Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
114 pending office actions • 70 art units • 107 examiners • 0 of 114 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 123 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has 116 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. Those matters are distributed across 109 distinct examiners and 70 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio reaches a broad range of examination resources rather than remaining concentrated in a narrow technical or organizational channel.
SCHUBERG, LAURA J is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That limited concentration means examiner-specific prosecution planning may have a narrower role than portfolio-wide consistency. Counsel may benefit from maintaining adaptable claim strategies and tracking procedural differences across the various art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 30 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. 30 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 | 11 (10%) |
| §103 only | 32 (28%) |
| §102 only | 2 (2%) |
| §112 only | 10 (9%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 7 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 46 (40%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (2%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHUBERG, LAURA J | 3 | 23.6% | +37.0% |
| PAK, YONG D | 3 | 74.7% | +14.2% |
| GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE | 2 | 57.8% | +46.3% |
| CANELLA, KAREN A | 2 | 62.3% | +32.8% |
| NGUYEN, NGHI V | 2 | 53.6% | +50.8% |
| WONG, EDNA | 1 | 58.4% | -19.7% |
| BOLER, RYNAE E | 1 | 62.4% | +8.8% |
| ARIANI, KADE | 1 | 75.0% | +32.0% |
| LUONG, DUY HAN | 1 | 95.1% | +7.7% |
| ABBOTT, KODYE LEE | 1 | 54.5% | +71.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989456 | Photonic Static Random Access Memory | LUONG, DUY HAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18302630 | METHOD OF CREATING HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL DERIVED BRAIN PERICYTE-LIKE CELLS | PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER | 88d overdue |
| 18451658 | METHOD TO ENRICH DESIRED TYPES IN SEED-DERIVED CROPS | STOCKDALE, JESSICA NICOLE | 73d overdue |
| 17820488 | RETINAL ORGANOID MODEL SYSTEMS | HOLLAND, PAUL J | 73d overdue |
| 18094221 | T CELL SPECIFIC BIOMARKERS FOR PREDICTING GRAFT-VS-HOST DISEASE AND HEMATOPOIETIC MALIGNANCY RELAPSE FOLLOWING HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION AND TREATMENT THEREOF | GABEL, GAILENE | 31d overdue |
| 18231997 | Clip on Torque Device for Endovascular Procedures | WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | 28d overdue |
| 18572146 | ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIVE COUPLING OF PHENOL DERIVATIVES | HASKE, WOJCIECH | 23d overdue |
| 18463211 | REAGENTS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING ERYTHROMYELOID PROGENITOR CELLS, NK CELLS, AND MEGAKARYOCYTES | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | 18d overdue |
| 18599008 | BIOMARKERS FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS AND DIFFERENTIATION OF MYCOBACTERIAL INFECTION | CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | 9d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658840 | YEAST STRAINS WITH SELECTED OR ALTERED MITOTYPES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE | 51d overdue |
| 18463211 | REAGENTS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING ERYTHROMYELOID PROGENITOR CELLS, NK CELLS, AND MEGAKARYOCYTES | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | 18d overdue |
| 18310510 | GENERATING ARTERIAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL POPULATIONS | NGUYEN, NGHI V | 5d overdue |
| 19042945 | IFNy AND TNFa CO-STIMULATION OF MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS DERIVED FROM MINOR SALIVARY (LABIAL) GLANDS FOR THERAPEUTIC USE | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | — |
| 19025081 | MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES THAT INHIBIT CLOSTRIDIOIDES DIFFICILE AND METHODS OF USING SAME | ARIANI, KADE | — |
| 18982272 | Method for the Induction of Arterial-Type of Hemogenic Endothelium from hPSCS | ABBOTT, KODYE LEE | — |
| 18891498 | MICROORGANISMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING CIS,CIS-MUCONIC ACID | PAK, YONG D | — |
| 18819158 | Generating Vasculogenic Cell Populations | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1631 | 7 |
| 1653 | 7 |
| 1651 | 3 |
| 1632 | 3 |
| 1662 | 3 |
| 1652 | 3 |
| 1637 | 3 |
| 1633 | 3 |
| 1797 | 3 |
| 1663 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19396967 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEHYDROGENATION | WONG, EDNA | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2025 |
| 19244762 | Otoscope Providing Low Obstruction Electronic Display | BOLER, RYNAE E | 3773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19042945 | IFNy AND TNFa CO-STIMULATION OF MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS DERIVED FROM MINOR SALIVARY (LABIAL) GLANDS FOR THERAPEUTIC USE | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | 1631 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19025081 | MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES THAT INHIBIT CLOSTRIDIOIDES DIFFICILE AND METHODS OF USING SAME | ARIANI, KADE | 1651 | §101§102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18989456 | Photonic Static Random Access Memory | LUONG, DUY HAN | 2825 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18982272 | Method for the Induction of Arterial-Type of Hemogenic Endothelium from hPSCS | ABBOTT, KODYE LEE | 1632 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18974347 | PLANT CELLS AND PLANTS MODIFIED TO INCREASE RESISTANCE TO NECROTROPHS OR DROUGHT AND METHODS OF SELECTING AND USING THE SAME | KUMAR, VINOD | 1663 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18972024 | TISSUE MANIPULATION AND CUTTING DEVICE AND RELATED METHODS | SCHERBEL, TODD J | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18962163 | DIETARY TRIPROPIONIN SUPPLEMENTATION TO REDUCE ADIPOSITY AND IMPROVE GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS | NOLAN, JASON MICHAEL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18947889 | Inverse Backscatter Absorption Gas Imaging | GEISEL, KARA E | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18906694 | DEREGULATED DHS AND TYRA ENZYMES OF GRASSES ENABLE EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF BOTH TYROSINE AND PHENYLALANINE | STANKOVIC, BRATISLAV | 1662 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18900566 | Gas Phase Sample Preparation for Cryo-Electron Microscopy | IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | 2881 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18891498 | MICROORGANISMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING CIS,CIS-MUCONIC ACID | PAK, YONG D | 1652 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18829184 | Methods for In Vivo Tracking