Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
T&R Biofab Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, placing the pending work across separate examination settings.
LIANG, SHIBIN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should use application-specific strategies while checking whether the separate assignments raise different technical or claim-treatment issues.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIANG, SHIBIN | 1 | 63.0% | +17.1% |
| EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL | 1 | 59.7% | +63.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18558509 | LOCAL HEATING TYPE THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) PRINTER HEAD | LIANG, SHIBIN | — |
| 17626100 | LIVER ORGANOID AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18558509 | LOCAL HEATING TYPE THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) PRINTER HEAD | LIANG, SHIBIN | — |
| 17626100 | LIVER ORGANOID AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1700 | 1 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18558509 | LOCAL HEATING TYPE THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) PRINTER HEAD | LIANG, SHIBIN | 1700 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 17626100 | LIVER ORGANOID AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL | 1632 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialT&R Biofab Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Shibin Liang has the most, with 1 of T&R Biofab Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
