Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
43 pending office actions • 32 art units • 42 examiners • 0 of 43 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 45 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Hong Kong is managing 44 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 43 distinct examiners and 33 distinct art units. This wide spread indicates that the university's biotechnology research covers a broad range of specialized technical fields, requiring coordination across many different groups.
WANG, RUIXUE is the busiest examiner for the university, with 2 pending office actions. Since there are 44 actions and 43 examiners, almost every examiner is reviewing only one application for the university. The high number of 33 art units requires the university to manage its patent prosecution across many different specialized groups at the patent office. This decentralized examiner landscape means that prosecution outcomes are likely influenced by a wide variety of individual examiner preferences. Practitioners must adapt to 43 different examiners while navigating the specific requirements of 33 distinct art units within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 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. 11 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 | 4 (9%) |
| §103 only | 5 (12%) |
| §112 only | 3 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 28 (65%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, RUIXUE | 2 | 57.4% | +17.8% |
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1 | 63.5% | +11.9% |
| SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | 1 | 50.0% | +100.0% |
| ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | 1 | 45.7% | +61.3% |
| MARVICH, MARIA | 1 | 54.9% | +28.1% |
| IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN | 1 | 12.5% | +71.4% |
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 1 | 78.0% | +16.0% |
| SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 1 | 83.8% | +8.1% |
| FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | 1 | 63.9% | +17.1% |
| SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM | 1 | 80.8% | +24.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608983 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED IMAGE PROCESSOR FOR INTRAORAL IMAGES | SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM | 42d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18476499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION IN MEMRISTOR-BASED IN-MEMORY COMPUTING | NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 44d overdue |
| 17048297 | IMMUNO-ONCOLYTIC MODIFIED VACCINIA TIAN TAN VIRUS AND METHODS OF TREATING CANCER | WANG, RUIXUE | 31d overdue |
| 18151107 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARTICLE SIZE-INSENSITIVE HIGH-THROUGHPUT SINGLE-STREAM PARTICLE FOCUSING | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 18d overdue |
| 18461081 | NIDOGEN 1 AS A DIAGNOSTIC MARKER AND THERAPEUTIC TARGET OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA, COMPOSITION AND METHODS THEREOF | SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN | 27d |
| 17980888 | 800 MPA GRADE STEEL BAR AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | SU, XIAOWEI | 27d |
| 18621152 | TRANSCORNEAL STIMULATOR FOR TREATING BRAIN DISEASES | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 48d |
| 18157725 | Micro Scale Mist Mouthguard Cleaning Device | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 56d |
| 17729584 | SURGERY DEVICE WITH PATIENT-SPECIFIC FIBULA MALLEOLUS CAP | HU, ANN M | 72d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17048297 | IMMUNO-ONCOLYTIC MODIFIED VACCINIA TIAN TAN VIRUS AND METHODS OF TREATING CANCER | WANG, RUIXUE | 31d overdue |
| 18703699 | HOT STAMPING METHOD FOR PRE-COATED STEEL SHEETS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3d overdue |
| 18608983 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED IMAGE PROCESSOR FOR INTRAORAL IMAGES | SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM | 42d |
| 18879269 | REGULATING THE ELECTROCHEMICAL REDOX BEHAVIOR OF SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS ON SOFT AND STRETCHABLE SUBSTRATES AND METHODS OF USE | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | — |
| 18969502 | FLEXIBLE MICRO-NEEDLE ELECTRODE FOR BIOPOTENTIAL MONITORING, A METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING THE FLEXIBLE MICRO-NEEDLE ELECTRODE AND A PATCH ELECTRODE COMPRISING THE FLEXIBLE MICRO-NEEDLE ELECTRODE | SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | — |
| 18889021 | BIOMIMETIC INTRAOCULAR DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR TREATMENT OF RETINOBLASTOMA AND METHODS THEREOF | ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | — |
