Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Lung Biotechnology Pbc

8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (62%)
1
Easy (12%)
2
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
§112 only1 (12%)
No statute on record2 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

8
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J 2 53.5% +34.8%
ZHU, JIANJIAN 2 59.7% +82.5%
CANDELARIA, JULIANA IRENE 2
ROBINSON, MICHAEL 1 61.6% +21.3%
FUBARA, BLESSING M 1 61.9% +34.3%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18734286 HIGH RESOLUTION PRINTING SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF ALIGNING PIXELATED TILES CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J 49d overdue
17410159 APPARATUS AND METHOD IN 3D PRINTING CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J 15d overdue
18354210 Methods for Differentiating Epithelial or Basal Cells ZHU, JIANJIAN 9d
18227001 ADVANCED MANUFACTURED TRANSWELL USING SYNTHETIC BIOINK FOR CELL CULTURE AND IN VITRO TISSUE MODELS ZHU, JIANJIAN 22d
17738764 CONTROLLING THE SIZE OF 3D PRINTING HYDROGEL OBJECTS USING HYDROPHILIC MONOMERS, HYDROPHOBIC MONOMERS, AND CROSSLINKERS FUBARA, BLESSING M 27d
18637003 MODIFIED 3D-PRINTED OBJECTS AND THEIR USES ROBINSON, MICHAEL 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1744 3
1631 2
1634 2
1613 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18734286 HIGH RESOLUTION PRINTING SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF ALIGNING PIXELATED TILES CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J 1744 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2024
18637003 MODIFIED 3D-PRINTED OBJECTS AND THEIR USES ROBINSON, MICHAEL 1744 Other Final Rejection 34d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18227001 ADVANCED MANUFACTURED TRANSWELL USING SYNTHETIC BIOINK FOR CELL CULTURE AND IN VITRO TISSUE MODELS ZHU, JIANJIAN 1631 Other Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 27, 2023
18354205 Methods for Differentiating Stromal Cells or Pericytes CANDELARIA, JULIANA IRENE 1634 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Jul 18, 2023
18354201 Methods for Differentiating AT2 Cells CANDELARIA, JULIANA IRENE 1634 §112 Final Rejection 60d Pending Jul 18, 2023
18354210 Methods for Differentiating Epithelial or Basal Cells ZHU, JIANJIAN 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 18, 2023
17738764 CONTROLLING THE SIZE OF 3D PRINTING HYDROGEL OBJECTS USING HYDROPHILIC MONOMERS, HYDROPHOBIC MONOMERS, AND CROSSLINKERS FUBARA, BLESSING M 1613 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 06, 2022
17410159 APPARATUS AND METHOD IN 3D PRINTING CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J 1744 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2021

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