Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
16 pending office actions • 11 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC has 16 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters span 14 examiners and 11 art units, indicating a broad examination footprint with limited examiner repetition.
CROW, ROBERT THOMAS is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That assignment provides a point for focused coordination, but most of the docket lies with other examiners. Counsel should use centralized tracking for deadlines and technical themes while preserving matter-specific response analysis.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 + other | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 3 (19%) |
| §102 only | 2 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 4 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (31%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 3 | 41.6% | +32.5% |
| SINES, BRIAN J | 1 | 80.1% | +5.2% |
| BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | 1 | 65.6% | +52.7% |
| BALL, JOHN C | 1 | 78.8% | +16.1% |
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.7% | +11.3% |
| HUTSON, RICHARD G | 1 | 65.1% | +52.9% |
| RILEY, JEZIA | 1 | 83.0% | +7.2% |
| CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 1 | 48.5% | +25.1% |
| BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| NGUYEN, NAM P | 1 | 54.8% | +48.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19439914 | Biochemical Analysis Instrument | SINES, BRIAN J | — |
| 18561834 | METHODS FOR COMPLEMENT STRAND SEQUENCING | RILEY, JEZIA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17415010 | METHOD OF ENCODING DATA ON A POLYNUCLEOTIDE STRAND | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 44d overdue |
| 18010825 | A METHOD OF SELECTIVELY CHARACTERISING A POLYNUCLEOTIDE USING A DETECTOR | BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE | 22d |
| 19285161 | Formation of Array of Membranes and Apparatus Therefor | BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | — |
| 18889917 | METHOD FOR NANOPORE RNA CHARACTERISATION | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | — |
| 18604714 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING APERTURES IN A SOLID STATE MEMBRANE USING DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
| 17612610 | PROTOCOL FOR DETECTING INTERACTIONS WITHIN ONE OR MORE DNA MOLECULES WITHIN A CELL | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18596176 | MODIFIED ENZYMES | HUTSON, RICHARD G | 50d overdue |
| 18661820 | BACTERIOPHAGE-DERIVED NANOPORE SENSORS | BALL, JOHN C | 46d overdue |
| 19285161 | Formation of Array of Membranes and Apparatus Therefor | BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | — |
| 18889917 | METHOD FOR NANOPORE RNA CHARACTERISATION | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | — |
| 18604714 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING APERTURES IN A SOLID STATE MEMBRANE USING DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
| 18282259 | ALIGNMENT OF TARGET AND REFERENCE SEQUENCES OF POLYMER UNITS | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | — |
| 18341906 | METHOD | NGUYEN, NAM P | — |
| 18160816 | METHOD | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1683 | 4 |
| 1681 | 3 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19439914 | Biochemical Analysis Instrument | SINES, BRIAN J | 1796 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 19285161 | Formation of Array of Membranes and Apparatus Therefor | BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | 1798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 18889917 | METHOD FOR NANOPORE RNA CHARACTERISATION | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1683 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18661820 | BACTERIOPHAGE-DERIVED NANOPORE SENSORS | BALL, JOHN C | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18604714 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING APERTURES IN A SOLID STATE MEMBRANE USING DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1777 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18596176 | MODIFIED ENZYMES | HUTSON, RICHARD G | 1652 | §102§112DP | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18561834 | METHODS FOR COMPLEMENT STRAND SEQUENCING | RILEY, JEZIA | 1681 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18282259 | ALIGNMENT OF TARGET AND REFERENCE SEQUENCES OF POLYMER UNITS | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 3627 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18010825 | A METHOD OF SELECTIVELY CHARACTERISING A POLYNUCLEOTIDE USING A DETECTOR | BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE | 1683 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
| 18341906 | METHOD | NGUYEN, NAM P | 1678 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18160816 | METHOD | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1683 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 18065735 | ENZYME STALLING METHOD | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1683 | §112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
| 17781469 | METHOD OF CHARACTERISING A TARGET POLYPEPTIDE USING A NANOPORE | PRIEST, AARON A | 1681 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2022 |
| 17612610 | PROTOCOL FOR DETECTING INTERACTIONS WITHIN ONE OR MORE DNA MOLECULES WITHIN A CELL | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 1682 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2021 |
| 17415010 | METHOD OF ENCODING DATA ON A POLYNUCLEOTIDE STRAND | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1657 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2021 |
| 17260611 | POLYNUCLEOTIDE SYNTHESIS METHOD, KIT AND SYSTEM | YU, TIAN NMN | 1681 | §103 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialOxford Nanopore Technologies PLC has 16 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 14 examiners.
Robert Thomas Crow has the most, with 3 of Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
