Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

The Regents of the University of Michigan

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

148 pending office actions • 89 art units • 142 examiners • 0 of 148 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 149 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

The Regents of the University of Michigan currently manage 147 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 141 distinct examiners, indicating a very high level of diversity in the individuals reviewing the university's applications. The technical scope is also broad, with 89 distinct art units involved in the prosecution process.

DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R is the busiest examiner, with 3 busiest examiner pending actions. This represents a small fraction of the 147 total pending office actions, underscoring the decentralized nature of the university's patent portfolio. The high number of 141 distinct examiners across 89 distinct art units suggests that the university's prosecution strategy must be adaptable to many different examiner perspectives and technical sub-fields. Practitioners should be prepared for a wide range of examination styles, as the workload is spread across nearly ninety different technical groups. This distribution indicates that the university's research and development efforts span a vast array of biotechnological and pharmaceutical disciplines, each requiring a unique interaction with the patent office.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

148
Total Pending OAs
93
Non-Final OAs
53
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 53 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

21
Overdue
2
Due this week
18
Due this month
11
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 53 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (21)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (18)Due ≤ 60 days (11)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

64
Hard (43%)
70
Medium (47%)
13
Easy (9%)
1
Unknown (1%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only4 (3%)
§101 + other16 (11%)
§103 only51 (34%)
§102 only10 (7%)
§112 only8 (5%)
Double-patenting only5 (3%)
Double-patenting + other9 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)44 (30%)
No statute on record1 (1%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

68
Life Sciences
46% of docket
7
Information Tech
5% of docket
2
Communications
1% of docket
11
Semiconductors
7% of docket
30
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
30
Business / Other
20% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

1,480 h
Manual time on pending OAs
296 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
518 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
12.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R 3 55.9% +69.0%
MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL 2 36.0% +63.3%
PARENDO, KEVIN A 2 72.2% +11.5%
WHALEN, DANIEL B 2 80.2% +15.9%
DUBOSE, LAUREN 2 60.1% +43.3%
BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E 1 64.1% +30.2%
KNIGHT, DEREK DOUGLAS 1 85.1% +3.0%
LEE, AIDEN Y 1 47.8% +25.3%
HAMADYK, ANNA N 1 88.6% +8.1%
BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 1 83.8% +11.8%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17581736 ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE COMPRISING ORGANIC EMISSIVE LAYER BETWEEN ANODE-SIDE REFLECTOR AND CATHODE-SIDE REFLECTOR WHALEN, DANIEL B 37d overdue
17932475 Purcell-Effect-Enhanced Organic Light Emitting Diodes with Sub-Electrode Microlens Array WHALEN, DANIEL B 34d
19373203 LOCKING DIFFERENTIAL KNIGHT, DEREK DOUGLAS —
19227752 Mmid Localization And Orientation Sensing Via Frequency-Divided Beam Multiplexing HAMADYK, ANNA N —
19202888 TWO-PHOTON FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY AT EXTREMELY LOW EXCITATION INTENSITY BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH —

Hard Cases (64)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17920698 INHIBITION OF SARS-COV-2 VIRAL ENTRY THROUGH ORAL ADMINISTRATION OF LACTOFERRIN AND USES THEREOF BRADLEY, CHRISTINA 162d overdue
18576686 A DISTRIBUTED REAL-TIME MACHINE LEARNING ROBOT SHARMA, SHIVAM 146d overdue
16803033 SEMI-TRANSPARENT AND MONOCHROMATIC ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES TRINH, THANH TRUC 141d overdue
18266525 SMALL MOLECULES AND THEIR USE AS MALT1 INHIBITORS YOUNGBLOOD, WILLIAM JUSTIN 91d overdue
17929809 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING TIME-RESOLVED SIGNAL INTENSITY DATA CROW, ROBERT THOMAS 51d overdue
17549028 PHYSIOLOGIC GROWTH OF CULTURED INTESTINAL TISSUE ZHU, JIANJIAN 44d overdue
18091478 Nanopowder Coatings That Enhance Lithium Battery Component Performance GRANNUM, VERITA EUDORA EBUN 32d overdue
17778306 POLYPEPTIDE INHIBITORS OF NEUTROPHIL ELASTASE ACTIVITY AND USES THEREOF STEELE, AMBER D 31d overdue

