Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
14 pending office actions • 12 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wake Forest University Health Sciences manages 15 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This portfolio is distributed, involving 14 distinct examiners and 12 distinct art units. Such a spread suggests that the university's research covers an array of biological and pharmaceutical sub-specialties, requiring engagement with many different technical divisions at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MOLOYE, TITILAYO, who is currently managing 2 pending office actions. This concentration of cases under the busiest examiner, compared to the total of 15 pending office actions, highlights the variety of the portfolio. With 12 distinct art units involved, the university must manage a prosecution strategy that accounts for the varying standards across this portion of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. The presence of 14 distinct examiners further emphasizes the need for a multifaceted approach to these 15 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 + other | 5 (36%) |
| §103 only | 3 (21%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOLOYE, TITILAYO | 2 | 62.5% | +47.9% |
| COFFA, SERGIO | 1 | 61.1% | +32.5% |
| WESTON, ALYSSA G | 1 | 59.8% | +50.9% |
| CANDELARIA, JULIANA IRENE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| DONOHUE, SEAN R | 1 | 41.4% | +21.0% |
| LANDAU, SHARMILA GOLLAMUDI | 1 | 11.1% | +4.6% |
| GU, QINHUA | 1 | 75.9% | +27.8% |
| MILLER, SERENITY A | 1 | 68.0% | +36.9% |
| POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA | 1 | 64.0% | +18.0% |
| XIAO, YAN | 1 | 67.3% | +52.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18603721 | COMPOUNDS AND COMPOSITIONS USEFUL AS RADIOTRACERS FOR IMAGING OF REACTIVE OXIDATIVE SPECIES | DONOHUE, SEAN R | 28d overdue |
| 18731629 | ORGANOIDS RELATED TO IMMUNOTHERAPY AND METHODS OF PREPARING AND USING THE SAME | WESTON, ALYSSA G | — |
| 18645616 | Rotator Cuff Therapy Using Muscle Fiber Fragments | CANDELARIA, JULIANA IRENE | — |
| 18544936 | COMPOSITIONS, CELL CONSTRUCTS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | MOLOYE, TITILAYO | — |
| 18538015 | SPONTANEOUSLY BEATING CARDIAC ORGANOID CONSTRUCTS AND INTEGRATED BODY-ON-CHIP APPARATUS CONTAINING THE SAME | LANDAU, SHARMILA GOLLAMUDI | — |
| 18287491 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE APPENDECTOMY DEVICE AND METHOD | MILLER, SERENITY A | — |
| 18037708 | VECTORS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EUKARYOTIC GENE EDITING | POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA | — |
| 18157759 | CALIBRATION OF SOLID-STATE SENSORS | DO, AN H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18603721 | COMPOUNDS AND COMPOSITIONS USEFUL AS RADIOTRACERS FOR IMAGING OF REACTIVE OXIDATIVE SPECIES | DONOHUE, SEAN R | 28d overdue |
| 18316672 | EPHA3 AND MULTI-VALENT TARGETING OF TUMORS | XIAO, YAN | 21d |
| 18289875 | GENE THERAPY FOR DENT DISEASE | GU, QINHUA | 60d |
| 18794181 | AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE POWDER AND ITS USE IN WOUND HEALING AND TISSUE ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTS | COFFA, SERGIO | — |
| 18731629 | ORGANOIDS RELATED TO IMMUNOTHERAPY AND METHODS OF PREPARING AND USING THE SAME | WESTON, ALYSSA G | — |
| 18544936 | COMPOSITIONS, CELL CONSTRUCTS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | MOLOYE, TITILAYO | — |
| 18287491 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE APPENDECTOMY DEVICE AND METHOD | MILLER, SERENITY A | — |
| 18037708 | VECTORS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EUKARYOTIC GENE EDITING | POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1658 | 1 |
| 1634 | 1 |
| 1618 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 1637 | 1 |
| 1642 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18794181 | AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE POWDER AND ITS USE IN WOUND HEALING AND TISSUE ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTS | COFFA, SERGIO | 1658 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18731629 | ORGANOIDS RELATED TO IMMUNOTHERAPY AND METHODS OF PREPARING AND USING THE SAME | WESTON, ALYSSA G | — | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18645616 | Rotator Cuff Therapy Using Muscle Fiber Fragments | CANDELARIA, JULIANA IRENE | 1634 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18603721 | COMPOUNDS AND COMPOSITIONS USEFUL AS RADIOTRACERS FOR IMAGING OF REACTIVE OXIDATIVE SPECIES | DONOHUE, SEAN R | 1618 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18544936 | COMPOSITIONS, CELL CONSTRUCTS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | MOLOYE, TITILAYO | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18538015 | SPONTANEOUSLY BEATING CARDIAC ORGANOID CONSTRUCTS AND INTEGRATED BODY-ON-CHIP APPARATUS CONTAINING THE SAME | LANDAU, SHARMILA GOLLAMUDI | 1653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18289875 | GENE THERAPY FOR DENT DISEASE | GU, QINHUA | 1633 | §103 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18287491 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE APPENDECTOMY DEVICE AND METHOD | MILLER, SERENITY A | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18037708 | VECTORS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EUKARYOTIC GENE EDITING | POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA | 1637 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
| 18316672 | EPHA3 AND MULTI-VALENT TARGETING OF TUMORS | XIAO, YAN | 1642 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
| 18157759 | CALIBRATION OF SOLID-STATE SENSORS | DO, AN H | 2853 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
| 17643441 | BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER MODEL AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | MOLOYE, TITILAYO | 1632 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2021 |
| 17048879 | A MEDICAL DEVICE FOR DEPLOYING A CATHETER THAT CAN BE OPERATED WITH A SINGLE HAND, AND A METHOD | SMALE, AVERY E | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Oct 19, 2020 |
| 16921287 | METHODS OF PREDICTING PREDISPOSITION TO OR RISK OF KIDNEY DISEASE | SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA | 1682 | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 06, 2020 |
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