515 | BIOLOGICAL SAMPLING DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 3791 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
| 17855530 | BIOLOGICAL SAMPLING DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 3791 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
| 17837325 | PLANT VIRAL NUCLEIC ACID DELIVERY PARTICLES AND USES THEREOF | CHONG, KIMBERLY | 1636 | §112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
| 17661656 | MAPPING PERITUMORAL INFILTRATION AND PREDICTION OF RECURRENCE USING MULTI-PARAMETRIC MAGNETIC RESONANCE FINGERPRINTING RADIOMICS | NGUYEN, ALLEN H | 2683 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2022 |
| 17624347 | PRIMING MEDIA AND METHODS FOR STEM CELL CULTURE AND THERAPY | JOHNSON, ALLISON MARIE | 1638 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jan 02, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCase Western Reserve University has 54 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 36 art units and 52 examiners.
Jon Eric C Morales has the most, with 2 of Case Western Reserve University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