Interview Candidates (14)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18313856 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING CARDIOVASCULAR RELATED DISORDERS DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R 37d overdue
17581736 ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE COMPRISING ORGANIC EMISSIVE LAYER BETWEEN ANODE-SIDE REFLECTOR AND CATHODE-SIDE REFLECTOR WHALEN, DANIEL B 37d overdue
17798592 ABDOMINAL HEMORRHAGE CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD DUBOSE, LAUREN 15d overdue
17266897 TRI-PEPTIDES AND TREATMENT OF METABOLIC, CARDIOVASCULAR AND INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R 2d overdue
17632114 GASTROESOPHAGEAL AORTIC OCCLUSION DEVICE AND METHOD DUBOSE, LAUREN 23d
17932475 Purcell-Effect-Enhanced Organic Light Emitting Diodes with Sub-Electrode Microlens Array WHALEN, DANIEL B 34d
19374947 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING HUMAN INTESTINAL TISSUE AND RELATED USES THEREOF BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E —
19230170 ORGANIC VAPOR JET PRINTING SYSTEM LEE, AIDEN Y —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1654 5
3791 4
3771 3
2893 3
1618 3
1632 2
1728 2
3797 2
1691 2
1726 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19374947 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING HUMAN INTESTINAL TISSUE AND RELATED USES THEREOF BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E 1632 DP Final Rejection — Pending Oct 30, 2025
19373203 LOCKING DIFFERENTIAL KNIGHT, DEREK DOUGLAS 3655 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 29, 2025
19230170 ORGANIC VAPOR JET PRINTING SYSTEM LEE, AIDEN Y — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 06, 2025
19227752 Mmid Localization And Orientation Sensing Via Frequency-Divided Beam Multiplexing HAMADYK, ANNA N — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 04, 2025
19202888 TWO-PHOTON FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY AT EXTREMELY LOW EXCITATION INTENSITY BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 2877 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 08, 2025
19122135 UNIVERSAL ANKLE-FOOT ORTHOSIS HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA 3786 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 17, 2025
19172320 SOLAR ARRAY SUPPORT STRUCTURE KANG, TAE-SIK 1728 §102§103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Apr 07, 2025
19170316 Method And Apparatus For Constructing Informative Outcomes To Guide Multi-Policy Decision Making ANWAH, OLISA — §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 04, 2025
19112886 METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATING BONE DEFECTS LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES 3619 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 18, 2025
19078078 HISTOTRIPSY THERAPY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF BRAIN TISSUE BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI 3798 §103§112 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Mar 12, 2025
18994414 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR GROWING ESOPHAGEAL CELLS AND RELATED USES THEREOF MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL — §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 14, 2025
18876358 ELECTROSPRAY THRUSTER SELF-PRESERVATION KIM, TAE JUN 3799 §102§103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Dec 18, 2024
18981527 SELECTIVE SAMPLING OF COMMUNICATION CHANNEL FOR IDENTIFYING SENDER NARRAMORE, BLAKE I 2438 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 14, 2024
18981528 IMAGE CLASSIFICATION OF COMMUNICATION CHANNEL FOR IDENTIFYING SENDER ANDERSON, MICHAEL D 2433 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 14, 2024
18873450 PROGRAMMABLE MICRO-ROBOT AND ASSEMBLY OF SUCH MICRO-ROBOTS FORMING A MODULAR THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE WEBER, GREGORY ROBERT 3618 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 10, 2024
18971367 Robust Control Strategy For Autonomous Robot Mobility With Offboard Positioning System LAROSE, RENEE MARIE 3657 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 06, 2024
18948739 INTEGRATED GENERATOR/CONVERTER FOR TURBINE APPLICATIONS VO, ETHAN NGUYEN — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 15, 2024
18862940 PROBE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE ANTISKAY, BRIAN MICHAEL — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 04, 2024
18935180 KIRIGAMI-BASED SENSOR DEVICES AND SYSTEMS NATH, SUMAN KUMAR 2855 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 01, 2024
