Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
77 pending office actions • 60 art units • 75 examiners • 0 of 77 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 121 patents granted in the last 365 days
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH Corporation has 82 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The docket spans 79 distinct examiners and 62 distinct art units. The close examiner distribution suggests broad assignment across the portfolio, while the art-unit count shows recurring technical-unit exposure that can inform centralized review.
BILLAH, MASUM is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. No single examiner dominates the profile. Counsel should coordinate biotechnology disclosures and claim terminology across applications while tailoring prior-art, written-description, and examination responses to each assigned examiner and unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 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. 16 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 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 9 (12%) |
| §103 only | 17 (22%) |
| §102 only | 2 (3%) |
| §112 only | 2 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 4 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 40 (52%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BILLAH, MASUM | 2 | 80.7% | +20.3% |
| BOWLES, DAVID PAUL | 2 | 69.6% | +28.1% |
| RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | 1 | 73.4% | +29.1% |
| TSAY, MARSHA M | 1 | 45.5% | +52.8% |
| DOAN, KHOA D | 1 | 90.1% | +7.5% |
| IP, JASON M | 1 | 55.5% | +24.9% |
| ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE | 1 | 68.5% | +31.2% |
| GARCIA, CARLOS E | 1 | 76.9% | +16.6% |
| MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 1 | 66.7% | +50.0% |
| KIM, EUN HWA | 1 | 72.3% | +38.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19253025 | UNDERCARRIAGE INSPECTION ASSEMBLIES AND SYSTEMS | BILLAH, MASUM | — |
| 19253044 | UNDERCARRIAGE INSPECTION ASSEMBLIES SYSTEMS | BILLAH, MASUM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17769940 | METHODS FOR ULTRASENSITIVE DETECTION OF PROTEIN AND CELLULAR BIOMARKERS | JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING | 147d overdue |
| 18315647 | NON-HERMITIAN COMPLEMENTARY METAMATERIALS (NHCMMS), SYSTEMS INCLUDING AN NHCMM, AND METHODS UTILIZING AN NHCMM | ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 45d overdue |
| 18011629 | METHODS FOR GENERATING AND PROVIDING CAUSAL EXPLANATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS AND DEVICES THEREOF | COLE, BRANDON S | 3d overdue |
| 17578858 | INTERFEROMETER OPTIC MATERIAL AND RELATED METHODS | AMARA, MOHAMED K | 6d |
| 18490880 | TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROGRAMMING IN A BACTEROIDES CONSORTIUM | REGA, KYLE THOMAS | 22d |
| 18253033 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESILIENT RECOVERY SERVICES FROM POWER FAILURES | BUTLER, SARAI E | 26d |
| 18696665 | AIR-BREATHING PLASMA JET ENGINE | BURKE, THOMAS P | 33d |
| 17608400 | Transcatheter Heart Valves and Methods to Reduce Leaflet Thrombosis | WHITE, KIA XIONG | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19254849 | MICROFLUIDIC ANTIBODY MICROARRAY WITH AN ELECTRONIC SENSOR ARRAY | RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | — |
| 19253025 | UNDERCARRIAGE INSPECTION ASSEMBLIES AND SYSTEMS | BILLAH, MASUM | — |
| 19253044 | UNDERCARRIAGE INSPECTION ASSEMBLIES SYSTEMS | BILLAH, MASUM | — |
| 19246328 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR LOGIC-GATED PROFILING OF BIOLOGIC ACTIVITY | TSAY, MARSHA M | — |
| 19183668 | METHODS OF MEASURING FLUORESCENCE AND CAPTURING MOVEMENT IN ANIMALS | IP, JASON M | — |
| 19106418 | ROTATING ELECTRIC FIELD APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ELIMINATING HIGH FREQUENCY ARRHYTHMIC ELECTRICAL STATES OF BIOLOGICAL ORGANS AND TISSUES | ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE | — |
| 19048735 | INTEGRATED STEERING WHEEL SENSORS FOR DRIVER SAFETY AND HEALTH MONITORING | GARCIA, CARLOS E | — |
| 18997930 | WEARABLE DEVICE FOR REGAINING SIMULTANEOUS EYELID CLOSURE FOR VICTIMS OF PARTIAL FACIAL PARALYSIS VIA DIRECT STIMULATION | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 4 |
| 3796 | 3 |
| 3794 | 3 |
| 2486 | 2 |
| 1656 | 2 |
| 3797 | 2 |
| 1615 | 2 |
| 2115 | 2 |
| 1654 | 2 |
| 1758 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19254849 | MICROFLUIDIC ANTIBODY MICROARRAY WITH AN ELECTRONIC SENSOR ARRAY | RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | 1715 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19253025 | UNDERCARRIAGE INSPECTION ASSEMBLIES AND SYSTEMS | BILLAH, MASUM | 2486 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19253044 | UNDERCARRIAGE INSPECTION ASSEMBLIES SYSTEMS | BILLAH, MASUM | 2486 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19246328 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR LOGIC-GATED PROFILING OF BIOLOGIC ACTIVITY | TSAY, MARSHA M | 1656 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19237951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MITIGATING NON-UNIFORM MEMORY ACCESS CHALLENGES WITH COMPUTE EXPRESS LINK-ENABLED MEMORY POOLING | DOAN, KHOA D | 2133 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19183668 | METHODS OF MEASURING FLUORESCENCE AND CAPTURING MOVEMENT IN ANIMALS | IP, JASON M | 3797 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19106418 | ROTATING ELECTRIC FIELD APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ELIMINATING HIGH FREQUENCY ARRHYTHMIC ELECTRICAL STATES OF BIOLOGICAL ORGANS AND TISSUES | ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE | 3796 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19048735 | INTEGRATED STEERING WHEEL SENSORS FOR DRIVER SAFETY AND HEALTH MONITORING | GARCIA, CARLOS E | 2686 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18997930 | WEARABLE DEVICE FOR REGAINING SIMULTANEOUS EYELID CLOSURE FOR VICTIMS OF PARTIAL FACIAL PARALYSIS VIA DIRECT STIMULATION | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 3796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18873169 | SOFT WIRELESS WEARABLE SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SLEEP QUALITY AND DISORDERS | KIM, EUN HWA | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18965561 | HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACES VIA A SCALABLE SOFT ELECTRODE ARRAY | LEGGETT, ANDREA C. | 2171 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18963896 | Mixtures of supercritical fluids as a dielectric material | TSO, STANLEY | 2847 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18944564 | CONJUGATED POLYMERS AS HOLE TRANSPORT MATERIALS FOR ENHANCED THERMAL