Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pattern Bioscience Inc. is navigating 7 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 7 distinct examiners, indicating a broad spread of individual reviews. The portfolio also spans 5 distinct art units, which suggests a diverse range of technical subject matter within the chemistry field. This high ratio of examiners to actions means that no single individual's habits will dominate the overall portfolio outcome.
WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN is identified as the busiest examiner, though she is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that the workload is perfectly fragmented among the 7 distinct examiners. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback across the 5 distinct art units involved, as each unit may have different internal guidelines. Managing 7 pending office actions across 5 distinct art units requires a versatile prosecution strategy that can adapt to many different examiner perspectives simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1 | 65.3% | +42.6% |
| ALABI, OYELEYE A | 1 | 83.9% | +23.8% |
| KELLY, ROBERT M | 1 | 74.1% | +24.1% |
| NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1 | 63.5% | +36.7% |
| HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 1 | 59.1% | +53.7% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 31.1% | +64.4% |
| HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1 | 69.8% | +36.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17063637 | Droplet-Generating Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 72d |
| 18898377 | Apparatuses for Contactless Loading and Imaging of Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
| 18754373 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING 2-DIMENSIONAL DROP ARRAYS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | — |
| 18054326 | Systems and Methods for Loading Reagent-Containing Microfluidic Chips Having Single-Use Valves | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
| 17663814 | Vacuum-Loaded, Droplet-Generating Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17815957 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOADING REAGENT-CONTAINING MICROFLUIDIC CHIPS | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 33d |
| 17063637 | Droplet-Generating Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 72d |
| 18898377 | Apparatuses for Contactless Loading and Imaging of Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
| 18754373 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING 2-DIMENSIONAL DROP ARRAYS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | — |
| 18699193 | METHODS FOR PREVENTING INTER-DROPLET TRANSFER OF A FLUORESCENT PRODUCT IN AQUEOUS DROPLETS BY FORMING A SOLUBLE COMPLEX WITH CYCLODEXTRIN | KELLY, ROBERT M | — |
| 18054326 | Systems and Methods for Loading Reagent-Containing Microfluidic Chips Having Single-Use Valves | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
| 17663814 | Vacuum-Loaded, Droplet-Generating Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 3 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18898377 | Apparatuses for Contactless Loading and Imaging of Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18754373 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING 2-DIMENSIONAL DROP ARRAYS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | 1797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18699193 | METHODS FOR PREVENTING INTER-DROPLET TRANSFER OF A FLUORESCENT PRODUCT IN AQUEOUS DROPLETS BY FORMING A SOLUBLE COMPLEX WITH CYCLODEXTRIN | KELLY, ROBERT M | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18054326 | Systems and Methods for Loading Reagent-Containing Microfluidic Chips Having Single-Use Valves | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
| 17815957 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOADING REAGENT-CONTAINING MICROFLUIDIC CHIPS | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
| 17663814 | Vacuum-Loaded, Droplet-Generating Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2022 |
| 17063637 | Droplet-Generating Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 72d | Pending | Oct 05, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialPattern Bioscience Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 7 examiners.
Patricia Kathryn Wright has the most, with 1 of Pattern Bioscience Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
