Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
16 pending office actions • 15 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has 16 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters span 16 distinct examiners and 15 distinct art units, reflecting broad distribution across examination personnel and technical groups, with limited art-unit recurrence. This structure favors detailed matter-level docketing and technical review.
NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The data does not identify a dominant examiner. Counsel should coordinate recurring scientific positions where appropriate, but responses will generally need to reflect the individual examiner and art-unit context.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 (12%) |
| §103 only | 1 (6%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| §112 only | 2 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE | 1 | 73.4% | +18.3% |
| GANNON, LEVI | 1 | 82.7% | +7.1% |
| LANGHALS, RENEE C | 1 | 58.6% | +42.7% |
| RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1 | 73.7% | +26.5% |
| KIEFER, DALTON EDWARD | 1 | 85.7% | +16.7% |
| SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| BANERJEE, KOYELI | 1 | 33.3% | +0.0% |
| JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 1 | 58.6% | +52.3% |
| MOSHER, ERIC PARKER | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| WARD, AARON DUREL | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18864790 | PHASE-SHIFT MODULATED FULL-BRIDGE POWER INVERTERS AND METHODS OF OPERATION THEREOF | GANNON, LEVI | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18901085 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING COMPATIBLE RAPID DYNAMIC SUPPORT CONTROL SYSTEM | LANGHALS, RENEE C | 50d overdue |
| 18005682 | HIGH FILTRATION FILTER WITH DISINFECTION, LOW PRESSURE DROP AND REDUCED CAKE FORMATION | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 29d overdue |
| 18087443 | DIGITAL ULTRAVIOLET LITHOGRAPHY METHOD AND APPARATUS | DOAN, NGHIA M | 4d overdue |
| 17595855 | Surface Modified Gas Vesicles, Preparation and Applications thereof | MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE | 33d |
| 18592423 | METHOD OF TREATING INFLAMMATION AND PHOTORECEPTOR CELL DEGENERATION IN RETINAL DEGENERATION PATIENTS | SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | 82d |
| 18888874 | COMBINATION OF HYDROLASES AND ANTI-MICROORGANISM DRUGS AND USES THEREOF | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | — |
| 18726607 | BIOSYNTHESIS OF HIERARCHICAL METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK-BACTERIAL CELLULOSE COMPOSITES | KIEFER, DALTON EDWARD | — |
| 18483597 | COMPOUND, COMPOSITION AND METHODS FOR LOWERING CIRCULATING GLUCOSE | BANERJEE, KOYELI | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18901085 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING COMPATIBLE RAPID DYNAMIC SUPPORT CONTROL SYSTEM | LANGHALS, RENEE C | 50d overdue |
| 18993653 | BIOSENSOR COMPRISING A MODIFIED BETA-LACTAMASE AND USES THEREOF | NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE | — |
| 18888874 | COMBINATION OF HYDROLASES AND ANTI-MICROORGANISM DRUGS AND USES THEREOF | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | — |
| 18726607 | BIOSYNTHESIS OF HIERARCHICAL METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK-BACTERIAL CELLULOSE COMPOSITES | KIEFER, DALTON EDWARD | — |
| 18475228 | HIGH ENERGY-DENSITY LITHIUM-SULFUR BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | JONES, OLIVIA ANN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1652 | 2 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1658 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1636 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18993653 | BIOSENSOR COMPRISING A MODIFIED BETA-LACTAMASE AND USES THEREOF | NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE | 1653 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18864790 | PHASE-SHIFT MODULATED FULL-BRIDGE POWER INVERTERS AND METHODS OF OPERATION THEREOF | GANNON, LEVI | 2836 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18901085 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING COMPATIBLE RAPID DYNAMIC SUPPORT CONTROL SYSTEM | LANGHALS, RENEE C | 3797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18888874 | COMBINATION OF HYDROLASES AND ANTI-MICROORGANISM DRUGS AND USES THEREOF | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1652 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18726607 | BIOSYNTHESIS OF HIERARCHICAL METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK-BACTERIAL CELLULOSE COMPOSITES | KIEFER, DALTON EDWARD | 1652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18592423 | METHOD OF TREATING INFLAMMATION AND PHOTORECEPTOR CELL DEGENERATION IN RETINAL DEGENERATION PATIENTS | SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | 1615 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 82d | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18483597 | COMPOUND, COMPOSITION AND METHODS FOR LOWERING CIRCULATING GLUCOSE | BANERJEE, KOYELI | 1658 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18475228 | HIGH ENERGY-DENSITY LITHIUM-SULFUR BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 1789 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18550178 | Chiral TACN/NOTA compounds/derivatives with and without metals for application | MOSHER, ERIC PARKER | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18447362 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR TREATING NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE, ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS AND SYMPTOMS | WARD, AARON DUREL | 1636 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18305415 | PROSTHETIC HAND DEVICE USING A WEARABLE ULTRASOUND MODULE AS A HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 3774 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
| 18173097 | ALL-IN-ONE LUMINESCENCE-BASED POINT-OF-CARE TESTING DEVICE FOR VIRUS DIAGNOSIS | KIM, YOUNG J | 1681 | §103 | Final Rejection | 96d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 18005682 | HIGH FILTRATION FILTER WITH DISINFECTION, LOW PRESSURE DROP AND REDUCED CAKE FORMATION | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1776 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2023 |
| 18087443 | DIGITAL ULTRAVIOLET LITHOGRAPHY METHOD AND APPARATUS | DOAN, NGHIA M | 2851 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
| 17595855 | Surface Modified Gas Vesicles, Preparation and Applications thereof | MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE | 1617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
| 17654603 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR ANOMALY DETECTION OF A SUBSTANCE | BECKER, BRANDON J | 2857 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University has 16 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 15 art units and 16 examiners.
Suzanne Marie Noakes has the most, with 1 of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
