Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 05, 2026

EMD Millipore Corporation

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (86%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
§112 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

7
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH 1 53.8% +40.6%
MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. 1 31.4% +43.5%
HOBSON, STEPHEN 1 65.5% +20.7%
GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON 1 28.6% +23.7%
ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS 1 47.4% +76.9%
TRAN, KHOA NHAT 1 40.5% +65.2%
GORDON, BRIAN R 1 64.9% +18.8%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18034243 Filtration Device For Bioprocessing GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON —

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18441850 DISPOSABLE CELL REMOVAL SYSTEM MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. 32d overdue
17756096 INTENSIFIED VIRUS FILTRATION USING DIAFILTRATION BUFFER ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS 28d overdue
17606644 SYNTHETIC SELF-REPLICATING RNA VECTORS ENCODING CRISPR PROTEINS AND USES THEREOF TRAN, KHOA NHAT 13d
18629616 METHODS TO AUTOMATICALLY CALIBRATE PH SENSORS WITHOUT SAMPLING TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH —
18251558 Final Fill Assembly and Method of Integrity Testing HOBSON, STEPHEN —
18034243 Filtration Device For Bioprocessing GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON —
16638845 MULTIPIN SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION DEVICE GORDON, BRIAN R —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1794 1
1773 1
1776 1
1779 1
1651 1
1632 1
1798 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18629616 METHODS TO AUTOMATICALLY CALIBRATE PH SENSORS WITHOUT SAMPLING TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH 1794 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 08, 2024
18441850 DISPOSABLE CELL REMOVAL SYSTEM MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. 1773 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2024
18251558 Final Fill Assembly and Method of Integrity Testing HOBSON, STEPHEN 1776 §112 Final Rejection — Pending May 03, 2023
18034243 Filtration Device For Bioprocessing GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON 1779 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 27, 2023
17756096 INTENSIFIED VIRUS FILTRATION USING DIAFILTRATION BUFFER ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS 1651 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending May 17, 2022
17606644 SYNTHETIC SELF-REPLICATING RNA VECTORS ENCODING CRISPR PROTEINS AND USES THEREOF TRAN, KHOA NHAT 1632 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Oct 26, 2021
16638845 MULTIPIN SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION DEVICE GORDON, BRIAN R 1798 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 13, 2020

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