| 18748156 | HYPOVENTILATION PHYSICAL MODELS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | MARVICH, MARIA | — |
| 18653590 | OCULAR ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1678 | 2 |
| 1658 | 2 |
| 1672 | 2 |
| 1621 | 2 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| 1634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879269 | REGULATING THE ELECTROCHEMICAL REDOX BEHAVIOR OF SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS ON SOFT AND STRETCHABLE SUBSTRATES AND METHODS OF USE | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18969502 | FLEXIBLE MICRO-NEEDLE ELECTRODE FOR BIOPOTENTIAL MONITORING, A METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING THE FLEXIBLE MICRO-NEEDLE ELECTRODE AND A PATCH ELECTRODE COMPRISING THE FLEXIBLE MICRO-NEEDLE ELECTRODE | SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18889021 | BIOMIMETIC INTRAOCULAR DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR TREATMENT OF RETINOBLASTOMA AND METHODS THEREOF | ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18748156 | HYPOVENTILATION PHYSICAL MODELS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | MARVICH, MARIA | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18653590 | OCULAR ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN | 1653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18703699 | HOT STAMPING METHOD FOR PRE-COATED STEEL SHEETS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18621152 | TRANSCORNEAL STIMULATOR FOR TREATING BRAIN DISEASES | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 3796 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18613083 | STATISTICAL ACOUSTIC SENSING-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN-VEHICLE CHILD PRESENCE DETECTION | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18608983 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED IMAGE PROCESSOR FOR INTRAORAL IMAGES | SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM | 2672 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18600046 | MODIFIED O-METHYLTRANSFERASES USEFUL FOR PRODUCTION OF O-METHYLATED PHENOLIC NATURAL PRODUCTS | HUTSON, RICHARD G | 1652 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18597181 | SYSTEM COMPRISING CISPLATIN-RESISTANT XENOGRAFT FOR NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA AND METHODS THEREOF | PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH | 1634 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18682313 | SILVER COMPLEX FLUORIDE {BIS (1,3,5-TRIAZA-7-PHOSPHAADAMANTANE) SILVER FLUORIDE} - A NEW THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR CARIES MANAGEMENT | PETRITSCH, AMANDA MICHELLE | 1612 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18681271 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR FAST MULTIPLEXED SCREENING AND MONITORING OF NPM1 MUTATIONS | KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS | 1683 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18428803 | FACILE METHOD FOR PREPARATION OF THIN FILM COMPOSITE (TFC) MEMBRANE WITH BOTH HIGH SELECTIVITY AND WATER PERMEANCE | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18293171 | PHOTOACTIVATABLE PRODRUG NANOPARTICLES FOR COMBINED ANTI-ANGIOGENESIS AND PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY | HABTE, KAHSAY | 1624 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18538932 | SEQUENTIAL TRANSARTERIAL CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY, AND IMMUNOTHERAPY (START-FIT) FOR HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA | MIDDLETON, DANAYA L | 4100 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18569361 | ROS-RESPONSIVE CAPTOPRIL-CINNAMALDEHYDE PRODRUGS AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS THEREOF | CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S | 1625 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18566491 | FIBROSIS BIOMARKERS FOR NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE | SVEIVEN, MICHAEL CAMERON | 1678 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18560347 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TARGETING THE PAX6 SIGNALING PATHWAY TO REDUCE FORMATION OF AMYLOID BETA PLAQUES AND NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES | GIBBS, TERRA C | 1635 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18476499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION IN MEMRISTOR-BASED IN-MEMORY COMPUTING | NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 2824 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18551504 | LUMINESCENT GOLD (III) COMPOUNDS WITH THERMALLY