of Cells | MOSHER, ERIC PARKER | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18819345 | THERMAL EYELID MASSAGE | SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | 3785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18819158 | Generating Vasculogenic Cell Populations | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | 1631 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18790293 | HEMOGLOBIN-BASED NANOPARTICLES | PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 1617 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18770187 | Generation of Adipocytes from Bovine Embryonic Stem Cell Lines | MARTIN, PAUL C | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18737647 | RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISMS THAT CATABOLIZE LIGNIN AROMATICS AND METHODS OF USING SAME | PAK, YONG D | 1652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18731954 | ELECTRODE DESIGN FOR SURFACE ENHANCED INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY | YUN, JURIE | 2884 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18714481 | DEVELOPMENT OF FOOD-GRADE FUNGAL FERMENTATES WITH ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY AND THE USE THEREOF | AFREMOVA, VERA | 1653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18672924 | MICROBES AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE DETOXIFICATION OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS | PAK, YONG D | 1652 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18670878 | Soil Moisture Sensor | BOLDUC, DAVID J | 2852 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18665208 | SOLVENT-BASED PLASTIC RECYCLING METHOD TO REMOVE INKS AND PRODUCE CLEAR FILMS | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1765 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18664936 | Microfluidic Device For Profiling Biochemical Samples | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 1758 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18660692 | MERISTEM TRANSFORMATION METHOD USING A LIQUID SELECTION MEDIUM | DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN | 1662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18658147 | Camera Sensor with Shared Pixel Weighting | WENG, PEI YONG | 2141 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18658840 | YEAST STRAINS WITH SELECTED OR ALTERED MITOTYPES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE | 1637 | §103 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18708496 | MUTANT ACE2 PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USING SAME | EIX, EMILY FAY | 1653 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18657155 | STRAIN-RELAXED PSEUDO-SUBSTRATES AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME USING THERMAL POROSIFICATION | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD A | 2898 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18653004 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING ALLOSTERIC BIOSENSOR PROTEINS WITH NEW SPECIFICITIES | PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN | 1684 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18650408 | Modular, Multi-Axis Force Sensor for Measuring Joint Contact Forces | WALSH, RYAN D | 2852 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18629296 | VACCINE ADJUVANTS, TRANSFECTION REAGENTS, AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | SHOMER, ISAAC | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18626102 | AUTOXIDATION CATALYSIS FOR CARBON CARBON BOND CLEAVAGE IN LIGNIN | BAKSHI, PANCHAM | 1623 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18623989 | GENERALIZED EVENT CAMERA | DHILLON, PUNEET S | 2488 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 86d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18694831 | MATRICES AND SYSTEMS FOR PRESERVATION OF BIOMOLECULES IN VACUUM | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18613041 | REAGENTS AND METHODS FOR PROMOTING ARTERIAL ENDOTHELIUM DIFFERENTIATION AND NITRIC OXIDE PRODUCTION | TAKENAKA, RISA | 1653 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18612463 | HIGH THROUGHPUT NEWBORN SCREENING ASSAY FOR ANGELMAN AND PRADER-WILLI SYNDROMES | BROWN, MINDY G | 1683 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18611181 | TWO COMBINED MUTATIONS THAT INTRODUCE THE SECOND ENTRY PATHWAY TO SYNTHESIZED LIGNIN FROM TYROSINE IN PLANTS | BOWERS, ERIN M | 1653 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18599008 | BIOMARKERS FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS AND DIFFERENTIATION OF MYCOBACTERIAL INFECTION | CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | 1645 | §101§112Other | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18596069 | GRAVITY SURVEYS ON AN UNSTAFFED AERIAL VEHICLE | BHAT, ADITYA S | 2855 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18592050 | BOTULINUM NEUROTOXIN A SUBTYPE 6 AND PHARMACOLOGICAL METHODS OF USE | CURRENS, GRANT CARSON | 1651 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18440260 | EFFICIENT DIFFERENTIATION OF SECOND HEART FIELD CARDIAC PROGENITOR CELLS AND RIGHT VENTRICLE CARDIOMYOCYTES FROM HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS | LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT | 1633 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18439978 | METHODS OF FORMING SYNTACTIC FOAMS USING SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING | SANDERS, JAMES M | 1743 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18434662 | LIPOPEPTIDES, NANOPARTICLES AND METHODS OF USE | KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI | 1615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18426920 | SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL CEREBLON E3 LIGASE LIGANDS, COMPOUNDS FORMED THEREBY, AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING THEM | OTTON, ALICIA L | 1699 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18424697 | STEREOCOMPLEX OF OLIGOLACTIC ACID CONJUGATES IN MICELLES FOR IMPROVED PHYSICAL STABILITY AND ENHANCED ANTITUMOR EFFICACY | WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 1618 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18417305 | SYNTHETIC YEAST CELLS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES | 1635 | §112 | Final Rejection | 127d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18572146 | ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIVE COUPLING OF PHENOL DERIVATIVES | HASKE, WOJCIECH | 1794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18570690 | BIOMATERIALS COATING FOR ON-DEMAND BACTERIA DELIVERY AND METHOD TO TREAT COLITIS AND IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME | STEVENS, MARK V | 1613 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialWisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has 114 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 70 art units and 107 examiners.
Laura J Schuberg has the most, with 3 of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
