Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
UNIVERSITE DE HAUTE ALSACE has 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, reflecting a varied technical focus for the university's current filings. Frank S Hou is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that the university's active prosecution is not centralized under one person.
With 2 pending office actions assigned to 2 distinct examiners, the university's patent strategy involves multiple points of review. Frank S Hou's role as the busiest examiner involves 1 pending office action, which is a portion of the total active workload. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the university's innovations in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals are being evaluated by different specialized groups. This spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units requires the university to manage diverse examiner expectations simultaneously.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOU, FRANK S | 1 | 67.8% | +36.7% |
| USELDING, JOHN E | 1 | 53.8% | +17.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579048 | PREPARATION OF 6-SUBSTITUTED MENADIONES | HOU, FRANK S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579048 | PREPARATION OF 6-SUBSTITUTED MENADIONES | HOU, FRANK S | — |
| 17610193 | SILYL TERMINATED PREPOLYMER AND COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | USELDING, JOHN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579048 | PREPARATION OF 6-SUBSTITUTED MENADIONES | HOU, FRANK S | 1692 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 17610193 | SILYL TERMINATED PREPOLYMER AND COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | USELDING, JOHN E | 1763 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialUNIVERSITE DE HAUTE ALSACE has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Frank S Hou has the most, with 1 of UNIVERSITE DE HAUTE ALSACE's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
