Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
17 pending office actions • 12 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kyushu University, National University Corporation, manages a portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The university currently has 16 pending office actions. These 16 pending office actions are distributed among 16 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is handling 1 pending case for the institution. The prosecution activity spans 12 distinct art units, showing technical breadth within its primary technology area. CYNTHIA E COLLINS is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action.
This case for CYNTHIA E COLLINS is 1 of the 16 pending office actions currently active. The high number of 16 distinct examiners and 12 distinct art units relative to the total actions suggests a diverse research and patenting strategy across specialized fields of biotechnology. For practitioners, this distribution indicates that the university's intellectual property is not concentrated in any single examination group. With CYNTHIA E COLLINS and the other examiners each managing 1 pending office action, the institutional risk is spread across the USPTO's biotechnology divisions.
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 | 2 (12%) |
| §103 only | 4 (24%) |
| §102 only | 3 (18%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (18%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (29%) |
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% |
| EPSTEIN, TODD MATTHEW | 1 | 60.9% | +43.4% |
| WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 1 | 83.6% | +9.2% |
| DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 1 | 63.8% | +20.2% |
| PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 1 | 55.6% | +15.6% |
| KENYON, JOHN S | 1 | 79.7% | +18.3% |
| BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1 | 35.2% | +45.6% |
| AFRIN, NAZIA | 1 | 39.3% | +18.8% |
| CHONG, YONG SOO | 1 | 43.8% | +41.6% |
| LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT | 1 | 63.5% | +53.4% |
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 7 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 |
| 18852581 | ENVIRONMENTAL MEMORY SEED AND USE THEREOF | COLLINS, CYNTHIA E | — |
| 18838486 | LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM FOR SYNTHESIZING PLASMALOGEN, PLASMALOGEN-CONTAINING COMPOSITION, AND PLASMALOGEN PRODUCTION METHOD | EPSTEIN, TODD MATTHEW | — |
| 18662114 | METHOD OF PRODUCING POLYMER-COATED SUBSTRATE FOR CAPTURING CANCER CELLS | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | — |
| 18552098 | PROPHYLACTIC AGENT OR THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR SIDE EFFECTS OF ANTHRACYCLINE ANTICANCER AGENT | KENYON, JOHN S | — |
| 18029761 | LIGHT-EMITTING MATERIAL, AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT | DOLLINGER, MICHAEL M | — |
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 |
| 18038821 | SIRTUIN 6 ACTIVATOR | CHONG, YONG SOO | 60d overdue |
| 18324476 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | AFRIN, NAZIA | 19d overdue |
| 18838486 | LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM FOR SYNTHESIZING PLASMALOGEN, PLASMALOGEN-CONTAINING COMPOSITION, AND PLASMALOGEN PRODUCTION METHOD | EPSTEIN, TODD MATTHEW | — |
| 18662114 | METHOD OF PRODUCING POLYMER-COATED SUBSTRATE FOR CAPTURING CANCER CELLS | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | — |
| 18684820 | CALCIUM CARBONATE GENERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | — |
| 18552098 | PROPHYLACTIC AGENT OR THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR SIDE EFFECTS OF ANTHRACYCLINE ANTICANCER AGENT | KENYON, JOHN S | — |
| 18038653 | BIOMOLECULE STRUCTURE DETECTION PROBE, BIOMOLECULE STRUCTURE DETECTION KIT, AND METHOD FOR DETECTING BIOMOLECULE STRUCTURE | LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1623 | 2 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1625 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 1677 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1633 | 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 |
| 18838486 | LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM FOR SYNTHESIZING PLASMALOGEN, PLASMALOGEN-CONTAINING COMPOSITION, AND PLASMALOGEN PRODUCTION METHOD | EPSTEIN, TODD MATTHEW | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18731563 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORED WITH MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM, METHOD, AND DEVICE | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 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 | — | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18552098 | PROPHYLACTIC AGENT OR THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR SIDE EFFECTS OF ANTHRACYCLINE ANTICANCER AGENT | KENYON, JOHN S | 1625 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18456798 | COMPOSITION FOR INHIBITING WRINKLE | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1655 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 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 |
| 18029761 | LIGHT-EMITTING MATERIAL, AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT | DOLLINGER, MICHAEL M | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 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 |
| 17769713 | TRANSDERMAL ABSORPTION-TYPE PATCH | COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | 1619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
| 17765507 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HEPARIN-LIKE SUBSTANCE, RECOMBINANT CELL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | POPA, ILEANA | 1633 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
| 17614231 | EFFICIENT METHOD FOR PREPARING PPR PROTEIN AND USE OF THE SAME | VARADARAJ, ARCHANA | 1658 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Nov 24, 2021 |
| 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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