18859007 LIPIDS, FORMULATIONS, AND USES THEREOF CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 22, 2024
18856783 MEDICAL DEVICE FOR GUIDEWIRE PLACEMENT AND RELATED METHOD BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE 3797 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 14, 2024
18896488 BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE FOR FACILITATING DIRECT SELECTION OF MULTIPLE-CHOICE ANSWERS AND THE IDENTIFICATION OF STATE CHANGES COLLINS, GARY — §101DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 25, 2024
18886339 CYCLE-BY-CYCLE DIGITAL CONTROL OF DC-DC CONVERTERS TORRES-RIVERA, ALEX 2838 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 16, 2024
18842232 EXTRUSION CONFORMAL COOLING DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 28, 2024
18816651 ADAPTIVE FAULT PREDICTION SURYAWANSHI, SURESH — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 27, 2024
18813171 VENTILATION ASSESSMENT SYSTEM, FACE MASK, AND METHOD BOECKER, JOSEPH D — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 23, 2024
18840820 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A PROSTHETIC BASED ON AMPLIFIED NERVE SIGNALS WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 22, 2024
18810944 OPTICAL PHASED ARRAY FIBER COUPLER PAK, SUNG H — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 21, 2024
18840007 ARTIFICIAL SERTOLI CELLS AND METHOD FOR THEIR PRODUCTION MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 20, 2024
18807156 CUSTOMIZABLE AND LOW-LATENCY ARCHITECTURE FOR CELLULAR CORE NETWORKS SWEET, LONNIE V — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 16, 2024
18751902 TEMPERATURE ANALYSIS MILLER, DANIEL R 2858 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 24, 2024
18721830 ACOUSTICALLY-RESPONSIVE BIOINKS FOR EXTRUSION-BASED 3D-BIOPRINTING STEINKE, SEAN JAMES 1619 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 19, 2024
18737635 RANSOMWARE DETECTION AND PREVENTION REVAK, CHRISTOPHER A 2407 §102§103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jun 07, 2024
18715639 SEQUENCING AND STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING INTRAVASCULAR THROMBUS DISRUPTION WITH PHASE-CHANGE CAVITATION ENHANCING AGENTS STIGELL, THEODORE J — §102 Non-Final OA — Pending May 31, 2024
18671212 DATA PRIVACY INCONSISTENCY DETECTION SHEHNI, GHAZAL B 2499 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 20d Pending May 22, 2024
18711268 BIOFILM-TARGETING NANOPARTICLES TO INCREASE THE ANTICARIES EFFECT OF FLUORIDE TRUONG, QUANGLONG N 1615 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending May 17, 2024
18666807 PROGRAMMING CONTINUOUS EQUILIBRIUM MOTION IN MULTI-DOF SYSTEMS BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN 3653 §102 Final Rejection 54d Pending May 16, 2024
18659394 TISSUE PHASIC CLASSIFICATION MAPPING SYSTEM AND METHOD THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI 2672 §103Other Non-Final OA 30d Pending May 09, 2024
18657413 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION CLARKE, TRENT R 1651 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 07, 2024
18654479 System For Effecting And Controlling Oscillatory Pressure Within Balloon Catheters For Fatigue Fracture Of Calculi RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER 3771 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending May 03, 2024
18648364 SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A SPARSE CODING ALGORITHM ANDREI, RADU — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 27, 2024
18648202 LEDs AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE KIELIN, ERIK J — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 26, 2024
18703497 N-POLAR III-NITRIDE NANOWIRE-BASED LED DEVICES GHYKA, ALEXANDER G — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 22, 2024
18703499 MICRO-NETWORK INTERCONNECTED NANOSTRUCTURES PARENDO, KEVIN A — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 22, 2024
18703492 SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURES WITH QUATERNARY III-NITRIDE ALLOY SNOW, COLLEEN ERIN — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 22, 2024
18636334 Magnetometer Array System For Magnetically Noisy Environments KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG — §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 16, 2024
18631472 Organic electroluminescent device WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T 2893 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Apr 10, 2024