ACTIVATED DELAYED FLUORESCENCE (TADF) AND THERMALLY STIMULATED DELAYED PHOSPHORESCENCE (TSDP) PROPERTIES FOR ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES AND THEIR PREPARATION | HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18461081 | NIDOGEN 1 AS A DIAGNOSTIC MARKER AND THERAPEUTIC TARGET OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA, COMPOSITION AND METHODS THEREOF | SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN | 1642 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18451432 | LUMINESCENT GOLD(III) COMPOUNDS WITH THERMALLY STIMULATED DELAYED PHOSPHORESCENCE (TSDP) PROPERTY FOR ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES AND THEIR PREPARATION | CLARK, GREGORY D | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18264695 | CELL NICHE ENGINEERING PLATFORM, MULTIPLEXED BIOCHIPS RESULTING THEREFROM AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
| 18355754 | CHIP PLACEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | GARBOWSKI, LEIGH M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18345284 | SUPER-HIGH-PERMEANCE THIN-FILM COMPOSITE NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANE INCORPORATING SILK NANOFIBER INTERLAYER | HUANG, RYAN | 1777 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18270069 | A BIOMATERIAL WITH A HIGH GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN/HYDROXYPROLINE RATIO, COMPOSITION, METHODS AND APPLICATIONS | CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI | 1699 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18251374 | TRANSFERABLE TYPE I-F CRISPR-CAS GENOME EDITING SYSTEM | LIPPOLIS, ALEXANDRA ROSE | 1637 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2023 |
| 18249926 | COMPOSITIONS OF ANTI-VIRAL PEPTIDES AND/OR COMPOUNDS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | KATAKAM, SUDHAKAR | 1658 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18185449 | DISCOVERY OF YEATS2 YEATS DOMAIN INHIBITORS AS NOVEL ANTI-CANCER AGENTS | HIBBERT, CATHERINE S | 1658 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
| 18170296 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY | HUMPHRIES, NICHOLAS ADAM | 1631 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2023 |
| 18006977 | GENETICALLY ENCODED YEATS DOMAIN PROBE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | TSAY, MARSHA M | 1656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
| 18157725 | Micro Scale Mist Mouthguard Cleaning Device | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
| 18151107 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARTICLE SIZE-INSENSITIVE HIGH-THROUGHPUT SINGLE-STREAM PARTICLE FOCUSING | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 1758 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
| 17980888 | 800 MPA GRADE STEEL BAR AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | SU, XIAOWEI | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
| 17996287 | IDENTIFICATION OF NSP1 GENE AS TARGET OF SARS-COV-2 REAL-TIME RT-PCR USING NANOPORE WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING | WANG, RUIXUE | 1672 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
| 17996165 | SYSTEM FOR THREE-WAY COMBINATORIAL CRISPR SCREENS FOR ANALYSING TARGET INTERACTIONS AND METHODS THEREOF | WARD, AARON DUREL | 1636 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
| 17850720 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR OPTOCHEMICAL CONTROL OF MTOR SIGNALING AND MTOR-DEPENDENT AUTOPHAGY | NOTTINGHAM, KYLE GREGORY | 1621 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2022 |
| 17729584 | SURGERY DEVICE WITH PATIENT-SPECIFIC FIBULA MALLEOLUS CAP | HU, ANN M | 3774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
| 17753849 | PHOTO-RESPONSIVE COORDINATION COMPOUNDS WITH PHOTO-CONTROLLABLE ELECTRON-TRANSPORTING AND ELECTRICAL CONDUCTING PROPERTIES, AND FABRICATION OF ORGANIC ELECTRONICS AND ORGANIC RESISTIVE MEMORY DEVICES WITH PHOTO-SWITCHABLE PERFORMANCE | O DELL, DAVID K | 1621 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2022 |
| 17435943 | CULTURE MEDIUM FOR MAMMALIAN EXPANDED POTENTIAL STEM CELLS, COMPOSITION, AND METHODS THEREOF | REGLAS, GILLIAN CHELSEA | 1632 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2021 |
| 17265756 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION AND IMAGING OF AMYLOID FIBRILS, AMYLOID PLAQUES, RNA, AND NUCLEOLI | NGUYEN, NAM P | 1678 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Feb 03, 2021 |
| 17048297 | IMMUNO-ONCOLYTIC MODIFIED VACCINIA TIAN TAN VIRUS AND METHODS OF TREATING CANCER | WANG, RUIXUE | 1672 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Oct 16, 2020 |
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