Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
493 pending office actions • 126 clients • 434 examiners • 226 art units • 0 of 493 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 74 patents granted in the last 365 days
ARENTFOX SCHIFF LLP has 497 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and 33400 career applications. The pending docket represents substantial active prosecution, while the application history provides a broad basis for interpreting work in this technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 87.96%, and the average is 3.27 office actions per allowance. The profile shows a strong volume of current activity alongside successful outcomes that generally follow multiple examination actions. Practitioners may benefit from coordinated portfolio management, consistent claim strategy, and planning for iterative responses.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 138 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. 138 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 | 18 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 79 (16%) |
| §103 only | 168 (34%) |
| §102 only | 22 (4%) |
| §112 only | 22 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 12 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 15 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 151 (31%) |
| No statute on record | 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 13 | 69.6% | +25.5% |
| GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY | 3 | 58.1% | +26.4% |
| WALKER, JARED T | 3 | 84.7% | +9.8% |
| JEBARI, MOHAMMED | 3 | 56.0% | +15.3% |
| BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 3 | 50.2% | +54.9% |
| MOSS, JAMES R | 3 | 51.1% | +41.6% |
| HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES | 3 | 51.8% | +35.6% |
| FAN, WEIHUA | 3 | 83.3% | +12.7% |
| RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN | 2 | 68.6% | +37.4% |
| NASRI, MARYAM A | 2 | 73.9% | +2.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19236738 | TECHNIQUES OF INTRA PREDICTION | WALKER, JARED T | — |
| 17351374 | METHOD FOR TREATING POST-EMERGENT RICE | FAN, WEIHUA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038667 | COMPOUND FOR USE IN AND METHODS OF TREATMENT OF FIBROTIC DISEASES | PIHONAK, SARAH | 150d overdue |
| 18040582 | SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING CARBON DIOXIDE AND SULFUR OXIDES AND UTILIZING CARBON FOR SHIPS | PEREZ, JELITZA M | 149d overdue |
| 18724452 | FIELD-SCALE CROP PHENOLOGY MODEL FOR COMPUTING PLANT DEVELOPMENT STAGES | CHOY, PAN G | 141d overdue |
| 14663560 | BIOASSAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ANALYTES IN BODY FLUIDS | MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN | 139d overdue |
| 17438822 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NEOANTIGEN IMMUNOTHERAPY INFORMATION BY USING ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE-MODEL-BASED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS BIG DATA | FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA | 89d overdue |
| 18436792 | BLADDER VOLUME MEASURING DEVICE | PENG, BO JOSEPH | 67d overdue |
| 18299824 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGECE-BASED POSTURE DISCRIMINATION DEVICE USING BODY PRESSURE SENSORS AND METHOD THEREOF | ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | 52d overdue |
| 18068517 | COMPANION DIAGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS OF EGFR INHIBITOR | JOHANNSEN, DIANA B | 52d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15396004 | METHOD FOR TREATING POST-EMERGENT RICE | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 4d overdue |
| 15054872 | HERBICIDE-RESISTANT SUNFLOWER PLANTS, POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING HERBICIDE-RESISTANT ACETOHYDROXYACID SYNTHASE LARGE SUBUNIT PROTEINS, AND METHODS OF USE | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 4d overdue |
| 15056636 | HERBICIDE-RESISTANT SUNFLOWER PLANTS WITH MULTIPLE HERBICIDE RESISTANT ALLELES OF AHASL1 AND METHODS OF USE | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 2d overdue |
| 19081844 | MPM LIST CONSTRUCTION | JEBARI, MOHAMMED | 1d overdue |
| 17733862 | SLEEP STAGING ALGORITHM | MOSS, JAMES R | 5d |
| 18823297 | CUCUMBER VARIETY NUN 97080 CUL | FAN, WEIHUA | 19d |
| 12594289 | HERBICIDE-RESISTANT SUNFLOWER PLANTS WITH MULTIPLE HERBICIDE RESISTANT ALLELES OF AHASL1 AND METHODS OF USE | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 27d |
| 15156671 | HERBICIDE-TOLERANT PLANTS | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 16 |
| 1662 | 15 |
| 3791 | 14 |
| 2482 | 13 |
| 1663 | 11 |