18697377 ADHERENCE MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD MENSH, ANDREW J 3781 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Mar 29, 2024
18695845 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR METAL CONTAINING FORMULATIONS CAPABLE OF MODULATING IMMUNE RESPONSE ANTHOPOLOS, PETER 1617 §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 27, 2024
18613387 Scalable Graph-Based Approach To Accelerating Recommendation Model Inference BATAILLE, PIERRE MICHE — §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 22, 2024
18694281 METABOLITE BIOMARKERS FOR DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF PANCREATIC CYSTS XU, XIAOYUN — §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 21, 2024
18609391 PYRROLOPYRIMIDINE NUCLEOSIDES AND ANALOGS THEREOF LEWIS, PATRICK T 1691 §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 19, 2024
18690370 GAS-ASSISTED COCRYSTAL DE-SUBLIMATION GAMBETTA, KELLY M 1718 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18686234 SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURES WITH SCANDIUM III-NITRIDE LAYER PARTHASARATHY, ROHIT 2899 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 23, 2024
18439628 Adjustable Electromagnetic Energy Converter DINH, BACH T 1726 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 12, 2024
18294641 TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED PHOTOCATALYTIC AND OTHER CHEMICAL REACTIONS CHU, YONG LIANG — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 02, 2024
18431732 LIFESTYLE GROUP-BASED NORMATIVE MESSAGING FOR HOUSEHOLD ENERGY CONSUMPTION REDUCTION SHORTER, RASHIDA R 3626 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 02, 2024
18425538 PLANT STEM BREAKING APPARATUS AND METHOD ZHAO, AIYING 3732 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 29, 2024
18579459 METHODS AND MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES FOR CHIROPTICAL DETECTION AND MUTATION ANALYSIS OF CANCER-ASSOCIATED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES BORTOLI, JONATHAN — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 15, 2024
18579135 METHODS FOR HAIR GROWTH BORI, IBRAHIM D 1629 §102§103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Jan 12, 2024
18411722 SUBTYPING PROSTATE CANCER TO PREDICT RESPONSE TO HORMONE THERAPY SWITZER, JULIET CAROLINE 1682 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 12, 2024
18576686 A DISTRIBUTED REAL-TIME MACHINE LEARNING ROBOT SHARMA, SHIVAM 3665 §102§103 Final Rejection 146d overdue Pending Jan 04, 2024
18404551 Architecture For High Throughput Plasma Based Water Treatment ABDEL LATIF, MAHMOUD MOTAZ 1773 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 04, 2024
18575591 METHODS OF DETERMINING RISK OF AND TREATING CANCER RECURRENCE OGUNTADE, ELIZABETH BISOLA — §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 29, 2023
18572884 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING THE EFFICACY OF IMMUNOTHERAPIES AND VACCINES STEVENS, MARK V 1613 §101§102§103§112DP Final Rejection 28d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18569162 ELECTRON OVERFLOW OF AIGaN DEEP ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT EMITTING DIODES PARENDO, KEVIN A 2896 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 11, 2023
18565023 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS TO TRANSFECT, TEST, AND TREAT SKIN CELLS SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 28, 2023
18507042 VEHICLE REPOSITIONING DETERMINATION FOR VEHICLE POOL HAN, JOSEP — §101§102 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 11, 2023
18559490 EPITAXIAL NITRIDE FERROELECTRONICS KUNEMUND, ROBERT M 1714 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Nov 07, 2023
18386149 CATHETER AND METHOD TO LOCALIZE ECTOPIC AND REENTRANT ACTIVITY IN THE HEART PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C 3794 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 01, 2023
18496521 KIRIGAMI-BASED MULTI-AXIS TRACKING DEVICES AND SYSTEMS DEEAN, DEEPAK A 3762 §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 27, 2023
18555683 DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER WITH ARBITRARILY SHAPED, DENSELY PACKING, REMOVABLE MODULAR ELEMENTS KLEIN, BROOKE L 3797 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 16, 2023
18284035 CYCLIC DINUCLEOTIDE CONJUGATES AND RELATED METHODS OF USE THEREOF MEJIAS, SAMANTHA LEE 1618 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 25, 2023
18551809 COMPOSITE DRUG PARTICLES AND USES THEREOF DAVIS, BRIAN J 1614 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 21, 2023
