Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
49 pending office actions • 40 art units • 49 examiners • 0 of 49 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 61 patents granted in the last 365 days
North Carolina State University has 52 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 52 distinct examiners and 43 distinct art units, producing extensive distribution across the examination landscape.
FAN, WEIHUA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because the assignments are broadly dispersed, counsel should emphasize docket controls, technical issue tracking, and consistent prosecution positions across related biotechnology matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 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. 14 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 only | 1 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (8%) |
| §103 only | 9 (18%) |
| §112 only | 2 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 30 (61%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAN, WEIHUA | 1 | 83.3% | +12.7% |
| DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON | 1 | 80.0% | +16.3% |
| STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE | 1 | 75.0% | +50.0% |
| GRASER, JENNIFER E | 1 | 76.8% | +23.2% |
| KAY, ZACHARIAH A | 1 | 91.2% | -42.4% |
| NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | 1 | 86.0% | +11.8% |
| RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1 | 73.7% | +26.5% |
| VAZIRI, MASOUD | 1 | 74.4% | +7.1% |
| DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | 1 | 53.3% | +36.3% |
| SHAH, NILAY J | 1 | 76.3% | +46.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19201192 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MINIMIZING NORNICOTINE SYNTHESIS IN TOBACCO | FAN, WEIHUA | — |
| 19071964 | TARGETED MUTAGENESIS OF TOBACCO BERBERINE BRIDGE ENZYME-LIKE NUCLEIC ACIDS | DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18503854 | BIOREMEDIATION USING CO-METABOLISM SUBSTRATES | XU, QING | 128d overdue |
| 17728182 | GAS PERMEABLE, ULTRATHIN, STRETCHABLE EPIDERMAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 72d overdue |
| 17372113 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS RELATED TO DIFFERENTIALLY METHYLATED DNA SEQUENCES ASSOCIATED WITH MONOALLELIC GENE EXPRESSION AND DISEASE | KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS | 60d overdue |
| 18106287 | PLATFORM FOR ROBOTIC MICRO-EXPERIMENTATION OF SOLUTION-PROCESSED MATERIALS AND DEVICES | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 17d overdue |
| 18313860 | METHODOLOGY AND TOOL FOR PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT | BAINS, SARJIT S | 8d overdue |
| 18060215 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PURIFYING ALPHA-1 ANTITRYPSIN USING PEPTIDE LIGANDS | SZPERKA, MICHAEL EDWARD | 3d overdue |
| 17922766 | NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS COMPRISING DIETARY METAL COMPLEXES IN A MATRIX OF CELLULOSIC MATERIALS | NGUYEN, THANH H | 3d overdue |
| 17291517 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVELY STORING, ACCESSING, AND EDITING INFORMATION USING NUCLEIC ACIDS | SKIBINSKY, ANNA | 5d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19201192 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MINIMIZING NORNICOTINE SYNTHESIS IN TOBACCO | FAN, WEIHUA | — |
| 19071964 | TARGETED MUTAGENESIS OF TOBACCO BERBERINE BRIDGE ENZYME-LIKE NUCLEIC ACIDS | DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON | — |
| 19067465 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS RELATED TO GENE STACKING SYSTEMS | STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE | — |
| 18941161 | COMPOSITIONS OF VACCINES AGAINST CLOSTRIDIAL DERMATITIS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | GRASER, JENNIFER E | — |
| 18858937 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HYPERPOLARIZING SUBSTRATE MOLECULES | NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | — |
| 18921390 | COLLOIDAL FIBRIN NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITIONS AND USES | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | — |
| 18910226 | WEARABLE AND BODY-CONFORMABLE ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER ARRAY FOR MUSCLE IMAGING AND MUSCLE-IN-THE-LOOP CONTROL | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | — |
| 18851640 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER USING ULTRASOUND | SHAH, NILAY J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 3 |
| 1645 | 2 |
| 1796 | 2 |
| 1738 | 2 |
| 1636 | 2 |
| 1758 | 2 |
| 1661 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19201192 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MINIMIZING NORNICOTINE SYNTHESIS IN TOBACCO | FAN, WEIHUA | 1662 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19071964 | TARGETED MUTAGENESIS OF TOBACCO BERBERINE BRIDGE ENZYME-LIKE NUCLEIC ACIDS | DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON | 1662 | §112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19067465 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS RELATED TO GENE STACKING SYSTEMS | STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE | 1645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18941161 | COMPOSITIONS OF VACCINES AGAINST CLOSTRIDIAL DERMATITIS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | GRASER, JENNIFER E | 1645 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18938794 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS RELATED TO SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS IN ROSE PLANTS | KAY, ZACHARIAH A | 1661 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18858937 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HYPERPOLARIZING SUBSTRATE MOLECULES | NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18921390 | COLLOIDAL FIBRIN NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITIONS AND USES | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1652 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18911386 | Ceramic Substrate Windings for Permanent Magnet Machines | VAZIRI, MASOUD | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18910226 | WEARABLE AND BODY-CONFORMABLE ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER ARRAY FOR MUSCLE IMAGING AND MUSCLE-IN-THE-LOOP CONTROL | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | 3798 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18851640 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER USING ULTRASOUND | SHAH, NILAY J | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18844878 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PRODUCING TOBACCO PLANTS WITH REDUCED NICOTINIC ALKALOID LEVELS | KUMAR, VINOD | 1663 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18786017 | MULTI-VARIANT CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN INDUSTRIAL FACILITY | COLLINS, GARY | 2115 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18730082 | METHODS FOR PRODUCING LOW-NICOTINE TOBACCO | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 