STABILITY IN OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES | BUCK, LINDSEY A | 1728 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18861020 | SMART BIOELECTRONIC PACIFIER FOR REAL-TIME CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF SALIVARY ELECTROLYTES | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18860487 | Drug Releasing Hydrogels, Materials, Devices, and Uses Related Thereto | BAZARGANI, ARYA AHMADI | 1615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18859731 | Core-Shell Microneedle Patches and Methods | SONG, JIANFENG | 1613 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18917678 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING IN VITRO HIGH PERFORMANCE WOOD | KRUSE, DAVID H | 1663 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18854293 | ENGINEERING AND IMAGING OF ECHOGENIC PHAGOCYTOTIC CELLS | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 3797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18852175 | DEEP LEARNING ENABLED OBLIQUE ILLUMINATION-BASED QUANTITATIVE PHASE IMAGING | SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E | 2669 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18798968 | WAVEGUIDE INTERFEROMETER SENSING LAYER COMPOSITIONS FOR FLUORO-CONTAINING SUBSTANCES AND RELATED METHODS | JORDAN, ANDREW | 2874 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18832412 | ACTIVE BIOSENSING ELECTRODE AND METHOD | ANTISKAY, BRIAN MICHAEL | 3794 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18780633 | WIRELESS BATTERYLESS SOFT SENSORS FOR AMBULATORY CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH MONITORING | LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18778349 | Coupon Sampler, System and Methods of Use Thereof | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 4100 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18727145 | ALUMINUM NITRIDE-BASED HIGH POWER DEVICES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | DULKA, JOHN P | 2817 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18749047 | AI SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARTS AND MANUFACTURER MATCHING BASED ON MANUFACTURING CAPABILITY MODELS | TRAN, VINCENT HUY | 2115 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18722424 | A DOPED TITANIUM NIOBIUM-OXIDE LITHIUM-ION BATTERY ANODE WITH IMPROVED RATE CAPABILITY | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | 1722 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18716787 | MATERIALS, SYSTEMS, AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCTION OF HIGH PURITY OXYGEN | LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M | 1776 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18677031 | ANION-EXCHANGE MEMBRANES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | ZOTOV, VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVIC | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18676079 | UNIAXIAL-BIAXIAL-TRIAXIAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IN-AIR AND IN-SOIL TESTING OF GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS | ROSARIO, DENNIS | 2676 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18708766 | ADENOSINE DEAMINASE 1 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR USING SAME | SHELTON, SYNPHANE LA'SHAWN | 1651 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18708508 | Wild Boar Cathelicidin Peptide Variants and Vectors Encoding the Same for Uses in Managing Coronavirus Infections | BOWLES, DAVID PAUL | 1654 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18707766 | Wearable Soft Electronics-Based Stethoscope | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18705735 | HYDROGEL STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USE THEREOF | BARRON, SEAN C | 1653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18624872 | PULMONARY LUNG DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS SYSTEM COMPRISED OF DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHMS AND NETWORK INTERFACE | TRAN, CON P | 2695 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18696665 | AIR-BREATHING PLASMA JET ENGINE | BURKE, THOMAS P | 3741 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18691750 | DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR LOCOMOTING DIVERSE TERRAIN AND METHODS OF USE | MANCHO, RONNIE M | 3657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18596483 | SYSTEM FOR PARTIALLY FILLING AN ENCLOSURE | TRAN, PHI DIEU | 3633 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18688313 | Digital Sutures | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18686967 | ALUMINUM-BASED ANODE FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | RHEE, JANE J | 1724 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18686552 | HYDROGELS COMPRISING CELL ADHESIVE PEPTIDES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E | 1632 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18685948 | MULTIPLEXED ELECTRONIC IMMUNOASSAY USING ENZYMATICALLY AMPLIFIED METALLIZATION ON MICROPARTICLES | GORDON, BRIAN R | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18684568 | Extended Reality (XR) Collaborative Environments | POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ | 2115 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18681546 | CONTINUOUS REACTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18408102 | MULTILAYER ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS ON TEXTURED SURFACE FOR BACK ILLUMINATED SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER | BERRY, PAUL ANTHONY | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18403446 | Evaporative embedded thermal management of electric motor | JOHNSON, RASHAD H | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18573671 | TISSUE-ENGINEERED SCAFFOLDS AND METHODS OF MAKING | DARNELL, BAILEIGH K | 1743 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18533935 | CELL IMAGING AND COMPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | 1796 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18515518 | METHODS FOR PRODUCING STUCCO COMPOSITIONS USEFUL IN MAKING GYPSUM PRODUCTS | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | 1731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18507303 | DESALINATION ARCHITECTURE | CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | 1758 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18506430 | REPRESSOR PROTEINS FOR GENE REGULATION AND CRISPR INTERFERENCE | SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN | 1635 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH Corporation has 77 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 60 art units and 75 examiners.
Masum Billah has the most, with 2 of GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
