Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
18 pending office actions • 18 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Texas Tech University System has 19 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 19 examiners across 19 art units, indicating that every pending matter is represented by a distinct examiner and art-unit assignment in the available record.
YIP, JACK is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. There is no identified examiner concentration, so counsel should rely on matter-specific prosecution analysis rather than a recurring examiner strategy.
The one-to-one distribution also makes docket organization especially important. Portfolio coordination can preserve consistent technical positions, but response preparation will need to account for the separate examination context of each matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 2 (11%) |
| §103 only | 4 (22%) |
| §102 only | 4 (22%) |
| §112 only | 2 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YIP, JACK | 1 | 33.1% | +37.7% |
| COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY | 1 | 74.8% | +15.7% |
| YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1 | 54.4% | +14.5% |
| FADUL, PHILIPMARCUS T | 1 | 81.3% | +10.4% |
| DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1 | 78.3% | +38.0% |
| GOOD, KENNETH W | 1 | 73.7% | +18.7% |
| GABEL, GAILENE | 1 | 75.6% | +44.7% |
| GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 1 | 52.1% | +42.2% |
| STEVENS, MARK V | 1 | 65.5% | +41.6% |
| NATARAJAN, MEERA | 1 | 62.6% | +17.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18854789 | RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COTTON FIBER LENGTH DISTRIBUTION FROM A FIBROGRAM | FADUL, PHILIPMARCUS T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17918512 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR QUANTUM COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY MODELING | CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | 37d overdue |
| 18011453 | PROCESSES FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL UP-CYCLING OF PLASTICS AND SYSTEMS THEREOF | WONG, EDNA | 36d overdue |
| 18838750 | MACROPOROUS GRAPHENE MEMBRANE | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
| 18744403 | MICRODEVICE FOR CELL SEPARATION UTILIZING ACTIVATION PHENOTYPE | GABEL, GAILENE | — |
| 18626439 | Preparation of Chitin Nanocrystals and Nanowhiskers from Crustacean Biomass Using Ionic Liquid | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | — |
| 18126214 | VITRO BIOPRINTED TUMOR MODELS AND BIOINKS FOR SOLID TUMOR BIOPRINTING | BARIA, DINAH N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19086007 | EQUINE NASOGASTRIC TUBE MODEL AND RELATED METHODS | YIP, JACK | — |
| 18975409 | Modified Tetracycline for Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder, Pain and Other Disorders Involving Potential Inflammatory Processes | COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY | — |
| 18930686 | HOLLOW MICROSPHERES FOR BIOLOGICAL ISOLATION AND RECOVERY | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | — |
| 18854789 | RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COTTON FIBER LENGTH DISTRIBUTION FROM A FIBROGRAM | FADUL, PHILIPMARCUS T | — |
| 18838750 | MACROPOROUS GRAPHENE MEMBRANE | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
| 18728142 | Microwave Architecture for Passive Sensing Applications | GOOD, KENNETH W | — |
| 18744403 | MICRODEVICE FOR CELL SEPARATION UTILIZING ACTIVATION PHENOTYPE | GABEL, GAILENE | — |
| 18626439 | Preparation of Chitin Nanocrystals and Nanowhiskers from Crustacean Biomass Using Ionic Liquid | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| 1624 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 2852 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1643 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19086007 | EQUINE NASOGASTRIC TUBE MODEL AND RELATED METHODS | YIP, JACK | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 18975409 | Modified Tetracycline for Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder, Pain and Other Disorders Involving Potential Inflammatory Processes | COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY | 1624 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18930686 | HOLLOW MICROSPHERES FOR BIOLOGICAL ISOLATION AND RECOVERY | YOUNG, WILLIAM D | 1761 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18854789 | RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COTTON FIBER LENGTH DISTRIBUTION FROM A FIBROGRAM | FADUL, PHILIPMARCUS T | 2852 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18838750 | MACROPOROUS GRAPHENE MEMBRANE | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18728142 | Microwave Architecture for Passive Sensing Applications | GOOD, KENNETH W | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18744403 | MICRODEVICE FOR CELL SEPARATION UTILIZING ACTIVATION PHENOTYPE | GABEL, GAILENE | 1678 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18626439 | Preparation of Chitin Nanocrystals and Nanowhiskers from Crustacean Biomass Using Ionic Liquid | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 1693 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18697938 | Selenium Containing Antimicrobial Compound as a Reacitve Dye and Cross-Linking Treatment for Textile Applications | STEVENS, MARK V | 1613 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18694966 | GFRA2 ANTIBODIES AND THEIR USE IN CANCER TREATMENT | NATARAJAN, MEERA | 1643 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 23, 2024 |
| 18126214 | VITRO BIOPRINTED TUMOR MODELS AND BIOINKS FOR SOLID TUMOR BIOPRINTING | BARIA, DINAH N | 3774 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 18011453 | PROCESSES FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL UP-CYCLING OF PLASTICS AND SYSTEMS THEREOF | WONG, EDNA | 1795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2022 |
| 17918512 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR QUANTUM COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY MODELING | CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | 2186 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2022 |
| 17956249 | DISULFIRAM AND OTHER REDOX-RELATED COMPOSITIONS FOR BRAIN TUMORS | BORI, IBRAHIM D | 1629 | §112 | Final Rejection | 86d | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17908999 | MODIFIED TETRACYCLINES FOR TREATMENT OF ALCOHOL USE DISORDER, PAIN AND OTHER DISORDERS INVOLVING POTENTIAL INFLAMMATORY PROCESSES | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 1628 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
| 17908497 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR REPELLING ANIMALS FROM AN OBJECT | LIU, SUE XU | 1616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 99d overdue | Pending | Aug 31, 2022 |
| 17630975 | Microfluidic Pipette Aspirators for Large-Scale Analysis of Single Cells, Clusters and Their Sub-Populations | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | 1798 | §102 | Final Rejection | 126d overdue | Pending | Jan 28, 2022 |
| 17521773 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING EMBRYO VIABILITY | HUANG, MICKEY NMN | 1758 | §102 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Nov 08, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialTexas Tech University System has 18 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 18 art units and 18 examiners.
Jack Yip has the most, with 1 of Texas Tech University System's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
