Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
National University Corporation Kyoto Institute Of Technology operates a company patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. There are 2 pending office actions currently active for this portfolio. This count reflects the current workload for the organization's patent applications in this specific field.
The prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different specialized unit of the patent office. The involvement of 2 distinct art units shows that the technology spans multiple technical classifications within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for 1 of the 2 total pending office actions. Because the workload is split between 2 distinct examiners, the organization must manage different examination styles. Practitioners should prepare for the specific nuances of SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN and the other assigned examiner to successfully navigate these 2 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN | 1 | 40.8% | +70.6% |
| KUMAR, PREETI | 1 | 31.9% | +43.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835750 | CELLULOSE-SYNTHETIZING MICROBE TRANSFECTANT AND USE THEREOF | SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565952 | METHOD FOR SCOURING FIBER PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR SCOURING FIBER PRODUCT TO PRODUCE SCOURED FIBER PRODUCT | KUMAR, PREETI | 20d |
| 18835750 | CELLULOSE-SYNTHETIZING MICROBE TRANSFECTANT AND USE THEREOF | SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1656 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835750 | CELLULOSE-SYNTHETIZING MICROBE TRANSFECTANT AND USE THEREOF | SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN | 1656 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18565952 | METHOD FOR SCOURING FIBER PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR SCOURING FIBER PRODUCT TO PRODUCE SCOURED FIBER PRODUCT | KUMAR, PREETI | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNational University Corporation Kyoto Institute Of Technology has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Joseph Rankin Spangler has the most, with 1 of National University Corporation Kyoto Institute Of Technology's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
