Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Francis Crick Institute Limited has 3 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. Those matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so the pending work is distributed across separate examination channels rather than concentrated in one unit.
CHONG, YONG SOO is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The equal examiner and art-unit counts suggest that prosecution planning should account for matter-specific examination dynamics.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHONG, YONG SOO | 1 | 43.8% | +41.8% |
| LU, CHENG | 1 | 53.8% | +64.6% |
| REGLAS, GEORGIANA C | 1 | 39.2% | +33.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17644923 | NOVEL CANCER ANTIGENS AND METHODS | LU, CHENG | 20d |
| 18576830 | VCP INHIBITORS AND USES THEREOF FOR TREATMENT | CHONG, YONG SOO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17644923 | NOVEL CANCER ANTIGENS AND METHODS | LU, CHENG | 20d |
| 18576830 | VCP INHIBITORS AND USES THEREOF FOR TREATMENT | CHONG, YONG SOO | — |
| 17293372 | METHOD, SOLUTION AND KIT FOR PREPARING A TISSUE SAMPLE FOR 3D IMAGING | REGLAS, GEORGIANA C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1623 | 1 |
| 1642 | 1 |
| 1651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18576830 | VCP INHIBITORS AND USES THEREOF FOR TREATMENT | CHONG, YONG SOO | 1623 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 17644923 | NOVEL CANCER ANTIGENS AND METHODS | LU, CHENG | 1642 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Dec 17, 2021 |
| 17293372 | METHOD, SOLUTION AND KIT FOR PREPARING A TISSUE SAMPLE FOR 3D IMAGING | REGLAS, GEORGIANA C | 1651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialThe Francis Crick Institute Limited has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Yong Soo Chong has the most, with 1 of The Francis Crick Institute Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
