Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
21 pending office actions • 20 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 51 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has 23 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 23 distinct examiners and 21 distinct art units, indicating a widely distributed portfolio with limited repetition of examiner assignments.
LEE, EDMUND H is the busiest listed examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should rely on centralized docket management, consistent descriptions of related technologies, and matter-specific analysis for the many art-unit settings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 only | 3 (14%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (10%) |
| §103 only | 7 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, EDMUND H | 1 | 69.6% | +17.4% |
| HOANG, HAN DINH | 1 | 75.8% | +19.0% |
| TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | 1 | 78.6% | +23.3% |
| LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 1 | 73.8% | +29.9% |
| MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 1 | 47.2% | +12.7% |
| SPIES, BRADLEY R | 1 | 74.1% | +19.1% |
| KIM, HEE SOO | 1 | 78.9% | -0.5% |
| BLEVINS, JERRY M | 1 | 87.3% | +5.2% |
| OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | 1 | 77.3% | +19.2% |
| AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | 1 | 73.1% | +19.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16002329 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING AUTISM | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 72d overdue |
| 18776513 | SYNTHETIC NETWORK GENERATOR FOR COVERT NETWORK ANALYTICS | KIM, HEE SOO | 37d overdue |
| 18911318 | SYSTEM FOR HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM WITH STAND-ALONE MODULAR UNITS | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 41d |
| 18860798 | SKULL FIXATION DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 54d |
| 18731228 | JOINT UNSUPERVISED AND SUPERVISED TRAINING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION | OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | 60d |
| 17612000 | DNA NANOARCHITECTURES FOR PATTERN-RECOGNIZED TARGETING OF DISEASES | WHITEMAN, BRIAN A | 79d |
| 18725208 | SLOW-LIGHT PHOTONIC MODULATORS FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY PHOTONIC SYSTEM | BLEVINS, JERRY M | — |
| 18597050 | COMPOSITIONS INCORPORATING SULFATED POLYSACCHARIDES FOR INHIBITING SARS-COV-2 | LEWIS, PATRICK T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18714185 | X-RAY DISSECTOGRAPHY | AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | 5d overdue |
| 18911318 | SYSTEM FOR HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM WITH STAND-ALONE MODULAR UNITS | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 41d |
| 18860798 | SKULL FIXATION DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 54d |
| 18731228 | JOINT UNSUPERVISED AND SUPERVISED TRAINING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION | OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | 60d |
| 19252408 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCING BEADED POLYMERIC FIBERS WITH ADVANCED THERMOREGULATING PROPERTIES | LEE, EDMUND H | — |
| 19104453 | MOTION CORRECTION WITH LOCALLY LINEAR EMBEDDING FOR ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY | HOANG, HAN DINH | — |
| 18989135 | CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE FROM ELECTROSPUN FIBERS | TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | — |
| 18901451 | RAPID AND FACILE MEMBRANE ADSORBER FABRICATION WITH ULTRA HIGH BINDING CAPACITY | SPIES, BRADLEY R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2127 | 2 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 2661 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 2443 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19252408 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCING BEADED POLYMERIC FIBERS WITH ADVANCED THERMOREGULATING PROPERTIES | LEE, EDMUND H | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19104453 | MOTION CORRECTION WITH LOCALLY LINEAR EMBEDDING FOR ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY | HOANG, HAN DINH | 2661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18989135 | CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE FROM ELECTROSPUN FIBERS | TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | 1615 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18860798 | SKULL FIXATION DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 3619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18911318 | SYSTEM FOR HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM WITH STAND-ALONE MODULAR UNITS | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18901451 | RAPID AND FACILE MEMBRANE ADSORBER FABRICATION WITH ULTRA HIGH BINDING CAPACITY | SPIES, BRADLEY R | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18776513 | SYNTHETIC NETWORK GENERATOR FOR COVERT NETWORK ANALYTICS | KIM, HEE SOO | 2443 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18725208 | SLOW-LIGHT PHOTONIC MODULATORS FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY PHOTONIC SYSTEM | BLEVINS, JERRY M | 2874 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18731228 | JOINT UNSUPERVISED AND SUPERVISED TRAINING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION | OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | 2653 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18714185 | X-RAY DISSECTOGRAPHY | AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18597050 | COMPOSITIONS INCORPORATING SULFATED POLYSACCHARIDES FOR INHIBITING SARS-COV-2 | LEWIS, PATRICK T | 1691 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18512453 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING PEPTIDE AGGREGATES | PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN | 1678 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18388130 | SYSTEMS FOR FACILE VIRAL CLEARANCE VALIDATION THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLUORESCENT VIRAL SURROGATES | BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P | 1671 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18227394 | JOINT TRAINING ALGORITHM AND HYPER-PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION IN FEDERATED LEARNING SYSTEMS | JABLON, ASHER H. | 2127 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18140736 | SYSTEM FOR APPLYING THERAPY TO A HUMAN BODY | ALBERS, KEVIN S | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18030366 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS UTILIZING PROTEIN INHIBITORS FOR SYNERGISTIC INHIBITION AND TREATMENT OF SARS-CoV-2 | GOON, SCARLETT Y | 1693 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
| 17758767 | ANION-SOLVATING POLYMER MEMBRANES | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 1767 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
| 17660699 | Semi-Supervised Vertical Federated Learning | MAC, GARY | 2127 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
| 17612000 | DNA NANOARCHITECTURES FOR PATTERN-RECOGNIZED TARGETING OF DISEASES | WHITEMAN, BRIAN A | 1636 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | Nov 17, 2021 |
| 16394111 | SECOND ORDER NEURON FOR MACHINE LEARNING | GERMICK, JOHNATHAN R | 2122 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2019 |
| 16002329 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING AUTISM | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1687 | §101 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2018 |
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Start Free TrialRensselaer Polytechnic Institute has 21 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 20 art units and 21 examiners.
Edmund H Lee has the most, with 1 of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