| 3796 | 10 |
| 2487 | 8 |
| 3792 | 7 |
| 2481 | 6 |
| 3771 | 6 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19122634 | Untitled | BASF Corporation | BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S | 3623 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19256070 | Untitled | Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited | RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN | 2163 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | |
| 19418654 | UPSCALING BASED ON MULTI-SAMPLE ANTI-ALIASING (MSAA) | Sharp Growth (Canada) Limited | WEI, XIAOMING | 2611 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2025 |
| 19383106 | LETTUCE VARIETY NUN 09208 LTL | Nunhems Netherlands B.V. | SHARMA, SANTOSH | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2025 |
| 19382191 | TECHNIQUES FOR TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT ACCORDING TO A CALIBRATED TEMPERATURE | Oura Health OY | LI, JOHN DENNY | 3798 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2025 |
| 19370652 | METHOD FOR AFFINE MOTION REFINEMENT | Tencent America LLC | NASRI, MARYAM A | 2484 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19364699 | ECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING INTERACTIVE CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT FOR DRUG DOSAGE REDUCTION | Rxassurance Corporation (D/B/A Opisafe) | STONE, RACHAEL SOJIN | 3681 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19360845 | USING BIOMETRIC DATA TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK IN AN EXTENDED REALITY ENVIRONMENT | Oura Health OY | LU, WILLIAM | 2624 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2025 |
| 19475690 | PROCESSING DEVICE, EYE TRACKING SYSTEM AND PROCESSING METHOD | AMS-OSRAM AG | LEE JR, KENNETH B | 2625 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19355934 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING | Tencent America LLC | VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 19473380 | FIRE DETECTION SYSTEM DATA DEVICE | Tyco Fire & Security GmbH | YANG, JAMES J | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2025 |
| 19349812 | POLARIZATION BASED DUAL IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM | Tencent America LLC | ELAHI, TOWFIQ | 2625 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19347585 | VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING | Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited | NAVAS JR, EDEMIO | 2483 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2025 |
| 19341641 | ENTROPY CODING A SECONDARY TRANSFORM INDEX BASED ON PRIMARY TRANSFORM TYPE | Tencent America LLC | TRUONG, NGUYEN T | 2486 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19337727 | BLOCK VECTOR REFINEMENT METHOD FOR INTRA BLOCK COPY | Tencent America LLC | PICON-FELICIANO, ANA J | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19333150 | CHROMA BLOCK VECTOR AND CHROMA CODING MODE DERIVATION | Tencent America LLC | KWAN, MATTHEW K | 2482 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 18870264 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Ns Solutions Corporation | BENLAGSIR, AMINE | 2688 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19319025 | ONION VARIETY NUN 02006 ONS | Nunhems Netherlands B.V. | CALAMITA, HEATHER | 1684 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2025 |
| 19308022 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR SORTING WASTE PRODUCTS | Novastus, Inc. | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 3653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19306347 | AUTOMATIC POUR OVER COFFEE MACHINE AND METHODS OF USE | Shenzhen Chenbei Technology Co., Ltd. | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19306879 | VQ BASED TRANSFORM COEFFICIENT COMPENSATION | Tencent America LLC | HUBER, JEREMIAH CHARLES | 2481 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19301810 | REFERENCE PICTURE BOUNDARY EXTENSION BY EXTRAPOLATION | Tencent America LLC | FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19301898 | CODING TREE BLOCK PARTITIONING | Tencent America LLC | GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY | 2485 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19301853 | SIGNALING OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES IN VIDEO BITSTREAMS | Tencent America LLC | GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY | 2485 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19301863 | INHERITED TRANSFORM TYPE IN A MERGE CANDIDATE LIST | Tencent America LLC | HUBER, JEREMIAH CHARLES | 2481 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19301905 | CODED INFORMATION DERIVATION FOR INTER PREDICTION | Tencent America LLC | SIANGCHIN, KEVIN | 2486 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19300603 | ADAPTIVE BI-DIRECTIONAL SAMPLE BASED OPTICAL FLOW ON GPM WITH BI-PREDICTIVE MOTION VECTOR | Tencent America LLC | BOYLAN, JAMES T | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 | |
