Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Manitoba maintains a company patent portfolio within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio is currently active with 6 pending office actions, indicating a steady level of prosecution activity. This volume of 6 pending office actions suggests that the university is consistently working to protect its research and innovations in the biotech and pharma sectors.
The prosecution of these 6 actions is distributed among 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This 6 to 6 ratio between actions and examiners means that every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual, providing a variety of perspectives on the university's filings. The fact that these 6 actions are spread across 4 distinct art units suggests that while the technology is focused on biotechnology, it spans several different technical sub-fields.
WU, YANNA is identified as the busiest examiner for the University of Manitoba, with 1 pending office action. Given that the busiest examiner pending count is 1 and there are 6 total pending office actions, the workload is distributed among the 6 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration means that the university's success is not tied to any 1 person's review, but rather to the independent decisions of 6 different examiners across 4 distinct art units.
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 | 2 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, YANNA | 1 | 80.9% | +34.4% |
| POTHEN, FEBA | 1 | 81.1% | +11.2% |
| NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | 1 | 86.0% | +11.9% |
| WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 1 | 47.1% | +34.7% |
| FOLEY, SHANON A | 1 | 73.3% | +18.1% |
| BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 1 | 63.7% | +37.6% |
| VASQUEZ, MARKUS A | 1 | 51.2% | +27.3% |
| MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER | 1 | 70.6% | +42.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18875639 | De-embedding of Electromagnetic Imaging Data on Large Storage Bins | NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18256756 | Spectral Differential Equation Approximation Method for Mixed Potential Green's Function in Multilayered Media | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 128d overdue |
| 19050666 | Modelling Protocol for Root Analogue Dental Implants | WU, YANNA | — |
| 18993170 | Electromagnetic Imaging for Large Storage Bins Using Ferrite Loaded Shielded Half-Loop Antennas | POTHEN, FEBA | — |
| 18293427 | Dual-Action Recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (RVSV)-Based Vaccine (DAV) Against COVID-19 and Influenza Viruses | FOLEY, SHANON A | — |
| 18074845 | Quantum Computer Amendable Sparse Matrix Equation Solver | VASQUEZ, MARKUS A | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18256756 | Spectral Differential Equation Approximation Method for Mixed Potential Green's Function in Multilayered Media | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 128d overdue |
| 19050666 | Modelling Protocol for Root Analogue Dental Implants | WU, YANNA | — |
| 18993170 | Electromagnetic Imaging for Large Storage Bins Using Ferrite Loaded Shielded Half-Loop Antennas | POTHEN, FEBA | — |
| 18875639 | De-embedding of Electromagnetic Imaging Data on Large Storage Bins | NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | — |
| 18693233 | Exoskeletal Upper Limb Rehabilitation Device | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | — |
| 18293427 | Dual-Action Recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (RVSV)-Based Vaccine (DAV) Against COVID-19 and Influenza Viruses | FOLEY, SHANON A | — |
| 18074845 | Quantum Computer Amendable Sparse Matrix Equation Solver | VASQUEZ, MARKUS A | — |
| 17605788 | Flea Beetle-Specific RNAI-Based Pesticides | MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| 1671 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 1635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19050666 | Modelling Protocol for Root Analogue Dental Implants | WU, YANNA | 3772 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18993170 | Electromagnetic Imaging for Large Storage Bins Using Ferrite Loaded Shielded Half-Loop Antennas | POTHEN, FEBA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18875639 | De-embedding of Electromagnetic Imaging Data on Large Storage Bins | NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18693233 | Exoskeletal Upper Limb Rehabilitation Device | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18293427 | Dual-Action Recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (RVSV)-Based Vaccine (DAV) Against COVID-19 and Influenza Viruses | FOLEY, SHANON A | 1671 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18256756 | Spectral Differential Equation Approximation Method for Mixed Potential Green's Function in Multilayered Media | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 2858 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 128d overdue | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 18074845 | Quantum Computer Amendable Sparse Matrix Equation Solver | VASQUEZ, MARKUS A | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
| 17605788 | Flea Beetle-Specific RNAI-Based Pesticides | MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER | 1635 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2021 |
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