Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Sun Yat-sen University has 6 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 6 examiners across 5 art units, indicating broad examiner distribution with limited art-unit overlap. BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The equal action and examiner counts show no repeated examiner assignment in the profile. Counsel should prioritize matter-specific review and use the art-unit information to identify any common technical setting without assuming a common examiner position.
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 | 3 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A | 1 | 86.3% | +5.6% |
| NGUYEN, NAM P | 1 | 54.8% | +48.7% |
| MOREAU, NASHARA LOUISE | 1 | 66.7% | -80.0% |
| KNIGHT, PAUL M | 1 | 61.9% | +18.4% |
| SABOUR, GHAZAL | 1 | 34.2% | +35.0% |
| STUBBS, JOHN THOMAS | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18938600 | OCCUPANCY DETECTOR AND OCCUPANCY DETECTION METHOD | BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748165 | Method for Manufacturing Biosensor | NGUYEN, NAM P | — |
| 18416903 | METHODS OF TREATING OR PREVENTING RESPIRATORY DISEASE WITH HOUTTUYNIA CORDATA THUNB-BASED AEROSOL INHALATION THERAPY | MOREAU, NASHARA LOUISE | — |
| 18390892 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING MODEL TO DETERMINE WHETHER A SUBJECT HAS NEPHROLITHIASIS | KNIGHT, PAUL M | — |
| 18304594 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PROBABILITY OF A KIDNEY STONE IN A SUBJECT BEING A URIC-ACID STONE | SABOUR, GHAZAL | — |
| 18146571 | METHOD, KIT AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PREDICTING SURVIVAL TIME OF INDIVIDUAL WITH BLADDER CANCER AFTER SURGERY FROM INDIVIDUAL'S BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE | STUBBS, JOHN THOMAS | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748165 | Method for Manufacturing Biosensor | NGUYEN, NAM P | — |
| 18390892 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING MODEL TO DETERMINE WHETHER A SUBJECT HAS NEPHROLITHIASIS | KNIGHT, PAUL M | — |
| 18304594 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PROBABILITY OF A KIDNEY STONE IN A SUBJECT BEING A URIC-ACID STONE | SABOUR, GHAZAL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1686 | 2 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 2148 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18938600 | OCCUPANCY DETECTOR AND OCCUPANCY DETECTION METHOD | BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A | 3648 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18748165 | Method for Manufacturing Biosensor | NGUYEN, NAM P | 1678 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18416903 | METHODS OF TREATING OR PREVENTING RESPIRATORY DISEASE WITH HOUTTUYNIA CORDATA THUNB-BASED AEROSOL INHALATION THERAPY | MOREAU, NASHARA LOUISE | 1655 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18390892 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING MODEL TO DETERMINE WHETHER A SUBJECT HAS NEPHROLITHIASIS | KNIGHT, PAUL M | 2148 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18304594 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PROBABILITY OF A KIDNEY STONE IN A SUBJECT BEING A URIC-ACID STONE | SABOUR, GHAZAL | 1686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 18146571 | METHOD, KIT AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PREDICTING SURVIVAL TIME OF INDIVIDUAL WITH BLADDER CANCER AFTER SURGERY FROM INDIVIDUAL'S BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE | STUBBS, JOHN THOMAS | 1686 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNational Sun Yat-sen University has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Timothy A Brainard has the most, with 1 of National Sun Yat-sen University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
