Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
147 pending office actions • 97 clients • 138 examiners • 106 art units • 0 of 147 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
AMSTER, ROTHSTEIN & EBENSTEIN LLP has 148 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and 11,093 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 87.6%, with an average of 3.1 office actions per allowance. The figures reflect a large prosecution base and an active unresolved docket.
The allowance rate provides a historical outcome measure, while the office-action average indicates that allowance commonly follows multiple examination interactions. For practitioners, this profile supports detailed review of claim amendments, written responses, and technology-specific prosecution patterns. The pending workload also calls for prioritization by deadline and by the potential impact of unresolved matters on broader biotechnology or pharmaceutical portfolios.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 43 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. 43 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 | 2 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 13 (9%) |
| §103 only | 48 (33%) |
| §102 only | 5 (3%) |
| §112 only | 7 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 4 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 62 (42%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORTUNA, JOSE A | 4 | 79.5% | +9.9% |
| EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 2 | 48.3% | +41.6% |
| MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 2 | 71.2% | +10.9% |
| DANG, KET D | 2 | 61.6% | +37.9% |
| SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 2 | 65.3% | +12.5% |
| KISH, JAMES M | 2 | 62.4% | +11.8% |
| DONOHUE, SEAN R | 2 | 41.4% | +21.0% |
| PARK, LISA S | 1 | 77.6% | +22.1% |
| GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | 1 | 71.4% | +41.3% |
| DAVIS, RICHARD G | 1 | 80.5% | +17.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19298949 | INSECT ELIMINATING DEVICE WITH SIMULATED FLAME AND VACUUM SUCTION ELEMENT | DAVIS, RICHARD G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17859200 | EMBOSSED ABSORBENT SYSTEMS AND ABSORBENT ARTICLES INCLUDING THE SAME | KIDWELL, MICHELE M | 194d overdue |
| 18273317 | INFANT BLOOD OXYGEN SATURATION MONITORING METHOD AND INTELLIGENT MONITORING DEVICE | BETIT, JACOB F | 156d overdue |
| 17921275 | BIOMARKERS FOR DETECTION OF LUNG CANCER | COOK, LISA V | 147d overdue |
| 17660666 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND PROGRAMMED PRODUCTS FOR DYNAMICALLY DISPLAYING CONTENT ON PUBLIC AND SEMI-PUBLIC DIGITAL DISPLAYS | BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD | 126d overdue |
| 18028954 | DEVICE FOR RETINAL NEUROMODULATION THERAPY AND EXTRAFOVEAL READING IN SUBJECTS AFFECTED BY VISUAL IMPAIRMENT | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 85d overdue |
| 18196249 | MULTIPLE TUBE INTRAVENOUS FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | 74d overdue |
| 18726014 | SILICA GEL FOAM DRESSING | MILLER, DANIEL A | 49d overdue |
| 18255184 | CEREAL GRAIN WITH THICKENED ALEURONE | STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 37d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18099485 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BREWING, MIXING, AND DELIVERING A BEVERAGE | DANG, KET D | 10d overdue |
| 18579768 | TOY PROJECTILE LAUNCHER AND METHOD OF USING SAME | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 1d overdue |
| 18560546 | NONWOVEN FABRIC WITH ENHANCED STRENGTH | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 7d |
| 19453852 | Untitled | PARK, LISA S | — |
| 19479007 | SOFA BED | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | — |
| 19298949 | INSECT ELIMINATING DEVICE WITH SIMULATED FLAME AND VACUUM SUCTION ELEMENT | DAVIS, RICHARD G | — |
| 18729294 | PLA FIBRES AND NONWOVENS MADE THEREOF | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | — |
| 18690626 | WATER-BORNE HEAT-SEALABLE BARRIER COATINGS | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 6 |
| 1748 | 5 |
| 3781 | 4 |
| 1789 | 4 |
| 1631 | 4 |
| 3752 | 3 |
| 1616 | 3 |
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3715 | 2 |
| 3643 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19453852 | Untitled | LG Energy Solution, Ltd. | PARK, LISA S | 1729 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19479007 | SOFA BED | Loiudice S.r.l. | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | 3673 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19298949 | INSECT ELIMINATING DEVICE WITH SIMULATED FLAME AND VACUUM SUCTION ELEMENT | Pic Corporation | DAVIS, RICHARD G | 3644 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 19296159 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR A DISTRIBUTED DIGITAL ASSET NETWORK WITH RAPID TRANSACTION SETTLEMENTS UTILIZING AGENTS | AI Coin Inc. | CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S | 3694 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19264498 | AUTOMATIC CIRCUIT ALLOCATION OF REMOTE DEVICES IN A MULTI-POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM | Raycap, S.A. | MISIURA, BRIAN THOMAS | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 | |
| 19246134 | FLOW RATE ADJUSTMENT DEVICE | Ihi Corporation | DILLON JR, JOSEPH A | 3653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19139007 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE OPERATION OF REAL TRAIN AND SIMULATION TRAIN | Casco Signal Ltd. | JIN, SELENA MENG | 3667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19232346 | MEASURING CONTAINER | Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. | KUMAR, RAKESH | 3651 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19206609 | Systems and Methods for "Machine-to-Machine" (M2M) Communications Between Modules, Servers, and an Application using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) | Network-1 Technologies, Inc. | PEARSON, DAVID J | 2407 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19203803 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DIGITAL PET IDENTIFICATION | Ickovic & Bliss, Inc. | BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | 2685 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19199566 | NANOPOROUS SEPARATORS FOR BATTERIES AND RELATED MANUFACTURING METHODS | LG Energy Solution, Ltd. | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | 1722 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19126831 | ELECTRONIC REGIONAL ANESTHESIA AND PAIN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | Algiamed Ltd. | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 3796 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19197211 | METHOD FOR RECORDING CAMERA IMAGE DATA ON AN EDGE SERVER AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE | Arnold & Richter Cine Technik GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG | GADOMSKI, STEFAN J | 2485 