Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
South Dakota Board of Regents has 7 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The actions involve 7 examiners across 5 art units, indicating broad examiner distribution with some concentration among the technical groups.
PEEBLES, KATHERINE is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because the pending actions are spread across 7 examiner assignments, portfolio management should emphasize application-specific deadlines and issue tracking rather than relying on a single examiner relationship.
The five-art-unit structure provides a basis for coordinating related biotechnology and pharmaceutical matters where their technical issues overlap. Responses should nevertheless remain tailored to the assigned examination group. A centralized review can identify recurring claim or disclosure themes, while separate prosecution plans can address the differences among the examiner assignments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 1 | 35.6% | +48.0% |
| YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1 | 54.4% | +14.5% |
| TORRES, ALICIA M | 1 | 73.7% | +17.3% |
| CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1 | 55.8% | +36.9% |
| LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1 | 78.4% | +23.3% |
| TSUI, ALFRED H | 1 | 33.0% | +32.5% |
| TURK, NEIL N | 1 | 51.0% | +44.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18919734 | Materials for Desensitization and Targeted Drug Delivery to Teeth and Gums | PEEBLES, KATHERINE | — |
| 18776858 | MULTIPLE COVER CROP MIXED-SEED / MIXED-TYPE FERTILIZER PRECISION PLANTER | TORRES, ALICIA M | — |
| 18763591 | HIGH VOLTAGE LITHIUM BATTERIES COMPRISING A NICKEL-RICH CATHODE AND FLUORINATED ELECTROLYTE | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18528161 | 360 PLANT IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | TSUI, ALFRED H | 51d overdue |
| 18828464 | FLEXIBLE NANO COATING WITH SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCED ELECTRICAL, THERMAL AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROPERTIES | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 19d |
| 18919734 | Materials for Desensitization and Targeted Drug Delivery to Teeth and Gums | PEEBLES, KATHERINE | — |
| 18776858 | MULTIPLE COVER CROP MIXED-SEED / MIXED-TYPE FERTILIZER PRECISION PLANTER | TORRES, ALICIA M | — |
| 18763591 | HIGH VOLTAGE LITHIUM BATTERIES COMPRISING A NICKEL-RICH CATHODE AND FLUORINATED ELECTROLYTE | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | — |
| 18580985 | BIOCHAR BASED FERTILIZER AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
| 18487600 | BIOMIMETIC JOINT ON A CHIP | TURK, NEIL N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 2 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1638 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18919734 | Materials for Desensitization and Targeted Drug Delivery to Teeth and Gums | PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 1617 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18828464 | FLEXIBLE NANO COATING WITH SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCED ELECTRICAL, THERMAL AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROPERTIES | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18776858 | MULTIPLE COVER CROP MIXED-SEED / MIXED-TYPE FERTILIZER PRECISION PLANTER | TORRES, ALICIA M | 3671 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18763591 | HIGH VOLTAGE LITHIUM BATTERIES COMPRISING A NICKEL-RICH CATHODE AND FLUORINATED ELECTROLYTE | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18580985 | BIOCHAR BASED FERTILIZER AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1736 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18528161 | 360 PLANT IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | TSUI, ALFRED H | 3671 | §103 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18487600 | BIOMIMETIC JOINT ON A CHIP | TURK, NEIL N | 1638 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSouth Dakota Board of Regents has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Katherine Peebles has the most, with 1 of South Dakota Board of Regents's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
