Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Communications. The matters are assigned to 2 examiners across 2 art units, indicating distinct examination paths.
SHIN, SOO JUNG is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Each matter should therefore be managed as a separate prosecution track, with response planning tied to the assigned examiner and art unit.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIN, SOO JUNG | 1 | 87.2% | +16.1% |
| BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI | 1 | 28.1% | +74.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18937892 | SOFTWARE AND ALGORITHMS FOR USE IN REMOTE ASSESSMENT OF DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS | SHIN, SOO JUNG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17539903 | LITHIUM HEPARIN AS A BLOCKING AGENT | BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18937892 | SOFTWARE AND ALGORITHMS FOR USE IN REMOTE ASSESSMENT OF DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS | SHIN, SOO JUNG | — |
| 17539903 | LITHIUM HEPARIN AS A BLOCKING AGENT | BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2667 | 1 |
| 1672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18937892 | SOFTWARE AND ALGORITHMS FOR USE IN REMOTE ASSESSMENT OF DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS | SHIN, SOO JUNG | 2667 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 17539903 | LITHIUM HEPARIN AS A BLOCKING AGENT | BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI | 1672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialOrtho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Soo Jung Shin has the most, with 1 of Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
