Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
University of North Carolina at Wilmington has 2 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 2 examiners and 2 art units, indicating separate examination assignments within the same technology area.
GREENE, IVAN A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Since no examiner handles more than that single action, counsel should maintain separate prosecution assessments for the two matters.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREENE, IVAN A | 1 | 18.8% | +6.1% |
| SHI, GENBIN | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18534290 | METHODS OF PREPARING STABLE NUCLEIC ACID LIQUID FORMULATIONS | GREENE, IVAN A | 41d |
| 18516608 | PREPARATION AND ACTIVITY CHARACTERIZATION OF CANNABICITRAN ENANTIOMERS | SHI, GENBIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18534290 | METHODS OF PREPARING STABLE NUCLEIC ACID LIQUID FORMULATIONS | GREENE, IVAN A | 1619 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18516608 | PREPARATION AND ACTIVITY CHARACTERIZATION OF CANNABICITRAN ENANTIOMERS | SHI, GENBIN | 1628 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUniversity of North Carolina at Wilmington has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Ivan A Greene has the most, with 1 of University of North Carolina at Wilmington's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
