Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ibaraki University currently has 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These cases are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This one to one ratio of actions to examiners and units indicates that each pending matter is being treated as a separate technical and administrative effort.
PIPIC, ALMA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to her. The other of the 2 pending office actions is being handled by the second of the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution means that the university must manage two entirely separate dialogues within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
With 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution strategy must account for different internal policies and examination trends. The 2 pending office actions represent a focused but divided set of priorities for the institution's intellectual property goals. This structure requires the legal team to maintain specialized knowledge across 2 distinct examiners to successfully advance these applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIPIC, ALMA | 1 | 54.8% | +54.3% |
| LI, JUN | 1 | 54.5% | +57.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712713 | CULTURE SOIL FOR PLANT, CULTIVATION SET INCLUDING CULTURE SOIL, CULTIVATION METHOD USING CULTURE SOIL, AND SEEDLING OF PLANT WITH CULTURE SOIL | PIPIC, ALMA | — |
| 18598490 | CORE-SHELL STRUCTURE PARTICLE, DIELECTRIC COMPOSITION, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE CORE-SHELL STRUCTURE PARTICLE | LI, JUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18712713 | CULTURE SOIL FOR PLANT, CULTIVATION SET INCLUDING CULTURE SOIL, CULTIVATION METHOD USING CULTURE SOIL, AND SEEDLING OF PLANT WITH CULTURE SOIL | PIPIC, ALMA | 1617 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18598490 | CORE-SHELL STRUCTURE PARTICLE, DIELECTRIC COMPOSITION, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE CORE-SHELL STRUCTURE PARTICLE | LI, JUN | 1732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialIbaraki University has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Alma Pipic has the most, with 1 of Ibaraki University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
