Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
13 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 47 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shandong University maintains a significant prosecution pipeline with 13 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 13 distinct examiners, meaning every pending matter is currently being reviewed by a different individual. This high level of examiner diversity is accompanied by a broad administrative reach across 11 distinct art units.
LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN is the busiest examiner, though they only hold 1 pending office action. This highlights the extreme distribution of the 13 pending office actions, as no single examiner handles more than one case. With 11 distinct art units involved, the portfolio spans a wide array of biological and pharmaceutical sub-specialties.
Practitioners must manage a complex array of examiner personalities and art unit specificities across this volume of pending actions. The diversity of 13 distinct examiners suggests that the university is pursuing a wide range of technical improvements that do not overlap significantly in the eyes of the patent office. Strategy must be tailored to the specific requirements of the distinct art units to ensure broad protection. This approach allows for a more granular defense of the company's intellectual property.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 5 (38%) |
| §103 only | 1 (8%) |
| §102 only | 2 (15%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (31%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN | 1 | 69.8% | +13.4% |
| GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN | 1 | 71.7% | +11.5% |
| YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1 | 67.6% | +43.7% |
| MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | 1 | 52.2% | +63.0% |
| BROWE, DAVID | 1 | 26.4% | +27.3% |
| BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1 | 35.2% | +45.6% |
| SULTANA, DILARA | 1 | 80.9% | +16.1% |
| DANSEREAU, HAYDEN JAMES | 1 | — | — |
| JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER LINDSAY | 1 | 46.9% | +81.0% |
| SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA | 1 | 50.0% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17910556 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF FOR PREDICTING DISEASE RISK BASED ON MULTIMODAL FUSION | SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA | 27d |
| 18834024 | COASTAL KARST CEMENT-BASED EXPANDING GROUTING MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN | — |
| 18732149 | NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE PHOTOAFFINITY PROBE, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | — |
| 18649137 | METHOD FOR ROBOTIC MULTI-PEG-IN-HOLE ASSEMBLY BASED ON HIERARCHICAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND DISTRIBUTED LEARNING AND SYSTEM THEREOF | MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | — |
| 18630721 | IONIZABLE LIPID BASED ON CYCLOHEXANEDIAMINE AND LIPID NANOPARTICLE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | BROWE, DAVID | — |
| 18691547 | Method for Treating Ilk Signaling Pathway Related Diseases Using Exosome Derived from Mesenchymal Stem Cells, and Pharmaceutical Composition | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | — |
| 18434529 | MAGNETIC PARTICLE IMAGING (MPI) RECONSTRUCTION METHOD BASED ON TIME-DOMAIN SYSTEM MATRIX AND X-SPACE | SULTANA, DILARA | — |
| 18337427 | PROBABILITY ESTIMATION METHOD FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER BASED ON OPTIMIZED COPULA FUNCTION AND PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEM | DANSEREAU, HAYDEN JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17910556 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF FOR PREDICTING DISEASE RISK BASED ON MULTIMODAL FUSION | SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA | 27d |
| 18737723 | SOLVENT EXTRACTION METHOD FOR PETROLEUM SLUDGE/OIL SAND ASSISTED BY PARTICLE DISPERSANT | GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN | 41d |
| 18834024 | COASTAL KARST CEMENT-BASED EXPANDING GROUTING MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN | — |
| 18732149 | NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE PHOTOAFFINITY PROBE, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | — |
| 18649137 | METHOD FOR ROBOTIC MULTI-PEG-IN-HOLE ASSEMBLY BASED ON HIERARCHICAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND DISTRIBUTED LEARNING AND SYSTEM THEREOF | MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | — |
| 18630721 | IONIZABLE LIPID BASED ON CYCLOHEXANEDIAMINE AND LIPID NANOPARTICLE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | BROWE, DAVID | — |
| 18691547 | Method for Treating Ilk Signaling Pathway Related Diseases Using Exosome Derived from Mesenchymal Stem Cells, and Pharmaceutical Composition | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | — |
| 18434529 | MAGNETIC PARTICLE IMAGING (MPI) RECONSTRUCTION METHOD BASED ON TIME-DOMAIN SYSTEM MATRIX AND X-SPACE | SULTANA, DILARA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 1691 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18834024 | COASTAL KARST CEMENT-BASED EXPANDING GROUTING MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18737723 | SOLVENT EXTRACTION METHOD FOR PETROLEUM SLUDGE/OIL SAND ASSISTED BY PARTICLE DISPERSANT | GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18732149 | NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE PHOTOAFFINITY PROBE, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18649137 | METHOD FOR ROBOTIC MULTI-PEG-IN-HOLE ASSEMBLY BASED ON HIERARCHICAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND DISTRIBUTED LEARNING AND SYSTEM THEREOF | MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | 3656 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18630721 | IONIZABLE LIPID BASED ON CYCLOHEXANEDIAMINE AND LIPID NANOPARTICLE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | BROWE, DAVID | 1617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18691547 | Method for Treating Ilk Signaling Pathway Related Diseases Using Exosome Derived from Mesenchymal Stem Cells, and Pharmaceutical Composition | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18434529 | MAGNETIC PARTICLE IMAGING (MPI) RECONSTRUCTION METHOD BASED ON TIME-DOMAIN SYSTEM MATRIX AND X-SPACE | SULTANA, DILARA | 4100 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18337427 | PROBABILITY ESTIMATION METHOD FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER BASED ON OPTIMIZED COPULA FUNCTION AND PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEM | DANSEREAU, HAYDEN JAMES | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
| 18034530 | COMPOUND CONTAINING 2,4-THIAZOLE RING, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND APPLICATION THEREOF | JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER LINDSAY | 1691 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 17910556 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF FOR PREDICTING DISEASE RISK BASED ON MULTIMODAL FUSION | SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA | 1687 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
| 17890555 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGH-SPEED TRANSIENT THERMAL SIMULATION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE | TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN | 2188 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
| 17786541 | EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION BLOOD PUMP AND METHOD THEREOF | KLEIN, BENJAMIN JACOB | 3700 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17701770 | ORTHOPHOSPHATE THERMAL BARRIER COATING MATERIAL WITH HIGH COEFFICIENT OF THERMAL EXPANSION AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | 1736 | §102 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Mar 23, 2022 |
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