Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
17 pending office actions • 13 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research has 17 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The portfolio spans 16 distinct examiners and 13 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner coverage with some repeated assignments and technical-group overlap.
PAGANO, ALEXANDER R is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That limited concentration may support targeted comparison of examiner treatment, while the wider distribution requires separate review of claim scope, disclosure, and prior art for the remaining matters.
Portfolio management should combine centralized tracking with application-level strategy. Art-unit grouping can organize recurring biotechnology issues, but the examiner distribution argues against treating all office-action responses as a single prosecution pattern.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (29%) |
| §112 only | 6 (35%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (29%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (6%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 2 | 78.7% | +11.4% |
| FADHEL, ALI Z | 1 | 76.8% | +8.7% |
| BOESEN, AGNIESZKA | 1 | 68.6% | +21.8% |
| CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | 1 | 70.6% | +11.6% |
| BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 1 | 64.0% | +37.3% |
| LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| PHAN, TRUONG D | 1 | 68.8% | +16.5% |
| POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 51.2% | +36.2% |
| REYES, EDGAR | 1 | 37.2% | +29.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18697616 | Continuous Flow Reactor and Process for Synthesis of Substituted Benzoic Acid | BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS | — |
| 18684627 | A QUADRA LAMINA FACE MASK | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | — |
| 18553066 | Process for the Fabrication of Zn-O Graphene Based Flexible Strain and Pressure Sensor | LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | — |
| 18252879 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SPHERICAL POWDERS OF NOVEL MULTICOMPONENT BASED SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS AND ALLOYS MADE BY THE PROCESS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
| 18001117 | PROCESS FOR SYNTHESIS OF POLY-GAMMA-GLUTAMIC ACID | KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | — |
| 18272507 | ZEOLITE CATALYST, PROCESS FOR PREPARATION AND APPLICATION THEREOF | KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18042169 | AUTOMATED DIAZOMETHANE GENERATOR, REACTOR AND SOLID PHASE QUENCHER | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 36d |
| 18704638 | A RECOMBINANT CONSTRUCT FOR SCREENING DRUGS AGAINST SARS-COV-2 SPIKE PROTEIN | BOESEN, AGNIESZKA | — |
| 18698530 | AN IMPROVED DISINFECTION-SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS FOR PATHOGENIC MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL | CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | — |
| 18684627 | A QUADRA LAMINA FACE MASK | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | — |
| 18264238 | METAL OXIDE-POLYMER NANO COMPOSITE FOR AMMONIA SENSING AT TEMPERATURES BELOW AMBIENT INCLUDING SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES | PHAN, TRUONG D | — |
| 18252879 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SPHERICAL POWDERS OF NOVEL MULTICOMPONENT BASED SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS AND ALLOYS MADE BY THE PROCESS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
| 18044507 | POLLUTANT REMOVING AIR GROOVE | REYES, EDGAR | — |
| 18702639 | PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF 2,7-DIHYDROXY-9-FLUORENONE USEFUL FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF TILORONE AND ITS SALTS | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1692 | 5 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1672 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981153 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING RENEWABLE HYDROCARBON FUEL FROM CRUDE BYPRODUCT OF ANIMAL WASTES FAT OIL BIODIESEL | FADHEL, ALI Z | 1772 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18704638 | A RECOMBINANT CONSTRUCT FOR SCREENING DRUGS AGAINST SARS-COV-2 SPIKE PROTEIN | BOESEN, AGNIESZKA | 1672 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18698530 | AN IMPROVED DISINFECTION-SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS FOR PATHOGENIC MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL | CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | 1799 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18697616 | Continuous Flow Reactor and Process for Synthesis of Substituted Benzoic Acid | BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS | 1692 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18684627 | A QUADRA LAMINA FACE MASK | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 3785 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18553066 | Process for the Fabrication of Zn-O Graphene Based Flexible Strain and Pressure Sensor | LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 3729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18264238 | METAL OXIDE-POLYMER NANO COMPOSITE FOR AMMONIA SENSING AT TEMPERATURES BELOW AMBIENT INCLUDING SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES | PHAN, TRUONG D | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18252879 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SPHERICAL POWDERS OF NOVEL MULTICOMPONENT BASED SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS AND ALLOYS MADE BY THE PROCESS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2023 |
| 18044507 | POLLUTANT REMOVING AIR GROOVE | REYES, EDGAR | 3642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
| 18044269 | FLOCCULANT BASED DISINFECTION PROCESS FOR PATHOGENIC MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL | DAVIS, BRIAN J | 1614 | §112 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 18042169 | AUTOMATED DIAZOMETHANE GENERATOR, REACTOR AND SOLID PHASE QUENCHER | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §112 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
| 18004436 | A THERMORESPONSIVE SELF-ASSEMBLED ORGANIC MATERIAL AS PHOTONIC INK AND A PROCESS OF MAKING THEREOF | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1731 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
| 18001117 | PROCESS FOR SYNTHESIS OF POLY-GAMMA-GLUTAMIC ACID | KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | 1653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 17753239 | SOLVENT FREE CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF METFORMIN HYROCHLORIDE | KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Feb 24, 2022 |
| 18702639 | PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF 2,7-DIHYDROXY-9-FLUORENONE USEFUL FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF TILORONE AND ITS SALTS | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18272507 | ZEOLITE CATALYST, PROCESS FOR PREPARATION AND APPLICATION THEREOF | KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH | 1692 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 17755556 | ANTI-INFLAMMATORY COMPOUNDS FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF DERMAL DISORDERS | CLARK, AMY LYNN | 1628 | Other | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | May 02, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research has 17 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 13 art units and 16 examiners.
Alexander R Pagano has the most, with 2 of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
