Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
University of Ottawa has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, showing separate examiner and technical-unit assignments throughout the recorded docket.
RIDDICK, BLAKE CUTLER is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner-specific concentration appears in the profile. Counsel should manage each matter independently while using a common technical record where the inventions support that approach.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIDDICK, BLAKE CUTLER | 1 | 78.2% | +9.6% |
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.1% | +39.8% |
| NATARAJAN, MEERA | 1 | 62.6% | +17.9% |
| KERR, ELIZABETH M | 1 | 64.8% | +27.9% |
| HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH | 1 | 50.6% | +62.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17899230 | FAST REPLICATION OF LASER MACHINED MICRON/SUB-MICRON SCALE PATTERNS ONTO SOFT-METAL SUBSTRATES VIA EMBOSSING | KERR, ELIZABETH M | 41d |
| 19058822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING GAIT | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17774875 | BIOMATERIALS FOR BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING | HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH | 72d overdue |
| 17899230 | FAST REPLICATION OF LASER MACHINED MICRON/SUB-MICRON SCALE PATTERNS ONTO SOFT-METAL SUBSTRATES VIA EMBOSSING | KERR, ELIZABETH M | 41d |
| 19058822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING GAIT | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
| 18699059 | ANTI-CD3 MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES AND THERAPEUTIC CONSTRUCTS | NATARAJAN, MEERA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1643 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19204107 | High Detectivity Infrared and Terahertz Radiation Sensing Using Frequency-Noise-Optimized Nanomechanical Resonators | RIDDICK, BLAKE CUTLER | 2884 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19058822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING GAIT | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 18699059 | ANTI-CD3 MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES AND THERAPEUTIC CONSTRUCTS | NATARAJAN, MEERA | 1643 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 17899230 | FAST REPLICATION OF LASER MACHINED MICRON/SUB-MICRON SCALE PATTERNS ONTO SOFT-METAL SUBSTRATES VIA EMBOSSING | KERR, ELIZABETH M | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
| 17774875 | BIOMATERIALS FOR BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING | HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH | 1611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialUniversity of Ottawa has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Blake Cutler Riddick has the most, with 1 of University of Ottawa's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
