Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
10 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kyoto Prefectural Public University Corporation manages 11 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 9 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a prosecution effort across multiple specialized divisions of the patent office.
The busiest examiner, GRABER, JAMES J, is responsible for 2 pending office actions. The remaining pending actions are spread among the other distinct examiners. With 6 distinct art units involved, the portfolio's biotechnological and pharmaceutical innovations are subject to several technical reviews. The 11 pending office actions are handled by 9 distinct examiners, ensuring that the 6 distinct art units provide the evaluation of the portfolio. GRABER, JAMES J manages 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 3 (30%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRABER, JAMES J | 2 | 46.7% | +57.7% |
| TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS | 2 | 58.7% | +73.9% |
| WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1 | 55.2% | +16.8% |
| LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| NICOL, ALEXANDER W | 1 | 42.9% | +43.1% |
| MARTIN, PAUL C | 1 | 41.8% | +21.6% |
| GONZALES, JOSEPHINE MARIA | 1 | 26.6% | +38.4% |
| SCHUBERG, LAURA J | 1 | 23.6% | +37.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696121 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELL HAVING DNA DELETION SPECIFIC TO ONE OF HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOMES | LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18833460 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING MODIFIED WOODEN MATERIAL, 5-HMF RESINIFICATION SOLUTION, AND MODIFIED WOODEN MATERIAL | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 23d |
| 18517402 | METHOD FOR PREPARING BROWN ADIPOCYTE | GRABER, JAMES J | 41d |
| 18704322 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ORGANISM, AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN ADIPOSE-DERIVED STEM CELLS INTO VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS | GRABER, JAMES J | — |
| 17010778 | BROWN FAT CELLS AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME | GONZALES, JOSEPHINE MARIA | — |
| 16078002 | HUMAN FUNCTIONAL CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL AND APPLICATION THEREOF | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17779567 | Method for Producing Brown Adipocytes | TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS | 24d overdue |
| 18833460 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING MODIFIED WOODEN MATERIAL, 5-HMF RESINIFICATION SOLUTION, AND MODIFIED WOODEN MATERIAL | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 23d |
| 18517402 | METHOD FOR PREPARING BROWN ADIPOCYTE | GRABER, JAMES J | 41d |
| 18276912 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING THREE-DIMENSIONAL TISSUE BODY AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING DIFFERENTIATION OF ADIPOSE-DERIVED STEM CELLS | MARTIN, PAUL C | 47d |
| 18704322 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ORGANISM, AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN ADIPOSE-DERIVED STEM CELLS INTO VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS | GRABER, JAMES J | — |
| 18394085 | CELL PREPARATION METHOD | NICOL, ALEXANDER W | — |
| 17802824 | FUNCTIONAL HUMAN CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELLS AND APPLICATION THEREOF | TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS | — |
| 17010778 | BROWN FAT CELLS AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME | GONZALES, JOSEPHINE MARIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1634 | 3 |
| 1631 | 3 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18833460 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING MODIFIED WOODEN MATERIAL, 5-HMF RESINIFICATION SOLUTION, AND MODIFIED WOODEN MATERIAL | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18704322 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ORGANISM, AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN ADIPOSE-DERIVED STEM CELLS INTO VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS | GRABER, JAMES J | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18696121 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELL HAVING DNA DELETION SPECIFIC TO ONE OF HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOMES | LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT | 1633 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18394085 | CELL PREPARATION METHOD | NICOL, ALEXANDER W | 1634 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18517402 | METHOD FOR PREPARING BROWN ADIPOCYTE | GRABER, JAMES J | 1631 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18276912 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING THREE-DIMENSIONAL TISSUE BODY AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING DIFFERENTIATION OF ADIPOSE-DERIVED STEM CELLS | MARTIN, PAUL C | 1653 | §103 | Final Rejection | 47d | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 17802824 | FUNCTIONAL HUMAN CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELLS AND APPLICATION THEREOF | TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS | 1634 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2022 |
| 17779567 | Method for Producing Brown Adipocytes | TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS | 1634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
| 17010778 | BROWN FAT CELLS AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME | GONZALES, JOSEPHINE MARIA | 1631 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2020 |
| 16078002 | HUMAN FUNCTIONAL CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL AND APPLICATION THEREOF | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | 1631 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2018 |
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