18470908 EXTENDING OLED OPERATIONAL LIFETIME VIA GRADED CO-HOST/CO-DOPED EMISSION LAYER METHOD GARRETT, DAWN L — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 20, 2023
18368711 Fabrication Of Uniform High Density Nanostructure Array MENON, KRISHNAN S 1777 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Sep 15, 2023
18368905 MICROSCOPE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM WONG, ALLEN C 2488 §103Other Non-Final OA 15d Pending Sep 15, 2023
18463733 POSE GENERATION VIA LIDAR SENSOR MEASUREMENTS RATCLIFFE, LUKE D 3645 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 08, 2023
18279232 Small Molecule Degraders of CBP/p300 Proteins LEE, ANDREW P 1691 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 29, 2023
18278676 FLUORESCENT BIOSENSORS AND METHODS OF USE FOR DETECTING CELL SIGNALING EVENTS HOWARD, ZACHARY C 1674 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 24, 2023
18273942 SMALL MOLECULE INHIBITORS OF GRP78 AND USES THEREOF LEE, CHIHYI NMN 1628 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 27d Pending Jul 24, 2023
18353232 Dendrite-Free Lithium Metal Battery by Deformation-Induced Potential Shielding BARCENA, CARLOS 1723 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 17, 2023
18258758 AMYLOID-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES AND USES THEREOF BERHANE, SELAM 1675 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 21, 2023
18268538 BIOCATALYTIC PLATFORM FOR CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN 1684 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 20, 2023
18266525 SMALL MOLECULES AND THEIR USE AS MALT1 INHIBITORS YOUNGBLOOD, WILLIAM JUSTIN 1629 §101 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2023
18039301 ROOM-TEMPERATURE PHOSPHORESCENCE NANOPARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME JONES, DAMERON LEVEST 1618 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 30, 2023
18202602 Barrier Apparatus For Cell Culture And Methods Of Cell Culture Using The Barrier Apparatus YOH, JULIUS FRANCIS 1799 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending May 26, 2023
18200375 LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE KIM, JAY C 2815 §112 Final Rejection 33d Pending May 22, 2023
18196229 IMAGING PHANTOM BAEK, JONGHWAN NMN 1618 §102§103DP Final Rejection 5d Pending May 11, 2023
18313856 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING CARDIOVASCULAR RELATED DISORDERS DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R 1654 §103 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending May 08, 2023
18143358 Artificial Solid Electrolyte Interphase For Enabling Ethylene Carbonate-Free Electrolytes In Lithium-Ion Batteries HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending May 04, 2023
18035222 MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES AND METHODS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEURAL TUBE-LIKE TISSUES OR NEURAL SPHEROIDS HOBBS, MICHAEL L 1799 §102§103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending May 03, 2023
18034788 Injector device for arrhythmia classification using measurement of cardiac activity and power analysis PRICE, NATHAN R 3783 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 01, 2023
18034217 WATER SPLITTING DEVICE PROTECTION CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES 1794 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Apr 27, 2023
18034016 DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING KIDNEY STONES ABBASI, ABDUL HADI 3795 §103§112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Apr 26, 2023
18138313 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING FUNCTIONAL BASAL-LIKE CELLS FOX, ALLISON M 1633 §102DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 24, 2023
18027763 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING AND/OR PREVENTING AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS MILLER, DALE R 1693 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 22, 2023
17920698 INHIBITION OF SARS-COV-2 VIRAL ENTRY THROUGH ORAL ADMINISTRATION OF LACTOFERRIN AND USES THEREOF BRADLEY, CHRISTINA 1654 §101§102§103§112Other Non-Final OA 162d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2023
18026452 NANOSTRUCTURE-BASED ATOMIC SCALE ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTION CATALYSIS JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA 1795 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 15, 2023
18020908 N-ACYL AMINO ACID PRODUCTS AND USES HELLMAN, KRISTINA M 1654 §103§112DP Non-Final OA 35d Pending Feb 10, 2023
