Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) has 3 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units.
YANG, JAMES J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Each active matter appears to require an independent prosecution plan, with no repeated examiner or art-unit assignment shown.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, JAMES J | 1 | 57.0% | +22.3% |
| LIU, TRACY | 1 | 54.5% | +26.9% |
| MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY | 1 | 67.0% | +59.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19066455 | MULTIMODAL HAPTIC DEVICE FOR RENDERING CUTANEOUS AND KINESTHETIC TACTILE CUES OF A TARGET, AND METHOD FOR RENDERING CUTANEOUS AND KINESTHETIC TACTILE CUES OF A TARGET | YANG, JAMES J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18542152 | ERYTHROCYTE-BINDING THERAPEUTICS | MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY | 147d overdue |
| 19066455 | MULTIMODAL HAPTIC DEVICE FOR RENDERING CUTANEOUS AND KINESTHETIC TACTILE CUES OF A TARGET, AND METHOD FOR RENDERING CUTANEOUS AND KINESTHETIC TACTILE CUES OF A TARGET | YANG, JAMES J | — |
| 18905699 | SHAPEABLE SCAFFOLD MATERIAL AND USES THEREOF | LIU, TRACY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19066455 | MULTIMODAL HAPTIC DEVICE FOR RENDERING CUTANEOUS AND KINESTHETIC TACTILE CUES OF A TARGET, AND METHOD FOR RENDERING CUTANEOUS AND KINESTHETIC TACTILE CUES OF A TARGET | YANG, JAMES J | 2686 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18905699 | SHAPEABLE SCAFFOLD MATERIAL AND USES THEREOF | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18542152 | ERYTHROCYTE-BINDING THERAPEUTICS | MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY | 1655 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
James J Yang has the most, with 1 of ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
