Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
72 pending office actions • 50 art units • 64 examiners • 0 of 72 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 69 patents granted in the last 365 days
University of Washington has 77 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The docket spans 69 distinct examiners and 55 distinct art units, reflecting broad examination coverage with repeated assignments across both dimensions. This distribution creates a substantial coordination requirement for deadlines, technical positions, and response quality.
MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE is the busiest examiner, with 5 pending matters. That examiner provides a useful focal point for reviewing related records, but the broader docket remains widely distributed. Counsel should combine examiner-specific review with art-unit tracking and portfolio-wide oversight of recurring claim and disclosure issues.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 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. 19 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 only | 2 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 16 (22%) |
| §103 only | 16 (22%) |
| §102 only | 1 (1%) |
| §112 only | 6 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 26 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | 5 | 61.4% | +21.2% |
| HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 2 | 51.3% | +28.3% |
| PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | 2 | 65.7% | +46.1% |
| BUNKER, AMY M | 2 | 29.1% | +45.6% |
| FARAG, AMAL ALY | 1 | 68.0% | +38.4% |
| TISSIRE, ABDELAAZIZ | 1 | 84.1% | +13.8% |
| MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LIN, ERICA S Y | 1 | 86.0% | +2.7% |
| BANERJEE, KOYELI | 1 | 33.3% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17730130 | REAGENTS AND METHODS FOR LABELING MOLECULES WITH ASTATINE ISOTOPES IN HIGHER OXIDATION STATES | JONES, DAMERON LEVEST | 124d overdue |
| 17916683 | METHODS TO ENRICH ENTEROENDOCRINE CELLS AND THEIR SUBTYPES IN THE CONTIGUOUS, INTESTINAL MONOLAYER SYSTEMS | ROGERS, ERIC JASON | 38d overdue |
| 17999011 | PREDICTING INCIPIENT SEPARATION IN TURBULENT FLOWS | HANN, JAY B | 31d overdue |
| 18223989 | COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING ENDOPHYTES FOR IMPROVING PLANT NUTRITION, GROWTH,AND PERFORMANCE AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | BOWERS, ERIN M | 16d overdue |
| 16625100 | HIGH-THROUGHPUT SINGLE-CELL TRANSCRIPTOME LIBRARIES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND OF USING | BUNKER, AMY M | 16d overdue |
| 18120319 | COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING ENDOPHYTES FOR IMPROVING PLANT NUTRITION, GROWTH,AND PERFORMANCE AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | DAVIS, RUTH A | 13d |
| 18344689 | MODULAR EXPANSION JOINTS CONFIGURED TO MINIMIZE NOISE, BRIDGES INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | HARTMANN, GARY S | 21d |
| 17760180 | POLYPEPTIDES AND THEIR USE | BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18455152 | METHODS AND KITS FOR LABELING CELLULAR MOLECULES | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 66d overdue |
| 16625100 | HIGH-THROUGHPUT SINGLE-CELL TRANSCRIPTOME LIBRARIES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND OF USING | BUNKER, AMY M | 16d overdue |
| 19136218 | AXIALLY STEERED BOILING HISTOTRIPSY | FARAG, AMAL ALY | — |
| 19216139 | METHODS AND KITS FOR LABELING CELLULAR MOLECULES | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | — |
| 18935984 | THIN ON-SENSOR NANOPHOTONIC ARRAY CAMERAS | TISSIRE, ABDELAAZIZ | — |
| 18649007 | METHODS FOR TARGETED NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE ENRICHMENT WITH APPLICATIONS TO ERROR CORRECTED NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING | GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | — |
| 18292665 | MULTIPLEXED IN SITU SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION WITH SPLINT LIGATION EXTENSION (SLX) PROBES | GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | — |
| 18651577 | METHODS OF LOWERING THE ERROR RATE OF MASSIVELY PARALLEL DNA SEQUENCING USING DUPLEX CONSENSUS SEQUENCING | MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1684 | 4 |
| 1626 | 3 |
| 1658 | 3 |
| 1652 | 3 |
| 1653 | 3 |
| 3798 | 2 |
| 1681 | 2 |
| 1635 | 2 |
| 1683 | 2 |
| 1675 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19136218 | AXIALLY STEERED BOILING HISTOTRIPSY | FARAG, AMAL ALY | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19216139 | METHODS AND KITS FOR LABELING CELLULAR MOLECULES | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 1626 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 18935984 | THIN ON-SENSOR NANOPHOTONIC ARRAY CAMERAS | TISSIRE, ABDELAAZIZ | 2638 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18843117 | SIZE-EXCLUSION MEMBRANE FOR SELECTIVE UREA REMOVAL ON KIDNEY DIALYSIS MACHINE | MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO | 1772 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18817368 | Highly Flexible Thermoelectric Composite Materials for Temperature Sensing in Aircraft | LIN, ERICA S Y | 2853 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18814954 | Reagents and methods for treating bacterial infection | BANERJEE, KOYELI | 1658 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18799107 | De novo designed sequence-specific DNA binding proteins | KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH | 1658 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18788492 | HYBRID SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR | KAULFUSS, PETER LLOYD | 2874 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18725318 | Microbial-Embedded Hydrogel Beads and Methods of Use | DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | 1657 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18723132 | IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLE-MEDIATED RADIATION DELIVERY FOR TARGETED CANCER TREATMENT | HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH | 1611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18654545 | HIGH-THROUGHPUT SINGLE-CELL SEQUENCING WITH REDUCED AMPLIFICATION BIAS | PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN | 1684 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18649007 | METHODS FOR TARGETED NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE ENRICHMENT WITH APPLICATIONS TO ERROR CORRECTED NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING | GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | 1681 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18638492 | COMMUNICATION USING MODULATED THERMAL NOISE | RACHEDINE, MOHAMMED | 2646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18698565 | NECK MASSAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | DAHER, KIRA B | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18607269 | METHODS OF TREATING PANCREATIC CANCER | MYERS, CARLA J | 1682 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18582346 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY BIOMARKER DETECTION | CHHAY, BONIRATH | 1645 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18438692 | TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND PROBE FOR BOILING HISTOTRIPSY ABLATION OF PROSTATE, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18293011 | TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED BIOLOGICAL GROWTH SURFACES FOR HIGHER MICROBIAL ACTIVITY IN BIOPROCESSING | HOBBS, MICHAEL L | 1799 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18292665 | MULTIPLEXED IN SITU SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION WITH SPLINT LIGATION EXTENSION (SLX) PROBES | GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | 1681 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18291018 | GENERATION OF LARGE PROTEINS BY CO-DELIVERY OF MULTIPLE VECTORS | BRETZ, COREY LANE | 1635 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18578523 | EFFICIENT DUPLEX SEQUENCING USING HIGH FIDELITY NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING READS | SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH | 1683 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18410822 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS TO DIAGNOSE AND TREAT TAUOPATHIES UTILIZING TRANSCRIPT VARIANTS OF PSEN2 | SAPKOTA, SURAJ | 1635 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18577620 | ENZYME-LOADED POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE OF SAME | SHELTON, SYNPHANE LA'SHAWN | 1652 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18576518 | MULTIPLE DE NOVO DESIGNED PROTEIN BINDING PROTEINS | KATAKAM, SUDHAKAR | 1658 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18389890 | IN SITU COMBINATORIAL LABELING OF CELLULAR MOLECULES | GUSSOW, ANNE | 1683 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18566519 | BIOMIMETIC SYSTEMS AND DISEASE ANALYSIS METHODS | BARRON, SEAN C | 1653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18558689 | ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL MODIFICATION TO SUPPRESS ARRHYTHMIAS | MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE | 1675 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18549077 | PICOSCALE THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY FOR ANALYSIS OF SINGLE CELLS AND MICROSAMPLES | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1798 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18547897 | Methods and Devices to Measure Angular Stiffness of Dental and Medical Implants | YOON, CHANEL J | 3791 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18455152 | METHODS AND KITS FOR LABELING CELLULAR MOLECULES | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 1626 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18547644 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR STABILIZATION OF ALLOSTERIC PROTEINS | AEDER, SEAN E | 1642 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18547629 | BACTERIAL DNA CYTOSINE DEAMINASES FOR MAPPING DNA METHYLATION SITES | MOAZZAMI, NAGHMEH NINA | 1652 | §112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18453178 | BIOPLASTIC MATERIALS OBTAINED FROM BIOLOGICAL MATTER | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1734 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18275985 | REPROGRAMMABLE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | KHAN, IFTEKHAR A | 2187 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18223989 | COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING ENDOPHYTES FOR IMPROVING PLANT NUTRITION, GROWTH,AND PERFORMANCE AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | BOWERS, ERIN M | 1653 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18260305 | MODULAR KINETICALLY-CONTROLLED FUNCTIONAL RNA CONSTRUCTS AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA | 1634 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
| 18344689 | MODULAR EXPANSION JOINTS CONFIGURED TO MINIMIZE NOISE, BRIDGES INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | HARTMANN, GARY S | 3671 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18258735 | PHOTOPATTERNED BIOMOLECULE IMMOBILIZATION TO GUIDE 3D CELL FATE IN NATURAL PROTEIN-BASED HYDROGELS | KUCKLA, ANNA GRACE | 1626 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18251514 | PRECISE GENOME DELETION AND REPLACEMENT METHOD BASED ON PRIME EDITING | TRAN, CHRISTINA L | 1637 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 18034583 | HYDROTHERMAL REACTOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 1773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18306960 | GENETIC MANIPULATION METHOD IN BACTERIA | RAMIREZ, DELIA M | 1652 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
| 18134993 | COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING ENDOPHYTES FOR IMPROVING PLANT NUTRITION, GROWTH,AND PERFORMANCE AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | LIU, SUE XU | 1616 | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 18120319 | COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING ENDOPHYTES FOR IMPROVING PLANT NUTRITION, GROWTH,AND PERFORMANCE AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | DAVIS, RUTH A | 1699 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
| 18177022 | BIORESORBABLE TUBULAR ORGAN STENT | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 18006413 | IN VIVO SCREENING ARRAY | TICHY, JENNIFER M.H. | 1653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 18011687 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS OF MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY AND TREATMENTS FOR CANCER | PULLIAM, JOSEPH CONSTANTINE | 1687 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 17999011 | PREDICTING INCIPIENT SEPARATION IN TURBULENT FLOWS | HANN, JAY B | 2186 | §101 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17998459 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASUREMENT OF HALOGENS IN SAMPLES | SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
| 17995687 | CONDITIONING REGIMENS FOR IN VIVO GENE THERAPY | CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F | 1634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
| 17916683 | METHODS TO ENRICH ENTEROENDOCRINE CELLS AND THEIR SUBTYPES IN THE CONTIGUOUS, INTESTINAL MONOLAYER SYSTEMS | ROGERS, ERIC JASON | 1638 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Oct 03, 2022 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialUniversity of Washington has 72 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 50 art units and 64 examiners.
Stephanie Kane Mummert has the most, with 5 of University of Washington's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
