Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
12 pending office actions • 6 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ultima Genomics Inc. has 13 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are assigned to 13 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. This indicates a separate examiner relationship for each action, alongside a more concentrated technical distribution that may support comparison of matters within the same art units.
HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner-level concentration appears in the data. Counsel may therefore focus on shared technology and specification positions across art units while preparing matter-specific responses for each examiner.
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 | 2 (17%) |
| §103 only | 5 (42%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 1 | 36.3% | +23.5% |
| FOX, DANIELLE A | 1 | 83.3% | +13.1% |
| KOVACH, KARA NICOLE | 1 | 85.7% | +100.0% |
| RILEY, JEZIA | 1 | 83.0% | +7.2% |
| WILDER, CYNTHIA B | 1 | 70.8% | +27.0% |
| EIX, EMILY FAY | 1 | 45.7% | +76.0% |
| HORLICK, KENNETH R | 1 | 79.0% | +15.3% |
| BENZION, GARY | 1 | 20.8% | +14.7% |
| OLSON, ALEXANDRA NADINE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK | 1 | 4.0% | -5.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198945 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COUNTER SCAN AREA MODE IMAGING | FOX, DANIELLE A | — |
| 19178718 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPATIAL SCREENING OF ANALYTES | KOVACH, KARA NICOLE | — |
| 18488731 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPATIAL REFERENCE SEQUENCING | OLSON, ALEXANDRA NADINE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281930 | METHODS FOR SEQUENCING NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES WITH SEQUENTIAL BARCODES | TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK | 31d overdue |
| 19301428 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NUCLEIC ACID MISMATCH ERROR DETECTION APPLICATIONS | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | — |
| 18776428 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING | RILEY, JEZIA | — |
| 18651565 | NUCLEIC ACID POLYMERASE FOR INCORPORATING LABELED NUCLEOTIDES | EIX, EMILY FAY | — |
| 18540604 | METHODS FOR PREPARING CAPTURE SUBSTRATES | BENZION, GARY | — |
| 18025603 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SEQUENCE AND VARIANT CALLING | FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA | — |
| 17181378 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYTE DETECTION AND ANALYSIS | ZHANG, KAIJIANG | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19301428 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NUCLEIC ACID MISMATCH ERROR DETECTION APPLICATIONS | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | — |
| 19198945 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COUNTER SCAN AREA MODE IMAGING | FOX, DANIELLE A | — |
| 19178718 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPATIAL SCREENING OF ANALYTES | KOVACH, KARA NICOLE | — |
| 18763834 | USE OF ETHYLENE CARBONATE IN NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING METHODS | WILDER, CYNTHIA B | — |
| 18651565 | NUCLEIC ACID POLYMERASE FOR INCORPORATING LABELED NUCLEOTIDES | EIX, EMILY FAY | — |
| 18435829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SAMPLE PREPARATION FOR SEQUENCING | HORLICK, KENNETH R | — |
| 18540604 | METHODS FOR PREPARING CAPTURE SUBSTRATES | BENZION, GARY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1681 | 5 |
| 1685 | 2 |
| 1684 | 2 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19301428 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NUCLEIC ACID MISMATCH ERROR DETECTION APPLICATIONS | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 1685 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19198945 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COUNTER SCAN AREA MODE IMAGING | FOX, DANIELLE A | 2884 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 19178718 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPATIAL SCREENING OF ANALYTES | KOVACH, KARA NICOLE | 1681 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 18776428 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING | RILEY, JEZIA | 1681 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18763834 | USE OF ETHYLENE CARBONATE IN NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING METHODS | WILDER, CYNTHIA B | 1681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18651565 | NUCLEIC ACID POLYMERASE FOR INCORPORATING LABELED NUCLEOTIDES | EIX, EMILY FAY | 1653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18435829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SAMPLE PREPARATION FOR SEQUENCING | HORLICK, KENNETH R | 1681 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18540604 | METHODS FOR PREPARING CAPTURE SUBSTRATES | BENZION, GARY | 1681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18488731 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPATIAL REFERENCE SEQUENCING | OLSON, ALEXANDRA NADINE | 1684 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 18281930 | METHODS FOR SEQUENCING NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES WITH SEQUENTIAL BARCODES | TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK | 1682 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18025603 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SEQUENCE AND VARIANT CALLING | FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA | 1685 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
| 17181378 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYTE DETECTION AND ANALYSIS | ZHANG, KAIJIANG | 1684 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialUltima Genomics Inc. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 12 examiners.
Jonathan Edward Hayes has the most, with 1 of Ultima Genomics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
