Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
78 pending office actions • 49 art units • 74 examiners • 0 of 78 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 68 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Washington is managing 76 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 72 distinct examiners, indicating that nearly every case is being reviewed by a different official. The portfolio's technical breadth is significant, spanning 48 distinct art units at the patent office. This high number of 48 distinct art units indicates a very diverse range of biological and pharmaceutical innovations being prosecuted.
HAVLIN, ROBERT H is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. With 76 pending office actions in total, the concentration under any single examiner is extremely low. This requires the university to manage 72 distinct examiner relationships across 48 distinct art units, making for a complex prosecution landscape. Practitioners must ensure that technical arguments remain consistent across the 76 pending office actions, despite the wide variety of examiners and art units involved in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 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. 22 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 | 1 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 15 (19%) |
| §103 only | 19 (24%) |
| §102 only | 1 (1%) |
| §112 only | 8 (10%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 29 (37%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 2 | 51.6% | +28.2% |
| PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | 2 | 65.7% | +46.1% |
| BUNKER, AMY M | 2 | 29.2% | +45.7% |
| FARAG, AMAL ALY | 1 | 68.1% | +38.1% |
| CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | 1 | 59.6% | +38.4% |
| TISSIRE, ABDELAAZIZ | 1 | 84.1% | +13.8% |
| CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 31.6% | +30.4% |
| MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER | 1 | 68.5% | +33.6% |
| MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO | 1 | 100.0% | +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 |
| 17904907 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD TO PREPARE LONG-ACTING INJECTABLE SUSPENSION CONTAINING MULTIPLE CANCER DRUGS | BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | 86d overdue |
| 18551832 | PORTABLE HEMODIALYSIS SYSTEMS | WIEST, PHILIP R | 44d 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 |
| 18547644 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR STABILIZATION OF ALLOSTERIC PROTEINS | AEDER, SEAN E | 23d overdue |
| 16625100 | HIGH-THROUGHPUT SINGLE-CELL TRANSCRIPTOME LIBRARIES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND OF USING | BUNKER, AMY M | 16d overdue |
| 18329495 | MULTI-STAGE TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR PROTONATED GLYCAN ISOMER ASSIGNMENT | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 4d overdue |
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 | — |
| 19213369 | SPECTRALLY-ENCODED NON-SCANNING IMAGING THROUGH FIBER | CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | — |
| 18935984 | THIN ON-SENSOR NANOPHOTONIC ARRAY CAMERAS | TISSIRE, ABDELAAZIZ | — |
| 18932410 | WEARABLE DEVICES FOR DETECTING EVENTS USING EXTERNAL EAR AND AMBIENT TEMPERATURE, INCLUDING EXAMPLES OF EARRINGS | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
| 18853272 | EXTENDABLE AND FLEXIBLE DRIVE SHAFT | MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1626 | 3 |
| 1634 | 3 |
| 3798 | 2 |
| 1699 | 2 |
| 1675 | 2 |
| 1652 | 2 |
| 1796 | 2 |
| 1618 | 2 |
| 1684 | 2 |
| 2638 | 1 |
| 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 |
| 19213369 | SPECTRALLY-ENCODED NON-SCANNING IMAGING THROUGH FIBER | CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 18935984 | THIN ON-SENSOR NANOPHOTONIC ARRAY CAMERAS | TISSIRE, ABDELAAZIZ | 2638 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18932410 | WEARABLE DEVICES FOR DETECTING EVENTS USING EXTERNAL EAR AND AMBIENT TEMPERATURE, INCLUDING EXAMPLES OF EARRINGS | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18853272 | EXTENDABLE AND FLEXIBLE DRIVE SHAFT | MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18843117 | SIZE-EXCLUSION MEMBRANE FOR SELECTIVE UREA REMOVAL ON KIDNEY DIALYSIS MACHINE | MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18817368 | Highly Flexible Thermoelectric Composite Materials for Temperature Sensing in Aircraft | LIN, ERICA S Y | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18814954 | Reagents and methods for treating bacterial infection | BANERJEE, KOYELI | — | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18799107 | De novo designed sequence-specific DNA binding proteins | KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18788492 | HYBRID SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR | KAULFUSS, PETER LLOYD | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18763337 | ACOUSTIC BALANCE: WEIGHING IN ULTRASONIC NON-CONTACT MANIPULATORS | SADATE-MOUALEU, MIREILLE SANDRA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 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 | — | §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 | — | §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 |
| 18632126 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OBTAINING AND/OR RECONSTRUCTING SENSOR DATA FOR PREDICTING PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS AND/OR BIOMARKERS | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 3686 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18698565 | NECK MASSAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | DAHER, KIRA B | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18611269 | IMPRINTED POLYMER SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION OF ACTIVATED CARBON FOR SELECTIVE ADSORPTION OF PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES | HUHN, RICHARD A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18607269 | METHODS OF TREATING PANCREATIC CANCER | MYERS, CARLA J | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18596363 | TARGETED TREATMENT FOR SKIN FRAGILITY DISEASES | NESTOR, DONNA MICHELLE | 1627 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 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 | — | §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 | — | §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 | 4100 | §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 | 1699 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18576518 | MULTIPLE DE NOVO DESIGNED PROTEIN BINDING PROTEINS | KATAKAM, SUDHAKAR | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18389890 | IN SITU COMBINATORIAL LABELING OF CELLULAR MOLECULES | GUSSOW, ANNE | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18558689 | ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL MODIFICATION TO SUPPRESS ARRHYTHMIAS | MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE | 1675 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18551832 | PORTABLE HEMODIALYSIS SYSTEMS | WIEST, PHILIP R | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18547897 | Methods and Devices to Measure Angular Stiffness of Dental and Medical Implants | YOON, CHANEL J | 3791 | §101§102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 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 |
| 18547629 | BACTERIAL DNA CYTOSINE DEAMINASES FOR MAPPING DNA METHYLATION SITES | MOAZZAMI, NAGHMEH NINA | 1652 | §112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18547644 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR STABILIZATION OF ALLOSTERIC PROTEINS | AEDER, SEAN E | 1642 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18454005 | BIOLOGICAL CEMENT WITH ALGAL BIOMATTER | LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN | 3674 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18453178 | BIOPLASTIC MATERIALS OBTAINED FROM BIOLOGICAL MATTER | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1734 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18360190 | Glycoengineered protein nanoparticles and uses thereof | CHEN, STACY BROWN | 1672 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 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 |
| 18339978 | CATHETERS FOR EMERGENCY ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | PRICE, NATHAN R | 3783 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jun 22, 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 |
| 18331034 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RENDERING OF VISUALS AND GRAPHICS | CLOTHIER, MATTHEW MORRIS | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18329495 | MULTI-STAGE TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR PROTONATED GLYCAN ISOMER ASSIGNMENT | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jun 05, 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 |
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Start Free TrialUniversity of Washington has 78 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 49 art units and 74 examiners.
Robert H Havlin has the most, with 2 of University of Washington's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.