Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
79 pending office actions • 29 art units • 61 examiners • 0 of 79 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 80 patents granted in the last 365 days
Thermo Fisher Scientific has 79 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These are distributed among 61 distinct examiners, showing that many examiners are handling multiple cases. DAUNER, JOSEPH G is the busiest examiner, responsible for 4 pending actions.
The portfolio spans 29 distinct art units. This indicates a broad technical range within biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, as the 79 pending office actions are being reviewed in many different divisions. The ratio of 61 distinct examiners to the 79 pending office actions reflects a moderate level of examiner concentration.
With 29 distinct art units involved, the company's scientific innovations are being evaluated by a wide variety of USPTO personnel. The busiest examiner workload of 4 pending actions represents a small fraction of the 79 total pending office actions. This distribution across 61 distinct examiners and 29 distinct art units suggests a decentralized prosecution environment for Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 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. 26 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 only | 1 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 18 (23%) |
| §103 only | 13 (16%) |
| §102 only | 4 (5%) |
| §112 only | 5 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 31 (39%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAUNER, JOSEPH G | 4 | 57.0% | +35.3% |
| GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | 4 | 65.7% | +46.1% |
| BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 3 | 59.4% | +31.9% |
| WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 3 | 49.9% | +28.2% |
| WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 2 | 65.3% | +42.6% |
| PEO, JONATHAN M | 2 | 48.4% | +48.2% |
| PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 2 | 34.7% | +37.4% |
| HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 2 | 69.8% | +36.5% |
| WHALEY, PABLO S | 2 | 25.1% | +21.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18531920 | METHODS FOR DETECTION OF FUSIONS USING COMPRESSED MOLECULAR TAGGED NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE DATA | SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 85d overdue |
| 18261812 | COMPOSITIONS, KITS AND METHODS FOR DIRECT AMPLIFICATION FROM CRUDE BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES | WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C | 81d overdue |
| 17574032 | UNIVERSAL REPORTER-BASED GENOTYPING METHODS AND MATERIALS | MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | 45d overdue |
| 18756372 | Systems and Methods of Cell Sorting Implementing Artificial Intelligence | BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN | 42d overdue |
| 18441967 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR DETECTION OF TANDEM DUPLICATION | LIU, GUOZHEN | 30d overdue |
| 18629059 | FLUIDICS SYSTEMS FOR SEQUENTIAL DELIVERY OF REAGENTS | DAUNER, JOSEPH G | 25d overdue |
| 17942887 | ARRAY-BASED METHODS FOR ANALYSING MIXED SAMPLES USING DIFFERENTLY LABELLED ALLELE-SPECIFIC PROBES | DAUNER, JOSEPH G | 25d overdue |
| 17450812 | System for Oxygenating a Biological Culture | KWAK, DEAN P | 17d 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18531920 | METHODS FOR DETECTION OF FUSIONS USING COMPRESSED MOLECULAR TAGGED NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE DATA | SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 85d overdue |
| 18629059 | FLUIDICS SYSTEMS FOR SEQUENTIAL DELIVERY OF REAGENTS | DAUNER, JOSEPH G | 25d overdue |
| 17942887 | ARRAY-BASED METHODS FOR ANALYSING MIXED SAMPLES USING DIFFERENTLY LABELLED ALLELE-SPECIFIC PROBES | DAUNER, JOSEPH G | 25d overdue |
| 18137956 | Methods and Kits to Detect Viral Particle Heterogeneity | GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | 17d overdue |
| 18067711 | METHOD FOR THE SEPARATION OF ANIONIC, CATIONIC, NEUTRAL AND ZWITTERIONIC ARSENIC SPECIES | PEO, JONATHAN M | 2d overdue |
| 18651331 | Heat Exchanger System with Flexible Bag | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 28d |
| 17960237 | System and Method of Electroporation Protocol Optimization | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 29d |
| 18317484 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMMUNE REPERTOIRE MONITORING | GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | 42d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1681 | 9 |
| 1682 | 6 |
| 1684 | 5 |
| 1686 | 4 |
| 1685 | 3 |
| 1797 | 2 |
| 1799 | 2 |
| 1779 | 2 |
| 1687 | 2 |
| 1796 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19429723 | NON-IONIC SURFACTANTS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 1692 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2025 |
| 19040716 | NEEDLE SUPPORT WITH INTEGRATED TUBING MANAGEMENT | KELLY, TIMOTHY PATRICK | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18974353 | OFF-PLOT GATE INDICATORS AND NAVIGATION TOOLS FOR CELL DATA ANALYSIS | BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18956167 | Methods And Systems For Dynamic Range Enhancement Of Fluorescence Detectors | DOWNING, SAVANNAH STARR | 2884 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18957412 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARTICLE CLASSIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING | ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18933336 | ASEPTIC TUBING DISCONNECT ASSEMBLY | DEAL, DAVID R | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18926187 | System and Method for Automated Reagent Verification | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18792286 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING FLUIDIC ACCESS TO A FLOW CELL | ALABI, OYELEYE A | 1797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18776608 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALIGNING DISPENSING ARRAYS WITH MICROFLUIDIC SAMPLE ARRAYS | BOYER, RANDY | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18756372 | Systems and Methods of Cell Sorting Implementing Artificial Intelligence | BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN | 3653 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18739087 | MULTICHANNEL PIPETTE AND ELECTROPORATION SYSTEM | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18675633 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREPARATION OF NUCLEOTIDE SOLUTIONS | DAUNER, JOSEPH G | — | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18672549 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RUN-TIME SEQUENCING RUN QUALITY