18041059 COMPANION DIAGNOSTIC FOR RTK INHIBITORS DENT, ALANA HARRIS 1643 §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 08, 2023
18163773 TRI-PEPTIDES AND TREATMENT OF METABOLIC, CARDIOVASCULAR AND INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R 1654 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 02, 2023
18099810 DELIVERY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME BECKHARDT, LYNDSEY MARIE 1613 §103 Final Rejection 43d Pending Jan 20, 2023
18157308 ENHANCED PURCELL EFFECT USING RED-SHIFTED SURFACE PLASMON MODES AND HIGH INDEX MATERIAL IN ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES BOHATY, ANDREW K 1759 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 20, 2023
18091478 Nanopowder Coatings That Enhance Lithium Battery Component Performance GRANNUM, VERITA EUDORA EBUN 1721 §102§103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2022
18003431 HISTONE-ACETYLATION-MODULATING AGENTS FOR THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF ORGAN INJURY WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN 1622 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 27, 2022
18079828 Systems and Methods of Longitudinal Analysis of Human Running Gait Metrics MELHUS, BENJAMIN S 3791 §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 12, 2022
17998761 CARBON NANOTUBES AND COMPLEXES THEREOF FOR TREATING AND DETECTING OCULAR TUMORS CABRAL, ROBERT S 1614 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 14, 2022
17976970 OCULAR IMPEDANCE-BASED SYSTEM FOR BRAIN HEALTH MONITORING TU, AURELIE H 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2022
17920794 Pyridine Inhibitors of Glucosylceramide Synthase and Therapeutic Methods Using the Same MAHLUM, JONATHAN DAVIS 1625 §103DP Final Rejection — Pending Oct 23, 2022
17920599 STEM CELL DERIVED SINGLE-ROSETTE BRAIN ORGANOIDS AND RELATED USES THEROF EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL 1632 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 21, 2022
17996565 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OBTAINING HINGE AXIS POSITION AND CONDYLE GUIDE INCLINATION FROM A PATIENT APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE 3772 §101§102 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 19, 2022
17919671 SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION OF LASER EMISSION AND FLUORESCENCE NGUYEN, HENRY H 1758 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 18, 2022
17932475 Purcell-Effect-Enhanced Organic Light Emitting Diodes with Sub-Electrode Microlens Array WHALEN, DANIEL B 2893 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Sep 15, 2022
17929809 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING TIME-RESOLVED SIGNAL INTENSITY DATA CROW, ROBERT THOMAS 1683 §101§103DP Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2022
17819908 USE OF GENOMIC SIGNATURES TO PREDICT RESPONSIVENESS OF PATIENTS WITH PROSTATE CANCER TO POST-OPERATIVE RADIATION THERAPY GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 1682 DP Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2022
17888237 CLASSIFIER OF EPILEPTIC NETWORK DYNAMICS EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2022
17798592 ABDOMINAL HEMORRHAGE CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD DUBOSE, LAUREN 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Aug 10, 2022
17797418 TEST FACILITY INFRASTRUCTURE CONTROL AND CONFIGURATION EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY 2857 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 03, 2022
17875879 System For The Simulation Of Electromagnetic Field Propagation COOK, BRIAN S 2187 §101§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 28, 2022
17868422 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING PLATELET ACTIVATION SZPERKA, MICHAEL EDWARD 1641 §103Other Final Rejection 26d Pending Jul 19, 2022
17840276 METHODS TO ENHANCE BIOAVAVAILABILITY OF ORGANIC SMALL MOLECULES AND DEPOSITED FILMS MADE THEREFROM GHALI, ISIS A D 1611 §112 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2022
17839937 Deciphering Multi-Way Interactions In The Human Genome With Use Of Hypergraphs HILL, GRACELYN MARKHAM 1685 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 14, 2022
17778306 POLYPEPTIDE INHIBITORS OF NEUTROPHIL ELASTASE ACTIVITY AND USES THEREOF STEELE, AMBER D 1658 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending May 19, 2022
17776131 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RAPID, SENSITIVE MULTIPLEX IMMUNOASSAYS GAO, ASHLEY HARTMAN 1678 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 11, 2022
