Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Manitoba maintains a company patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio currently contains 2 pending office actions, which are being handled by 2 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is under the review of a different individual, providing two separate perspectives on the university's technology. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the university's intellectual property is divided between two separate technical classifications at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 2, the workload is evenly split between the 2 distinct examiners. This means that no single examiner dominates the current prosecution landscape for the university. Practitioners should note that they will need to manage two different examiner relationships and sets of procedural preferences simultaneously, as the 1 pending action per examiner creates a balanced workload.
The alignment of 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units suggests that each examiner is operating within a unique technical environment. This lack of overlap between the art units and examiners means that the prosecution of one matter may not provide direct insights into the other. The workload of 1 pending action for the busiest examiner reflects this balanced distribution. A practitioner must ensure that the legal strategy remains consistent across the 2 pending office actions despite the different art units and examiners involved in the process.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE | 1 | 57.8% | +46.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701085 | GLIOBLASTOMA TUMOR GROWTH INHIBITION BY SAT1 KNOCKDOWN | GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701085 | GLIOBLASTOMA TUMOR GROWTH INHIBITION BY SAT1 KNOCKDOWN | GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18701085 | GLIOBLASTOMA TUMOR GROWTH INHIBITION BY SAT1 KNOCKDOWN | GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE | 1637 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialThe University of Manitoba has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tiffany Nicole Grooms has the most, with 1 of The University of Manitoba's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
