Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nanjing University has 11 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 10 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units, showing broad distribution with limited overlap across examination channels.
TATGE, LEXUS MARC is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel can combine examiner-specific response preparation with consistent biotechnology claim and disclosure review across the docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 only | 1 (9%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (18%) |
| §103 only | 1 (9%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TATGE, LEXUS MARC | 2 | 25.0% | +100.0% |
| WALSH, KATHLEEN M. | 1 | 80.1% | +17.9% |
| BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO | 1 | 89.6% | +2.0% |
| BRAUN, MADELINE E | 1 | 68.4% | +25.3% |
| POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA | 1 | 63.9% | +18.1% |
| WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1 | 58.0% | +48.4% |
| MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | 1 | 61.4% | +21.2% |
| SHI, TINGCHEN | 1 | 69.4% | +22.7% |
| SEHAR, FAKEHA | 1 | 82.7% | +19.3% |
| THOMPSON, MILANA KAYE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895326 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PARALLEL ANALOG IN-MEMORY COMPUTING | BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO | 12d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17588223 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING BIODEGRADABILITY OF SEWAGE THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING | THOMPSON, MILANA KAYE | 26d |
| 19405962 | INFRARED IMAGING SYSTEM, AND DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON INFRARED IMAGING SYSTEM | WALSH, KATHLEEN M. | — |
| 18554325 | CONJUGATE AND THE PREPARING METHOD AND USE THEREOF | BRAUN, MADELINE E | — |
| 18374236 | GENE CIRCUIT, RNA DELIVERY SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF | TATGE, LEXUS MARC | — |
| 18373605 | NUCLEIC ACID DELIVERY SYSTEM AND APPLICATION THEREOF | TATGE, LEXUS MARC | — |
| 18273552 | METHOD FOR MODIFYING DNA BY UTILIZING GLYCOSYLASE AND OXYAMINE COMPOUND | POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA | — |
| 18361335 | ECL-BASED ELECTRODE, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ECL-BASED ELECTRODE, ECL SENSOR, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ECL SENSOR, METHOD FOR ECL DETECTION OF NUCLEIC ACID-SPECIFIC SITE MODIFICATION, AND KIT FOR NUCLEIC ACID MODIFICATION DETECTION USED FOR METHOD FOR ECL DETECTION OF NUCLEIC ACID-SPECIFIC SITE MODIFICATION | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | — |
| 17880311 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR-METAL OHMIC-CONTACT STRUCTURE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | SEHAR, FAKEHA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17915496 | METHOD FOR SEQUENCING A PROTEIN/POLYPEPTIDE USING AEROLYSIN NANOPORES | SHI, TINGCHEN | 8d |
| 19405962 | INFRARED IMAGING SYSTEM, AND DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON INFRARED IMAGING SYSTEM | WALSH, KATHLEEN M. | — |
| 18554325 | CONJUGATE AND THE PREPARING METHOD AND USE THEREOF | BRAUN, MADELINE E | — |
| 18374236 | GENE CIRCUIT, RNA DELIVERY SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF | TATGE, LEXUS MARC | — |
| 18373605 | NUCLEIC ACID DELIVERY SYSTEM AND APPLICATION THEREOF | TATGE, LEXUS MARC | — |
| 18273552 | METHOD FOR MODIFYING DNA BY UTILIZING GLYCOSYLASE AND OXYAMINE COMPOUND | POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA | — |
| 18361335 | ECL-BASED ELECTRODE, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ECL-BASED ELECTRODE, ECL SENSOR, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ECL SENSOR, METHOD FOR ECL DETECTION OF NUCLEIC ACID-SPECIFIC SITE MODIFICATION, AND KIT FOR NUCLEIC ACID MODIFICATION DETECTION USED FOR METHOD FOR ECL DETECTION OF NUCLEIC ACID-SPECIFIC SITE MODIFICATION | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | — |
| 18252672 | PROGRAMMABLE NANO-REACTORS FOR STOCHASTIC SENSING (PNRSS) | MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1637 | 3 |
| 2482 | 1 |
| 2825 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1681 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19405962 | INFRARED IMAGING SYSTEM, AND DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON INFRARED IMAGING SYSTEM | WALSH, KATHLEEN M. | 2482 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2025 |
| 18895326 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PARALLEL ANALOG IN-MEMORY COMPUTING | BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO | 2825 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18554325 | CONJUGATE AND THE PREPARING METHOD AND USE THEREOF | BRAUN, MADELINE E | 1692 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18374236 | GENE CIRCUIT, RNA DELIVERY SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF | TATGE, LEXUS MARC | 1637 | §101§102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18373605 | NUCLEIC ACID DELIVERY SYSTEM AND APPLICATION THEREOF | TATGE, LEXUS MARC | 1637 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18273552 | METHOD FOR MODIFYING DNA BY UTILIZING GLYCOSYLASE AND OXYAMINE COMPOUND | POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA | 1637 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18361335 | ECL-BASED ELECTRODE, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ECL-BASED ELECTRODE, ECL SENSOR, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ECL SENSOR, METHOD FOR ECL DETECTION OF NUCLEIC ACID-SPECIFIC SITE MODIFICATION, AND KIT FOR NUCLEIC ACID MODIFICATION DETECTION USED FOR METHOD FOR ECL DETECTION OF NUCLEIC ACID-SPECIFIC SITE MODIFICATION | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1758 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18252672 | PROGRAMMABLE NANO-REACTORS FOR STOCHASTIC SENSING (PNRSS) | MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | 1681 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 17915496 | METHOD FOR SEQUENCING A PROTEIN/POLYPEPTIDE USING AEROLYSIN NANOPORES | SHI, TINGCHEN | 1796 | §112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17880311 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR-METAL OHMIC-CONTACT STRUCTURE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | SEHAR, FAKEHA | 2893 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2022 |
| 17588223 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING BIODEGRADABILITY OF SEWAGE THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING | THOMPSON, MILANA KAYE | 1687 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jan 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNanjing University has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 10 examiners.
Lexus Marc Tatge has the most, with 2 of Nanjing University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
