Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Japan Science and Technology Agency currently manages 7 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are assigned to 7 distinct examiners, indicating that no two pending actions are currently before the same individual. This workload is distributed across 4 distinct art units, reflecting a variety of specialized topics within the pharmaceutical field.
NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Given that there are 7 pending office actions and 7 distinct examiners, every examiner involved is currently handling exactly one case. This distribution across 4 distinct art units suggests that the agency's research and patenting efforts are not limited to a single narrow sub-discipline.
The presence of 7 pending office actions shows the agency's engagement with the patent office. The 4 distinct art units involved provide a broader examination footprint than a single-unit portfolio. With the busiest examiner pending count at 1, the agency's prosecution risk is spread across multiple examiners and technical groups.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 1 | 64.9% | +28.4% |
| GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 1 | 81.2% | +15.0% |
| CHAU, LISA N | 1 | 25.2% | +17.5% |
| SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN | 1 | 58.1% | +40.9% |
| KUCHARCZK, JED A | 1 | 80.2% | +16.7% |
| KANG, TAE-SIK | 1 | 58.2% | +27.8% |
| NOBLE, MARCIA STEPHENS | 1 | 67.0% | +39.9% |
| CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F | 1 | 23.9% | +45.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18548109 | SN-38 DERIVATIVE, NANO-PARTICLES CONTAINING SAID DERIVATIVE, MEDICINE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAID NANO-PARTICLES | KUCHARCZK, JED A | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19256222 | Heteroelement-Containing Graphene | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | — |
| 18863049 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND MEASUREMENT METHOD | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | — |
| 18597912 | ORDERED ALLOY FERROMAGNETIC NANOWIRE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | CHAU, LISA N | — |
| 16346188 | LIVER ORGANOID COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME | CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18548109 | SN-38 DERIVATIVE, NANO-PARTICLES CONTAINING SAID DERIVATIVE, MEDICINE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAID NANO-PARTICLES | KUCHARCZK, JED A | 2d overdue |
| 19256222 | Heteroelement-Containing Graphene | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | — |
| 18863049 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND MEASUREMENT METHOD | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | — |
| 18597912 | ORDERED ALLOY FERROMAGNETIC NANOWIRE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | CHAU, LISA N | — |
| 18292496 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATMENT OF PANCREATIC CANCER AND BILE DUCT CANCER | SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN | — |
| 17922802 | CORE-SHELL PARTICLE, COMPOSITE, LIGHT-RECEIVING MEMBER FOR PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT | KANG, TAE-SIK | — |
| 17661097 | GENETIC MODIFICATION NON-HUMAN ORGANISM, EGG CELLS, FERTILIZED EGGS, AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING TARGET GENES | NOBLE, MARCIA STEPHENS | — |
| 16346188 | LIVER ORGANOID COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME | CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1623 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| 1634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19256222 | Heteroelement-Containing Graphene | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 18863049 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND MEASUREMENT METHOD | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18597912 | ORDERED ALLOY FERROMAGNETIC NANOWIRE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | CHAU, LISA N | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18292496 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATMENT OF PANCREATIC CANCER AND BILE DUCT CANCER | SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18548109 | SN-38 DERIVATIVE, NANO-PARTICLES CONTAINING SAID DERIVATIVE, MEDICINE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAID NANO-PARTICLES | KUCHARCZK, JED A | 1623 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 17922802 | CORE-SHELL PARTICLE, COMPOSITE, LIGHT-RECEIVING MEMBER FOR PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT | KANG, TAE-SIK | 1728 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2022 |
| 17661097 | GENETIC MODIFICATION NON-HUMAN ORGANISM, EGG CELLS, FERTILIZED EGGS, AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING TARGET GENES | NOBLE, MARCIA STEPHENS | 1632 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2022 |
| 16346188 | LIVER ORGANOID COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME | CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F | 1634 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2019 |
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