MONITORING | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18706621 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING MASTER MIX CONTAMINATION | BAUER, BRIANNA LEE | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18651331 | Heat Exchanger System with Flexible Bag | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1799 | Other | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18642638 | AUTOMATED CHROMATOGRAPHY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18636580 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED REPEAT SEQUENCING | PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18629059 | FLUIDICS SYSTEMS FOR SEQUENTIAL DELIVERY OF REAGENTS | DAUNER, JOSEPH G | 1682 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18602164 | Dialysis Devices And Sensor Caps And Systems And Methods Incorporating The Same | PEO, JONATHAN M | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18689573 | MASTER MIX COMPOSITIONS, KITS, AND METHODS | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18441967 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR DETECTION OF TANDEM DUPLICATION | LIU, GUOZHEN | 1686 | §101§103DPOther | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18294322 | COMPOSITIONS, KITS, AND METHODS FOR DETECTION OF NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE LOADS | GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA | 1682 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18398730 | Lipid Compositions and Methods for Delivery to Immune Cells | KAMM, JUDITH MARIE | 1611 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18399270 | CELL CULTURE FLASK | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18397280 | OLIGONUCLEOTIDE-TETHERED NUCLEOTIDES | PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN | 1684 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18531920 | METHODS FOR DETECTION OF FUSIONS USING COMPRESSED MOLECULAR TAGGED NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE DATA | SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 1685 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | 85d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18530606 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING PHASING ERRORS WHEN SEQUENCING NUCLEICACIDS USING TERMINATION CHEMISTRY | SISSON, BRADLEY L | 1682 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18506885 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MULTIPLEX PCR | DAUNER, JOSEPH G | 1684 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18505869 | PROTEIN MELT ANALYSIS USING DIPYRROMETHENEBORON DIFLUORIDE COMPOUNDS | ADAMS, MICHELLE | 1797 | §112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18549134 | COMPOSITIONS, KITS, AND METHODS FOR VARIANT-RESISTANT DETECTION OF TARGET VIRAL SEQUENCES | CHEN, STACY BROWN | 1672 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18450468 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SEQUENCE VARIATION ASSOCIATED WITH GENETIC DISEASES | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | — | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18261812 | COMPOSITIONS, KITS AND METHODS FOR DIRECT AMPLIFICATION FROM CRUDE BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES | WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C | 1681 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 81d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18345856 | OLIGONUCLEOTIDE-TETHERED NUCLEOTIDES | PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN | 1684 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18343857 | METHODS FOR ASSESSING GENOMIC INSTABILITY | ELKINS, BLAKE HARRISON | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18338488 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEQUENCE DATA ALIGNMENT QUALITY ASSESSMENT | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | 1687 | §101§112DPOther | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18209980 | LABORATORY AUTOMATION USING LABWARE MOVEMENT | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1796 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18330737 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SEQUENCE VARIATION | VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18317484 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMMUNE REPERTOIRE MONITORING | GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | 1681 | §112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 18143828 | METHODS FOR DEEP ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR SIGNAL ERROR CORRECTION | SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | — | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 18312663 | METHODS FOR DEEP ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR SIGNAL ERROR CORRECTION | MRABI, HASSAN | 2147 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 18306419 | MODELS FOR ANALYZING DATA FROM SEQUENCING-BY-SYNTHESIS OPERATIONS | NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT | 1686 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
| 18137956 | Methods and Kits to Detect Viral Particle Heterogeneity | GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | 1681 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 18297504 | METHODS FOR OPERATING A BIOREACTOR WITH IMPELLER ASSEMBLY AND RELATED BIOREACTORS | SORKIN, DAVID L | 1774 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
| 18130134 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR EVALUATING VARIANT LIKELIHOOD | WHALEY, PABLO S | 1684 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 18118630 | INTERACTIVE AMINO ACID SEQUENCE GUIDE | FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 18173386 | NUCLEIC ACID EXTRACTION AND AMPLIFICATION CONTROLS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 1626 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 18161546 | METHODS OF DIFFERENTIATION TO NEURONAL CELLS AND KITS THEREFOR | BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E | 1632 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 18006551 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1758 | §101§102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 18152862 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PAIRED END SEQUENCING | HILL, GRACELYN MARKHAM | 1684 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2023 |
| 17977788 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH-YIELD TRANSIENT EXPRESSION IN MAMMALIAN CELLS | LEITH, NANCY J | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialThermo Fisher Scientific has 79 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 29 art units and 61 examiners.
Joseph G Dauner has the most, with 4 of Thermo Fisher Scientific's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.