Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
86 pending office actions • 51 art units • 82 examiners • 0 of 86 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 118 patents granted in the last 365 days
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH Corporation has 88 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These are reviewed by 84 distinct examiners, which indicates that almost every application is assigned to a unique individual. BILLAH, MASUM is the busiest examiner, currently managing 3 pending actions.
The portfolio spans 52 distinct art units. This is an exceptionally high number of units relative to the 88 pending office actions, suggesting a very diverse range of research and innovation. The ratio of 84 distinct examiners to the 88 pending office actions shows a high degree of individual examiner variety.
With 52 distinct art units involved, the university's biotechnology and pharmaceutical work is being evaluated by many different specialized groups at the USPTO. The busiest examiner workload of 3 pending actions is small compared to the 88 total pending office actions. This broad distribution across 84 distinct examiners and 52 distinct art units reflects a complex and decentralized prosecution environment.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 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. 20 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 (10%) |
| §103 only | 23 (27%) |
| §102 only | 2 (2%) |
| §112 only | 2 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 6 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 41 (48%) |
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 | 3 | 80.5% | +20.3% |
| BOWLES, DAVID PAUL | 2 | 72.7% | +24.2% |
| MANCHO, RONNIE M | 2 | 75.8% | +1.6% |
| KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE | 1 | 84.4% | +10.4% |
| RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | 1 | 73.4% | +29.1% |
| DOAN, KHOA D | 1 | 90.0% | +7.7% |
| IP, JASON M | 1 | 55.2% | +25.1% |
| ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE | 1 | 69.3% | +30.0% |
| GARCIA, CARLOS E | 1 | 77.0% | +16.3% |
| MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 1 | 66.7% | +50.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19426814 | 3D PRINTED SCAFFOLDS FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF POLYMER COATING TECHNIQUES FOR TUNABLE MEMS SENSORS | KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE | — |
| 19253044 | UNDERCARRIAGE INSPECTION ASSEMBLIES SYSTEMS | BILLAH, MASUM | — |
| 19253025 | UNDERCARRIAGE INSPECTION ASSEMBLIES AND SYSTEMS | BILLAH, MASUM | — |
| 19188615 | MICROCODES | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19426814 | 3D PRINTED SCAFFOLDS FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF POLYMER COATING TECHNIQUES FOR TUNABLE MEMS SENSORS | KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE | — |
| 19254849 | MICROFLUIDIC ANTIBODY MICROARRAY WITH AN ELECTRONIC SENSOR ARRAY | RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | — |
| 19253044 | UNDERCARRIAGE INSPECTION ASSEMBLIES SYSTEMS | BILLAH, MASUM | — |
| 19253025 | UNDERCARRIAGE INSPECTION ASSEMBLIES AND SYSTEMS | BILLAH, MASUM | — |
| 19188615 | MICROCODES | BILLAH, MASUM | — |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 3 |
| 2482 | 2 |
| 3797 | 2 |
| 1615 | 2 |
| 3794 | 2 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3783 | 2 |
| 1743 | 2 |
| 1758 | 2 |
| 1635 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19426814 | 3D PRINTED SCAFFOLDS FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF POLYMER COATING TECHNIQUES FOR TUNABLE MEMS SENSORS | KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19254849 | MICROFLUIDIC ANTIBODY MICROARRAY WITH AN ELECTRONIC SENSOR ARRAY | RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | 1715 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19253044 | UNDERCARRIAGE INSPECTION ASSEMBLIES SYSTEMS | BILLAH, MASUM | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19253025 | UNDERCARRIAGE INSPECTION ASSEMBLIES AND SYSTEMS | BILLAH, MASUM | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 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 |
| 19188615 | MICROCODES | BILLAH, MASUM | 2486 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 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 | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19048735 | INTEGRATED STEERING WHEEL SENSORS FOR DRIVER SAFETY AND HEALTH MONITORING | GARCIA, CARLOS E | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18997930 | WEARABLE DEVICE FOR REGAINING SIMULTANEOUS EYELID CLOSURE FOR VICTIMS OF PARTIAL FACIAL PARALYSIS VIA DIRECT STIMULATION | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19010943 | PERFORMING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER VISION TASK USING A NEURAL RADIANCE FIELD GRID REPRESENTATION OF A SCENE PRODUCED FROM TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES OF AT LEAST A PORTION OF THE SCENE | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18982715 | Cyclically-Arranged Split Ring Resonator-Based Acoustic Metamaterial | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18873169 | SOFT WIRELESS WEARABLE SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SLEEP QUALITY AND DISORDERS | KIM, EUN HWA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18965561 | HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACES VIA A SCALABLE SOFT ELECTRODE ARRAY | LEGGETT, ANDREA C. | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18963896 | Mixtures of supercritical fluids as a dielectric material | TSO, STANLEY | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18861020 | SMART BIOELECTRONIC PACIFIER FOR REAL-TIME CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF SALIVARY ELECTROLYTES | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — | §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 | — | §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 | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18829204 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MONITORING MOVING VEHICLES | NGUYEN, JASON TOAN | 3666 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18821711 | ACOUSTICAL METHOD FOR MICROBUBBLE OSCILLATORY RADIUS ESTIMATION AND ACOUSTIC EMISSION DETECTION | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18814834 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RFID TAG ORIENTATION PREDICTION | BROWN, VERNAL U | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18806211 | SPECIMEN IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | VANORE, DAVID A | — | §101§102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18798968 | WAVEGUIDE INTERFEROMETER SENSING LAYER COMPOSITIONS FOR FLUORO-CONTAINING SUBSTANCES AND RELATED METHODS | JORDAN, ANDREW | — | §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 |
| 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 | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18722424 | A DOPED TITANIUM NIOBIUM-OXIDE LITHIUM-ION BATTERY ANODE WITH IMPROVED RATE CAPABILITY | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18749047 | AI SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARTS AND MANUFACTURER MATCHING BASED ON MANUFACTURING CAPABILITY MODELS | TRAN, VINCENT HUY | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18716787 | MATERIALS, SYSTEMS, AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCTION OF HIGH PURITY OXYGEN | LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18732823 | Adsorbent Materials And Methods of Adsorbing Carbon Dioxide | JONES, CHRISTOPHER P | — | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 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 | — | §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 |
| 18706853 | Methods for Administration of Drug to the Retina | FAROOQ, MAHMOOD | 3783 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18705735 | HYDROGEL STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USE THEREOF | BARRON, SEAN C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18630042 | ACCESSING AND MODULATING THE COLOR AND VIBRANCY OF ANODICALLY COLORING ELECTROCHROMIC MOLECULES | WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 1622 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 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 |
| 18689939 | Highly Articulate Snake Robotic Device | MANCHO, RONNIE M | 3657 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Mar 07, 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 | — | §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 | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18681546 | CONTINUOUS REACTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH Corporation has 86 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 51 art units and 82 examiners.
Masum Billah has the most, with 3 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.