Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Università Degli Studi Di Padova has 3 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This ratio between actions, examiners, and art units suggests that each of the company's pending innovations is being evaluated in a unique technical context within the biotechnology sector. The busiest examiner, WEBB, WALTER E, is responsible for 1 pending office action, meaning the workload is balanced across the assigned staff.
For practitioners, this means that the prosecution of these 3 pending office actions will involve three different sets of examiner preferences and art unit guidelines. The lack of overlap between the 3 distinct art units indicates that the university is pursuing diverse pharmaceutical or biotechnological paths that do not fall under a single specialized sub-group. Since each of the 3 distinct examiners handles only 1 pending office action, there is no opportunity to leverage a relationship with a single examiner to resolve multiple actions. Each of the 3 pending office actions must be treated as an independent negotiation, requiring a customized strategy that addresses the specific technical and procedural requirements of each distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBB, WALTER E | 1 | 46.3% | +18.8% |
| BUCK, LINDSEY A | 1 | 49.4% | +34.3% |
| SAVANI, AVINASH A | 1 | 74.7% | +20.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18885915 | SILICON WAFERS HAVING PASSIVATED CONTACTS | BUCK, LINDSEY A | 34d |
| 18656145 | CONTROLLING AN AIR FLOW RATE PROVIDED TO A BURNER BASED ON A CONCENTRATION OF GAS PROVIDED TO THE BURNER | SAVANI, AVINASH A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18885915 | SILICON WAFERS HAVING PASSIVATED CONTACTS | BUCK, LINDSEY A | 34d |
| 18992537 | PROTEASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2 (PAR2) INHIBITOR AND ITS USES | WEBB, WALTER E | — |
| 18656145 | CONTROLLING AN AIR FLOW RATE PROVIDED TO A BURNER BASED ON A CONCENTRATION OF GAS PROVIDED TO THE BURNER | SAVANI, AVINASH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18992537 | PROTEASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2 (PAR2) INHIBITOR AND ITS USES | WEBB, WALTER E | 1612 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18885915 | SILICON WAFERS HAVING PASSIVATED CONTACTS | BUCK, LINDSEY A | 1728 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18656145 | CONTROLLING AN AIR FLOW RATE PROVIDED TO A BURNER BASED ON A CONCENTRATION OF GAS PROVIDED TO THE BURNER | SAVANI, AVINASH A | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialUniversità Degli Studi Di Padova has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Walter E Webb has the most, with 1 of Università Degli Studi Di Padova's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
