Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS - UFMG currently has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, RHOADES, DEREK JAMES, who serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. The concentration of the workload under a single individual suggests a highly specific point of contact for current prosecution efforts. For a practitioner, this means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action will define the immediate success of the portfolio in this technology sector.
The portfolio's activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, matching the count of 1 distinct examiner. This alignment between the examiner and the art unit indicates that the university's current legal challenges are localized within a specific regulatory niche. Because the total pending office actions is 1, the busiest examiner accounts for the entire current workload. This lack of examiner diversity means that the institution does not have to manage multiple simultaneous prosecution tracks or varying examiner styles at this time. Instead, the focus remains entirely on the review process of RHOADES, DEREK JAMES within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, ANDRE J | 1 | 91.4% | +6.4% |
| MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1 | 57.5% | +22.7% |
| BONAPARTE, AMY C | 1 | 79.1% | +23.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18973028 | USE OF SENSORS BASED ON FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES AND PROCESS FOR THE DETECTION OF CO2 IN GASEOUS ENVIRONMENTS | ALLEN, ANDRE J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18394356 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DELIQUESCENT DESICCANT MATERIAL, DELIQUESCENT DESICCANT MATERIAL AND USE THEREOF FOR DRYING GASES | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 35d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18394356 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DELIQUESCENT DESICCANT MATERIAL, DELIQUESCENT DESICCANT MATERIAL AND USE THEREOF FOR DRYING GASES | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 35d overdue |
| 18546075 | METHOD FOR THE COPRODUCTION OF C10 TO C13 OLEFINS AND ESTERS FROM FATTY ACID METHYL ESTERS | BONAPARTE, AMY C | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18973028 | USE OF SENSORS BASED ON FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES AND PROCESS FOR THE DETECTION OF CO2 IN GASEOUS ENVIRONMENTS | ALLEN, ANDRE J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2024 |
| 18394356 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DELIQUESCENT DESICCANT MATERIAL, DELIQUESCENT DESICCANT MATERIAL AND USE THEREOF FOR DRYING GASES | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1776 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18546075 | METHOD FOR THE COPRODUCTION OF C10 TO C13 OLEFINS AND ESTERS FROM FATTY ACID METHYL ESTERS | BONAPARTE, AMY C | 1692 | §112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS - UFMG has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Andre J Allen has the most, with 1 of UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS - UFMG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
