Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
The UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Nizal S Chandrakumar, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very specific technical focus for this pending application.
With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the university's current prosecution efforts are highly centralized. Nizal S Chandrakumar's role as the sole examiner means that the outcome of the current pending portfolio depends entirely on this single relationship. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit further emphasizes the narrow scope of the current pending activity within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field. Practitioners can focus their resources on the specific preferences of this examiner and the standards of this art unit. This streamlined environment for 1 pending office action allows for a very targeted and efficient prosecution strategy.
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 | 3 (38%) |
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, BAO LONG T | 1 | 83.1% | +7.2% |
| SHEN, YANXIN NMN | 1 | 84.6% | +26.4% |
| BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 1 | 91.0% | +7.3% |
| DUNN, MCKENZIE A | 1 | 54.2% | +57.3% |
| SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 1 | 84.5% | +6.8% |
| BOECKER, JOSEPH D | 1 | 83.7% | +22.9% |
| ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1 | 15.4% | +37.5% |
| LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | 1 | 37.9% | +15.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17906973 | VENTILATOR AND VENTILATOR VALVE | BOECKER, JOSEPH D | 23d overdue |
| 18994248 | INDUCTION OF REPRODUCTIVE DIFFERENTIATION IN VEGETATIVE SOMATIC PLANT CELLS, AND METHODS AND CELLS THEREOF | SHEN, YANXIN NMN | — |
| 18676828 | CATHETERS, SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS FOR MAPPING, MINIMIZING, AND TREATING CARDIAC FIBRILLATION | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | — |
| 18029309 | Light Emitting Devices With Coupled Resonant Photonic Unit Cells and Distributed Light Emitting Diodes | SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17403811 | CATHETER SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS FOR MAPPING, MINIMIZING, AND TREATING CARDIAC FIBRILLATION | LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | 1d overdue |
| 19219315 | Mobile Sensing Robots Having Multipoint Sensing Systems for Sensing Characteristics of Materials, and Related Systems, Methods, and Software | NGUYEN, BAO LONG T | — |
| 18681004 | METHODS FOR SELECTING A CANCER PATIENT FOR TREATMENT | DUNN, MCKENZIE A | — |
| 17621200 | METHODS FOR GUIDING DIRECT DELIVERY OF DRUGS AND/OR ENERGY TO LESIONS USING COMPUTATIONAL MODELING | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17906973 | VENTILATOR AND VENTILATOR VALVE | BOECKER, JOSEPH D | 23d overdue |
| 17403811 | CATHETER SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS FOR MAPPING, MINIMIZING, AND TREATING CARDIAC FIBRILLATION | LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | 1d overdue |
| 18994248 | INDUCTION OF REPRODUCTIVE DIFFERENTIATION IN VEGETATIVE SOMATIC PLANT CELLS, AND METHODS AND CELLS THEREOF | SHEN, YANXIN NMN | — |
| 18681004 | METHODS FOR SELECTING A CANCER PATIENT FOR TREATMENT | DUNN, MCKENZIE A | — |
| 17621200 | METHODS FOR GUIDING DIRECT DELIVERY OF DRUGS AND/OR ENERGY TO LESIONS USING COMPUTATIONAL MODELING | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 2 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| 2813 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19219315 | Mobile Sensing Robots Having Multipoint Sensing Systems for Sensing Characteristics of Materials, and Related Systems, Methods, and Software | NGUYEN, BAO LONG T | 3656 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 18994248 | INDUCTION OF REPRODUCTIVE DIFFERENTIATION IN VEGETATIVE SOMATIC PLANT CELLS, AND METHODS AND CELLS THEREOF | SHEN, YANXIN NMN | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18676828 | CATHETERS, SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS FOR MAPPING, MINIMIZING, AND TREATING CARDIAC FIBRILLATION | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18681004 | METHODS FOR SELECTING A CANCER PATIENT FOR TREATMENT | DUNN, MCKENZIE A | 1678 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18029309 | Light Emitting Devices With Coupled Resonant Photonic Unit Cells and Distributed Light Emitting Diodes | SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 2813 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
| 17906973 | VENTILATOR AND VENTILATOR VALVE | BOECKER, JOSEPH D | 3785 | §102 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2022 |
| 17621200 | METHODS FOR GUIDING DIRECT DELIVERY OF DRUGS AND/OR ENERGY TO LESIONS USING COMPUTATIONAL MODELING | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1687 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2021 |
| 17403811 | CATHETER SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS FOR MAPPING, MINIMIZING, AND TREATING CARDIAC FIBRILLATION | LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | 3794 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialUniversity of Vermont has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 8 examiners.
Bao Long T Nguyen has the most, with 1 of University of Vermont's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
