Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
57 pending office actions • 33 art units • 55 examiners • 1 of 57 (2%) have an AI response strategy ready • 67 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique manages a significant portfolio with 56 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed across 54 distinct examiners, indicating a very broad engagement with patent office personnel. MELLOTT, JAMES M is the busiest examiner for the organization, currently handling 2 pending office actions.
The organization's prosecution footprint extends across 33 distinct art units. This high number of art units reflects a diverse range of research and development efforts within the biotechnology sector. With 54 distinct examiners involved, the vast majority of examiners are handling only a single pending action for the company, while the busiest examiner manages only 2.
For practitioners, the 56 active matters situated within 33 distinct art units suggests that while the portfolio is broad, there is some concentration of activity within specific technical groups. However, the use of many distinct examiners means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to a wide variety of individual examiner preferences and styles across the 56 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 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. 14 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 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (5%) |
| §103 only | 11 (19%) |
| §112 only | 5 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 33 (58%) |
| 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% | +44.2% |
| MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER | 2 | 70.6% | +42.3% |
| ALHWAMDEH, KAREEM FUAD | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | 1 | 61.5% | +28.3% |
| AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1 | 63.2% | +47.3% |
| BRANCH, CATHERINE S | 1 | 85.7% | +3.5% |
| BUI PHO, PASCAL M | 1 | 63.2% | -18.9% |
| LANKFORD JR, LEON B | 1 | 70.0% | +31.6% |
| NGUYEN, TUAN HOANG | 1 | 90.5% | +4.0% |
| GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A | 1 | 76.0% | +12.4% |
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 |
| 18027686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A CRYSTALLINE CONVERSION LAYER FROM A SOLUTION | QI, HUA | 8d overdue |
| 18020045 | NEUROMUSCULAR CHARACTERISATION METHOD AND ASSOCIATED MEASURING BENCH | TU, AURELIE H | 16d |
| 17781202 | LUMINESCENT ZWITTERIONIC POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES | HAQ, SHAFIQUL | 22d |
| 18082711 | METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A ZIRCONIA PART TO A TITANIUM ELEMENT | PATEL, DEVANG R | 33d |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 18860222 | AMYLOID FIBER-BASED ELECTRICITY GENERATOR | GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 2 |
| 1632 | 2 |
| 1635 | 2 |
| 1678 | 2 |
| 1619 | 2 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19108191 | FAULT TOLERANT PREPARATION OF QUANTUM POLAR CODES | ALHWAMDEH, KAREEM FUAD | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19100510 | DEFLECTOMETRY METHOD AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM | MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO | — | §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 | — | §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 | — | §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 |
| 18897766 | SPECIFIC TETRADENTATE COPPER CHELATORS AS ANTICANCER AGENTS | KIM, SEONG JONG | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18840176 | HETEROGENEOUS PALLETISATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18834371 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR HAVING SIDE GATES | ENAD, CHRISTINE A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18730677 | MAST STAYED BY A SHROUD SEPARATED TRANSVERSELY FROM THE MAST BY A SPREADER | AVILA, STEPHEN P | 3615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18724773 | NOVEL BISPIDINE-BASED METAL CHELATING LIGANDS DISPLAYING GOOD RELAXIVITY | LEWOCZKO, EVAN MICHAEL | — | §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 | — | §102§103§112DP | 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 | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18717851 | Method of Production of Organoids and Uses Thereof | CANDELARIA, JULIANA IRENE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18715351 | DEVICE FOR LOADING AND PUSHING RADIOACTIVE SEEDS | YANG, YI-SHAN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18699818 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR NEAR REAL-TIME PREDICTION OF AN IRRADIATION MAP FOR INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18688894 | METHOD FOR SYNTHESISING COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS OF NANORODS | EDMONDSON, LYNNE RENEE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18685660 | METHODS FOR PRODUCTION OF ENGINEERED CELLS | STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E | 1632 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 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 |
| 18293303 | THIONOLACTONES, PROCESSES OF SYNTHESIS, USES AS COMONOMERS AND FOR POLYMER FUNCTIONALIZATION AND DEGRADATION | YOON, TAE H | — | §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 | — | §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 |
| 18576224 | COMPOSITION BASED ON (METH)ACRYLATE MONOMERS | LEE, RIP A | — | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 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 |
| 18558749 | MAGNETIC HANDLING DEVICE | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18558590 | OXYFLUORIDES, ELECTRODES CONTAINING THEM AND THEIR USE FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION | RUMP, RICHARD M | — | §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 |
| 18462100 | MIXING DEVICE WITH CIRCULATION ZONE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | BHATIA, ANSHU | 1774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18266378 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING A FLOW PARAMETER OF A FLUID | VILLALUNA, ERIKA J | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 18037331 | DIMER OF BIGUANIDINES AND THEIR THERAPEUTIC USES | MCANANY, JOHN D | 1625 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 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 |
| 18027686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A CRYSTALLINE CONVERSION LAYER FROM A SOLUTION | QI, HUA | 1714 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Mar 22, 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 |
| 17905358 | METHOD FOR EXFOLIATING AND/OR FUNCTIONALISING LAMELLAR OBJECTS AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE | DOWNES, NATHANAEL JASON | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2022 |
| 17810022 | METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY | MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER | 1635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
| 17781202 | LUMINESCENT ZWITTERIONIC POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES | HAQ, SHAFIQUL | 1678 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | May 31, 2022 |
| 17642634 | REPELLENT COMPOSITION AND USES | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Mar 11, 2022 |
| 17630052 | COMPLEMENT ACTIVE FRAGMENT-LOADED THREE-DIMENSIONAL BIOMATERIAL FOR DENTAL AND/OR OTHER TISSUE REGENERATION | COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | 1619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jan 25, 2022 |
| 17629436 | Intra-Aneurysm Device | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jan 24, 2022 |
| 17628938 | IRON AND COBALT MOLECULAR COMPLEXES FOR THE SELECTIVE ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTION OF CO2 INTO CO, WITH FLOW CELLS | VAN, LUAN V | 1795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Jan 21, 2022 |
| 17625351 | LIGANDS FOR CAPTURING MICROVESICLES AND USES THEREOF | NGUYEN, NAM P | 1678 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2022 |
| 17597351 | METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY | MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER | 1635 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jan 04, 2022 |
| 17614634 | Coloured material based on metal nanoparticles | WU, ANDREA | 1763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2021 |
| 17451082 | Robotic method for coating a multiwell plate by a polyelectrolyte multilayer film | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2021 |
| 17416679 | QUINOLINE DERIVATIVES FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OR PREVENTION OF CANCER | VALLE, ERNESTO | 1623 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2021 |
| 17299481 | METHOD FOR LOCATING AND CHARACTERIZING BIFURCATIONS OF A CEREBRAL VASCULAR TREE, ASSOCIATED METHODS AND DEVICES | BURKE, TIONNA M | 2178 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2021 |
| 15733316 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SYNTHETIC PHYLLOSILICATES | CORALLO, CATRIONA MARY | 1732 | §112 | Final Rejection | 80d overdue | AI Ready | Jun 25, 2020 |
| 15713347 | WIDESPREAD GENE DELIVERY TO MOTOR NEURONS USING PERIPHERAL INJECTION OF AAV VECTORS | SINGH, ANOOP KUMAR | 1632 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2017 |
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