Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
55 pending office actions • 35 art units • 55 examiners • 0 of 55 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 53 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nanyang Technological University has 52 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed across 33 distinct art units, showing technical breadth within the life sciences. The portfolio is handled by 52 distinct examiners.
ADITYA SRIRAM is identified as the busiest examiner, although this individual is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 52 distinct examiners for 52 pending office actions, no single examiner has more than a single case. This distribution suggests that prosecution is decentralized across the patent office.
The involvement of 33 distinct art units for 52 pending office actions indicates that while some art units may handle multiple cases, much of the portfolio is spread across different groups. Practitioners must prepare for 52 different examiner styles, as ADITYA SRIRAM and the other distinct examiners each manage 1 pending office action. This lack of concentration is a characteristic of the university's current Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 | 6 (11%) |
| §103 only | 13 (24%) |
| §102 only | 1 (2%) |
| §112 only | 2 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 31 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SRIRAM, ADITYA | 1 | 73.3% | +24.0% |
| FRAZIER, BRADY W | 1 | 78.4% | +27.3% |
| TAYLOR, APRIL ALICIA | 1 | 78.8% | +8.6% |
| GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1 | 57.9% | +4.8% |
| MARCELINO HERNAND, JASMIN | 1 | — | — |
| NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI | 1 | 51.6% | +11.4% |
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.7% | +11.7% |
| TRAN, TRAN M. | 1 | 74.8% | +23.4% |
| SUN, GEORGE | 1 | 69.1% | +34.2% |
| HOSSAIN, MOAZZAM | 1 | 88.1% | +11.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18809472 | Selective Dielectric Capping for Hybrid Bonding | HOSSAIN, MOAZZAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17785863 | BLOCK COPOLYMERS WITH NITRIC OXIDE DONOR | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 142d overdue |
| 17233022 | BULLFROG SKIN-DERIVED COLLAGEN, MATERIALS COMPRISING THEREOF, AND APPLICATIONS IN WOUND HEALING | LEE, JIA-HAI | 80d overdue |
| 18268026 | OPTICAL DEVICE, METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME | HARVEY, MINSUN OH | 19d |
| 18567255 | METHOD OF RECOVERING METAL IONS FROM BATTERIES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 40d |
| 18549856 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SEAMLESS DNA VECTORS | GOMEZ RODRIGUEZ, JULIO WASHINGTON | 70d |
| 17669059 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL POROUS HYBRID SCAFFOLD AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF | MARTIN, PAUL C | 78d |
| 19101099 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS SUITABLE FOR FACILITATING TRUSTWORTHINESS ASSESSMENT, AND A PROCESSING METHOD IN ASSOCIATION THERETO | SRIRAM, ADITYA | — |
| 18992250 | METHOD OF PROCESSING COMMUNICATION SIGNALS FOR USE IN RADAR SENSING, AND APPARATUS CONFIGURED TO EXECUTE THE METHOD | FRAZIER, BRADY W | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19101099 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS SUITABLE FOR FACILITATING TRUSTWORTHINESS ASSESSMENT, AND A PROCESSING METHOD IN ASSOCIATION THERETO | SRIRAM, ADITYA | — |
| 18992250 | METHOD OF PROCESSING COMMUNICATION SIGNALS FOR USE IN RADAR SENSING, AND APPARATUS CONFIGURED TO EXECUTE THE METHOD | FRAZIER, BRADY W | — |
| 18856211 | IDENTIFICATION OF CONTROLLED OBJECTS | NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI | — |
| 18904697 | DIAFILTRATION-NANOFILTRATION-REVERSE OSMOSIS FOR BRINE MANAGEMENT | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
| 18848505 | MONITORING SYSTEMS AND MONITORING METHODS FOR PNEUMATICALLY ACTUATED DOOR | TRAN, TRAN M. | — |
| 18846103 | MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | SUN, GEORGE | — |
| 18809472 | Selective Dielectric Capping for Hybrid Bonding | HOSSAIN, MOAZZAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1658 | 3 |
| 1657 | 2 |