1662 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18668401 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL CATALYTIC SORBENTS FOR HYDROGEN AND HYDROGEN-ENRICHED SYNGAS PRODUCTION FROM CARBON CONTAINING FEEDSTOCK | HERNANDEZ, RITCHIE EVAN | 1732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18704343 | MODIFIED ALGINATES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEREOF | MILLER, DALE R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18631265 | REAL-TIME WEARABLE SENSOR FOR MONITORING PLANT DISEASE AND STRESS | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | 1796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18603792 | DEVICE FOR EVALUATING INNER EAR DRUG DELIVERY | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 1799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18594514 | Resonance-Tracking Broadband Energy Harvester | GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | 2837 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18686338 | CHARGED NONWOVEN MATERIAL | JONES, CHRISTOPHER P | 1776 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18509829 | RETAINING NECK BAND | NGUYEN, SON T | 3643 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18503854 | BIOREMEDIATION USING CO-METABOLISM SUBSTRATES | XU, QING | 1656 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 128d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 17766884 | IMMUNOGLOBULIN PURIFICATION PEPTIDES AND THEIR USE | BRADLEY, CHRISTINA | 1654 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18372630 | Design and Sensing of Affordable Wearable Robots Without Torque Sensors | CHIN, JAMES BRIAN | 3656 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18463531 | OXYGEN CARRYING MATERIALS WITH SURFACE MODIFICATION FOR REDOX-BASED CATALYSIS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USES THEREOF | FORREST, MICHAEL | 1738 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18236256 | Smart Automated Spin Coater | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1712 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18546378 | SITE-SPECIFIC GENOME MODIFICATION TECHNOLOGY | SU-TOBON, QIWEN NMN | 1636 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18363046 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR EVALUATING TEST FORMULATIONS TO DETERMINE BIOLOGICAL AGENT LOG REDUCTION/REMOVAL ON A SURFACE | FISHER, BRITTANY I | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18217392 | FUNCTIONING OF INTERSTITIAL FLUID HARVESTING AND PROCESSING PATCH USING GEL OSMOSIS AND PAPER MICROFLUIDICS | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18313860 | METHODOLOGY AND TOOL FOR PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT | BAINS, SARJIT S | 3623 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18032149 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DRUG DELIVERY | CREWS, JARET JAMES | 1691 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 18249111 | SOLID PHASE MATRIX FOR CROP PROTECTION | SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W | 1616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 18248296 | COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS RELATED TO A DUAL-AFFINITY RATIOMETRIC QUENCHING BIOASSAY | LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT | 1677 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
| 18187055 | ATOMIC LAYER ETCHING OF METAL OXIDES USING NOVEL CO-REACTANTS AS HALOGENATING AGENTS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION | PHAM, THOMAS T | 1713 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 18023521 | SOLID PHASE TRANSFERS OF DNA AND OTHER REAGENTS | ZIMMERMANN, JOHN P | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
| 18106287 | PLATFORM FOR ROBOTIC MICRO-EXPERIMENTATION OF SOLUTION-PROCESSED MATERIALS AND DEVICES | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 1758 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 18060215 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PURIFYING ALPHA-1 ANTITRYPSIN USING PEPTIDE LIGANDS | SZPERKA, MICHAEL EDWARD | 1641 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17922766 | NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS COMPRISING DIETARY METAL COMPLEXES IN A MATRIX OF CELLULOSIC MATERIALS | NGUYEN, THANH H | 1792 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Nov 01, 2022 |
| 17801059 | PROCESS FOR EXTRACTION OF LITHIUM | QUIST, NICOLE LEE | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2022 |
| 17780843 | NEONATAL FIBRIN SCAFFOLDS FOR PROMOTING WOUND HEALING | REYNOLDS, FRED H | 1658 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 27, 2022 |
| 17728182 | GAS PERMEABLE, ULTRATHIN, STRETCHABLE EPIDERMAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2022 |
| 17722002 | REDUCED PATHLENGTH FLOW CELL FOR INLINE SAMPLE CHARACTERIZATION IN MODULAR FLUOROPOLYMER TUBING MICROFLUIDICS | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 1758 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
| 17637022 | AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS INCLUDING POLYMER PARTICLES | COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | 1619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Feb 21, 2022 |
| 17442776 | PROBIOTIC BACTERIA CAPABLE OF ADAPTIVE RESPONSE TO POMEGRANATE EXTRACT AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF | REGLAS, GEORGIANA C | 1651 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2021 |
| 17372113 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS RELATED TO DIFFERENTIALLY METHYLATED DNA SEQUENCES ASSOCIATED WITH MONOALLELIC GENE EXPRESSION AND DISEASE | KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS | 1683 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Jul 09, 2021 |
| 17291517 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVELY STORING, ACCESSING, AND EDITING INFORMATION USING NUCLEIC ACIDS | SKIBINSKY, ANNA | 1635 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | May 05, 2021 |
| 17281025 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DRUG DELIVERY | STONEBRAKER, ALYSSA RAE | 1642 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Mar 29, 2021 |
| 17280936 | POLYMERIC CHROMOPHORES, COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THE SAME, AND METHODS OF PREPARING AND USING THE SAME | ADAMS, MICHELLE | 1797 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Mar 29, 2021 |
| 17272190 | TARGETING KIT WITH SPLICE SWITCHING OLIGONUCLEOTIDES TO INDUCE APOPTOSIS OF MAST CELLS | VYAS, KEYUR ANILKUMAR | 1637 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2021 |
| 16616655 | ALTERED GUIDE RNAS FOR MODULATING CAS9 ACTIVITY AND METHODS OF USE | REGA, KYLE THOMAS | 1636 | §103 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Nov 25, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialNorth Carolina State University has 49 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 40 art units and 49 examiners.
Weihua Fan has the most, with 1 of North Carolina State University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
