Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs has 4 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are distributed across 4 examiners and 4 art units, showing four distinct examination assignments.
PYLA, EVELYN Y is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Since no examiner holds multiple reported matters, counsel should use centralized docket coordination while tailoring substantive responses to each assignment.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PYLA, EVELYN Y | 1 | 55.8% | +47.1% |
| PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH | 1 | 31.8% | +58.8% |
| SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH | 1 | 67.8% | +27.5% |
| BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 1 | 23.8% | +56.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009956 | ENGINEERED PROBES FOR SIALOGLYCAN BINDING | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 7d |
| 18698977 | NEPHRON PROGENITOR EXOSOMES | PYLA, EVELYN Y | — |
| 18686708 | Accelerated Protocol for the Differentiation of Podocytes from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells | PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009956 | ENGINEERED PROBES FOR SIALOGLYCAN BINDING | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 7d |
| 18220137 | COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR SCAVENGING DICARBONYL ELECTROPHILES | SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH | 60d |
| 18698977 | NEPHRON PROGENITOR EXOSOMES | PYLA, EVELYN Y | — |
| 18686708 | Accelerated Protocol for the Differentiation of Podocytes from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells | PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1633 | 1 |
| 1634 | 1 |
| 1629 | 1 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18698977 | NEPHRON PROGENITOR EXOSOMES | PYLA, EVELYN Y | 1633 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18686708 | Accelerated Protocol for the Differentiation of Podocytes from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells | PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH | 1634 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18220137 | COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR SCAVENGING DICARBONYL ELECTROPHILES | SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH | 1629 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 60d | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18009956 | ENGINEERED PROBES FOR SIALOGLYCAN BINDING | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 1657 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialThe United States Department of Veterans Affairs has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Evelyn Y Pyla has the most, with 1 of The United States Department of Veterans Affairs's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
