Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
51 pending office actions • 28 art units • 50 examiners • 0 of 51 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 44 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is managing a portfolio of 48 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 47 distinct examiners, indicating a decentralized prosecution environment where almost every case is handled by a different official. The portfolio spans 27 distinct art units, reflecting the diverse nature of the university's biotechnological research and innovation across many scientific disciplines.
James William Rogers is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 2 pending actions. With 48 pending office actions and 47 distinct examiners, the university must manage a vast array of individual examination styles and technical requirements. The involvement of 27 art units suggests that the university's patenting efforts cover a wide spectrum of pharmaceutical and biological classifications, requiring a multifaceted intellectual property strategy to ensure consistency across different administrative channels.
The scale of the pending office actions across 27 art units demonstrates the university's commitment to securing intellectual property in the life sciences. Because 47 distinct examiners are involved, the prosecution team must be prepared for variability in examiner feedback and allowance rates. James William Rogers, despite being the busiest examiner, only handles 2 of the 48 pending actions, further emphasizing the distributed nature of this portfolio's management within the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 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. 13 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 | 8 (16%) |
| §103 only | 16 (31%) |
| §112 only | 7 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 17 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM | 2 | 46.2% | +22.3% |
| WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 1 | 14.3% | +100.0% |
| AURORA, REENA | 1 | 87.1% | -13.4% |
| SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | 1 | 72.3% | +27.4% |
| WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1 | 60.1% | +26.3% |
| FARDANESH, MARJAN | 1 | 72.6% | +18.9% |
| COOK, WILLIAM J | 1 | 86.2% | +11.0% |
| THUESON, HANNA MARIE | 1 | 76.7% | +28.2% |
| BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 1 | 34.0% | +33.2% |
| STEVENS, MARK V | 1 | 65.5% | +41.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18998662 | SINGLE CRYSTAL SAPPHIRE COMPONENT FOR ANGULAR CONTROL DURING SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE MEASUREMENTS | AURORA, REENA | — |
| 18934468 | ELASTIC ROBOT PLATFORM FOR CLEANING AND SCRUBBING WITH TENDON-DRIVEN JOINTS | COOK, WILLIAM J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18571127 | SYNTHETIC ECHO FROM ECG | NG, JONATHAN K | 119d overdue |
| 17611241 | HIGH CONCENTRATION CELL PACKAGING AND SHIPPING | TRAN, KHOA NHAT | 6d |
| 18484001 | MICRORNA COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF FOR THE TREATMENT OF NERVOUS SYSTEM DYSFUNCTION | TATGE, LEXUS MARC | 7d |
| 17432177 | LIF THERAPY FOR INDUCING INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL CELL REGENERATION | XIE, XIAOZHEN | 12d |
| 18384056 | SUPER-REGENERATIVE OSCILLATOR INTEGRATED METAMATERIAL LEAKY WAVE ANTENNA FOR MULTI-TARGET MOTION DETECTION AND RANGING | SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN | 77d |
| 19106886 | SUCTION TOOTHBRUSH AND RELATED METHODS | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | — |
| 18855043 | piRNA-BASED CONSTRUCTS FOR REGULATING GENE EXPRESSION AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | THUESON, HANNA MARIE | — |
| 18903209 | EXTERNAL FONTANELLE INTRACRANIAL LIGHT (EFIL) DEVICE | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17898995 | MASKED FLUOROGENIC COMPOUNDS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM | 26d |
| 19106886 | SUCTION TOOTHBRUSH AND RELATED METHODS | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | — |
| 18996566 | OBJECT DETECTION AND IMAGE SEGMENTATION FOR EUKARYOTIC CELLS | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | — |
| 18878564 | NOVEL SARGASSUM-BASED POLYMER COMPOSITE FILAMENTS FOR 3D PRINTING AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | — |
| 18869522 | TECHNIQUES FOR MEASURING ATYPICAL NEURODEVELOPMENT IN NEONATES BASED ON AUDITORY BRAINSTEM RESPONSE (ABR) TESTS | FARDANESH, MARJAN | — |
| 18934468 | ELASTIC ROBOT PLATFORM FOR CLEANING AND SCRUBBING WITH TENDON-DRIVEN JOINTS | COOK, WILLIAM J | — |
