Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
University of Maryland, Baltimore County has 5 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of biological or pharmaceutical research. The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling 1 action. This lack of overlap between examiners and art units suggests that each application is being treated as a unique technical entity by the USPTO.
STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. Because there are 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units for the 5 pending office actions, the university's prosecution is fragmented. This requires managing 5 different examiner styles across 5 separate technical divisions at the USPTO. Practitioners must be prepared for a wide variety of procedural requirements, as the 5 pending actions are not concentrated in any single area of the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON | 1 | 77.2% | +19.6% |
| SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | 1 | 61.9% | +34.8% |
| SHIAO, REI TSANG | 1 | 79.8% | -33.6% |
| MOSHER, ERIC PARKER | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN | 1 | 12.5% | +71.4% |
| SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA | 1 | 53.2% | +48.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18495141 | HYDROPORPHYRIN-DOPED NEAR-INFRARED-EMITTING POLYMER DOTS FOR CELLULAR FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | MOSHER, ERIC PARKER | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18937431 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERMISSIONED BLOCKCHAIN INFRASTRUCTURE WITH FINE-GRAINED ACCESS CONTROL AND CONFIDENTIALITY-PRESERVING PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING | STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON | — |
| 17999437 | AN APPARATUS COMPRISING MICROFLUIDIC PROTEIN-BASED SENSORS AND METHODS OF USING SAME | IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18937431 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERMISSIONED BLOCKCHAIN INFRASTRUCTURE WITH FINE-GRAINED ACCESS CONTROL AND CONFIDENTIALITY-PRESERVING PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING | STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON | — |
| 18734797 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) CONTINUOUSLY SCANNING LASER VIBROMETER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING OPERATING DEFLECTION SHAPES AND MODE SHAPES BASED ON MEASURED 3D VIBRATIONS OF CURVED STRUCTURE SURFACES | SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | — |
| 17999437 | AN APPARATUS COMPRISING MICROFLUIDIC PROTEIN-BASED SENSORS AND METHODS OF USING SAME | IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN | — |
| 17325839 | RAPID DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM USING TARGETED ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE CAPPED PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES | SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2491 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1629 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18937431 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERMISSIONED BLOCKCHAIN INFRASTRUCTURE WITH FINE-GRAINED ACCESS CONTROL AND CONFIDENTIALITY-PRESERVING PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING | STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON | 2491 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18734797 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) CONTINUOUSLY SCANNING LASER VIBROMETER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING OPERATING DEFLECTION SHAPES AND MODE SHAPES BASED ON MEASURED 3D VIBRATIONS OF CURVED STRUCTURE SURFACES | SPLIT, JAMES GERALD | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18661922 | FLEX-NUCLEOSIDE ANALOGUES, NOVEL THERAPEUTICS AGAINST FILOVIRUSES AND FLAVIVIRUSES | SHIAO, REI TSANG | 1629 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18495141 | HYDROPORPHYRIN-DOPED NEAR-INFRARED-EMITTING POLYMER DOTS FOR CELLULAR FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | MOSHER, ERIC PARKER | 1612 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 17999437 | AN APPARATUS COMPRISING MICROFLUIDIC PROTEIN-BASED SENSORS AND METHODS OF USING SAME | IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN | 1653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
| 17325839 | RAPID DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM USING TARGETED ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE CAPPED PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES | SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA | 1682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2021 |
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