Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
35 pending office actions • 30 art units • 35 examiners • 0 of 35 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 60 patents granted in the last 365 days
Northeastern University maintains a large and highly diverse prosecution pipeline with 38 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Each of these 38 actions is assigned to a different distinct examiner, indicating a complete lack of examiner-level concentration. Furthermore, the portfolio spans 33 distinct art units, reflecting an exceptionally broad technical range within the chemistry field.
EDOUARD, PATRICIA KELLY is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there are 38 distinct examiners for 38 pending office actions, the university's prosecution experience is fragmented across 38 individual officials. Practitioners must coordinate a complex strategy that accounts for 33 different technical groups and 38 separate examiner perspectives. This high degree of dispersion across 33 distinct art units suggests a wide-ranging research and development focus that touches many different specialized areas of chemistry.
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 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 8 (23%) |
| §103 only | 11 (31%) |
| §102 only | 1 (3%) |
| §112 only | 1 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 13 (37%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDOUARD, PATRICIA KELLY | 1 | 10.6% | +18.1% |
| BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | 1 | 63.0% | +23.8% |
| JUNG, JONATHAN Y | 1 | 72.6% | +16.8% |
| OH, HARRY Y | 1 | 85.2% | +17.0% |
| MORALES, JON ERIC C | 1 | 85.4% | +10.0% |
| HIJAZ, OMAR F | 1 | 55.5% | +35.4% |
| TRA, TUYEN Q | 1 | 85.6% | +9.2% |
| DRISCOLL, LORA E BARNHART | 1 | 32.0% | +20.0% |
| FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | 1 | 63.9% | +17.1% |
| ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 1 | 55.1% | +3.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18927310 | ANIMAL POSITIONING AND MONITORING SYSTEM FOR MICROSCOPY | MORALES, JON ERIC C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18008323 | Ferromagnetic Metal-Ferrite Composites for High Frequency Inductor Applications | EDMONDSON, LYNNE RENEE | 37d overdue |
| 18753908 | Method And Apparatus For Wireless Communications | ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 36d overdue |
| 18280593 | SMART MECHANICAL METAMATERIALS WITH TUNABLE STIMULI-RESPONSIVE EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS | EWALD, MARIA VERONICA | 35d overdue |
| 17820662 | SOLID-STATE ELECTROLYTE, CATHODE ELECTRODE, AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME FOR SULFIDE-BASED ALL-SOLID-STATE-BATTERIES | VAN KIRK, DUSTIN KENWOOD | 18d overdue |
| 18225961 | CONTINUOUS REACTOR AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF METALS WITH NANOSTRUCTURED INCLUSIONS | ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA | 5d overdue |
| 17523861 | Method for Direct Synthesis of Nanomaterials by Heating of Bulk Sources | MCCLAIN, STARFARI TESHAWN | 3d overdue |
| 18933478 | System and Method for Manipulating Deformable Objects | OH, HARRY Y | 22d |
| 18774363 | NANOEMULSION COMPOSITIONS OF TAXOID DRUGS, AND METHODS FOR THE USE THEREOF TO TARGET CANCER CELLS AND CANCER STEM CELLS | DRISCOLL, LORA E BARNHART | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18933478 | System and Method for Manipulating Deformable Objects | OH, HARRY Y | 22d |
| 18774363 | NANOEMULSION COMPOSITIONS OF TAXOID DRUGS, AND METHODS FOR THE USE THEREOF TO TARGET CANCER CELLS AND CANCER STEM CELLS | DRISCOLL, LORA E BARNHART | 27d |
| 19112461 | Computer Vision Based Assessment of Infant Face and Body Symmetry | EDOUARD, PATRICIA KELLY | — |
| 19112067 | Single Antenna Subharmonic Tags | BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | — |
| 18962393 | Metalenses for Use in Night-Vision Technology | JUNG, JONATHAN Y | — |
| 18927310 | ANIMAL POSITIONING AND MONITORING SYSTEM FOR MICROSCOPY | MORALES, JON ERIC C | — |
| 18841813 | Expeditionary Shelter Systems | HIJAZ, OMAR F | — |
| 18724548 | METHOD FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL WORKING CONDITIONS OF MULTI-VIEW DATA BASED ON FEATURE REGRESSION | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3681 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 3991 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 2415 | 1 |
| 2433 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19112461 | Computer Vision Based Assessment of Infant Face and Body Symmetry | EDOUARD, PATRICIA KELLY | 3681 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19112067 | Single Antenna Subharmonic Tags | BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 18962393 | Metalenses for Use in Night-Vision Technology | JUNG, JONATHAN Y | 2871 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18933478 | System and Method for Manipulating Deformable Objects | OH, HARRY Y | 3657 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18927310 | ANIMAL POSITIONING AND MONITORING SYSTEM FOR MICROSCOPY | MORALES, JON ERIC C | 3786 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18841813 | Expeditionary Shelter Systems | HIJAZ, OMAR F | 3635 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18833512 | Self-Administered Adaptive Vision Screening Test Using Angular Indication | TRA, TUYEN Q | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18774363 | NANOEMULSION COMPOSITIONS OF TAXOID DRUGS, AND METHODS FOR THE USE THEREOF TO TARGET CANCER CELLS AND CANCER STEM CELLS | DRISCOLL, LORA E BARNHART | 3991 | §101 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18724548 | METHOD FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL WORKING CONDITIONS OF MULTI-VIEW DATA BASED ON FEATURE REGRESSION | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18753908 | Method And Apparatus For Wireless Communications | ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 3645 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18720864 | Radio Access Network Control System | TACDIRAN, ANDRE GEE | 2415 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18744204 | OBFUSCATING ANALOG CIRCUITS USING SWITCHED PHASE CIRCUITS | ANDERSON, MICHAEL D | 2433 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18635442 | PERICELLULAR OXYGEN-CONTROLLING CELL CULTURE INCUBATOR | HAQ, SHAFIQUL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18620310 | Methods for Real-Time Wideband RF Waveform and Emission Classification | TALUKDER, MD K | 2648 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18613350 | COVALENT AND NON-COVALENT INHIBITORS OF CORONAVIRUS PAPAIN-LIKE PROTEASE | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 1628 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18578066 | Serotonin 5-HT2A, 5-HT2B, and 5-HT2C Receptor Inverse Agonists | HASTINGS, ALISON AZAR | 1627 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18577919 | ZEIN-BASED PHOTONIC CRYSTALS AND USES THEREOF | PENG, CHARLIE YU | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18545285 | High Solid Content Battery Ink for Printed Batteries and Methods of Making | WYLUDA, KIMBERLY | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18571666 | A NOVEL COMPOUND ACTING AGAINST A SELECT GROUP OF BACTERIA | COFFA, SERGIO | 1658 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18542532 | Ultrasensitive Label-Free Profiling of Glycans Released from Single Cells | ALABI, OYELEYE A | 1651 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18540481 | Method for High Purity High Throughput Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles Using Size Exclusion Chromatography | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18502948 | Mind Balance Training (MBT) Platform | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18287539 | Site-Specific Modification of Glycoproteins Through Transglutaminase-Mediated Conjugation | STONEBRAKER, ALYSSA RAE | 1642 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18280593 | SMART MECHANICAL METAMATERIALS WITH TUNABLE STIMULI-RESPONSIVE EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS | EWALD, MARIA VERONICA | 1783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18225961 | CONTINUOUS REACTOR AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF METALS WITH NANOSTRUCTURED INCLUSIONS | ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA | 1733 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18322418 | Wide-field system integrating intensity and spatially modulated light for optical tomography and spectroscopy applications | JOHNSON, GERALD | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 18312870 | Digital Information-Theoretic Code From Analog Scanning Technology Using Deep Networks | KOWALIK, SKIELER ALEXANDER | 2142 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 18040920 | Devices and Methods for Detection of Viruses from Exhaled Breath | JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING | 1672 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
| 18014594 | PREDICTION METHOD OF CROWN OF STEEL PLATES AND STRIPS BASED ON DATA DRIVING AND MECHANISM MODEL FUSION | LEATHERS, EMILY GORMAN | 2187 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
| 18008323 | Ferromagnetic Metal-Ferrite Composites for High Frequency Inductor Applications | EDMONDSON, LYNNE RENEE | 1734 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
| 17820662 | SOLID-STATE ELECTROLYTE, CATHODE ELECTRODE, AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME FOR SULFIDE-BASED ALL-SOLID-STATE-BATTERIES | VAN KIRK, DUSTIN KENWOOD | 1722 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
| 17754114 | System for Sensing a Molecule | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Mar 24, 2022 |
| 17753670 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDED DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING IN WIRELESS INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICES | SHELEHEDA, JAMES R | 2424 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Mar 10, 2022 |
| 17523861 | Method for Direct Synthesis of Nanomaterials by Heating of Bulk Sources | MCCLAIN, STARFARI TESHAWN | 1736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Nov 10, 2021 |
| 17594061 | Lightweight Decompositional Convolution Neural Network | WERNER, MARSHALL L | 2125 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2021 |
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