Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Universität Münster has 4 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units. This structure indicates that each of the pending office actions is being handled independently by different personnel in different administrative groups. The presence of 4 distinct art units shows that the university's research spans several distinct technical classifications within the broader biotechnology field.
HELM, CARALYNNE E is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This count is mirrored by the other distinct examiners, as the 4 pending office actions are distributed one per examiner. Because there is no overlap between examiners or art units, each prosecution path is likely to be unique. This decentralized arrangement requires the university to manage four separate administrative relationships within the patent office simultaneously.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELM, CARALYNNE E | 1 | 28.9% | +49.8% |
| STONEBRAKER, ALYSSA RAE | 1 | 58.9% | +49.4% |
| LI, RUIXIANG | 1 | 59.5% | +18.7% |
| VANN-OJUEKAIYE, KENDRA RAYCHELL | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17622149 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING AN INDIVIDUAL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PROGRAM FOR A SUBJECT FOR REDUCING AN INDIVIDUAL RISK OF THE SUBJECT FOR DEVELOPING A CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE | VANN-OJUEKAIYE, KENDRA RAYCHELL | 132d overdue |
| 18686346 | NEW COATING OF IMPLANTS | HELM, CARALYNNE E | 70d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686346 | NEW COATING OF IMPLANTS | HELM, CARALYNNE E | 70d |
| 18039946 | ELECTROSTATIC NANOPARTICLES AND USE THEREOF | STONEBRAKER, ALYSSA RAE | — |
| 18011817 | SPERM STRATIFICATION | LI, RUIXIANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1642 | 1 |
| 1674 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18686346 | NEW COATING OF IMPLANTS | HELM, CARALYNNE E | 1615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18039946 | ELECTROSTATIC NANOPARTICLES AND USE THEREOF | STONEBRAKER, ALYSSA RAE | 1642 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18011817 | SPERM STRATIFICATION | LI, RUIXIANG | 1674 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 17622149 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING AN INDIVIDUAL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PROGRAM FOR A SUBJECT FOR REDUCING AN INDIVIDUAL RISK OF THE SUBJECT FOR DEVELOPING A CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE | VANN-OJUEKAIYE, KENDRA RAYCHELL | 1682 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 132d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialUniversität Münster has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Caralynne E Helm has the most, with 1 of Universität Münster's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
