Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
66 pending office actions • 41 clients • 64 examiners • 50 art units • 0 of 66 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
DLA PIPER LLP (US) covers Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and reports 65 pending office actions. Its career record contains 21180 applications, with a resolved allowance rate of 84.39% and an average of 3.7 office actions per allowance.
The historical allowance rate indicates that a majority of resolved matters reached allowance, while the action average shows that allowed matters generally involved multiple examination exchanges. The pending docket is a separate workload indicator and does not establish the eventual result of those open matters.
For practitioners, biotechnology and pharmaceutical prosecution requires coordinated attention to claim scope, disclosure support, and prior-art distinctions. The application record can support portfolio-level process review, while the open actions should be prioritized by deadline, technical significance, and the client’s objectives.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 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. 17 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 + other | 8 (12%) |
| §103 only | 16 (24%) |
| §102 only | 3 (5%) |
| §112 only | 3 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 11 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 22 (33%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RENNER, CRAIG A | 3 | 84.3% | +17.5% |
| HINDI, NABIL Z | 1 | 87.4% | +8.9% |
| HANKS, BENJAMIN L | 1 | 21.4% | +30.3% |
| STOCK JR, GORDON J | 1 | 81.6% | +17.4% |
| ANDERSEN, KRISTOPHER E | 1 | 70.5% | +39.9% |
| KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 1 | 70.0% | +50.0% |
| GIARDINO JR, MARK A | 1 | 84.7% | +2.5% |
| TUMEBO, TSION M | 1 | 66.3% | +20.4% |
| AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY | 1 | 79.7% | +17.1% |
| SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 1 | 82.1% | +15.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19359507 | Noble Metal Coated Plasmonic Waveguide Blocker For Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Head | HINDI, NABIL Z | — |
| 19235519 | SURFACE ANALYSIS OF GEMSTONES | STOCK JR, GORDON J | — |
| 19181816 | PARAMETER ENHANCED SEQUENTIAL PROGRAMMING METHOD | GIARDINO JR, MARK A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18660113 | VOICE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOLDING A CONVERSATION WITH A PERSON | ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH | 89d overdue |
| 17838115 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED MANAGEMENT OF GENETIC DISEASES | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 59d overdue |
| 18660163 | INTERACTIVE AI TOY CAPABLE OF HOLDING A CONVERSATION WITH A PERSON, AND METHOD OF INTERACTING WITH SAME | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 44d overdue |
| 18122362 | Self-Aligned Side Gap Insulator For A Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer | RENNER, CRAIG A | 23d |
| 18623991 | Spintronic Reader Utilizing The Inverse Spin Hall Effect | RENNER, CRAIG A | 34d |
| 19254928 | Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer with Tunable Two Bias Branches | RENNER, CRAIG A | — |
| 19235420 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DRUG INTERACTION ANALYSIS | HANKS, BENJAMIN L | — |
| 18865516 | IN-RACK FIRE DETECTION AND EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM AND METHOD | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19184880 | Head Gimbal Assembly With Gimbal Tethers For Hard Disk Drive Device | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 24d overdue |
| 18122362 | Self-Aligned Side Gap Insulator For A Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer | RENNER, CRAIG A | 23d |
| 18623991 | Spintronic Reader Utilizing The Inverse Spin Hall Effect | RENNER, CRAIG A | 34d |
| 19254928 | Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer with Tunable Two Bias Branches | RENNER, CRAIG A | — |
| 19235420 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DRUG INTERACTION ANALYSIS | HANKS, BENJAMIN L | — |
| 19235519 | SURFACE ANALYSIS OF GEMSTONES | STOCK JR, GORDON J | — |
| 19217164 | DATA VISUALIZATION IMPLEMENTATION | ANDERSEN, KRISTOPHER E | — |
| 19048001 | SAMPLE ILLUMINATION SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | TUMEBO, TSION M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 5 |
| 1684 | 4 |
| 3746 | 2 |
| 1625 | 2 |
| 1682 | 2 |
| 1654 | 2 |
| 3729 | 2 |
| 1643 | 2 |
