Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
19 pending office actions • 14 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cytiva has 23 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are spread across 19 distinct examiners and 15 distinct art units, showing a portfolio with broad examination coverage and several technical groupings.
PEO, KARA M is the busiest examiner, handling 5 pending matters. This is the clearest examiner concentration in the profile, so a coordinated review of recurring objections, claim language, and amendment positions may be useful for those cases. The remaining matters require broader examiner-specific preparation because the portfolio is not handled by a single examination group.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 1 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (21%) |
| §103 only | 2 (11%) |
| §112 only | 2 (11%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (16%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (32%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEO, KARA M | 4 | 42.5% | +37.8% |
| SONG, INJA | 1 | 66.5% | +47.7% |
| HUANG, RYAN | 1 | 53.1% | +31.1% |
| GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1 | 72.3% | +37.8% |
| HOBBS, MICHAEL L | 1 | 68.7% | +28.4% |
| WINSTON III, EDWARD B | 1 | 20.0% | +31.3% |
| STEADMAN, DAVID J | 1 | 57.7% | +29.7% |
| MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1 | 77.8% | +49.3% |
| ALI, WAQAAS A | 1 | 81.1% | +17.8% |
| ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC | 1 | 45.8% | +43.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17640771 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING MONITORING RESULTS FROM AN ANALYTICAL SENSOR SYSTEM ARRANGED TO MONITOR MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 35d |
| 16995933 | Method in a Chromatography System | PEO, KARA M | 71d |
| 19344054 | Chromatography System and Couplings Therefor | PEO, KARA M | — |
| 18834983 | PRINTED POROUS STRUCTURE, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF | HUANG, RYAN | — |
| 18693116 | EXTRACTION OF PLASMID DNA | HOBBS, MICHAEL L | — |
| 18557550 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CLOUD-BASED DATA MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING FOR BIOPROCESS DEVELOPMENT | WINSTON III, EDWARD B | — |
| 18272249 | METHOD IN BIOPROCESS PURIFICATION SYSTEM | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | — |
| 18248041 | INLINE FILTER CAP WITH MODULATED FLOWPATH | ALI, WAQAAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18467658 | Method for Cell Line Development | STEADMAN, DAVID J | 55d |
| 13991239 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR BIOPOLYMER CHROMATOGRAPHY | PEO, KARA M | 70d |
| 16995933 | Method in a Chromatography System | PEO, KARA M | 71d |
| 19344054 | Chromatography System and Couplings Therefor | PEO, KARA M | — |
| 18839118 | HEAT TREATMENT OF 3D PRINTED PARTS | SONG, INJA | — |
| 18834983 | PRINTED POROUS STRUCTURE, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF | HUANG, RYAN | — |
| 18782221 | AUTOMATED FLUID HANDLING SYSTEM | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | — |
| 18693116 | EXTRACTION OF PLASMID DNA | HOBBS, MICHAEL L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 5 |
| 1799 | 2 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 1656 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19344054 | Chromatography System and Couplings Therefor | PEO, KARA M | 1777 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 18839118 | HEAT TREATMENT OF 3D PRINTED PARTS | SONG, INJA | 1744 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18834983 | PRINTED POROUS STRUCTURE, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF | HUANG, RYAN | 1772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18782221 | AUTOMATED FLUID HANDLING SYSTEM | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1773 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18693116 | EXTRACTION OF PLASMID DNA | HOBBS, MICHAEL L | 1799 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18557550 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CLOUD-BASED DATA MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING FOR BIOPROCESS DEVELOPMENT | WINSTON III, EDWARD B | 3683 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18467658 | Method for Cell Line Development | STEADMAN, DAVID J | 1656 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18272249 | METHOD IN BIOPROCESS PURIFICATION SYSTEM | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1796 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 18248041 | INLINE FILTER CAP WITH MODULATED FLOWPATH | ALI, WAQAAS A | 1777 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
| 18006769 | NOZZLE ASSEMBLY FOR A FRACTION COLLECTION UNIT | ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
| 18148192 | Bioprocess System | PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | 1779 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
| 18062481 | BIOREACTOR WITH ADDITION TUBE | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1799 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
| 17995478 | METHODS FOR THE SELECTION OF NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES | POHNERT, STEVEN C | 1683 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2022 |
| 17776200 | METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF AGGREGATES | TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH | 1677 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | May 11, 2022 |
| 17640771 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING MONITORING RESULTS FROM AN ANALYTICAL SENSOR SYSTEM ARRANGED TO MONITOR MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1687 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Mar 04, 2022 |
| 16995933 | Method in a Chromatography System | PEO, KARA M | 1777 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Aug 18, 2020 |
| 16486193 | A Method in Continuous Chromatography | PEO, KARA M | 1777 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2019 |
| 13991239 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR BIOPOLYMER CHROMATOGRAPHY | PEO, KARA M | 1777 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jun 03, 2013 |
| 18898353 | FOCUSED ACOUSTIC RADIATION FOR THE EJECTION OF SUBWAVELENGTH DROPLETS | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 2855 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCytiva has 19 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 14 art units and 16 examiners.
Kara M Peo has the most, with 4 of Cytiva's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