| 1618 | 2 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 2408 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 1627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19101099 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS SUITABLE FOR FACILITATING TRUSTWORTHINESS ASSESSMENT, AND A PROCESSING METHOD IN ASSOCIATION THERETO | SRIRAM, ADITYA | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18992250 | METHOD OF PROCESSING COMMUNICATION SIGNALS FOR USE IN RADAR SENSING, AND APPARATUS CONFIGURED TO EXECUTE THE METHOD | FRAZIER, BRADY W | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18881720 | RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAG ANTENNA FOR METALLIC OBJECTS | TAYLOR, APRIL ALICIA | 2876 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18857755 | AN AMPHIPHOBIC COATING AND METHOD OF PREPARING AN AMPHIPHOBIC COATING | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1788 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18856915 | PHASE-RESTORING TRANSLATIONAL SHIFTING OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL IMAGES | MARCELINO HERNAND, JASMIN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18856211 | IDENTIFICATION OF CONTROLLED OBJECTS | NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18904697 | DIAFILTRATION-NANOFILTRATION-REVERSE OSMOSIS FOR BRINE MANAGEMENT | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18848505 | MONITORING SYSTEMS AND MONITORING METHODS FOR PNEUMATICALLY ACTUATED DOOR | TRAN, TRAN M. | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18846103 | MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | SUN, GEORGE | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18809472 | Selective Dielectric Capping for Hybrid Bonding | HOSSAIN, MOAZZAM | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18806919 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR IMPROVING DATA SECURITY IN A COMPUTING DEVICE | GILLESPIE, KAMRYN JORDAN | 2408 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18834904 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCHEDULING A HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM | SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18764956 | Apparatus or Method for Determining Blood Pressure of a Subject | FARAG, AMAL ALY | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18722396 | METHOD OF BACTERIAL IDENTIFICATION AND TESTING OF BACTERIUM RESISTANT TO ONE OR MORE ANTIBIOTICS | CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER | 1657 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18743916 | SENSOR AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING RELATIVE MOTION BETWEEN TWO OBJECTS | HUANG, DAVID Z | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18712544 | TANDEM MOLECULAR FLUORESCENCE REPORTERS FOR DETECTION OF TUMOR-INFILTRATING LEUKOCYTES | DICKINSON, PAUL W | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18702217 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SEMI-CLOSED REVERSE OSMOSIS | SPIES, BRADLEY R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18697116 | PROGRAMMABLE SELECTIVE ACYLATION OF POLYOLS | MILLER, DALE R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18692088 | Non-Volatile Memory with Oxygen Scavenger Regions and Methods of Making the Same | MANN, WILLIAM ROBERT | 2897 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18691712 | SILICON PHOTONIC DEVICE FOR GENERATING LASER LIGHT | LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18691686 | MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS GROWTH INHIBITOR AND MODEL | REILLY, SOPHIA JANE | 1627 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18685824 | METHOD OF PREPARING A COATING HAVING SELF-CLEANING AND ANTI-FOGGING PROPERTIES | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 1717 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18682662 | AN APPARATUS FOR A CELLULOSE-BASED VERTICAL FLOW ASSAY AND RELATED METHOD | ALABI, OYELEYE A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18294472 | DISCOVERY OF A F-ATP SYNTHASE INHIBITOR FOR THE TREATMENT OF MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS DISEASES | ISMAIL, REHANA | 1625 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18578248 | A COMPOSITION AND ITS APPLICATION IN CONTROLLED LIVING WATER-BASED EMULSION POLYMERIZATION | LEE, RIP A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18567543 | HIGH PERFORMANCE AQUEOUS HALIDE PEROVSKITE NANOCRYSTALS | BAEK, JONGHWAN NMN | 1618 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18567255 | METHOD OF RECOVERING METAL IONS FROM BATTERIES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1736 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18566514 | FLUX-MODULATED MACHINE | PATEL, TULSIDAS C | 2800 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18566471 | ULTRABRIGHT CHEMILUMINESCENT PROBES FOR DETECTION AND IMAGING | DONOHUE, SEAN R | 1618 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18559987 | BIO-INK PRINTING | NELSON, JAMEL M | 1743 