Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

United States Department of the Army

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

18 pending office actions • 16 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

United States Department of the Army has 20 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 20 examiners and 18 art units, indicating broad examiner distribution with modest concentration among technical groups. The profile does not support relying on one examiner-specific approach across the docket.

ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T is the busiest identified examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should prioritize centralized tracking of claim support and disclosure while tailoring each response to its assigned examiner and art unit.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

12
Hard (67%)
4
Medium (22%)
2
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (11%)
§103 only2 (11%)
§112 only2 (11%)
Double-patenting + other2 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)10 (56%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

11
Life Sciences
61% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
1
Semiconductors
6% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
28% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T 1 69.1% +29.0%
SMITH, PETER DANIEL 1 51.3% +48.8%
INAM, SAHAR 1 100.0% +0.0%
MOORE, JOHN DAVID 1 61.1% +28.3%
LEE, CHIHYI NMN 1 33.3% +61.1%
CHESTNUT, BARRY A 1 73.9% +6.3%
OMETZ, DAVID LOUIS 1 76.2% -8.8%
ALLEN, ROBERT F 1 72.9% +62.6%
ALAM, DANYAL HASSAN 1 66.7% +0.0%
PRONZATI, GINA 1 65.9% +48.3%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18805212 PROLYL HYDROXYLASE DOMAIN INHIBITOR FOR TREATING HEMORRHAGIC OR BURN SHOCK INAM, SAHAR —

Hard Cases (12)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18379740 PROLYL HYDROXYLASE DOMAIN INHIBITOR TREATMENT TO IMPROVE SURVIVABILITY OF HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK PRONZATI, GINA 23d overdue
18173551 BIOMARKERS OF IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION IN RESPONSE TO CHRONIC STRESS, METHODS OF USE AND DIAGNOSTIC KITS FLINDERS, JEREMY C 16d overdue
19121238 BODY COMPOSITION PREDICTION BY THE SUMMATION OF REGIONAL ESTIMATES DETERMINED FROM ANATOMICAL SUBREGION GEOMETRY ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T —
18854087 Ocular Chemical Injury Treatment Ring and Method of Use SMITH, PETER DANIEL —
18800672 NOVEL RAPID DRUG DISCOVERY FOR SEPSIS AND AGENTS FOR USE AS SEPSIS THERAPY MOORE, JOHN DAVID —
18794153 Methods for Treating Traumatic Brain Injury LEE, CHIHYI NMN —
18744397 Method of Generating Phage Clones with Expanded Activity CHESTNUT, BARRY A —
18628287 Adaptive Closed Loop Hemorrhagic Shock Resuscitation Controller ALLEN, ROBERT F —

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18379740 PROLYL HYDROXYLASE DOMAIN INHIBITOR TREATMENT TO IMPROVE SURVIVABILITY OF HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK PRONZATI, GINA 23d overdue
19121238 BODY COMPOSITION PREDICTION BY THE SUMMATION OF REGIONAL ESTIMATES DETERMINED FROM ANATOMICAL SUBREGION GEOMETRY ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T —
18854087 Ocular Chemical Injury Treatment Ring and Method of Use SMITH, PETER DANIEL —
18800672 NOVEL RAPID DRUG DISCOVERY FOR SEPSIS AND AGENTS FOR USE AS SEPSIS THERAPY MOORE, JOHN DAVID —
18794153 Methods for Treating Traumatic Brain Injury LEE, CHIHYI NMN —
18628287 Adaptive Closed Loop Hemorrhagic Shock Resuscitation Controller ALLEN, ROBERT F —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1672 3
3797 1
3781 1
1622 1
1638 1
1628 1
2672 1
3783 1
1633 1
1684 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19121238 BODY COMPOSITION PREDICTION BY THE SUMMATION OF REGIONAL ESTIMATES DETERMINED FROM ANATOMICAL SUBREGION GEOMETRY ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T 3797 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 15, 2025
18854087 Ocular Chemical Injury Treatment Ring and Method of Use SMITH, PETER DANIEL 3781 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 04, 2024
18805212 PROLYL HYDROXYLASE DOMAIN INHIBITOR FOR TREATING HEMORRHAGIC OR BURN SHOCK INAM, SAHAR 1622 §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 14, 2024
18800672 NOVEL RAPID DRUG DISCOVERY FOR SEPSIS AND AGENTS FOR USE AS SEPSIS THERAPY MOORE, JOHN DAVID 1638 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 12, 2024
18794153 Methods for Treating Traumatic Brain Injury LEE, CHIHYI NMN 1628 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 05, 2024
18744397 Method of Generating Phage Clones with Expanded Activity CHESTNUT, BARRY A 1672 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 14, 2024
18671239 Transform Upon Image Area of Interest OMETZ, DAVID LOUIS 2672 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 22, 2024
18628287 Adaptive Closed Loop Hemorrhagic Shock Resuscitation Controller ALLEN, ROBERT F 3783 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 05, 2024
18685041 IgA MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES FOR TREATING FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION ALAM, DANYAL HASSAN 1672 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 20, 2024
18379740 PROLYL HYDROXYLASE DOMAIN INHIBITOR TREATMENT TO IMPROVE SURVIVABILITY OF HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK PRONZATI, GINA 1633 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2023
18173551 BIOMARKERS OF IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION IN RESPONSE TO CHRONIC STRESS, METHODS OF USE AND DIAGNOSTIC KITS FLINDERS, JEREMY C 1684 §102§112Other Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2023
17905614 VACCINES AGAINST SARS-COV-2 AND OTHER CORONAVIRUSES BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI 1672 §102§103§112DP Final Rejection 114d overdue Pending Sep 02, 2022
17829164 ANTI-CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS ANTIBODIES, AND METHODS OF THEIR GENERATION AND USE LU, CHENG 1642 §101§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 31, 2022
18896918 END-TO-END CONNECTION FOR LIGHTWEIGHT AIRFIELD MATTING SYSTEM LEE, JONG SUK 2875 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18896915 LIGHTWEIGHT AIRFIELD MATTING SYSTEM HARTMANN, GARY S 3671 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18375410 ADVANCED THIOL-ENE COMPOSITES THAT UNDERGO RADIOFREQUENCY INDUCED ACTUATION PATEL, RONAK C 1788 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 29, 2023
18372133 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING ESTIMATED ANNUAL PAVEMENT COST NGUYEN, NGA B 3625 §101§112 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 25, 2023
17503258 AMINE FUNCTIONALIZED CHITIN FOR REMOVING MUNITIONS COMPOUNDS FROM SOLUTION CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI 1699 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 15, 2021

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does United States Department of the Army have?

United States Department of the Army has 18 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 16 art units and 18 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most United States Department of the Army applications?

Michael T Rozanski has the most, with 1 of United States Department of the Army's pending office actions.

What technology area are United States Department of the Army's patent applications in?

Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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