| 1686 | 2 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19359507 | Noble Metal Coated Plasmonic Waveguide Blocker For Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Head | Headway Technologies, Inc. | HINDI, NABIL Z | 2688 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19254928 | Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer with Tunable Two Bias Branches | Headway Technologies, Inc. | RENNER, CRAIG A | 2688 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19235420 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DRUG INTERACTION ANALYSIS | Blue Genes Lab, LLC | HANKS, BENJAMIN L | 3684 | §101§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19235519 | SURFACE ANALYSIS OF GEMSTONES | Gemological Institute Of America, Inc. (Gia) | STOCK JR, GORDON J | 2877 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19217164 | DATA VISUALIZATION IMPLEMENTATION | Data Visualization Software Lab | ANDERSEN, KRISTOPHER E | 2159 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19184880 | Head Gimbal Assembly With Gimbal Tethers For Hard Disk Drive Device | Magnecomp Corporation | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19181816 | PARAMETER ENHANCED SEQUENTIAL PROGRAMMING METHOD | Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. | GIARDINO JR, MARK A | 2135 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19048001 | SAMPLE ILLUMINATION SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | Gemological Institute Of America, Inc. | TUMEBO, TSION M | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18957521 | Configurable Components For Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Actuators | Hutchinson Technology Incorporated | AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY | 3746 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18865516 | IN-RACK FIRE DETECTION AND EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM AND METHOD | Factory Mutual Insurance Company | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18897817 | PROTECTING SENSITIVE DATA IN TEXT-BASED GEN-AI SYSTEM | Baffle, Inc. | WHITE, JOSHUA RAYMOND | 2438 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18849203 | FLEXIBLE DRY ELECTRODES | NTT Research, Inc. | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 3794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18844687 | ENHANCING OPITCAL NONLINEARITY THROUGH XPM TEMPORAL TRAPPING | NTT Research, Inc. | CRAVER, CHARLES R | 3992 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18815756 | MULTI-LEVEL RESISTIVE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (RRAM) CELLS | Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. | DINKE, BITEW A | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 | |
| 18807451 | BONE IMPLANT DEVICE | Sleep Mechanics LLC | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18803363 | METHOD OF FORMING RESISTIVE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (RRAM) CELLS | Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. | FOX, BRANDON C | 2818 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18834562 | METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION OF BRYOSTATIN FOR THE INDUCTION OF TUMOR ASSOCIATED ANTIGENS | Bryologyx Inc. | SCHMIDT, IZABELA MARIA | 1621 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18789670 | BUOYANT CONTAINMENT AND/OR FILTRATION | Innermost Containment Systems LLC | MAYO, TARA LEIGH | 3671 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18787919 | Flex Hinge Actuator Assembly | Hutchinson Technology Incorporated | MIAN, SHAFIQ A | 3746 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18660163 | INTERACTIVE AI TOY CAPABLE OF HOLDING A CONVERSATION WITH A PERSON, AND METHOD OF INTERACTING WITH SAME | Friendlybuzz Company, Pbc | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3715 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18660113 | VOICE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOLDING A CONVERSATION WITH A PERSON | Friendlybuzz Company, Pbc | ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH | 2657 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18658862 | HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEROTYPING AND ANTIBODY PROFILING ASSAYS | Encodia, Inc. | OLSON, ALEXANDRA NADINE | 1684 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18643988 | INHALABLE RAPAMYCIN FORMULATION FOR TREATING AGE-RELATED CONDITIONS | Orphai Therapeutics Inc. | GULLEDGE, BRIAN M | 1699 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18700649 | THYMIC CELLS AND METHODS OF MAKING | Thymmune Therapeutics, Inc. | BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER | 1631 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18623991 | Spintronic Reader Utilizing The Inverse Spin Hall Effect | Headway Technologies, Inc. | RENNER, CRAIG A | 2688 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18694362 | BETA ADRENERGIC AGONIST AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | Curasen