Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Nottingham has 7 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are distributed across 7 examiners and 7 art units, so each pending matter has its own examination relationship and technical setting.
CHANG, MINKI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate terminology and disclosure across the portfolio, but responses will need to address separate examiner and art-unit issues.
The fully distributed assignments make centralized prosecution assumptions less reliable. Portfolio oversight is still useful for identifying shared technology themes and avoiding inconsistent positions between applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, MINKI | 1 | 71.9% | +10.6% |
| BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1 | 34.9% | +46.5% |
| FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 1 | 62.1% | +36.7% |
| BLANCO, JAVIER G | 1 | 76.1% | +45.2% |
| RUFO, LOUIS J | 1 | 54.6% | +22.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247313 | MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY METHOD AND SYSTEM | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 41d |
| 19047778 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND COMPONENTS | CHANG, MINKI | — |
| 18557561 | DECELLULARIZED TISSUE HYDROGELS | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | — |
| 17776990 | CORNEAL TISSUE | BLANCO, JAVIER G | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247313 | MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY METHOD AND SYSTEM | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 41d |
| 19047778 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND COMPONENTS | CHANG, MINKI | — |
| 18557561 | DECELLULARIZED TISSUE HYDROGELS | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | — |
| 17776990 | CORNEAL TISSUE | BLANCO, JAVIER G | — |
| 17635480 | REACTION APPARATUS | RUFO, LOUIS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19047778 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND COMPONENTS | CHANG, MINKI | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18557561 | DECELLULARIZED TISSUE HYDROGELS | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1655 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18247313 | MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY METHOD AND SYSTEM | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 17776990 | CORNEAL TISSUE | BLANCO, JAVIER G | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2022 |
| 17635480 | REACTION APPARATUS | RUFO, LOUIS J | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialThe University of Nottingham has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Minki Chang has the most, with 1 of The University of Nottingham's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
