Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
23 pending office actions • 21 art units • 23 examiners • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
University of Rochester has 25 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 25 distinct examiners across 23 distinct art units, indicating that nearly every matter has its own examiner setting and that art-unit repetition is limited.
EDUN, DEAN NAWAAB is the busiest listed examiner, with 1 pending matter. The docket shows no meaningful examiner concentration, so counsel should emphasize application-specific analysis and careful coordination of claim positions across the separate prosecution assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 9 (39%) |
| §102 only | 1 (4%) |
| §112 only | 1 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (48%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDUN, DEAN NAWAAB | 1 | 50.0% | +63.3% |
| LI, JOHN DENNY | 1 | 63.2% | +48.4% |
| LY, TOMMY TAI | 1 | 80.0% | +23.6% |
| NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 1 | 83.0% | +6.4% |
| MONIKANG, GEORGE C | 1 | 75.4% | +7.1% |
| CHAPEL, DEREK S | 1 | 70.3% | +22.0% |
| KINKEAD, ARNOLD M | 1 | 91.3% | +7.8% |
| MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1 | 69.2% | +33.1% |
| ISMAIL, REHANA | 1 | 76.2% | +34.8% |
| CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1 | 41.6% | +32.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18819871 | Fine-Tuning the H-Scan for Visualizing Types of Tissue Scatterers | LY, TOMMY TAI | — |
| 18728224 | Quantized Bistable Resistively-coupled Ising Machine | KINKEAD, ARNOLD M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18814421 | SWITCHING OF PERPENDICULARLY MAGNETIZED NANOMAGNETS WITH SPIN-ORBIT TORQUES IN THE ABSENCE OF EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELDS | NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 15d |
| 18005311 | Targeted RNA cleavage with dCas13-RNase Fusion Proteins | RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES | 27d |
| 19381766 | Apparatus, Method, and System for Medical Imaging and Characterization of Tissue Structure | EDUN, DEAN NAWAAB | — |
| 19157185 | System and Method for Ultrasound Tomography Guided Localized Mild Hyperthermia (MHTh) Using a Common Closed Geometry Transducer | LI, JOHN DENNY | — |
| 18778855 | DIRECT-WRITE LASER-ASSISTED ALTERING OF METASURFACES | CHAPEL, DEREK S | — |
| 18720528 | ACID-FREE SOLUTION PROCESS FOR STRUCTURALLY INTACT CARBON FIBER PAPER WITH LONG-LASTING HYDROPHILICITY | MINSKEY, JACOB T | — |
| 18708955 | TREATMENT OF MYOTONIC DISORDERS | ISMAIL, REHANA | — |
| 18698128 | NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION CASCADE ENHANCED BY DROPLET EVAPORATION | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19381766 | Apparatus, Method, and System for Medical Imaging and Characterization of Tissue Structure | EDUN, DEAN NAWAAB | — |
| 19157185 | System and Method for Ultrasound Tomography Guided Localized Mild Hyperthermia (MHTh) Using a Common Closed Geometry Transducer | LI, JOHN DENNY | — |
| 18819871 | Fine-Tuning the H-Scan for Visualizing Types of Tissue Scatterers | LY, TOMMY TAI | — |
| 18778855 | DIRECT-WRITE LASER-ASSISTED ALTERING OF METASURFACES | CHAPEL, DEREK S | — |
| 18720528 | ACID-FREE SOLUTION PROCESS FOR STRUCTURALLY INTACT CARBON FIBER PAPER WITH LONG-LASTING HYDROPHILICITY | MINSKEY, JACOB T | — |
| 18708955 | TREATMENT OF MYOTONIC DISORDERS | ISMAIL, REHANA | — |
| 18698128 | NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION CASCADE ENHANCED BY DROPLET EVAPORATION | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 2 |
| 1635 | 2 |
| 3793 | 1 |
| 2824 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1625 | 1 |
| 1683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19381766 | Apparatus, Method, and System for Medical Imaging and Characterization of Tissue Structure | EDUN, DEAN NAWAAB | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2025 |
| 19157185 | System and Method for Ultrasound Tomography Guided Localized Mild Hyperthermia (MHTh) Using a Common Closed Geometry Transducer | LI, JOHN DENNY | 3793 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 18819871 | Fine-Tuning the H-Scan for Visualizing Types of Tissue Scatterers | LY, TOMMY TAI | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18814421 | SWITCHING OF PERPENDICULARLY MAGNETIZED NANOMAGNETS WITH SPIN-ORBIT TORQUES IN THE ABSENCE OF EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELDS | NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 2824 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18810815 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING PLATE LOUDSPEAKERS USING MODAL CROSSOVER NETWORKS | MONIKANG, GEORGE C | 2692 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18778855 | DIRECT-WRITE LASER-ASSISTED ALTERING OF METASURFACES | CHAPEL, DEREK S | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18728224 | Quantized Bistable Resistively-coupled Ising Machine | KINKEAD, ARNOLD M | 2849 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18720528 | ACID-FREE SOLUTION PROCESS FOR STRUCTURALLY INTACT CARBON FIBER PAPER WITH LONG-LASTING HYDROPHILICITY | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1748 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18708955 | TREATMENT OF MYOTONIC DISORDERS | ISMAIL, REHANA | 1625 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18698128 | NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION CASCADE ENHANCED BY DROPLET EVAPORATION | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1683 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18431444 | ROLLINGCACHE: USING RUNTIME BEHAVIOR TO DEFEND AGAINST CACHE SIDE CHANNEL ATTACKS | LIU, ZHE | 2493 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18574021 | ARTICLES WITH HYDROPHOBIC COATINGS OF BORONIC ACID-CONTAINING SILOXANE POLYMERS AND METHODS OF MAKING THEM | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2023 |
| 18560338 | METHODS AND COMPOSITION FOR INDUCING AN IMMUNE RESPONSE BY A RECOMBINNAT VACCINIA VIRUS | WANG, RUIXUE | 1672 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18286898 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR HIGH-SPEED TUNING SOLITON MICROCOMB | TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH | 2896 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18485930 | RESCUE STRATEGIES FOR BEST1 LOSS- AND GAIN-OF-FUNCTION MUTATIONS | ALLEN, SARAH ELIZABETH | 1637 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18467442 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR REJUVENATING CNS GLIAL POPULATIONS BY SUPPRESION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS | MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER | 1635 | §112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18259092 | METHODS OF TREATING, DIAGNOSING AND PREDICTING PROGNOSIS OF SEPSIS | REYNOLDS, FRED H | 1658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 85d | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18034693 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MONITORING CELLS, TISSUES, OR ORGANS-ON-A-CHIP | GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 1797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Apr 29, 2023 |
| 18309232 | Device for Prevention of Vascular Access Port Tampering | HARRIS, WESLEY G | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18030837 | CURVED LIGHTGUIDE AND APPARATUS AND METHODS EMPLOYING A CURVED LIGHTGUIDE | PATEL, PREET BAKUL | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
| 18005311 | Targeted RNA cleavage with dCas13-RNase Fusion Proteins | RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES | 1635 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 18051653 | TCF7L2 MEDIATED REMYELINATION IN THE BRAIN | CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F | 1634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2022 |
| 17795604 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR COATING BONE GRAFTS | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialUniversity of Rochester has 23 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 21 art units and 23 examiners.
Dean Nawaab Edun has the most, with 1 of University of Rochester's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
