Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund has 7 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 7 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, showing that each listed action occupies its own examination context.
THOMAS, BRANDI N is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger listed share of the workload, so portfolio management should emphasize matter-specific prosecution histories, claim issues, and deadlines.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 + other | 2 (29%) |
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, BRANDI N | 1 | 82.7% | +7.7% |
| EOM, ROBERT J | 1 | 57.4% | +34.9% |
| ABEYRATNE-PERERA, HASHANTHI KOMITIGE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH | 1 | 28.6% | +64.3% |
| YU, DELPHINUS DOU YI | 1 | 33.3% | +0.0% |
| SHOMER, ISAAC | 1 | 63.1% | +30.5% |
| NGUYEN, NHAT HUY T | 1 | 54.0% | +23.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18864706 | HUYGENS METALENS | THOMAS, BRANDI N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687179 | COMPOSITIONS AND SYSTEMS COMPRISING THREE-DIMENSIONAL NERVE CELL CULTURES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | ABEYRATNE-PERERA, HASHANTHI KOMITIGE | — |
| 18556344 | METHOD OF DETECTING DISEASE RELATED BIOMARKERS IN BODILY FLUID SAMPLE | CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH | — |
| 18266986 | WNT+ ADIPOCYTES, EXOSOMES FROM WNT+ ADIPOCYTES, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEM | SHOMER, ISAAC | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18302729 | ACTIVE MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR TARGETED MASS SPECTROMETRY DATA ANALYSIS | NGUYEN, NHAT HUY T | 3d overdue |
| 18662492 | DEVICE AND METHODS FOR SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF INTRINSIC VISCOSITY AND NON-NEWTONIAN BEHAVIOR OF POLYMERS | EOM, ROBERT J | — |
| 18556344 | METHOD OF DETECTING DISEASE RELATED BIOMARKERS IN BODILY FLUID SAMPLE | CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH | — |
| 18266986 | WNT+ ADIPOCYTES, EXOSOMES FROM WNT+ ADIPOCYTES, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEM | SHOMER, ISAAC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| 1683 | 1 |
| 1636 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 2147 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18864706 | HUYGENS METALENS | THOMAS, BRANDI N | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18662492 | DEVICE AND METHODS FOR SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF INTRINSIC VISCOSITY AND NON-NEWTONIAN BEHAVIOR OF POLYMERS | EOM, ROBERT J | 1797 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18687179 | COMPOSITIONS AND SYSTEMS COMPRISING THREE-DIMENSIONAL NERVE CELL CULTURES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | ABEYRATNE-PERERA, HASHANTHI KOMITIGE | 1632 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18556344 | METHOD OF DETECTING DISEASE RELATED BIOMARKERS IN BODILY FLUID SAMPLE | CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH | 1683 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18555477 | METHOD AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PREVENTING TUMOR DEVELOPMENT AND METASTASIS | YU, DELPHINUS DOU YI | 1636 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18266986 | WNT+ ADIPOCYTES, EXOSOMES FROM WNT+ ADIPOCYTES, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEM | SHOMER, ISAAC | 1612 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18302729 | ACTIVE MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR TARGETED MASS SPECTROMETRY DATA ANALYSIS | NGUYEN, NHAT HUY T | 2147 | §102 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 7 examiners.
Brandi N Thomas has the most, with 1 of The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
