Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
61 pending office actions • 48 art units • 59 examiners • 1 of 61 (2%) have an AI response strategy ready • 71 patents granted in the last 365 days
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique has 61 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 59 distinct examiners and 47 distinct art units, showing broad distribution across the examining corps and technical organization. The difference between examiner and art-unit counts indicates that some art units handle more than one matter, while examiner overlap remains limited.
MELLOTT, JAMES M is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. No single examiner appears to control a substantial share of the active docket. Counsel may therefore benefit from matter-specific prosecution strategies, especially where the portfolio spans varied biotechnology and pharmaceutical subject matter.
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 only | 2 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 5 (8%) |
| §103 only | 9 (15%) |
| §102 only | 1 (2%) |
| §112 only | 7 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 35 (57%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELLOTT, JAMES M | 2 | 51.1% | +44.1% |
| MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER | 2 | 68.5% | +45.1% |
| ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 1 | 70.7% | +17.5% |
| ALHWAMDEH, KAREEM FUAD | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 1 | 68.8% | +28.0% |
| AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1 | 63.1% | +47.6% |
| BRANCH, CATHERINE S | 1 | 85.7% | +3.5% |
| BUI PHO, PASCAL M | 1 | 63.6% | -18.7% |
| LANKFORD JR, LEON B | 1 | 70.0% | +31.5% |
| NGUYEN, TUAN HOANG | 1 | 90.5% | +4.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17628938 | IRON AND COBALT MOLECULAR COMPLEXES FOR THE SELECTIVE ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTION OF CO2 INTO CO, WITH FLOW CELLS | VAN, LUAN V | 38d overdue |
| 18247001 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC NOISE IN MAGNETO-RESISTIVE SENSORS | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 23d overdue |
| 18516616 | VARIANTS OF A DNA POLYMERASE OF THE POLX FAMILY | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 8d |
| 18020045 | NEUROMUSCULAR CHARACTERISATION METHOD AND ASSOCIATED MEASURING BENCH | TU, AURELIE H | 16d |
| 18082711 | METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A ZIRCONIA PART TO A TITANIUM ELEMENT | PATEL, DEVANG R | 33d |
| 19423243 | PHASE-CHANGE MATERIAL SWITCH | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | — |
| 19108191 | FAULT TOLERANT PREPARATION OF QUANTUM POLAR CODES | ALHWAMDEH, KAREEM FUAD | — |
| 19100510 | DEFLECTOMETRY METHOD AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17597351 | METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY | MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER | 5d |
| 18866108 | CAPACITIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-ENHANCED ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION METHOD | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 6d |
| 17810022 | METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY | MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER | 21d |
| 19423243 | PHASE-CHANGE MATERIAL SWITCH | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | — |
| 19100510 | DEFLECTOMETRY METHOD AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | — |
| 18879608 | Composite solar-control coating based on tungsten bronze nanocrystals dispersed in a silica-based sol-gel matrix | AHVAZI, BIJAN | — |
| 18866416 | PLASMA-ENHANCED DEPOSITION REACTOR | MELLOTT, JAMES M | — |
| 18863011 | BACTERIAL MYELOPEROXIDASE-CATALASE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | LANKFORD JR, LEON B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 3 |
| 1634 | 3 |
| 1762 | 3 |
| 3798 | 2 |
| 1657 | 2 |
| 1621 | 2 |
| 1612 | 2 |
| 1632 | 2 |
| 1635 | 2 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19423243 | PHASE-CHANGE MATERIAL SWITCH | ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA | 2874 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2025 |
| 19108191 | FAULT TOLERANT PREPARATION OF QUANTUM POLAR CODES | ALHWAMDEH, KAREEM FUAD | 2112 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19100510 | DEFLECTOMETRY METHOD AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18879608 | Composite solar-control coating based on tungsten bronze nanocrystals dispersed in a silica-based sol-gel matrix | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1712 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18867873 | COMPOSITION BASED ON (METH)ACRYLATE COMPOUNDS | BRANCH, CATHERINE S | 1746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18954009 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING A PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNAL OF AN ARTERY/TISSUE/VEIN DYNAMIC SYSTEM OF AN ORGAN IN A SURFACE SPACE | BUI PHO, PASCAL M | 3798 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18866108 | CAPACITIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-ENHANCED ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION METHOD | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1759 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18866416 | PLASMA-ENHANCED DEPOSITION REACTOR | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18863011 | BACTERIAL MYELOPEROXIDASE-CATALASE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | LANKFORD JR, LEON B | 1657 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18931810 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE OBSERVATION OF A SPACE USING A TRACKING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE | NGUYEN, TUAN HOANG | 2649 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18860222 | AMYLOID FIBER-BASED ELECTRICITY GENERATOR | GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A | 2834 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18856605 | COMPOSITIONS OF DISPERSED SYSTEMS FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS, PROCESS FOR THEIR PREPARATION AND USES THEREOF | LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18897766 | SPECIFIC TETRADENTATE COPPER CHELATORS AS ANTICANCER AGENTS | KIM, SEONG JONG | 1621 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18849747 | METHOD FOR PRESERVING CELLS | CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F | 1634 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18840176 | HETEROGENEOUS PALLETISATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 3655 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18834371 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR HAVING SIDE GATES | ENAD, CHRISTINE A | 2811 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18832826 | NOVEL AQUEOUS-PHASE REDOX FLOW BATTERIES | BERNATZ, KEVIN M | 1725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18730421 | GLYCOSYL BARBITURATE-BASED GELLING AGENTS | PACKARD, BENJAMIN J | 1612 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18724773 | NOVEL BISPIDINE-BASED METAL CHELATING LIGANDS DISPLAYING GOOD RELAXIVITY | LEWOCZKO, EVAN MICHAEL | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18721781 | BENZENE SULFONAMIDE THIAZOLE COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCERS | CHICKS, ASHLI ARIANA | 1626 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18720854 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A FERMENTED GRAPE MARC, RESULTING FERMENTED GRAPE MARC AND USE THEREOF IN DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS OR IN COSMECEUTICALS | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18720548 | USE OF BISAMIDE COMPOUNDS TO IMPROVE THE AGEING RESISTANCE OF BITUMEN | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | 1731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18717851 | Method of Production of Organoids and Uses Thereof | CANDELARIA, JULIANA IRENE | 1634 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18715351 | DEVICE FOR LOADING AND PUSHING RADIOACTIVE SEEDS | YANG, YI-SHAN | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18709695 | IRAP INHIBITORS FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATORY DISEASES | ONDACHI, PAULINE WANJIKU MUCH | 1627 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18702930 | DUAL CATALYST COMPOSITIONS | HUHN, RICHARD A | 1764 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18699818 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR NEAR REAL-TIME PREDICTION OF AN IRRADIATION MAP FOR INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 3797 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18691769 | BET INHIBITORS FOR TREATING PAB1 DEFICIENT CANCER | O DELL, DAVID K | 1621 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18688894 | METHOD FOR SYNTHESISING COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS OF NANORODS | EDMONDSON, LYNNE RENEE | 1734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18685591 | PRODUCTION OF CELLULAR PRODUCTS BY CELLS EMBEDDED IN A HYDROGEL MATRIX | NICOL, ALEXANDER W | 1634 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18685660 | METHODS FOR PRODUCTION OF ENGINEERED CELLS | STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E | 1632 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18293303 | THIONOLACTONES, PROCESSES OF SYNTHESIS, USES AS COMONOMERS AND FOR POLYMER FUNCTIONALIZATION AND DEGRADATION | YOON, TAE H | 1762 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18577707 | METHOD FOR OPTICAL WRITING IN A SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, STORING MEDIUM AND WRITING DEVICE | PARK, JE HWAN JOHN | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18577082 | COMPUTERIZED METHOD FOR AUDIOVISUAL DELINEARIZATION | SALCE, JASON P | 2421 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18576182 | COMPOSITION BASED ON (METH)ACRYLATE MONOMERS | TESKIN, FRED M | 1762 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18576224 | COMPOSITION BASED ON (METH)ACRYLATE MONOMERS | LEE, RIP A | 1762 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18575587 | PANCREATIC CELL RECEIVING MATRIX AND IMPROVED ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS DEVICE | FLORES, ADRIAN | 3774 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18568521 | USE OF CASD1 AS A BIOMARKER OF A CANCER EXPRESSING THE O-ACETYLATED-GD2 GANGLIOSIDE | VANN-OJUEKAIYE, KENDRA RAYCHELL | 1682 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18516616 | VARIANTS OF A DNA POLYMERASE OF THE POLX FAMILY | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1657 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18558590 | OXYFLUORIDES, ELECTRODES CONTAINING THEM AND THEIR USE FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION | RUMP, RICHARD M | 1759 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18286252 | FOLR2+ MACROPHAGES AND ANTI-TUMOR IMMUNITY | CHATTIN, AMY MARIE | 1643 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18551899 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGING IN THE OPTICAL DOMAIN | HELLNER, MARK | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18462100 | MIXING DEVICE WITH CIRCULATION ZONE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | BHATIA, ANSHU | 1774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18260902 | METHOD FOR SPATIAL MAPPING AND SEQUENCING OF CELLS OR ORGANELLES | TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M | 1743 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18128388 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND POSITIVE ELECTRODE | CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT | 1727 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 18247001 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC NOISE IN MAGNETO-RESISTIVE SENSORS | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 2858 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18020045 | NEUROMUSCULAR CHARACTERISATION METHOD AND ASSOCIATED MEASURING BENCH | TU, AURELIE H | 3791 | §101 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 18084934 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE CONVERSION FACTOR BETWEEN THE VOLTAGE APPLIED TO A SYSTEM AND A PARAMETER OF SAID SYSTEM, THE OSCILLATION PERIOD BETWEEN TWO SPIN STATES AND THE EXCHANGE INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO CHARGED PARTICLES AND SYSTEM THEREFOR | PATERSON, BRIGITTE A | 2896 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 18082711 | METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A ZIRCONIA PART TO A TITANIUM ELEMENT | PATEL, DEVANG R | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 17925328 | METHODS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF CYTOKINE RELEASE SYNDROME | HUDSON, AMY ROSE | 1636 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique has 61 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 48 art units and 59 examiners.
James M Mellott has the most, with 2 of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
