Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
11 pending office actions • 8 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Tsukuba has 11 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 11 actions are distributed among 11 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending matter is assigned to a different individual. The prosecution activity is spread across 8 distinct art units, which reflects a significant degree of technical diversity in the university's biotech research.
The busiest examiner, PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 11 pending office actions and 11 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently managing exactly one case. The involvement of 8 distinct art units suggests that the 11 pending office actions are categorized into many different specialized groups. This requires the university to manage a wide range of examiner interactions across these 8 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 4 (36%) |
| §103 only | 1 (9%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 2 (18%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (27%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C | 1 | 79.3% | +21.2% |
| CHEN, XUEMEI G | 1 | 77.0% | +25.6% |
| PARK, SOO JIN | 1 | 81.9% | +17.3% |
| STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 1 | 53.3% | +43.1% |
| ROZOF, TIMOTHY R | 1 | 72.7% | +23.6% |
| BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE | 1 | 46.6% | +33.1% |
| GERMICK, JOHNATHAN R | 1 | 46.2% | +30.6% |
| PALENIK, JEFFREY T | 1 | 53.6% | +27.2% |
| ELKINS, BLAKE HARRISON | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| XIE, XIAOZHEN | 1 | 56.6% | +65.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699428 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | PARK, SOO JIN | 7d |
| 18250121 | COPOLYMER CONTAINING POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) AND POLY(L-AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE), MICROPARTICLES THEREOF AND USE THEREOF IN PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION | PALENIK, JEFFREY T | 22d |
| 19016213 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C | — |
| 18842280 | ROBUSTNESS VERIFICATION DEVICE, ROBUSTNESS VERIFICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | CHEN, XUEMEI G | — |
| 18564538 | COLD SENSATION PRESENTATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | — |
| 18252819 | FEATURE AMOUNT SELECTION DEVICE, FEATURE AMOUNT SELECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | GERMICK, JOHNATHAN R | — |
| 17776191 | EVALUATION DEVICE, EVALUATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | ELKINS, BLAKE HARRISON | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699428 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | PARK, SOO JIN | 7d |
| 17772042 | Immune Response Suppressant | XIE, XIAOZHEN | 9d |
| 18250121 | COPOLYMER CONTAINING POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) AND POLY(L-AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE), MICROPARTICLES THEREOF AND USE THEREOF IN PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION | PALENIK, JEFFREY T | 22d |
| 18276762 | BODY TEMPERATURE LOWERING AGENT, BODY TEMPERATURE ELEVATION SUPPRESSOR, FOOD COMPOSITION FOR LOWERING BODY TEMPERATURE,AND FOOD COMPOSITION FOR SUPPRESSING BODY TEMPERATURE ELEVATION | ROZOF, TIMOTHY R | 56d |
| 19016213 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C | — |
| 18842280 | ROBUSTNESS VERIFICATION DEVICE, ROBUSTNESS VERIFICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | CHEN, XUEMEI G | — |
| 18564538 | COLD SENSATION PRESENTATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | — |
| 18259037 | FIBROIN MICRO-SPHERE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2675 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 1625 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| 1674 | 1 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19016213 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18842280 | ROBUSTNESS VERIFICATION DEVICE, ROBUSTNESS VERIFICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | CHEN, XUEMEI G | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18699428 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | PARK, SOO JIN | 2675 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18564538 | COLD SENSATION PRESENTATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 3794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18276762 | BODY TEMPERATURE LOWERING AGENT, BODY TEMPERATURE ELEVATION SUPPRESSOR, FOOD COMPOSITION FOR LOWERING BODY TEMPERATURE,AND FOOD COMPOSITION FOR SUPPRESSING BODY TEMPERATURE ELEVATION | ROZOF, TIMOTHY R | 1625 | §102 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18259037 | FIBROIN MICRO-SPHERE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE | 1619 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18252819 | FEATURE AMOUNT SELECTION DEVICE, FEATURE AMOUNT SELECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | GERMICK, JOHNATHAN R | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
| 18250121 | COPOLYMER CONTAINING POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) AND POLY(L-AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE), MICROPARTICLES THEREOF AND USE THEREOF IN PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION | PALENIK, JEFFREY T | 1615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 17776191 | EVALUATION DEVICE, EVALUATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | ELKINS, BLAKE HARRISON | 1687 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 11, 2022 |
| 17772042 | Immune Response Suppressant | XIE, XIAOZHEN | 1674 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
| 17611007 | NEURAL CELL POPULATION, NEURAL CELL-CONTAINING PREPARATION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAID POPULATION AND PREPARATION | TAKENAKA, RISA | 1632 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Nov 12, 2021 |
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