Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Washington State University has 8 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are assigned to 8 examiners across 8 art units, showing complete distribution across the reported examination structure.
CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Portfolio management should emphasize coordinated technical positions while preserving separate strategies for each examiner and 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 1 | 44.0% | +70.1% |
| MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1 | 67.2% | +31.9% |
| CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN | 1 | 38.1% | +35.2% |
| RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1 | 45.5% | +33.7% |
| SHEIKH, HAROON S | 1 | 70.7% | +18.5% |
| TSAY, MARSHA M | 1 | 45.5% | +52.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18816382 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR GENOME EDITING ACROSS GRAFT-JUNCTIONS | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | — |
| 18235950 | SELF-CROSSLINKING COMPOSITE BINDERS FOR ELECTRODES | CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN | — |
| 18100282 | FUEL CELL AND ELECTROLYZER HOTBOX MODULE USING CONDUCTIVE ZIRCONIA STACKS | SHEIKH, HAROON S | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18676570 | METHODS OF PREPARING PLANT-BASED PREPREGS FOR COMPOSITE LAMINATES | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 84d |
| 18816382 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR GENOME EDITING ACROSS GRAFT-JUNCTIONS | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | — |
| 18235950 | SELF-CROSSLINKING COMPOSITE BINDERS FOR ELECTRODES | CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN | — |
| 18251958 | CONVERSION OF CO-MINGLED WASTE PLASTICS TO MONOMERS AND FUELS IN SEQUENTIAL CATALYTIC PROCESS | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | — |
| 18100282 | FUEL CELL AND ELECTROLYZER HOTBOX MODULE USING CONDUCTIVE ZIRCONIA STACKS | SHEIKH, HAROON S | — |
| 17995624 | GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM FOR RAPID CONSTRUCTION OF MULTIPLE-GENE PATHWAY IN OLEAGINOUS YEASTS | TSAY, MARSHA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| 1656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18816382 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR GENOME EDITING ACROSS GRAFT-JUNCTIONS | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 1662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18676570 | METHODS OF PREPARING PLANT-BASED PREPREGS FOR COMPOSITE LAMINATES | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18235950 | SELF-CROSSLINKING COMPOSITE BINDERS FOR ELECTRODES | CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN | 1722 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18251958 | CONVERSION OF CO-MINGLED WASTE PLASTICS TO MONOMERS AND FUELS IN SEQUENTIAL CATALYTIC PROCESS | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1759 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 18100282 | FUEL CELL AND ELECTROLYZER HOTBOX MODULE USING CONDUCTIVE ZIRCONIA STACKS | SHEIKH, HAROON S | 1751 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 17995624 | GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM FOR RAPID CONSTRUCTION OF MULTIPLE-GENE PATHWAY IN OLEAGINOUS YEASTS | TSAY, MARSHA M | 1656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialWashington State University has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Jayanta Chatterjee has the most, with 1 of Washington State University's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
