Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
17 pending office actions • 11 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Keio University is active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area, currently featuring 16 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 16 distinct examiners, meaning that every single pending matter is being handled by a different individual. This lack of examiner-level concentration suggests a varied prosecution strategy across the university's research departments. For the practitioner, this means that each case must be argued on its own merits without the benefit of a single examiner's familiarity with the broader portfolio.
The portfolio's activity spans 12 distinct art units, indicating that the university's research covers multiple specialized fields within biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. HUMPHRIES, NICHOLAS ADAM is the busiest examiner, though he is only responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 16 pending office actions in total, the workload is decentralized, as no single examiner manages more than 1 action. This distribution across 12 distinct art units and 16 distinct examiners requires coordination to manage the many different examiner interactions and technical standards.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 | 5 (29%) |
| §103 only | 6 (35%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (24%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAINI, AMANDEEP SINGH | 1 | 89.7% | +8.4% |
| HUMPHRIES, NICHOLAS ADAM | 1 | 36.1% | +75.9% |
| CWERN, JONATHAN | 1 | 50.9% | +33.3% |
| RAHLL, JERRY T | 1 | 89.8% | +8.3% |
| HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1 | 69.8% | +36.5% |
| BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W | 1 | 66.7% | +31.8% |
| BROWN, JOSEPH HENRY | 1 | 60.4% | +38.0% |
| NGUYEN, KEMAYA DEANN HUU | 1 | 74.4% | +38.1% |
| GURMU, MULUEMEBET | 1 | 80.2% | +17.5% |
| TU, AURELIE H | 1 | 56.4% | +60.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18717666 | OPTICAL COUPLING CIRCUIT DEVICE | RAHLL, JERRY T | — |
| 18463674 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, ROBOT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | GURMU, MULUEMEBET | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17780926 | UPPER URINARY TRACT UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA IDENTIFICATION METHOD | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 285d overdue |
| 18579230 | AGENT FOR IMPROVING INTESTINAL FLORA | BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W | 25d overdue |
| 17771247 | HEAD-POSITION SWAY MEASURING DEVICE, HEAD-POSITION SWAY MEASURING METHOD, AND BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM USING SAID DEVICE AND METHOD | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 26d |
| 18561674 | ACTUATOR | BROWN, JOSEPH HENRY | 27d |
| 18276827 | SYMPTOM DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING SYMPTOM | TU, AURELIE H | 61d |
| 19108934 | SURGERY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, SURGERY ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, AND SURGERY ASSISTANCE METHOD | SAINI, AMANDEEP SINGH | — |
| 18718990 | THERAPY FOR HEPATIC DISORDERS USING ADIPOSE-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL LINE | HUMPHRIES, NICHOLAS ADAM | — |
| 18688730 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION PERTAINING TO CANCER, SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION PERTAINING TO CANCER, AND METHOD FOR TREATING CANCER | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573613 | LIGHT INTENSITY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, RAMAN SCATTERED LIGHT SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AND LIGHT INTENSITY MEASUREMENT METHOD | NGUYEN, KEMAYA DEANN HUU | 43d overdue |
| 18579230 | AGENT FOR IMPROVING INTESTINAL FLORA | BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W | 25d overdue |
| 18855880 | DEVICE FOR MONITORING BLOOD BLOCKAGE RATE BY AORTIC BLOCKAGE BALLOON | CWERN, JONATHAN | 3d overdue |
| 18561674 | ACTUATOR | BROWN, JOSEPH HENRY | 27d |
| 18276827 | SYMPTOM DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING SYMPTOM | TU, AURELIE H | 61d |
| 18718990 | THERAPY FOR HEPATIC DISORDERS USING ADIPOSE-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL LINE | HUMPHRIES, NICHOLAS ADAM | — |
| 18688730 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION PERTAINING TO CANCER, SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION PERTAINING TO CANCER, AND METHOD FOR TREATING CANCER | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | — |
| 18463674 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, ROBOT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | GURMU, MULUEMEBET | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 1631 | 2 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 1651 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2163 | 1 |
| 1618 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19108934 | SURGERY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, SURGERY ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, AND SURGERY ASSISTANCE METHOD | SAINI, AMANDEEP SINGH | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 18718990 | THERAPY FOR HEPATIC DISORDERS USING ADIPOSE-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL LINE | HUMPHRIES, NICHOLAS ADAM | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18855880 | DEVICE FOR MONITORING BLOOD BLOCKAGE RATE BY AORTIC BLOCKAGE BALLOON | CWERN, JONATHAN | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18717666 | OPTICAL COUPLING CIRCUIT DEVICE | RAHLL, JERRY T | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18688730 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION PERTAINING TO CANCER, SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION PERTAINING TO CANCER, AND METHOD FOR TREATING CANCER | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | — | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18579230 | AGENT FOR IMPROVING INTESTINAL FLORA | BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W | 1651 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18561674 | ACTUATOR | BROWN, JOSEPH HENRY | 3618 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18573613 | LIGHT INTENSITY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, RAMAN SCATTERED LIGHT SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AND LIGHT INTENSITY MEASUREMENT METHOD | NGUYEN, KEMAYA DEANN HUU | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18463674 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, ROBOT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | GURMU, MULUEMEBET | 2163 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18276827 | SYMPTOM DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING SYMPTOM | TU, AURELIE H | 3791 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18273362 | EMBOLIC MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | BAEK, JONGHWAN NMN | 1618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18261226 | COMPOSITION FOR DECOMPOSITION OF TRYPSIN OR TMPRSS2 | DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 1645 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 17780926 | UPPER URINARY TRACT UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA IDENTIFICATION METHOD | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 1682 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 285d overdue | Pending | May 27, 2022 |
| 17771247 | HEAD-POSITION SWAY MEASURING DEVICE, HEAD-POSITION SWAY MEASURING METHOD, AND BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM USING SAID DEVICE AND METHOD | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 3791 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
| 17709903 | PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL, NERVE CELL, AND APPLICATION THEREOF | REGA, KYLE THOMAS | 1636 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
| 17709565 | NERVE CELL AND APPLICATION THEREOF | ZHU, JIANJIAN | 1631 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
| 16984241 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING TAU-RELATED DISEASE MODEL | GONZALES, JOSEPHINE MARIA | 1631 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2020 |
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