Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation has 4 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, showing a diverse but distributed prosecution profile. This distribution suggests a lack of examiner concentration, which may lead to varied prosecution experiences across the portfolio.
The 3 distinct art units involved indicate that while the portfolio is centered on Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, it touches upon different technical niches. For a practitioner, this means that there is no single examiner whose historical data will dominate the outcome of the current docket. The presence of 4 distinct examiners requires a flexible prosecution strategy that can adapt to the different standards and practices of these various individuals.
With 4 pending office actions and 3 distinct art units, the company's innovations are being reviewed by multiple specialized groups within the USPTO. This breadth suggests that the biotechnology focus covers several sub-specialties. The 4 distinct examiners ensure that the 4 pending office actions are each given an independent look, reducing the risk that a single examiner's bias could affect a large portion of the company's active applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 1 | 63.8% | +34.1% |
| BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 1 | 31.2% | +29.2% |
| WRIGHT, ERIC BRANDON | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E | 1 | 42.4% | +35.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17119484 | DERIVATION OF HUMAN SKIN ORGANOIDS FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS | STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E | 44d overdue |
| 18605786 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED MOUSE EXPRESSING HUMAN APOE4 AND MOUSE TREM2 P.R47H AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | WRIGHT, ERIC BRANDON | 27d |
| 18966692 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING SLEEP DISORDERS | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | — |
| 18743003 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING, COMBINING AND COLLABORATIVE FILTERING OF INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS | BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17119484 | DERIVATION OF HUMAN SKIN ORGANOIDS FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS | STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E | 44d overdue |
| 18966692 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING SLEEP DISORDERS | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | — |
| 18743003 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING, COMBINING AND COLLABORATIVE FILTERING OF INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS | BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1632 | 2 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18966692 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING SLEEP DISORDERS | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18743003 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING, COMBINING AND COLLABORATIVE FILTERING OF INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS | BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 3682 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18605786 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED MOUSE EXPRESSING HUMAN APOE4 AND MOUSE TREM2 P.R47H AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | WRIGHT, ERIC BRANDON | 1632 | §112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 17119484 | DERIVATION OF HUMAN SKIN ORGANOIDS FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS | STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E | 1632 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialIndiana University Research and Technology Corporation has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Adam Zachary Minchella has the most, with 1 of Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