Therapeutics, Inc. | ROZOF, TIMOTHY R | 1625 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18610195 | UNIVERSAL METHOD FOR EXTRACTING NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES FROM A DIVERSE POPULATION OF ONE OR MORE TYPES OF MICROBES IN A SAMPLE | Sun Genomics, Inc. | BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE | 1683 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18692775 | PD-L1 TARGETING FUSION PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | Gt Biopharma, Inc. | BUTTICE, AUDREY L | 1647 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18691365 | METHOD OF TREATING MULTIPLE MYELOMA | Caelum Biosciences, Inc. | AEDER, SEAN E | 1642 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18586030 | SEQUENTIAL ENCODING METHODS AND RELATED KITS | Encodia, Inc. | YOUNG, BRIAN ELLIS | 1684 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18416349 | TREATMENT OF EXPOSURE TO VESICANTS | Normoxi Inc. | CRAIGO, WILLIAM A | 1615 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18572159 | THYMIC CELL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | Thymmune Therapeutics, Inc. | BROWN, MINDY G | 1682 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18564554 | A SUPER-TRAIL MOLECULE COMPRISING TWO TRAIL TRIMERS | Bejing Anxinhuaide Biotech. Co., Ltd. | PAK, MICHAEL D | 1654 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18563854 | METHOD OF MATCHING ANALYTICS AND COMMUNICATION ESTABLISHMENT | Friendlybuzz Company, Pbc | JOSHI, SURAJ M | 2447 | §103 | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18561253 | PRODUCTION PROCESSES FOR HIGHLY VIABLE, ENGRAFTABLE HUMAN CHONDROCYTES FROM STEM CELLS | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | POPA, ILEANA | 1633 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18501552 | EMISSION WAVELENGTH TUNING OF VERTICAL-CAVITY SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL DEVICES BY PROTON IMPLANTATION-INDUCED INTERDIFFUSION | NTT Research, Inc. | FORDE, DELMA ROSA | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 | |
| 18499944 | METHODS FOR BIOMOLECULE ANALYSIS EMPLOYING MULTI-COMPONENT DETECTION AGENT AND RELATED KITS | Encodia, Inc. | LANKFORD JR, LEON B | 1657 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18384788 | Seamless Main Pole Electroplating For A Magnetic Recording Write Head | Headway Technologies, Inc. | TRINH, MINH N | 3729 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18286081 | METHOD OF DETECTING CANCER USING GENOME-WIDE CFDNA FRAGMENTATION PROFILES | Delfi Diagnostics, Inc. | GRAY, JESSICA | 1682 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18279853 | Conductive Biocompatible Scaffold For Electroporation | Ana Elena Kadala | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18352079 | SECRETABLE PAYLOAD REGULATION | Senti Biosciences, Inc. | LEE, JAE W | 1656 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 18038647 | METHOD FOR TRAVERSING AN ANATOMICAL VESSEL WALL | Mvrx, Inc. | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18201129 | POLYPEPTIDE MODIFICATION AND CONJUGATION METHODS | Encodia, Inc. | BEANE, RANDALL L | 1654 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 18199154 | INDUCIBLE CELL DEATH SYSTEMS | Senti Biosciences, Inc. | SHUPE, ELIZABETH A | 1643 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
| 18317195 | ENHANCED ERYTHROPOIESIS AND IRON METABOLISM | Fibrogen, Inc. | SCHMITT, MICHAEL J | 1629 | Other | Non-Final OA | 150d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 18144109 | AUTOMATIC LINK PREDICTION FOR DEVICES IN COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS | Mapped Inc. | SAXENA, AKASH | 2188 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 18297914 | ARGININE MODIFICATION AND CONJUGATION METHODS | Encodia, Inc. | HIBBERT, CATHERINE S | 1658 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
| 18122362 | Self-Aligned Side Gap Insulator For A Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer | Headway Technologies, Inc. | RENNER, CRAIG A | 2688 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 18120676 | REAGENT CARTRIDGE AND TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM | Encodia, Inc. | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 1758 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2023 |
| 18111846 | BROADCAST DATA, SHARED WEIGHT MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE | Analog Devices, Inc. | WAJE, CARLO C | 2151 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial84.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by DLA Piper LLP were allowed, across 21,180 applications in USPTO records.
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66 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 41 clients, before 64 examiners in 50 art units.
