Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nanjing University maintains an active patent portfolio within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area, currently navigating 12 pending office actions. This workload is distributed across 9 distinct art units, reflecting a broad technical scope within the life sciences sector. The university interacts with 11 distinct examiners, suggesting a decentralized prosecution environment where most examiners handle only individual matters for the institution.
TATGE, LEXUS MARC serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This concentration is limited, as the remaining 12 pending office actions are spread among the 11 distinct examiners. For practitioners, this distribution indicates that prosecution outcomes are likely to be influenced by a wide variety of examiner perspectives rather than a single primary contact. The presence of 9 distinct art units further confirms that the university's intellectual property spans multiple specialized examination groups within the patent office. Managing these matters across such a wide array of examiners requires a coordinated approach to ensure consistency in legal arguments.
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 + other | 2 (17%) |
| §103 only | 3 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 | 50.0% | +100.0% |
| PRICE JR, RICHARD THOMAS | 1 | 87.3% | +6.0% |
| BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO | 1 | 89.4% | +1.9% |
| SHIPMAN, KYLE HARRISON | 1 | — | — |
| BRAUN, MADELINE E | 1 | 68.0% | +25.7% |
| POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA | 1 | 64.0% | +18.0% |
| WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1 | 58.0% | +48.6% |
| MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | 1 | 61.2% | +21.4% |
| SINGH, PREM C | 1 | 59.0% | +33.1% |
| SEHAR, FAKEHA | 1 | 83.5% | +18.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895326 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PARALLEL ANALOG IN-MEMORY COMPUTING | BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO | 12d |
| 18936972 | METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF WHOLE WASTEWATE TOXICITY | PRICE JR, RICHARD THOMAS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17588223 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING BIODEGRADABILITY OF SEWAGE THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING | THOMPSON, MILANA KAYE | 26d |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18148470 | DEVICE FOR SYNTHESIZING HOMOGENEOUS POLYMER SPHERES BASED ON CHANNEL PREPOLYMERIZATION, AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | SINGH, PREM C | 211d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 17880311 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR-METAL OHMIC-CONTACT STRUCTURE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | SEHAR, FAKEHA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1637 | 3 |
| 3643 | 1 |
| 2825 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1681 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18936972 | METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF WHOLE WASTEWATE TOXICITY | PRICE JR, RICHARD THOMAS | 3643 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18895326 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PARALLEL ANALOG IN-MEMORY COMPUTING | BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO | 2825 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18797478 | METHOD FOR REDUCING RISK OF ULTRA-SHORT CHAIN PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES IN WATER | SHIPMAN, KYLE HARRISON | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 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 |
| 18148470 | DEVICE FOR SYNTHESIZING HOMOGENEOUS POLYMER SPHERES BASED ON CHANNEL PREPOLYMERIZATION, AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | SINGH, PREM C | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 211d overdue | Pending | Dec 30, 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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