| 18855043 | piRNA-BASED CONSTRUCTS FOR REGULATING GENE EXPRESSION AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | THUESON, HANNA MARIE | — |
| 18903209 | EXTERNAL FONTANELLE INTRACRANIAL LIGHT (EFIL) DEVICE | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1682 | 3 |
| 1626 | 2 |
| 1619 | 2 |
| 1672 | 2 |
| 1618 | 2 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19106886 | SUCTION TOOTHBRUSH AND RELATED METHODS | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 3772 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 18998662 | SINGLE CRYSTAL SAPPHIRE COMPONENT FOR ANGULAR CONTROL DURING SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE MEASUREMENTS | AURORA, REENA | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18996566 | OBJECT DETECTION AND IMAGE SEGMENTATION FOR EUKARYOTIC CELLS | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18878564 | NOVEL SARGASSUM-BASED POLYMER COMPOSITE FILAMENTS FOR 3D PRINTING AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1749 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18869522 | TECHNIQUES FOR MEASURING ATYPICAL NEURODEVELOPMENT IN NEONATES BASED ON AUDITORY BRAINSTEM RESPONSE (ABR) TESTS | FARDANESH, MARJAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18934468 | ELASTIC ROBOT PLATFORM FOR CLEANING AND SCRUBBING WITH TENDON-DRIVEN JOINTS | COOK, WILLIAM J | 3723 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18855043 | piRNA-BASED CONSTRUCTS FOR REGULATING GENE EXPRESSION AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | THUESON, HANNA MARIE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18903209 | EXTERNAL FONTANELLE INTRACRANIAL LIGHT (EFIL) DEVICE | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18800641 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING DENTIN CARIES | STEVENS, MARK V | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18834952 | CRK-LIKE (CRKL) ADAPTOR PROTEIN INHIBITORS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | HABTE, KAHSAY | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18782246 | SPATIAL MODULATION-BASED ORTHOGONAL SIGNAL DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATIONS | SANDHU, AMRITBIR K | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18763605 | Hard and Crack-Resistant Glass | MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18758924 | Compositions And Methods Targeting G12 Signaling For Bronchodilator Therapy | COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P | 1626 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18654839 | COLD TOLERANT BASIL VARIETIES | STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 1663 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18705588 | MICROFLUIDIC CARTRIDGE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18648062 | THERAPEUTIC COMPOUNDS | CORNET, JEAN P | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18638356 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED ANOMALY IDENTIFICATION THROUGH PRIVACY-ENHANCED TWO-STEP FEDERATED LEARNING | JUNG, DONG YOON | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18631821 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DIAGNOSING AND TREATING INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS | OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18700140 | IMPROVED CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY CATHETER | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18699103 | FLAVONOID DERIVATIVES WITH GABAA RECEPTOR ACTIVITY AND METHODS OF USE | SHIM, DAVID M. | 1626 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18696883 | CELLULARIZED NERVE REGENERATION GRAFT AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | BROWE, DAVID | 1617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18613765 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED FEDERATED LEARNING AND IMPLEMENTATIONS THEREOF | MESFIN, MATTHEWOS | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18442811 | ULTRA-LOW POWER ANALOG NEURAL NETWORKS | SPRATT, BEAU D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18571083 | CONTINOUS IMPREGNATION OF ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENTS ONTO POROUS CARRIERS | GOTFREDSON, GAREN | 1619 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18571127 | SYNTHETIC ECHO FROM ECG | NG, JONATHAN K | 3619 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 119d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18529611 | METHODS FOR TREATING LYSOSOMAL STORAGE DISEASES | EIX, EMILY FAY | 1653 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18289859 | A Genotypic Assay To Subspeciate Mycobacterium Abscessus Complex Strains And Determine Macrolide Resistance | GRAY, JESSICA | 1682 