Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stichting Radboud Universiteit currently manages 6 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating a focused but multi-disciplinary approach to its patent filings. The workload is spread evenly among 6 distinct examiners, with no individual examiner handling a large concentration of the active cases. This distribution suggests that the university's prosecution strategy involves navigating several different examination environments simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BERHANU, ETSUB D, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Practitioners should prepare for varied examiner perspectives given that the number of distinct examiners matches the total number of pending office actions. Because the pending actions are handled by different individuals, there is little opportunity to apply an individual examiner's feedback across multiple applications. The presence of 3 distinct art units further suggests that the university's innovations span different specialized niches within the broader biotechnology sector, requiring tailored arguments for each technical classification.
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 only | 1 (17%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERHANU, ETSUB D | 1 | 65.3% | +24.8% |
| SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 83.6% | +13.0% |
| DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| RILEY, JEZIA | 1 | 82.9% | +7.3% |
| CHHAY, BONIRATH | 1 | 83.3% | +0.0% |
| BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E | 1 | 64.1% | +30.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18503951 | CHEMICAL TOOLS FOR RNA 3D STRUCTURE DETERMINATION IN VIVO | RILEY, JEZIA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18285734 | OFF THE SHELF PROXIMITY BIOTINYLATION ENZYME | CHHAY, BONIRATH | 30d overdue |
| 17759574 | tRNA OVEREXPRESSION AS A THERAPEUTIC APPROACH FOR CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH NEUROPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH MUTATIONS IN tRNA SYNTHETASES | BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E | 42d |
| 18973874 | Device and Method for Detecting Enzymatic Activity | BERHANU, ETSUB D | — |
| 18723790 | METHOD OF TRANSFERRING A VEHICLE MODULE OVER AN INFRASTRUCTURE, INFRASTRUCTURE, VEHICLE MODULE AND USE THEREOF | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18577135 | BIOMIMETIC MICROPHONE AND COCHLEAR IMPLANT COMPRISING SAID BIOMIMETIC MICROPHONE | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17759574 | tRNA OVEREXPRESSION AS A THERAPEUTIC APPROACH FOR CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH NEUROPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH MUTATIONS IN tRNA SYNTHETASES | BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E | 42d |
| 18973874 | Device and Method for Detecting Enzymatic Activity | BERHANU, ETSUB D | — |
| 18723790 | METHOD OF TRANSFERRING A VEHICLE MODULE OVER AN INFRASTRUCTURE, INFRASTRUCTURE, VEHICLE MODULE AND USE THEREOF | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1681 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18973874 | Device and Method for Detecting Enzymatic Activity | BERHANU, ETSUB D | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18723790 | METHOD OF TRANSFERRING A VEHICLE MODULE OVER AN INFRASTRUCTURE, INFRASTRUCTURE, VEHICLE MODULE AND USE THEREOF | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18577135 | BIOMIMETIC MICROPHONE AND COCHLEAR IMPLANT COMPRISING SAID BIOMIMETIC MICROPHONE | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18503951 | CHEMICAL TOOLS FOR RNA 3D STRUCTURE DETERMINATION IN VIVO | RILEY, JEZIA | 1681 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18285734 | OFF THE SHELF PROXIMITY BIOTINYLATION ENZYME | CHHAY, BONIRATH | 1645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 17759574 | tRNA OVEREXPRESSION AS A THERAPEUTIC APPROACH FOR CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH NEUROPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH MUTATIONS IN tRNA SYNTHETASES | BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E | 1632 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Jul 27, 2022 |
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