Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Niigata University has 2 pending office actions focused in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, showing a one-to-one ratio between pending matters and examining staff. The prosecution is further divided across 2 distinct art units, which reflects a breadth of technical subject matter even within the primary technology category. This structure indicates that the university's research output is being evaluated by diverse technical experts at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner, BERRY, LAYLA D, is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This represents half of the total pending actions for the university. With 1 busiest examiner pending action, the workload is evenly split among the assigned officials. This distribution suggests that the university's patent prosecution is not bottlenecked by a single examiner, as each official manages an equal portion of the current workload. Practitioners should prepare for distinct negotiation styles, as the 2 examiners operate in 2 different art units, requiring tailored arguments for each specific biological or pharmaceutical innovation.
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%) |
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERRY, LAYLA D | 1 | 66.0% | +9.0% |
| NGUYEN, NAM P | 1 | 54.8% | +48.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271660 | MARKER FOR ASSISTING IN DIAGNOSIS OF NEPHROTIC SYNDROME AND USE THEREOF | NGUYEN, NAM P | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271660 | MARKER FOR ASSISTING IN DIAGNOSIS OF NEPHROTIC SYNDROME AND USE THEREOF | NGUYEN, NAM P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1693 | 1 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18694631 | REGENERATIVE AGENT FOR BONE TISSUE AND LUNG TISSUE, AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR REGENERATING BONE TISSUE AND LUNG TISSUE | BERRY, LAYLA D | 1693 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18271660 | MARKER FOR ASSISTING IN DIAGNOSIS OF NEPHROTIC SYNDROME AND USE THEREOF | NGUYEN, NAM P | 1678 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNiigata University has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Layla D Berry has the most, with 1 of Niigata University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
