Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units.
TOMMY TAI LY is the busiest examiner for the university. This examiner is handling 1 pending office action, representing 1 of the 2 total pending actions reported for the portfolio.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LY, TOMMY TAI | 1 | 80.0% | +23.6% |
| HINES, JANA A | 1 | 53.2% | +39.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681309 | ULTRASONIC RECEIVER AND SENSOR FOR MEASURING ANISOTROPY IN A SAMPLE BY MEANS OF TORSIONAL WAVES, METHOD AND USES THEREOF | LY, TOMMY TAI | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18004082 | BIOMATERIAL COMPRISING BACTERIAL CELLULOSE AND PROBIOTICS AND USES THEREOF | HINES, JANA A | 36d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18004082 | BIOMATERIAL COMPRISING BACTERIAL CELLULOSE AND PROBIOTICS AND USES THEREOF | HINES, JANA A | 36d overdue |
| 18681309 | ULTRASONIC RECEIVER AND SENSOR FOR MEASURING ANISOTROPY IN A SAMPLE BY MEANS OF TORSIONAL WAVES, METHOD AND USES THEREOF | LY, TOMMY TAI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18681309 | ULTRASONIC RECEIVER AND SENSOR FOR MEASURING ANISOTROPY IN A SAMPLE BY MEANS OF TORSIONAL WAVES, METHOD AND USES THEREOF | LY, TOMMY TAI | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18004082 | BIOMATERIAL COMPRISING BACTERIAL CELLULOSE AND PROBIOTICS AND USES THEREOF | HINES, JANA A | 1645 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Tommy Tai Ly has the most, with 1 of UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
