Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
18 pending office actions • 13 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 within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. Each of these 18 actions is assigned to a different person, resulting in 18 distinct examiners for the portfolio. These matters are distributed across 13 distinct art units, which indicates that the university's biotech and pharma work is spread through many different technical groups at the USPTO. The variety of 13 distinct art units suggests that the 18 pending office actions cover diverse technical sub-fields within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
Brian W Wathen is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. Because there are 18 distinct examiners for the 18 total actions, no examiner handles more than 1 case. The 13 distinct art units involved show that the 18 pending office actions are not concentrated in a single administrative area. This distribution requires the university to manage 18 unique examiner relationships across 13 different art units. Each of the 18 pending office actions is subject to the individual perspective of a different examiner, necessitating a case-specific approach to prosecution for all pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (17%) |
| §103 only | 7 (39%) |
| §112 only | 3 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (28%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATHEN, BRIAN W | 1 | 84.2% | +15.7% |
| SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 1 | 65.0% | +46.7% |
| NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1 | 65.8% | +28.0% |
| BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 75.6% | +12.6% |
| HABTE, KAHSAY | 1 | 85.0% | +7.4% |
| HA, JULIE | 1 | 75.7% | +44.0% |
| CELANI, NICHOLAS P | 1 | 45.8% | +42.3% |
| GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | 1 | 74.6% | +14.6% |
| BENTON, CHLOE ELAINE | 1 | — | — |
| WESTON, ALYSSA G | 1 | 59.8% | +50.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517066 | METHOD FOR INDUCING AND DETECTING SOLUBLE LOX-1 (sLOX-1) IN CULTURED BLOOD CLOTS | WESTON, ALYSSA G | 5d |
| 18431443 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURITY SOFTWARE PATCH TYPE DETECTION | CELANI, NICHOLAS P | 56d |
| 18321738 | METHOD FOR INDUCING AND DETECTING SOLUBLE LOX-1 (sLOX-1) IN CULTURED BLOOD CLOTS | CELSA, BENNETT M | 71d |
| 19183655 | CARBON-EQUIVALENT OFFSETS FROM CONTRAIL REDUCTION | WATHEN, BRIAN W | — |
| 18768911 | COFFEE GROUND DERIVED MICROBOTS | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — |
| 18427584 | ULTRASOUND DEVICE COMPRISING POROUS GRAPHENE PREPARED FROM POLYIMIDE | GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | — |
| 18461041 | Heteromultivalent Nucleic Acid Scaffolds and Uses Thereof | GARYU, LIANKO G | — |
| 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 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517066 | METHOD FOR INDUCING AND DETECTING SOLUBLE LOX-1 (sLOX-1) IN CULTURED BLOOD CLOTS | WESTON, ALYSSA G | 5d |
| 18431443 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURITY SOFTWARE PATCH TYPE DETECTION | CELANI, NICHOLAS P | 56d |
| 19183655 | CARBON-EQUIVALENT OFFSETS FROM CONTRAIL REDUCTION | WATHEN, BRIAN W | — |
| 19044229 | UNSUPERVISED REGION-GROWING NETWORK FOR OBJECT SEGMENTATION IN ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2439 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 2449 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| 2647 | 1 |
| 1654 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 1651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19183655 | CARBON-EQUIVALENT OFFSETS FROM CONTRAIL REDUCTION | WATHEN, BRIAN W | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19044229 | UNSUPERVISED REGION-GROWING NETWORK FOR OBJECT SEGMENTATION IN ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18768911 | COFFEE GROUND DERIVED MICROBOTS | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — | §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 | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18431443 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURITY SOFTWARE PATCH TYPE DETECTION | CELANI, NICHOLAS P | 2449 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18427584 | ULTRASOUND DEVICE COMPRISING POROUS GRAPHENE PREPARED FROM POLYIMIDE | GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | — | §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 |
| 18517066 | METHOD FOR INDUCING AND DETECTING SOLUBLE LOX-1 (sLOX-1) IN CULTURED BLOOD CLOTS | WESTON, ALYSSA G | 1633 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Nov 22, 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 |
| 18235564 | MICROFLUIDIC BASED METHODS TO STUDY INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS | GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 1797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 18223190 | CONFIRMATION OF CARBON-EQUIVALENT OFFSETS FROM CONTRAIL REDUCTION AND MARKET EXCHANGE FOR SAME | GEIST, RICHARD EDWIN | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 18321738 | METHOD FOR INDUCING AND DETECTING SOLUBLE LOX-1 (sLOX-1) IN CULTURED BLOOD CLOTS | CELSA, BENNETT M | 1651 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18247800 | DNA NANOSTRUCTURES FOR BOOSTING IMMUNITY AGAINST CANCER | BURKHART, MICHAEL D | 1638 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
| 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 |
| 17236752 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR ANALYZING MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION | KISH, JAMES M | 3700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2021 |
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