Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kinki University has 3 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. Those matters involve 3 examiners and 3 art units, so the portfolio’s prosecution activity is distributed rather than concentrated in one examination group.
HUANG, GIGI GEORGIANA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Any coordinated response process should account for separate examiner and art-unit practices across the portfolio.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, GIGI GEORGIANA | 1 | 31.8% | +30.8% |
| SUN, GEORGE | 1 | 69.2% | +34.1% |
| MCCORMICK, CATHERINE LYNN | 1 | 52.3% | +39.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18268052 | EASY-ASSEMBLY BED, MULTIPURPOSE TABLE, AND TRANSPORTATION LIGHTWEIGHT BOARD | SUN, GEORGE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17623738 | CELL CULTURE SCAFFOLD, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF, SCAFFOLD PRODUCTION KIT, AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF CELL CULTURE PRODUCT | MCCORMICK, CATHERINE LYNN | 72d overdue |
| 18253096 | EYEDROPS FOR AMELIORATING OR PREVENTING RETINAL CIRCULATION DISORDER AND RETINAL NEUROVASCULAR COUPLING DISORDER | HUANG, GIGI GEORGIANA | — |
| 18268052 | EASY-ASSEMBLY BED, MULTIPURPOSE TABLE, AND TRANSPORTATION LIGHTWEIGHT BOARD | SUN, GEORGE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1613 | 1 |
| 3673 | 1 |
| 1638 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18253096 | EYEDROPS FOR AMELIORATING OR PREVENTING RETINAL CIRCULATION DISORDER AND RETINAL NEUROVASCULAR COUPLING DISORDER | HUANG, GIGI GEORGIANA | 1613 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18268052 | EASY-ASSEMBLY BED, MULTIPURPOSE TABLE, AND TRANSPORTATION LIGHTWEIGHT BOARD | SUN, GEORGE | 3673 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 17623738 | CELL CULTURE SCAFFOLD, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF, SCAFFOLD PRODUCTION KIT, AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF CELL CULTURE PRODUCT | MCCORMICK, CATHERINE LYNN | 1638 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Dec 29, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialKinki University has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Gigi Georgiana Huang has the most, with 1 of Kinki University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
