Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
18 pending office actions • 16 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kyushu University, National University Corporation has 18 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The portfolio spans 18 examiners and 15 art units, indicating a wide examination footprint across the biotechnology docket.
COLLINS, CYNTHIA E is the busiest listed examiner, with 1 pending matter. The distribution supports a structured docket review by art unit and examiner, with technical issue tracking used to identify related matters without assuming that one response will resolve multiple records.
Counsel should prioritize consistent disclosure and claim terminology across the portfolio while preserving matter-specific arguments. The number of assignments also makes deadline control, examiner history review, and coordinated interview planning important parts of prosecution management.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 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. 9 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 (6%) |
| §103 only | 5 (28%) |
| §102 only | 4 (22%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (28%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLINS, CYNTHIA E | 1 | 82.2% | +9.0% |
| MCMILLIAN, KARA RENITA | 1 | 30.9% | +37.9% |
| WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 1 | 83.7% | +10.4% |
| CRAIGO, WILLIAM A | 1 | 48.9% | +38.1% |
| DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 1 | 64.0% | +19.8% |
| PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 1 | 56.3% | +15.0% |
| PRONZATI, GINA | 1 | 65.9% | +48.3% |
| COPPINS, JANET L | 1 | 72.6% | +26.1% |
| BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1 | 34.9% | +46.5% |
| ROZOF, TIMOTHY R | 1 | 72.7% | +23.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18731563 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORED WITH MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM, METHOD, AND DEVICE | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18456798 | COMPOSITION FOR INHIBITING WRINKLE | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 66d overdue |
| 18041582 | PHOTON UPCONVERSION COMPOSITION, FILM, METHOD FOR CONVERTING VISIBLE LIGHT INTO ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, AND COMPOUND | BAKSHI, PANCHAM | 15d |
| 17781796 | Method for Diagnosing Cancer, Cancer Diagnosis Composition, Cancer Diagnosis Kit, Method for Evaluating State of Cancer, and Method for Screening Agents for Preventing and/or Treating Cancer | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 60d |
| 18852581 | ENVIRONMENTAL MEMORY SEED AND USE THEREOF | COLLINS, CYNTHIA E | — |
| 18662114 | METHOD OF PRODUCING POLYMER-COATED SUBSTRATE FOR CAPTURING CANCER CELLS | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | — |
| 18456744 | COMPOSITION FOR INCREASING MUSCLE | COPPINS, JANET L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18456798 | COMPOSITION FOR INHIBITING WRINKLE | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 66d overdue |
| 18285970 | ORAL VACCINE COMPOSITION | PRONZATI, GINA | 11d overdue |
| 18713511 | MEDICAL DEVICE | CRAIGO, WILLIAM A | 9d overdue |
| 18838503 | ANTICANCER DRUG AND ANTICANCER DRUG SCREENING METHOD | MCMILLIAN, KARA RENITA | — |
| 18731563 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORED WITH MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM, METHOD, AND DEVICE | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 18662114 | METHOD OF PRODUCING POLYMER-COATED SUBSTRATE FOR CAPTURING CANCER CELLS | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | — |
| 18684820 | CALCIUM CARBONATE GENERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | — |
| 18456744 | COMPOSITION FOR INCREASING MUSCLE | COPPINS, JANET L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1623 | 3 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| 2488 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| 1628 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 1625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18852581 | ENVIRONMENTAL MEMORY SEED AND USE THEREOF | COLLINS, CYNTHIA E | 1662 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18838503 | ANTICANCER DRUG AND ANTICANCER DRUG SCREENING METHOD | MCMILLIAN, KARA RENITA | 1623 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18731563 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORED WITH MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM, METHOD, AND DEVICE | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18713511 | MEDICAL DEVICE | CRAIGO, WILLIAM A | 1615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18662114 | METHOD OF PRODUCING POLYMER-COATED SUBSTRATE FOR CAPTURING CANCER CELLS | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 1717 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18684820 | CALCIUM CARBONATE GENERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 1795 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18285970 | ORAL VACCINE COMPOSITION | PRONZATI, GINA | 1633 | §103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18456744 | COMPOSITION FOR INCREASING MUSCLE | COPPINS, JANET L | 1628 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18456798 | COMPOSITION FOR INHIBITING WRINKLE | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1655 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18254897 | COMPOUNDS HAVING INHIBITORY EFFECT ON MITOCHONDRIAL HYPERFISSION | ROZOF, TIMOTHY R | 1625 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18324476 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | AFRIN, NAZIA | 3666 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18038821 | SIRTUIN 6 ACTIVATOR | CHONG, YONG SOO | 1623 | §102 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18038653 | BIOMOLECULE STRUCTURE DETECTION PROBE, BIOMOLECULE STRUCTURE DETECTION KIT, AND METHOD FOR DETECTING BIOMOLECULE STRUCTURE | LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT | 1677 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18250982 | STEEL PIPE FOR HIGH-PRESSURE HYDROGEN PIPING AND HIGH-PRESSURE HYDROGEN PIPING USING SAME | LU, HAOTIAN | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18041582 | PHOTON UPCONVERSION COMPOSITION, FILM, METHOD FOR CONVERTING VISIBLE LIGHT INTO ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, AND COMPOUND | BAKSHI, PANCHAM | 1623 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 17781796 | Method for Diagnosing Cancer, Cancer Diagnosis Composition, Cancer Diagnosis Kit, Method for Evaluating State of Cancer, and Method for Screening Agents for Preventing and/or Treating Cancer | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1657 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
| 17769713 | TRANSDERMAL ABSORPTION-TYPE PATCH | COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | 1619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
| 17611536 | OLIGONUCLEOTIDE, OMICS ANALYSIS METHOD, AND OMICS ANALYSIS KIT | BAUSCH, SARAE L | 1699 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialKyushu University, National University Corporation has 18 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 16 art units and 18 examiners.
Cynthia E Collins has the most, with 1 of Kyushu University, National University Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