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18384056 | SUPER-REGENERATIVE OSCILLATOR INTEGRATED METAMATERIAL LEAKY WAVE ANTENNA FOR MULTI-TARGET MOTION DETECTION AND RANGING | SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18287776 | IDENTIFYING MICROBIAL SIGNATURES AND GENE EXPRESSION SIGNATURES | MYERS, CARLA J | 1682 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18287763 | METHODS TO ANALYZE HOST-MICROBIOME INTERACTIONS AT SINGLE-CELL AND ASSOCIATED GENE SIGNATURES IN CANCER | KASSA, TIGABU | 1619 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18381416 | MONITORING VITAL SIGNS OF MULTIPLE PERSONS VIA SINGLE PHASED-MIMO RADAR | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 82d | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18484001 | MICRORNA COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF FOR THE TREATMENT OF NERVOUS SYSTEM DYSFUNCTION | TATGE, LEXUS MARC | 1637 | §101§102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18244493 | ENERGY HARVESTING OF INFRASTRUCTURE VIBRATIONS | GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18209943 | SAFE AGILE HAZARD AVOIDANCE SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | HERRERA, MICHAEL J | 3668 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18297470 | IDENTIFYING TREATMENT RESPONSE SIGNATURES | STRIEGEL, THEODORE CHARLES | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
| 18194271 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS COMPRISING ENDOPHYTIC BACTERIUM FOR APPLICATION TO TARGET PLANTS TO INCREASE PLANT GROWTH, AND INCREASE RESISTANCE TO ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC STRESSORS | LOGSDON, CHARLES | 1662 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18124341 | Methods For Finding Genome Rearrangements From Sequencing Data | LEVERETT, MARY CHANG | 1672 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 18005472 | BIOMARKERS FOR IDENTIFYING PATIENTS AT HIGH RISK OF PROGRESSING FROM BARRETT'S ESOPHAGUS TO ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA | POHNERT, STEVEN C | 1683 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 18154427 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AND DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN VIRAL VARIANTS | BOESEN, AGNIESZKA | 1672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 18013368 | IDENTIFICATION OF ESTROGEN RECEPTOR POSITIVE (ER+) BREAST CANCERS THAT WILL NOT DEVELOP TAMOXIFEN RESISTANCE | SALMON, KATHERINE D | 1682 | §112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
| 18001449 | SARS-COV-2 POLYPEPTIDE, ANTI-SARS-COV-2 ANTIBODIES AND USES THEREOF | RAMADAN, OMAR | 1678 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2022 |
| 17980367 | COMPUTER-BASED PLATFORMS AND SYSTEMS CONFIGURED FOR CUFF-LESS BLOOD PRESSURE ESTIMATION FROM PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY VIA VISIBILITY GRAPH AND TRANSFER LEARNING AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | TRAN, DANIEL DUC | 2147 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2022 |
| 17906514 | CONTINUOUS MELT-COATING OF ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENTS USING SURFACTANTS FOR DISSOLUTION ENHANCEMENT | ARNOLD, ERNST V | 1613 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
| 17898995 | MASKED FLUOROGENIC COMPOUNDS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM | 1618 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
| 17822641 | Graphene-conductive polymer-coated, paper-based nano-biosensor for cytokine detection | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2022 |
| 17791684 | COMPLEXES OF N-HETEROCYCLIC CARBENES FOR TRANSITION METAL CATALYSIS | CHEN, PO-CHIH | 1621 | §112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jul 08, 2022 |
| 17757609 | METHODS FOR INHIBITION OF ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN mRNA USING SMALL MOLECULES | LEE, WILLIAM Y | 1623 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17611241 | HIGH CONCENTRATION CELL PACKAGING AND SHIPPING | TRAN, KHOA NHAT | 1632 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Nov 15, 2021 |
| 17432177 | LIF THERAPY FOR INDUCING INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL CELL REGENERATION | XIE, XIAOZHEN | 1674 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Aug 19, 2021 |
| 17234669 | Multi-Functional Infrared-Emitting Composites | ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM | 1618 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2021 |
| 17268664 | TREATING SPINAL CORD INJURY (SCI) AND BRAIN INJURY USING GSX1 | WANG, CHANG YU | 1675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2021 |
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