Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Phenomenex Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so the portfolio has separate examination assignments for its pending work.
PEO, KARA M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Coordinated docket management should be paired with independent analysis of each examiner's issues and art-unit 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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, KELING NMN | 1 | 66.8% | +17.6% |
| PEO, KARA M | 1 | 42.5% | +37.8% |
| MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 1 | 69.1% | +27.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18360609 | STATIONARY PHASE MATERIALS AND DEVICES USED IN SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY | PEO, KARA M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18047799 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SIMPLE AND AUTOMATABLE PROTEIN DIGESTION USING MAGNETIC BEADS | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 16d overdue |
| 18360529 | THERMAL TREATMENT METHODS FOR POROUS PARTICLES | ZHANG, KELING NMN | — |
| 18360609 | STATIONARY PHASE MATERIALS AND DEVICES USED IN SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY | PEO, KARA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18360529 | THERMAL TREATMENT METHODS FOR POROUS PARTICLES | ZHANG, KELING NMN | 1732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18360609 | STATIONARY PHASE MATERIALS AND DEVICES USED IN SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY | PEO, KARA M | 1777 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18047799 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SIMPLE AND AUTOMATABLE PROTEIN DIGESTION USING MAGNETIC BEADS | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 1678 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPhenomenex Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Keling Nmn Zhang has the most, with 1 of Phenomenex Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