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19182121 | JEWELRY DISPLAY CASE | Yuerou Lin | LIE, ANGELA M | 3992 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19120942 | APPARATUS FOR DEGASSING MOLTEN PLASTIC MATERIAL | Gamma Meccanica S.p.A. | GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19172031 | DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | Kwingle Inc. | ALRIYASHI, ABDULKADER MOHAMED | 2447 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19079079 | TISSUE PRODUCT MADE USING LASER ENGRAVED STRUCTURING BELT | Structured I, LLC | FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1748 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19040352 | DEWATERING BOX COVER | First Quality Tissue, LLC | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1748 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 19005038 | ABSORBENT SYSTEMS AND ABSORBENT ARTICLES INCLUDING THE SAME | Coterie Baby, Inc. | WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18874392 | A CONTROLLER | 3Ti Energy Hubs Ltd. | PARRIES, DRU M | 2836 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18977818 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MOTION CAPTURE USING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION | Rearden, LLC | HALLORAN, THOMAS JAMES | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18956560 | MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES RECOGNITION AND ACTIVITY SYSTEM (MIRA SYSTEM) | Holy Spirit University Of Kaslik | SAINT-VIL, EDDY | 3715 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18955502 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERTICAL FARMING | Oishii Farm Corporation | NGUYEN, SON T | 3643 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18855444 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAYERED PRODUCT AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING LAYERED PRODUCT | Ihi Corporation | MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1746 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18855098 | METHODS TO PRODUCE ACETYLATED AND NON-ACETYLATED GLYCOLIPID AMPHIPHILES | UNIVERSITEIT GENT | EPSTEIN, TODD MATTHEW | 1652 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18909229 | WOVEN BASE FABRIC WITH LASER ENERGY ABSORBENT MD AND CD YARNS AND TISSUE PRODUCT MADE USING THE SAME | First Quality Tissue SE, LLC | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1789 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18907105 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM VALVE USING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | K-Rain Manufacturing Corp. | DUNN, DARRIN D | 2117 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18904874 | SOIL WATER POTENTIAL EFFECTOR APPARATUS AND USES THEREOF | I-Dripper Ltd. | FRANK, RODNEY T | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18852174 | METHOD FOR PREVENTING AND/OR TREATING PAIN ASSOCIATED WITH ORAL ULCERATIONS | Chemomouthpiece LLC | GANAN-SINGH, CHRISTINA MERAIAH | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18843903 | EDIBLE PRIMER LAYER | Sun Chemical Corporation | COHEN, STEFANIE J | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18840894 | CORAL BIOINKS | Zoan Nuáil Teoranta | RAHMAN, MASUDUR | 1633 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18812487 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HARVESTING FRUIT | Oishii Farm Corporation | XU, PETER | 2119 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18812458 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND MANAGING PESTS | Oishii Farm Corporation | BEKELE, MEKONEN T | 2699 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18797874 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE | Ihi Corporation | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18778526 | SPRINKLER HEAD NOZZLE ASSEMBLY WITH NOZZLE GUARD | K-Rain Manufacturing Corp. | BOECKMANN, JASON J | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18730540 | METHODS OF TREATING HYPERTENSION BY PERIODIC SUPPRESSION OF ALDOSTERONE SYNTHASE | Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation | WILLIS, DOUGLAS M | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 | |
| 18729294 | PLA FIBRES AND NONWOVENS MADE THEREOF | Suzhou Kingcharm New Materials Corp. | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1789 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18770181 | ABSORBENT STRUCTURES WITH HIGH ABSORBENCY AND LOW BASIS WEIGHT | First Quality Tissue, LLC | FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1748 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18767360 | LIPID NANOPARTICLE-BASED ANTI-FENTANYL VACCINE | UNIVERSITEIT GENT | YU, HONG | 1614 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18767237 | PAPERMAKING MACHINE THAT UTILIZES ONLY A STRUCTURED FABRIC IN THE FORMING OF PAPER | Structured I, LLC | FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1748 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18726014 | SILICA GEL FOAM DRESSING | Dukal, LLC | MILLER, DANIEL A | 3786 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18725336 | COMBINATION OF COPPER-BASED FUNGICIDE AND AZOLE FUNGICIDE | Adama Makhteshim Ltd. | KIM, DANIELLE A | 1613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18754737 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE REMOTE LEARNING | Iu Group N.V. | GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18755125 | USE OF SGPL1 IN BREEDING OF SHANDONG BLACK CATTLE | Qingdao Agricultural University | POHNERT, STEVEN C | 1683 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18723577 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING OLIGONUCLEIC ACID COMPOUND | Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. | RILEY, JEZIA | 1681 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18738206 | REACTION SYSTEM | Ihi Corporation | LEE, CRYSTAL J | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18717525 | SMALL MOLECULE TRACERS BINDING TO ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN AGGREGATES AND THEIR USES | Fudan University | LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | 1615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18733233 | PORTABLE INSECT REPELLING DEVICE | Pic Corporation | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18732209 | USE OF miR-34b IN REGULATING LIPID METABOLISM OF SHANDONG BLACK CATTLE | Qingdao Agricultural University | GRABER, JAMES J | 1631 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18709124 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR HYDROCARBON STEAM CRACKING | Totalenergies Onetech Belgium | STEIN, MICHELLE | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial87.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein, LLP were allowed, across 11,093 applications in USPTO records.
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147 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 97 clients, before 138 examiners in 106 art units.
