Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNION HOSPITAL, TONGJI MEDICAL COLLEGE, HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY has 6 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The docket spans 6 examiners and 5 art units, showing broad examiner distribution with some art-unit overlap.
GRABER, JAMES J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Since the examiner workload is evenly distributed, art-unit groupings may offer the more practical basis for coordinating related responses while preserving matter-specific analysis.
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 (40%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRABER, JAMES J | 1 | 46.5% | +57.6% |
| HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 1 | 36.5% | +45.0% |
| O'NEILL, MARISOL ANN | 1 | 54.5% | +68.2% |
| PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | 1 | 20.0% | +94.1% |
| MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE | 1 | 53.7% | +39.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409015 | PREPARATION METHOD AND USE OF HYDROGEL MATERIAL FOR GROWTH OF BLOOD VESSEL ORGANOIDS | O'NEILL, MARISOL ANN | 42d |
| 18439283 | ANIMAL MODEL OF CD19 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR (CAR)-T CELL THERAPY FOR LEUKEMIA COMPLICATED BY CYTOKINE RELEASE SYNDROME (CRS), AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | GRABER, JAMES J | — |
| 18432678 | METHOD FOR DETECTING CD19 EXPRESSION | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | — |
| 18527746 | Fluorescently Labeled Lentiviral Vector, And Preparation Methods And Use Thereof | PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | — |
| 18459076 | METHOD FOR DETECTING ANTI-CAR ANTIBODY AGAINST HUMANIZED CART CELLS | MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409015 | PREPARATION METHOD AND USE OF HYDROGEL MATERIAL FOR GROWTH OF BLOOD VESSEL ORGANOIDS | O'NEILL, MARISOL ANN | 42d |
| 18439283 | ANIMAL MODEL OF CD19 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR (CAR)-T CELL THERAPY FOR LEUKEMIA COMPLICATED BY CYTOKINE RELEASE SYNDROME (CRS), AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | GRABER, JAMES J | — |
| 18432678 | METHOD FOR DETECTING CD19 EXPRESSION | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | — |
| 18527746 | Fluorescently Labeled Lentiviral Vector, And Preparation Methods And Use Thereof | PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | — |
| 18459076 | METHOD FOR DETECTING ANTI-CAR ANTIBODY AGAINST HUMANIZED CART CELLS | MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1631 | 2 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| 1675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18439283 | ANIMAL MODEL OF CD19 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR (CAR)-T CELL THERAPY FOR LEUKEMIA COMPLICATED BY CYTOKINE RELEASE SYNDROME (CRS), AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | GRABER, JAMES J | 1631 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18432678 | METHOD FOR DETECTING CD19 EXPRESSION | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 1682 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18409015 | PREPARATION METHOD AND USE OF HYDROGEL MATERIAL FOR GROWTH OF BLOOD VESSEL ORGANOIDS | O'NEILL, MARISOL ANN | 1633 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18527746 | Fluorescently Labeled Lentiviral Vector, And Preparation Methods And Use Thereof | PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | 1631 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18459076 | METHOD FOR DETECTING ANTI-CAR ANTIBODY AGAINST HUMANIZED CART CELLS | MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE | 1675 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUNION HOSPITAL, TONGJI MEDICAL COLLEGE, HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
James J Graber has the most, with 1 of UNION HOSPITAL, TONGJI MEDICAL COLLEGE, HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
