Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI BARI ALDO MORO currently has 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the university's active prosecution for its biological research. In the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector, maintaining 1 pending office action requires careful management of USPTO deadlines to ensure that the intellectual property protection remains on track with academic publication cycles.
The prosecution is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This focus within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical scope of the application is highly specialized and does not cross into other technical disciplines. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the university's strategy is entirely dependent on the interpretation of a single individual at the patent office.
DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since this 1 pending office action is the only one currently active, the interactions with DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA will determine the immediate success of the university's patent efforts. Practitioners should review the specific tendencies of DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA to navigate the 1 pending office action effectively.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA | 1 | 64.9% | +41.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18000425 | SSTR-2 Binding Chimeric Antigen Receptors | DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA | 9d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18000425 | SSTR-2 Binding Chimeric Antigen Receptors | DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18000425 | SSTR-2 Binding Chimeric Antigen Receptors | DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA | 1642 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Dec 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialUNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI BARI ALDO MORO has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Maureen Varina Driscoll has the most, with 1 of UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI BARI ALDO MORO's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
