Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Osaka currently manages 3 pending office actions within its patent portfolio. These matters are situated in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area, reflecting the institution's focus on this sector. The prosecution of these 3 pending office actions is distributed among 3 distinct examiners, showing a one to one ratio between examiners and active matters.
The portfolio is administratively divided across 3 distinct art units. SHELDEN, BION A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This individual's workload represents one of the 3 pending office actions currently being processed by the patent office.
With 3 distinct examiners involved, the university must adapt to three different examination styles for its Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings. The distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests that the inventions cover a variety of technical niches within the broader technology area. Practitioners should prepare for varied technical feedback as they manage these 3 pending office actions across the 3 distinct art units and 3 distinct examiners, including SHELDEN, BION A.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHELDEN, BION A | 1 | 22.1% | +20.1% |
| STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E | 1 | 42.4% | +35.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19104933 | Information Processing Method, Information Processing System, and Computer Readable Medium | SHELDEN, BION A | 24d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19104933 | Information Processing Method, Information Processing System, and Computer Readable Medium | SHELDEN, BION A | 24d overdue |
| 17434686 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL TISSUE CONSTRUCT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELL-CONTAINING COMPOSITION | STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3685 | 1 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19104933 | Information Processing Method, Information Processing System, and Computer Readable Medium | SHELDEN, BION A | 3685 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 17434686 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL TISSUE CONSTRUCT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELL-CONTAINING COMPOSITION | STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E | 1632 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Aug 27, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialThe University of Osaka has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Bion A Shelden has the most, with 1 of The University of Osaka's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
