Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Saga University has 4 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are handled by 4 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units, showing a fully distributed set of examination assignments in the available portfolio data.
PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for more than one listed matter, so the immediate prosecution workload appears to require separate coordination rather than a single examiner-focused approach.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 71.1% | +39.4% |
| KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | 1 | 69.8% | +21.3% |
| CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI | 1 | 47.3% | +27.2% |
| KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE | 1 | 31.8% | +23.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271829 | INHIBITOR FOR CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA STEM CELLS | CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI | 23d |
| 18578809 | CULTURE SYSTEM | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271829 | INHIBITOR FOR CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA STEM CELLS | CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI | 23d |
| 19271247 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SPINAL IMPLANT | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | — |
| 18578809 | CULTURE SYSTEM | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | — |
| 18210750 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FLUORINATED ORGANIC COMPOUND | KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| 1699 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19271247 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SPINAL IMPLANT | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 18578809 | CULTURE SYSTEM | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | 1632 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18271829 | INHIBITOR FOR CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA STEM CELLS | CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI | 1699 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18210750 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FLUORINATED ORGANIC COMPOUND | KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSaga University has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Nicholas J Plionis has the most, with 1 of Saga University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
