Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wuhan University currently manages 10 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This volume of prosecution is distributed among 10 distinct examiners, indicating a broad engagement with the patent office. These actions are spread across 7 distinct art units, which reflects a variety of technical research topics being pursued by the university.
ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because there are 10 pending office actions and 10 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed, with no examiner managing more than one case. The distribution across 7 distinct art units suggests that the university's patent strategy involves multiple specialized fields within Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. This decentralized prosecution requires coordination across many different examiners and art units. The university must manage 10 pending office actions by addressing the specific requirements of 10 different examiners.
For a patent practitioner, this level of distribution means that success in one application may not influence the others. The 7 distinct art units will each apply their own specific technical criteria to the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals claims. With 10 pending office actions and 10 distinct examiners, the university must maintain a highly versatile prosecution strategy. This decentralized structure is common for large research institutions with broad technical portfolios. ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R is just one of the many examiners the university must manage.
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 only | 1 (10%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (20%) |
| §112 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | 1 | 76.7% | +10.9% |
| HUYNH, PHUONG | 1 | 85.6% | +14.7% |
| GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | 1 | 68.9% | +16.6% |
| LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | 1 | 58.2% | +40.0% |
| PETRASH, HILARY ANN | 1 | 64.5% | +51.7% |
| ORTIZ, ELIM | 1 | 79.1% | +23.1% |
| YU, DELPHINUS DOU YI | 1 | 33.3% | +0.0% |
| HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 1 | 36.4% | +44.9% |
| MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | 1 | 61.2% | +21.4% |
| BEVERIDGE, CONNOR HAMMOND | 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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17871649 | BIORETROSYNTHETIC METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON AND-OR TREE AND SINGLE-STEP REACTION TEMPLATE PREDICTION | BEVERIDGE, CONNOR HAMMOND | 27d |
| 18644691 | INTELLIGENT MONITORING, INVERSION AND DYNAMIC PREDICTION SYSTEM FOR TRANSIENT PROCESS OF PUMPED STORAGE UNITS | HUYNH, PHUONG | — |
| 18415188 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA | PETRASH, HILARY ANN | — |
| 18406179 | WEAKLY-CENTRALIZED FREQUENCY REGULATION CONTROL METHOD OF CHARGE STATION CLUSTER BASED ON VIRTUAL LEADER AND MEDIUM | ORTIZ, ELIM | — |
| 18277768 | EDITING OF DOUBLE-STRANDED DNA WITH RELAXED PAM REQUIREMENT | YU, DELPHINUS DOU YI | — |
| 18271654 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INSTANT NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18584761 | COMPOSITION INCLUDING A METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORK (MOF) NANOPARTICLE FOR ORAL PROTEIN ADMINISTRATION | LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | 30d overdue |
| 18605657 | SIMILAR MATERIAL FOR ROCK SLOPE MODEL TEST UNDER WATER-ROCK INTERACTION, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | 17d overdue |
| 18105233 | MOLECULAR BEACON BASED NANOPROBES FOR DIRECTLY DETECTING ORGAN-SPECIFIC MATASTASIS RELATED BIOMARKERS OF TUMOR CELLS IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD, PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION | MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | 83d |
| 18736597 | FLOAT-DISCRETE DIFFERENTIAL DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION METHOD FOR CASCADE RESERVOIR GROUP SCHEDULING | ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | — |
| 18644691 | INTELLIGENT MONITORING, INVERSION AND DYNAMIC PREDICTION SYSTEM FOR TRANSIENT PROCESS OF PUMPED STORAGE UNITS | HUYNH, PHUONG | — |
| 18415188 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA | PETRASH, HILARY ANN | — |
| 18406179 | WEAKLY-CENTRALIZED FREQUENCY REGULATION CONTROL METHOD OF CHARGE STATION CLUSTER BASED ON VIRTUAL LEADER AND MEDIUM | ORTIZ, ELIM | — |
| 18271654 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INSTANT NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 1636 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1681 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18736597 | FLOAT-DISCRETE DIFFERENTIAL DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION METHOD FOR CASCADE RESERVOIR GROUP SCHEDULING | ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18644691 | INTELLIGENT MONITORING, INVERSION AND DYNAMIC PREDICTION SYSTEM FOR TRANSIENT PROCESS OF PUMPED STORAGE UNITS | HUYNH, PHUONG | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18605657 | SIMILAR MATERIAL FOR ROCK SLOPE MODEL TEST UNDER WATER-ROCK INTERACTION, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | 1731 | §112 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18584761 | COMPOSITION INCLUDING A METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORK (MOF) NANOPARTICLE FOR ORAL PROTEIN ADMINISTRATION | LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | 1615 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18415188 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA | PETRASH, HILARY ANN | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18406179 | WEAKLY-CENTRALIZED FREQUENCY REGULATION CONTROL METHOD OF CHARGE STATION CLUSTER BASED ON VIRTUAL LEADER AND MEDIUM | ORTIZ, ELIM | 2117 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2024 |
| 18277768 | EDITING OF DOUBLE-STRANDED DNA WITH RELAXED PAM REQUIREMENT | YU, DELPHINUS DOU YI | 1636 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18271654 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INSTANT NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 1682 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18105233 | MOLECULAR BEACON BASED NANOPROBES FOR DIRECTLY DETECTING ORGAN-SPECIFIC MATASTASIS RELATED BIOMARKERS OF TUMOR CELLS IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD, PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION | MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | 1681 | §103 | Final Rejection | 83d | Pending | Feb 02, 2023 |
| 17871649 | BIORETROSYNTHETIC METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON AND-OR TREE AND SINGLE-STEP REACTION TEMPLATE PREDICTION | BEVERIDGE, CONNOR HAMMOND | 1687 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jul 22, 2022 |
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