Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 10 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rowan University manages 10 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 10 distinct examiners and 10 distinct art units. KU, SI MING is the busiest examiner for the university, currently handling 1 pending action. This distribution of actions to examiners and art units indicates that each pending matter is being treated as a unique case with no overlap in personnel or classification.
Practitioners cannot rely on consistency between these ten matters as they are in 10 different art units. The presence of 10 pending office actions suggests a significant level of active prosecution for the university in this technology sector. Because the actions are handled by 10 distinct examiners, the university must manage ten separate sets of expectations and procedural preferences. This fragmentation requires a more individualized approach to each application rather than a unified strategy across the portfolio. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering indicates that the university's current innovation efforts are concentrated in these specific fields. The lack of examiner concentration means that no single individual, including KU, SI MING, has a dominant influence over the university's total pending outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KU, SI MING | 1 | 72.8% | +32.8% |
| LEE, JOHN J | 1 | 92.8% | +6.5% |
| DRISCOLL, LORA E BARNHART | 1 | 31.8% | +20.8% |
| MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 1 | 28.9% | +26.9% |
| WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | 1 | 84.8% | +14.0% |
| WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1 | 54.9% | +45.7% |
| LIU, XUE H | 1 | 73.1% | +12.6% |
| HELM, CARALYNNE E | 1 | 28.9% | +49.8% |
| MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 1 | 71.8% | +31.4% |
| GREENE, IVAN A | 1 | 18.8% | +6.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739516 | MULTI-SESSION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 146d overdue |
| 17507951 | BACTERICIDAL COATING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS USING SAME | GREENE, IVAN A | 72d overdue |
| 19053004 | CHONDROPLASTY TOOL | KU, SI MING | — |
| 18989230 | METHOD FOR DETECTING RADIOLOGICAL PROGRESSION IN CANCER SURVEILLANCE | LEE, JOHN J | — |
| 18679043 | DEVICE FOR TESTING VAPORIZABLE FLUIDS IN A HUMAN AIRWAY MODEL | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | — |
| 18557099 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FIBER ZONE-DRAWING AND/OR ZONE-ANNEALING | LIU, XUE H | — |
| 18091615 | OPTICALLY CLEAR, IN-SITU FORMING BIODEGRADABLE NANO-CARRIERS FOR OCULAR THERAPY, AND METHODS USING SAME | HELM, CARALYNNE E | — |
| 17830888 | DEVICE PROVIDING NEUROTHERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION VIA MULTI-MODAL ENERGY THERAPY | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739516 | MULTI-SESSION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 146d overdue |
| 19053004 | CHONDROPLASTY TOOL | KU, SI MING | — |
| 18825927 | DIAGNOSTIC AUTOANTIBODY PROFILES FOR THE DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES | DRISCOLL, LORA E BARNHART | — |
| 18679043 | DEVICE FOR TESTING VAPORIZABLE FLUIDS IN A HUMAN AIRWAY MODEL | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | — |
| 18524709 | METHOD FOR RECYCLING CEMENT-CONTAINING MATERIALS TO PRODUCE RECLAIMED FINES FOR USE IN CEMENT-BASED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES | WEISS, PAMELA HL | — |
| 18557099 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FIBER ZONE-DRAWING AND/OR ZONE-ANNEALING | LIU, XUE H | — |
| 18091615 | OPTICALLY CLEAR, IN-SITU FORMING BIODEGRADABLE NANO-CARRIERS FOR OCULAR THERAPY, AND METHODS USING SAME | HELM, CARALYNNE E | — |
| 17830888 | DEVICE PROVIDING NEUROTHERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION VIA MULTI-MODAL ENERGY THERAPY | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| 2649 | 1 |
| 3991 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19053004 | CHONDROPLASTY TOOL | KU, SI MING | 3775 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18989230 | METHOD FOR DETECTING RADIOLOGICAL PROGRESSION IN CANCER SURVEILLANCE | LEE, JOHN J | 2649 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18825927 | DIAGNOSTIC AUTOANTIBODY PROFILES FOR THE DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES | DRISCOLL, LORA E BARNHART | 3991 | §112DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18739516 | MULTI-SESSION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 3685 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 146d overdue | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18679043 | DEVICE FOR TESTING VAPORIZABLE FLUIDS IN A HUMAN AIRWAY MODEL | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | 2855 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18524709 | METHOD FOR RECYCLING CEMENT-CONTAINING MATERIALS TO PRODUCE RECLAIMED FINES FOR USE IN CEMENT-BASED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES | WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1732 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18557099 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FIBER ZONE-DRAWING AND/OR ZONE-ANNEALING | LIU, XUE H | 1742 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18091615 | OPTICALLY CLEAR, IN-SITU FORMING BIODEGRADABLE NANO-CARRIERS FOR OCULAR THERAPY, AND METHODS USING SAME | HELM, CARALYNNE E | 1615 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2022 |
| 17830888 | DEVICE PROVIDING NEUROTHERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION VIA MULTI-MODAL ENERGY THERAPY | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
| 17507951 | BACTERICIDAL COATING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS USING SAME | GREENE, IVAN A | 1619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Oct 22, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialRowan University has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 10 examiners.
Si Ming Ku has the most, with 1 of Rowan University's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
