Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
University Of The Witwatersrand Johannesburg is currently engaged in the patent prosecution process within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio contains 3 pending office actions, reflecting an ongoing effort to protect their academic research and innovations. This workload is distributed across 3 distinct examiners, suggesting that the university's filings cover a range of technical specialties.
The prosecution is further divided among distinct art units. This distribution implies that the university's research spans several different technical or regulatory categories within the biotechnology field. For practitioners, this requires a versatile prosecution strategy that can adapt to the specific standards and historical tendencies of each of these different art units.
TRAN, JUDY DAO is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With the pending matters spread across multiple examiners and art units, the outcome of each application will be highly dependent on the individual examiner's approach. Navigating this diverse prosecution environment effectively involves balancing these individual interactions with the broader requirements of the assigned 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, JUDY DAO | 1 | 80.0% | +16.5% |
| HA, JULIE | 1 | 75.7% | +44.1% |
| LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 1 | 37.5% | +76.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18689617 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OBJECTS | TRAN, JUDY DAO | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17426780 | 2-HYDROXYPROPYL-BETA-CYCLODEXTRIN (HPBETACD) FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER | LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 22d |
| 18689617 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OBJECTS | TRAN, JUDY DAO | — |
| 17609731 | A METHOD OF DECREASING CONCENTRATION OF TAU (T) PROTEIN AND/OR PHOSPHORYLATED TAU (T) PROTEIN | HA, JULIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 1654 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18689617 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OBJECTS | TRAN, JUDY DAO | 2877 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 17609731 | A METHOD OF DECREASING CONCENTRATION OF TAU (T) PROTEIN AND/OR PHOSPHORYLATED TAU (T) PROTEIN | HA, JULIE | 1654 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2021 |
| 17426780 | 2-HYDROXYPROPYL-BETA-CYCLODEXTRIN (HPBETACD) FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER | LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 1693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jul 29, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialUniversity Of The Witwatersrand Johannesburg has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Judy Dao Tran has the most, with 1 of University Of The Witwatersrand Johannesburg's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
