Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Trustees Of Princeton University currently has 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which means the institution's current interaction with the patent office is entirely centralized. Additionally, the portfolio's active prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the university is focusing its intellectual property efforts on a specific technological domain without the need to navigate multiple administrative groups.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L, who is assigned to 1 pending office action. Since the total count of pending actions for the university is 1, this examiner holds responsibility for all active matters. This arrangement provides a clear and direct line of communication between the applicant and the patent office. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific procedural requirements of CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L within the designated art unit. The lack of multiple examiners or art units simplifies the management of the current patent applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 80.7% | +22.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17952701 | ON-CHIP MICROFLUIDIC PROCESSING OF PARTICLES | CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17952701 | ON-CHIP MICROFLUIDIC PROCESSING OF PARTICLES | CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17952701 | ON-CHIP MICROFLUIDIC PROCESSING OF PARTICLES | CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L | 1677 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTrustees Of Princeton University has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christopher L Chin has the most, with 1 of Trustees Of Princeton University's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