17771377 An Integrated Smart Point-Of-Care Biosensor for Whole-Blood Liquid Biopsies KWAK, DEAN P 1798 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 22, 2022
17719908 PREPARATION OF PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVES FROM POST-CONSUMER SUPERABSORBENT POLYMERS ROSEBACH, CHRISTINA H.W. 1766 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 13, 2022
17762980 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING THE EFFICACY OF IMMUNOTHERAPIES AND VACCINES PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER 1675 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 23, 2022
17640585 DEVELOPMENT OF EMBRYONIC-LIKE TISSUE FROM STEM CELLS WILSON, MICHAEL C 1638 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Mar 04, 2022
17632114 GASTROESOPHAGEAL AORTIC OCCLUSION DEVICE AND METHOD DUBOSE, LAUREN 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Feb 01, 2022
17581736 ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE COMPRISING ORGANIC EMISSIVE LAYER BETWEEN ANODE-SIDE REFLECTOR AND CATHODE-SIDE REFLECTOR WHALEN, DANIEL B 2893 §103 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending Jan 21, 2022
17549028 PHYSIOLOGIC GROWTH OF CULTURED INTESTINAL TISSUE ZHU, JIANJIAN 1631 §103§112 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2021
17617837 REPOSITIONABLE MEDICAL TUBE WITH ULTRASONICALLY-DETECTABLE CUFF MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH 3783 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 09, 2021
17333485 ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION OF IONICALLY CONDUCTIVE COATINGS FOR LITHIUM BATTERY FAST CHARGING FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH 1728 §103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending May 28, 2021
17204836 COUPLED MATRIX-MATRIX AND COUPLED TENSOR-MATRIX COMPLETION METHODS FOR PREDICTING DRUG-TARGET INTERACTIONS LIU, GUOZHEN 1686 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 17, 2021
17266897 TRI-PEPTIDES AND TREATMENT OF METABOLIC, CARDIOVASCULAR AND INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R 1654 §103DP Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Feb 08, 2021
17154176 Method of Electrodeposition of Electroactive Species at Solid-Solid Interfaces RUFO, LOUIS J 1795 §103 Final Rejection 99d overdue Pending Jan 21, 2021
17259601 INTRAMOLECULAR KINETIC PROBES NGUYEN, NAM P 1678 §103DP Final Rejection — Pending Jan 12, 2021
17258135 GRIP PROFILE SENSING AND ASSESSMENT LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Jan 05, 2021
16883579 CERMET ELECTRODE FOR SOLID STATE AND LITHIUM ION BATTERIES THOMAS, BRENT C 1724 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 26, 2020
16803033 SEMI-TRANSPARENT AND MONOCHROMATIC ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES TRINH, THANH TRUC 1726 §103§112 Final Rejection 141d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2020
18968898 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISEASE RISK PREDICTION FOR HIGH-RISK PATIENTS USING HIGHEST-K LOSS OPTIMIZED MACHINE LEARNING REYES, REGINALD R 3684 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 04, 2024
18946493 COLLABORATIVE PERCEPTION SYSTEM FOR CREATING A BIRD’S EYE VIEW COOPERATIVE PERCEPTION MAP RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M 2677 — Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 13, 2024
18443677 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFYING ENCRYPTED DATA USING AN ENCRYPTED MACHINE LEARNING MODEL WON, MICHAEL YOUNG 2443 §102§103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18232230 CHIRAL PHOSPHORIC ACIDS IMMOBILIZED ON SOLID SUPPORT FOR THE SELECTIVE PROTECTION OF HYDROXYL GROUPS O DELL, DAVID K 1621 §102§103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Aug 09, 2023
18271031 Examination Scope With Tissue Sample Collection Brush HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN 3791 §102 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Jul 05, 2023
18141138 NANOFIBROUS TISSUE ENGINEERING MATRICES WITH IMPROVED CLINICAL HANDLING PROPERTIES FOR PERIODONTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL REGENERATION AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME PIPIC, ALMA 1767 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 28, 2023
17876493 Designing Chemical or Genetic Perturbations using Artificial Intelligence SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE 1685 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jul 28, 2022

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