Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kaohsiung Medical University maintains a portfolio with 7 pending office actions, all situated within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed across 7 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. This distribution suggests a diverse range of research and development projects that fall under different specialized review groups within the patent office. The university must manage multiple simultaneous legal tracks across these divisions.
MAMADOU FAYE is identified as the busiest examiner for the university, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because each of the 7 distinct examiners is only handling 1 matter, the workload is evenly spread across the examining corps. The involvement of 5 distinct art units indicates that while the technology area is consistent, the specific applications cover various sub-disciplines within biotechnology. This breadth of 7 pending office actions requires a coordinated approach to prosecution.
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 + other | 3 (38%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAYE, MAMADOU | 1 | 78.8% | +6.5% |
| BARR, MARY EVANGELINE | 1 | 35.8% | +32.6% |
| WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 1 | 47.1% | +34.7% |
| RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI | 1 | 54.6% | +53.8% |
| HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | 1 | 34.5% | +39.9% |
| JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES | 1 | 60.0% | +32.4% |
| WRIGHT, SARAH C | 1 | 41.6% | +46.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17855736 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING ROBUST PREDICTION MODEL, PREDICTION SYSTEM, AND PROGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE | KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES | 15d |
| 18901161 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL DEVICE OF ESTIMATING SURVIVAL RATES OF CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT | BARR, MARY EVANGELINE | — |
| 18746502 | Endotracheal tube position anomaly alerting device | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | — |
| 18715132 | Tellurium-containing compounds and the use of treating bacterial infections thereof | RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI | — |
| 18578721 | CLINICAL THERAPEUTIC DRUG PREDICTION AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING EFFICACY OF SECOND-GENERATION HORMONE DRUG IN TREATMENT OF PROSTATE CANCER | HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | — |
| 18506147 | Method for detection of single nucleotide variant | JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17697935 | METHOD FOR PREPARING ZONAL LAYERED CHONDROCYTE SHEETS AND TREATING METHOD THEREOF | WRIGHT, SARAH C | 146d overdue |
| 17855736 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING ROBUST PREDICTION MODEL, PREDICTION SYSTEM, AND PROGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE | KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES | 15d |
| 18901161 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL DEVICE OF ESTIMATING SURVIVAL RATES OF CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT | BARR, MARY EVANGELINE | — |
| 18746502 | Endotracheal tube position anomaly alerting device | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | — |
| 18715132 | Tellurium-containing compounds and the use of treating bacterial infections thereof | RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI | — |
| 18578721 | CLINICAL THERAPEUTIC DRUG PREDICTION AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING EFFICACY OF SECOND-GENERATION HORMONE DRUG IN TREATMENT OF PROSTATE CANCER | HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3682 | 1 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1685 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19010213 | TEST PHANTOM FOR EVALUATING ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IMAGES | FAYE, MAMADOU | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18901161 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL DEVICE OF ESTIMATING SURVIVAL RATES OF CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT | BARR, MARY EVANGELINE | 3682 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18746502 | Endotracheal tube position anomaly alerting device | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18715132 | Tellurium-containing compounds and the use of treating bacterial infections thereof | RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18578721 | CLINICAL THERAPEUTIC DRUG PREDICTION AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING EFFICACY OF SECOND-GENERATION HORMONE DRUG IN TREATMENT OF PROSTATE CANCER | HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | 3684 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18506147 | Method for detection of single nucleotide variant | JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE | 1682 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 17855736 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING ROBUST PREDICTION MODEL, PREDICTION SYSTEM, AND PROGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE | KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES | 1685 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
| 17697935 | METHOD FOR PREPARING ZONAL LAYERED CHONDROCYTE SHEETS AND TREATING METHOD THEREOF | WRIGHT, SARAH C | 1619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 146d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2022 |
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