| 19300608 | POINT CLOUD PROCESSING | Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited | BEASLEY, DEIRDRE L | 2482 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19299294 | CROSS-COMPONENT RESIDUAL PREDICTION ON CHROMA SIGNALING AND INTRATMP MODE | Tencent America LLC | MAHMUD, FARHAN | 2483 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 19297981 | POINT CLOUD FILE PROCESSING | Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited | WALKER, JARED T | 2426 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2025 |
| 19296728 | SYNCHRONIZED OPERATION REPLAY INTERFACE | Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited | SHANG, ANNAN Q | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 | |
| 19290183 | SIGNALING PRESENCE OF CHROMA COMPONENT IN VIDEO BITSTREAM | Tencent America LLC | ZHOU, ZHIHAN | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19290232 | METHOD FOR WRAP AROUND MOTION COMPENSATION WITH REFERENCE PICTURE RESAMPLING | Tencent America LLC | JEAN BAPTISTE, JERRY T | 2481 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19270253 | INTEGRATING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS IN A CAMERA TO EXTEND AN ENTERPRISE NETWORK | Tyco Fire & Security GmbH | COULTER, KENNETH R | 2445 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19268066 | FACIAL RECOGNITION BY A SECURITY / AUTOMATION SYSTEM CONTROL PANEL | Tyco Fire & Security GmbH | WRIGHT, BRYAN F | 2497 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19267041 | ANTENNA IN A WEARABLE DEVICE | Oura Health OY | KIM, SEOKJIN | 2845 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19267405 | SERVICE PROCESSING | Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited | TURK, BROCK E | 3692 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19266145 | TECHNIQUES FOR IN-LOOP FILTERING | Tencent America LLC | NASRI, MARYAM A | 2484 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19262006 | BI-DIRECTIONAL OPTICAL FLOW ON GPM WITH BI-PREDICTIVE MOTION VECTOR | Tencent America LLC | MAHMUD, FARHAN | 2483 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19261792 | INTRA TEMPLATE MATCHING PREDICTION SIGNALING | Tencent America LLC | WALKER, JARED T | 2426 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19262076 | TRANSACTION CHAINING | Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited | ZELASKIEWICZ, CHRYSTINA E | 3699 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19259985 | ADAPTIVE USAGE OF DECODER SIDE MOTION VECTOR REFINEMENT AND BIDIRECTIONAL OPTICAL FLOW | Tencent America LLC | LIMA, FABIO S | 2486 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19258786 | BLOCK-LEVEL SIGN PREDICTION ADAPTATION | Tencent America LLC | HUANG, FRANK F | 2485 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19258791 | GRADIENT AND LOCATION BASED FILTERED INTRA BLOCK COPY | Tencent America LLC | HODGES, SUSAN E | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 | |
| 19258864 | MULTIPLE LINE INTRA PREDICTION IN VIDEO COMPRESSION | Tencent America LLC | FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 2487 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19257340 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC BITRATE SWITCHING OF MEDIA STREAMS IN A MEDIA BROADCAST PRODUCTION | Grass Valley Canada | CASTRO, ALFONSO | 2425 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19251456 | VETERINARY ENVIRONMENT CONTROL SYSTEM | Casco Europe Limited | LOWERY, BRITTANY A | 3644 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19249796 | INTRA MODE SELECTION AND SIGNALING | Tencent America LLC | HASAN, MAINUL | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19249759 | TRANSFORM SELECTION FOR TEMPLATE MATCHING BASED INTRA PREDICTION AT SUBBLOCK LEVEL | Tencent America LLC | PHILIPPE, GIMS S | 2424 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19248064 | TECHNIQUES FOR PREEMPTIVE SUPPLEMENTAL VIDEO RECORDING | Tyco Fire & Security GmbH | ZHAO, DAQUAN | 2484 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial88.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Arentfox Schiff LLP were allowed, across 33,400 applications in USPTO records.
3.27 office actions per allowed application on average.
493 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 126 clients, before 434 examiners in 226 art units.
