Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
15 pending office actions • 8 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC manages a portfolio with 18 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 15 distinct examiners, indicating diversity in the individuals reviewing the company's applications. The involvement of 9 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio covers a broad spectrum of chemical and material sciences, requiring coordination across many different patent office divisions.
The busiest examiner, BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW, holds 3 pending office actions. While this is the highest concentration for any single examiner, it represents a portion of the 18 pending office actions total. This distribution minimizes the risk associated with any single examiner's tendencies. Practitioners must manage a landscape where 15 distinct examiners may issue varying requirements, though the concentration of 3 actions with one examiner provides an opportunity for consolidated advocacy within the 9 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 1 (7%) |
| §103 only | 5 (33%) |
| §112 only | 2 (13%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (47%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 2 | 59.5% | +31.7% |
| EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 2 | 60.1% | +6.0% |
| SEIF, DARIUSH | 1 | 70.7% | +6.1% |
| KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | 1 | 69.8% | +21.3% |
| ROSSI, VY BUI | 1 | 29.5% | +36.4% |
| HUANG, DAVID Z | 1 | 80.4% | +13.2% |
| HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1 | 50.8% | +31.1% |
| BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1 | 76.4% | +40.2% |
| SHI, TINGCHEN | 1 | 69.4% | +22.7% |
| MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1 | 57.5% | +22.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038742 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM USING MASS BALANCING TECHNIQUES | HUANG, DAVID Z | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247728 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR BIOPROCESS MONITORING | EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 27d |
| 18654163 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING AND INSTALLING A BIOPROCESSING VESSEL | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — |
| 18585242 | LEVELING SYSTEM FOR A BIOREACTOR SYSTEM | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | — |
| 18256185 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SCALING IN BIOPROCESS SYSTEMS | ROSSI, VY BUI | — |
| 18038803 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IN-LINE MONITORING OF A BIOPROCESS FLUID | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | — |
| 18038496 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CELL ENRICHMENT, ISOLATION AND FORMULATION | SHI, TINGCHEN | — |
| 18044273 | STERILE FOAM BREAKING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD THEREOF | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | — |
| 18014370 | BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM AND TUBING AND COMPONENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | BEISNER, WILLIAM H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038732 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 14d |
| 18038742 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM USING MASS BALANCING TECHNIQUES | HUANG, DAVID Z | 27d |
| 18654163 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING AND INSTALLING A BIOPROCESSING VESSEL | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — |
| 18585242 | LEVELING SYSTEM FOR A BIOREACTOR SYSTEM | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | — |
| 18256185 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SCALING IN BIOPROCESS SYSTEMS | ROSSI, VY BUI | — |
| 18038803 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IN-LINE MONITORING OF A BIOPROCESS FLUID | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | — |
| 18038496 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CELL ENRICHMENT, ISOLATION AND FORMULATION | SHI, TINGCHEN | — |
| 18044273 | STERILE FOAM BREAKING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD THEREOF | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 6 |
| 1796 | 3 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 1685 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18654163 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING AND INSTALLING A BIOPROCESSING VESSEL | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18699939 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING A BIOPROCESSING BAG | SEIF, DARIUSH | 3731 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18585242 | LEVELING SYSTEM FOR A BIOREACTOR SYSTEM | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | 1799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18213361 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL BAG PORT AND MATING RING FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 1796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18256185 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SCALING IN BIOPROCESS SYSTEMS | ROSSI, VY BUI | 1685 | §101§102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18038742 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM USING MASS BALANCING TECHNIQUES | HUANG, DAVID Z | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18038732 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1799 | §112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18038803 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IN-LINE MONITORING OF A BIOPROCESS FLUID | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1797 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18038496 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CELL ENRICHMENT, ISOLATION AND FORMULATION | SHI, TINGCHEN | 1796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18247728 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR BIOPROCESS MONITORING | EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 1796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 18044273 | STERILE FOAM BREAKING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD THEREOF | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1776 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 18014370 | BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM AND TUBING AND COMPONENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | BEISNER, WILLIAM H | 1799 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2023 |
| 17998461 | NOVEL HIGH-DENSITY MICROCARRIER RETENTION DEVICE FOR PERFUSION CULTURE AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | HURST, JONATHAN M | 1799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
| 17423202 | FLUID HANDLING APPARATUS FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jul 15, 2021 |
| 16625173 | Bioreactors with Filters | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialGlobal Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 13 examiners.
Nathan Andrew Bowers has the most, with 2 of Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
