Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
18 pending office actions • 16 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
George Mason University has 18 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are assigned to 18 distinct examiners and 16 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio is broadly distributed across the examination system.
DUNHAM, JASON B is the busiest listed examiner, with 1 pending matter. Since the listed workload is dispersed at the examiner level, counsel should emphasize centralized docket governance, consistent technology descriptions, and tailored responses for each art-unit setting.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 + other | 4 (22%) |
| §103 only | 4 (22%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| §112 only | 2 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (39%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNHAM, JASON B | 1 | 26.8% | +27.3% |
| WATHEN, BRIAN W | 1 | 84.1% | +16.0% |
| SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 1 | 66.7% | +43.8% |
| SMITH JR., JIMMY R | 1 | 65.2% | +42.4% |
| MESSMORE, JONATHAN R | 1 | 77.3% | +9.9% |
| NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1 | 66.0% | +27.9% |
| BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 75.5% | +12.8% |
| HABTE, KAHSAY | 1 | 84.9% | +7.5% |
| HA, JULIE | 1 | 75.7% | +44.1% |
| GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | 1 | 74.7% | +14.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18632761 | PAN-CASPASE INHIBITORS | HABTE, KAHSAY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555194 | NOVEL MEPICIDES AS ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS | SHIM, DAVID M. | 54d |
| 19253342 | MEDICAL ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE (MAGI) | DUNHAM, JASON B | — |
| 19183655 | CARBON-EQUIVALENT OFFSETS FROM CONTRAIL REDUCTION | WATHEN, BRIAN W | — |
| 18882799 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION | MESSMORE, JONATHAN R | — |
| 18768911 | COFFEE GROUND DERIVED MICROBOTS | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — |
| 18427584 | ULTRASOUND DEVICE COMPRISING POROUS GRAPHENE PREPARED FROM POLYIMIDE | GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | — |
| 18520858 | HIGHLY MICROPOROUS LASER-FABRICATED GRAPHENE | MCCRACKEN, DANIEL | — |
| 18461041 | Heteromultivalent Nucleic Acid Scaffolds and Uses Thereof | GARYU, LIANKO G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19253342 | MEDICAL ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE (MAGI) | DUNHAM, JASON B | — |
| 19183655 | CARBON-EQUIVALENT OFFSETS FROM CONTRAIL REDUCTION | WATHEN, BRIAN W | — |
| 19044229 | UNSUPERVISED REGION-GROWING NETWORK FOR OBJECT SEGMENTATION IN ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | — |
| 19028800 | FIBER ALIGNMENT IN STEREOLITHOGRAPHY (SLA) 3D PRINTING OF COMPOSITE POLYMERS | SMITH JR., JIMMY R | — |
| 18768911 | COFFEE GROUND DERIVED MICROBOTS | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — |
| 18647604 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCORING AND RANKING COMMON WEAKNESSES MAPPED TO VULNERABILITIES FOUND IN NETWORKED AND/OR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS | BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 18620631 | PD-1 AGONIST | HA, JULIE | — |
| 18427584 | ULTRASOUND DEVICE COMPRISING POROUS GRAPHENE PREPARED FROM POLYIMIDE | GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1654 | 2 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 2151 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2482 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 2439 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19253342 | MEDICAL ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE (MAGI) | DUNHAM, JASON B | 3686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19183655 | CARBON-EQUIVALENT OFFSETS FROM CONTRAIL REDUCTION | WATHEN, BRIAN W | 2151 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19044229 | UNSUPERVISED REGION-GROWING NETWORK FOR OBJECT SEGMENTATION IN ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19028800 | FIBER ALIGNMENT IN STEREOLITHOGRAPHY (SLA) 3D PRINTING OF COMPOSITE POLYMERS | SMITH JR., JIMMY R | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18882799 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION | MESSMORE, JONATHAN R | 2482 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18768911 | COFFEE GROUND DERIVED MICROBOTS | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1779 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18647604 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCORING AND RANKING COMMON WEAKNESSES MAPPED TO VULNERABILITIES FOUND IN NETWORKED AND/OR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS | BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2439 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18632761 | PAN-CASPASE INHIBITORS | HABTE, KAHSAY | 4100 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18620631 | PD-1 AGONIST | HA, JULIE | 1654 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18427584 | ULTRASOUND DEVICE COMPRISING POROUS GRAPHENE PREPARED FROM POLYIMIDE | GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | 2837 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18541831 | FAST SWITCHING TRANSISTORS | BENTON, CHLOE ELAINE | 2899 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18520858 | HIGHLY MICROPOROUS LASER-FABRICATED GRAPHENE | MCCRACKEN, DANIEL | 1736 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18555194 | NOVEL MEPICIDES AS ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS | SHIM, DAVID M. | 1626 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18482686 | LOCAL AREA INTEGRATED DRONE, AIRCRAFT, VEHICLE, AND ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | LEWIS, IYONDA LATIFAH | 2647 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 47d | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18461041 | Heteromultivalent Nucleic Acid Scaffolds and Uses Thereof | GARYU, LIANKO G | 1654 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18447751 | HIGH-ACCURACY PREDICTION OF COLORECTAL CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY EFFICACY USING MACHINE LEARNING APPLIED TO GENE EXPRESSION DATA | OYEYEMI, OLAYINKA A | 1681 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 17937490 | MODIFIED J-AGGREGATES AND CONJUGATES THEREOF | SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H | 1618 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2022 |
| 17855840 | METHODS FOR COMPUTATIONAL IDENTIFICATION OF FUNCTIONAL CHANGES TO AMINO ACID RESIDUES CAUSED BY GENETIC VARIANTS, AND METHODS OF COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTION OF CHEMOTHERAPY EFFICACY USING MACHINE LEARNING APPLIED TO GENE EXPRESSION DATA | SMITH, JENNIFER JOY | 1685 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialGeorge Mason University has 18 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 16 art units and 18 examiners.
Jason B Dunham has the most, with 1 of George Mason University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