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18559299 | AN AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE | CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18558687 | MICROPATTERNED 3D HYDROGEL MICROARRAY IN FLUIDIC CHANNELS FOR SPHEROID-IN-GEL CULTURE | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1632 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18492487 | HIGH-THROUGHPUT ISOLATION OF PLASMA AND NANO/MICROPARTICLES FROM BLOOD AND CULTURE MEDIA USING CURVED MICROCHANNELS | YOH, JULIUS FRANCIS | 1799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18556711 | COMPOUNDS FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER | KUCHARCZK, JED A | 1623 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18286816 | ANTI-VIRAL PEPTIDE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS TO IMPROVE BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY THEREOF | VARADARAJ, ARCHANA | 1658 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18282417 | AUTONOMOUS DRIVING METHODS AND SYSTEMS | HOANG, AMY P | 2143 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18549856 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SEAMLESS DNA VECTORS | GOMEZ RODRIGUEZ, JULIO WASHINGTON | 1637 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18547468 | METHODS FOR LIGATION OF (POLY)PEPTIDES AND OLIGONUCLEOTIDES | REGLAS, GEORGIANA C | 1651 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18264843 | METHODS FOR (POLY) PEPTIDE TANDEM LIGATION AND CYCLIZATION | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18273238 | PLASTICALLY DEFORMABLE 3D OBJECTS WITH HEAT CHANNELS | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 1700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18268026 | OPTICAL DEVICE, METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME | HARVEY, MINSUN OH | 2828 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18266889 | Reversible Electrochemical Mirror (REM) | WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18251173 | MAGNETIC NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS SUITABLE FOR MAGNETIC LOCALIZED POLYMERISATION OF AN ANAEROBIC ADHESIVE | EDMONDSON, LYNNE RENEE | 1734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18006138 | LAYER-BY-LAYER COATED NANOLIPOSOME FOR ORAL DELIVERY OF INSULIN | SHOMER, ISAAC | 1612 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
| 18000226 | ISOLATED PEPTIDE FOR A PEPTIDE COACERVATE, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | CARTER, SANDRA DILLAHUNT | 1674 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
| 17917425 | Keratin Filament Networks | TSAY, MARSHA M | 1656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
| 17905994 | DETECTION OF SLOWING PATTERNS IN EEG DATA | GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER | 3791 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
| 17785863 | BLOCK COPOLYMERS WITH NITRIC OXIDE DONOR | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1787 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 142d overdue | Pending | Jun 15, 2022 |
| 17770976 | DIRECT AND SCALABLE ISOLATION OF CIRCULATING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES FROM WHOLE BLOOD USING CENTRIFUGAL FORCES | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 1758 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2022 |
| 17767814 | REVERSE OSMOSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF | GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | 1779 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Apr 08, 2022 |
| 17669059 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL POROUS HYBRID SCAFFOLD AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF | MARTIN, PAUL C | 1653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 78d | Pending | Feb 10, 2022 |
| 17625314 | EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR (EGFR) LIGANDS | KATAKAM, SUDHAKAR | 1658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Jan 06, 2022 |
| 17311048 | GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CYANOBACTERIA FOR GROWTH IN UNSTERILIZED CONDITIONS USING ANTIBIOTIC-FREE SELECTION | CURRENS, GRANT CARSON | 1600 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2021 |
| 17233022 | BULLFROG SKIN-DERIVED COLLAGEN, MATERIALS COMPRISING THEREOF, AND APPLICATIONS IN WOUND HEALING | LEE, JIA-HAI | 1658 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 80d overdue | Pending | Apr 16, 2021 |
| 17278223 | CONDUCTIVE MICRONEEDLE PATCH FOR ACTIVE AGENT DELIVERY | GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2021 |
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