Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nova Southeastern University currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending application is being reviewed by a different person. This distribution across 4 examiners helps to ensure that the university's prosecution results are not overly influenced by any single examiner's habits.
The portfolio is also active in 4 distinct art units, which corresponds to the number of pending actions and examiners. This means that each of the 4 pending office actions is being handled by a different technical group within the patent office. Such a distribution requires the university to manage its biotechnology filings across 4 different sets of technical and procedural standards.
The busiest examiner for the university is HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action is part of the 4 total pending office actions, showing that the workload is evenly divided. The presence of 4 distinct examiners in 4 distinct art units for 4 actions reflects a decentralized prosecution strategy where each case is being evaluated in its own unique context.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1 | 50.7% | +39.2% |
| BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE | 1 | 63.4% | +39.8% |
| NIEBAUER, RONALD T | 1 | 40.8% | +34.0% |
| VALLE, ERNESTO | 1 | 65.8% | +32.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17776273 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATMENT OF SOLID TUMORS USING F16 ISOINDOLE SMALL MOLECULES | VALLE, ERNESTO | 26d |
| 18284894 | CLADE C HIV-1 ENVELOPE (ENV) TRIMER IMMUNOGENS, COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING THE CLADE C HIV-1 ENVELOPE (ENV) TRIMER IMMUNOGENS, AND USES THEREOF | BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17776273 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATMENT OF SOLID TUMORS USING F16 ISOINDOLE SMALL MOLECULES | VALLE, ERNESTO | 26d |
| 18843817 | METHOD FOR TREATING RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA) USING AN ENZYME-AND SUBSTRATE SELECTIVE EXOSITE INHIBITOR OF A DISINTEGRIN AND METALLOPROTEASE 10 (ADAM10) | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | — |
| 18284894 | CLADE C HIV-1 ENVELOPE (ENV) TRIMER IMMUNOGENS, COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING THE CLADE C HIV-1 ENVELOPE (ENV) TRIMER IMMUNOGENS, AND USES THEREOF | BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE | — |
| 17944574 | MELANOCORTIN LIGANDS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | NIEBAUER, RONALD T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1627 | 1 |
| 1643 | 1 |
| 1658 | 1 |
| 1623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18843817 | METHOD FOR TREATING RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA) USING AN ENZYME-AND SUBSTRATE SELECTIVE EXOSITE INHIBITOR OF A DISINTEGRIN AND METALLOPROTEASE 10 (ADAM10) | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18284894 | CLADE C HIV-1 ENVELOPE (ENV) TRIMER IMMUNOGENS, COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING THE CLADE C HIV-1 ENVELOPE (ENV) TRIMER IMMUNOGENS, AND USES THEREOF | BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE | 1643 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 17944574 | MELANOCORTIN LIGANDS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | NIEBAUER, RONALD T | 1658 | §102DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2022 |
| 17776273 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATMENT OF SOLID TUMORS USING F16 ISOINDOLE SMALL MOLECULES | VALLE, ERNESTO | 1623 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | May 12, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNova Southeastern University has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Jackson J Hernandez has the most, with 1 of Nova Southeastern University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
