Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 1 of 3 (33%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Adelaide is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each application is being reviewed by a different individual. This lack of examiner overlap requires the university to manage multiple distinct prosecution tracks simultaneously. Furthermore, the cases are located in 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the portfolio covers diverse technical subjects within the broader chemistry field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is TRAN, LIEN THUY, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of 3 pending office actions is split, this examiner handles a portion of the university's current workload at the USPTO. The other pending actions are managed by different 3 distinct examiners in separate art units. This structure indicates a decentralized prosecution landscape where 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units are involved, necessitating a flexible approach to patent acquisition. The presence of 1 busiest examiner pending action with TRAN, LIEN THUY means the workload is divided.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1 | 28.7% | +26.5% |
| PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 1 | 26.8% | +45.4% |
| HAM, JIEUN | 1 | 45.5% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261246 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DELIVERING AGENTS TO THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 24d overdue |
| 18568582 | FOOD COMPOSITION | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 12d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261246 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DELIVERING AGENTS TO THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 24d overdue |
| 18568582 | FOOD COMPOSITION | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| 1643 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18568582 | FOOD COMPOSITION | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | AI Ready | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18261246 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DELIVERING AGENTS TO THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18253153 | METHODS, PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROGNOSIS OF SUBJECTS SUFFERING FROM MULTIPLE MYELOMA | HAM, JIEUN | 1643 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialThe University of Adelaide has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Lien Thuy Tran has the most, with 1 of The University of Adelaide's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
