Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 13 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 106 patents granted in the last 365 days
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University has 14 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are assigned to 14 distinct examiners across 13 distinct art units, indicating extensive dispersion across the examination organization.
ALBERS, KEVIN S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Since the recorded examiner workload is not concentrated, prosecution management should emphasize individualized analysis of each examiner and art-unit setting.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 4 (29%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALBERS, KEVIN S | 1 | 25.4% | +50.4% |
| ALAM, DANYAL HASSAN | 1 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
| WEBB, WALTER E | 1 | 46.3% | +18.8% |
| KRETZER, KYLE W. | 1 | 65.2% | +40.3% |
| RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 1 | 44.9% | +16.7% |
| ZOU, NIANXIANG | 1 | 64.0% | +25.0% |
| TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1 | 63.2% | +36.9% |
| BAEK, JONGHWAN NMN | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| KOSAR, ANDREW D | 1 | 41.9% | +31.9% |
| HOBAN, MELISSA A | 1 | 62.6% | +13.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17115183 | METHOD FOR DETECTING HEAVY METAL POLLUTANTS USING A FLUORESCENT MATERIAL FROM BACILLUS ENDOPHYTICUS AND METHOD FOR MAKING | DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | 38d overdue |
| 18647298 | DENTAL POLISHING PASTE CONTAINING NANOPARTICLES | WEBB, WALTER E | 3d overdue |
| 17981063 | HIP KNEE RANGE OF MOTION MEASUREMENT DEVICE | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 16d |
| 18362386 | DINUCLEAR PHOSPHANE GOLD(I) COMPLEXES FOR TREATING CANCER | KOSAR, ANDREW D | 22d |
| 18154083 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC ARM BASED ON BRAIN ACTIVITIES | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 29d |
| 18972136 | SUPPORT VEST FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS | ALBERS, KEVIN S | — |
| 18883134 | NUCLEIC ACID VACCINES ENCAPSULATED WITH NANOALUMINOSILICATE AGAINST MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS (MERS-CoV) | ALAM, DANYAL HASSAN | — |
| 18618470 | FLUID MONITORING APPARATUS AND FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR VENOUS SYSTEM OF HUMAN BODY | KRETZER, KYLE W. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18647298 | DENTAL POLISHING PASTE CONTAINING NANOPARTICLES | WEBB, WALTER E | 3d overdue |
| 18362386 | DINUCLEAR PHOSPHANE GOLD(I) COMPLEXES FOR TREATING CANCER | KOSAR, ANDREW D | 22d |
| 18154083 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC ARM BASED ON BRAIN ACTIVITIES | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 29d |
| 18972136 | SUPPORT VEST FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS | ALBERS, KEVIN S | — |
| 18618470 | FLUID MONITORING APPARATUS AND FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR VENOUS SYSTEM OF HUMAN BODY | KRETZER, KYLE W. | — |
| 18581509 | SOLID MEDICATION DISPENSING DEVICE | RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | — |
| 18415814 | METHOD OF DETECTING SARS-COV IN A SAMPLE | ZOU, NIANXIANG | — |
| 18475702 | CERIUM AND SAMARIUM CO-DOPED TIO2 NANOPARTICLES-BASED PHOTOCATALYTIC COMPOSITION FOR DYE DEGRADATION | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 1672 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 1671 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1618 | 1 |
| 1625 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18972136 | SUPPORT VEST FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS | ALBERS, KEVIN S | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18883134 | NUCLEIC ACID VACCINES ENCAPSULATED WITH NANOALUMINOSILICATE AGAINST MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS (MERS-CoV) | ALAM, DANYAL HASSAN | 1672 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18647298 | DENTAL POLISHING PASTE CONTAINING NANOPARTICLES | WEBB, WALTER E | 1612 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18618470 | FLUID MONITORING APPARATUS AND FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR VENOUS SYSTEM OF HUMAN BODY | KRETZER, KYLE W. | 3791 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18581509 | SOLID MEDICATION DISPENSING DEVICE | RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 3651 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18415814 | METHOD OF DETECTING SARS-COV IN A SAMPLE | ZOU, NIANXIANG | 1671 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18475702 | CERIUM AND SAMARIUM CO-DOPED TIO2 NANOPARTICLES-BASED PHOTOCATALYTIC COMPOSITION FOR DYE DEGRADATION | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18363852 | HIERARCHIAL SILICA OXIDATION DEHYDROGENATION CATALYST | BAEK, JONGHWAN NMN | 1618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18362386 | DINUCLEAR PHOSPHANE GOLD(I) COMPLEXES FOR TREATING CANCER | KOSAR, ANDREW D | 1625 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18154083 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC ARM BASED ON BRAIN ACTIVITIES | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 17981063 | HIP KNEE RANGE OF MOTION MEASUREMENT DEVICE | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
| 17507309 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ACCURATE AND RAPID EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF COVID-19 FROM CHEST X RAY | BARNES JR, CARL E | 2178 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Oct 21, 2021 |
| 17230315 | MULTIPLEX REAL-TIME RT-PCR METHOD FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF SARS-COV-2 BY TARGETING VIRAL E, RDRP AND HUMAN RP GENES OR VIRAL N2, RDRP AND HUMAN RP GENES | GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | 1681 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2021 |
| 17115183 | METHOD FOR DETECTING HEAVY METAL POLLUTANTS USING A FLUORESCENT MATERIAL FROM BACILLUS ENDOPHYTICUS AND METHOD FOR MAKING | DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | 1657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Dec 08, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialImam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 13 art units and 14 examiners.
Kevin S Albers has the most, with 1 of Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
