Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2,993 pending office actions • 481 clients • 2257 examiners • 485 art units • 104 of 2,993 (3%) have an AI response strategy ready
This profile records 2959 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and 116083 career applications. The pending docket shows substantial current activity, while the application figure places that activity within a large recorded prosecution base.
The resolved allowance rate is 86.12%, and the average is 3.29 office actions per allowance. The resolved data indicates an allowance result above four-fifths, with allowed matters requiring more than three office actions on average.
For practitioners, the figures support two distinct uses. The pending-action count helps assess present workload, while the historical allowance and action measures provide context for outcome review. Neither measure alone predicts the treatment of a particular biotechnology or pharmaceutical application.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 692 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. 692 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 | 90 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 372 (12%) |
| §103 only | 1,015 (34%) |
| §102 only | 168 (6%) |
| §112 only | 144 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 92 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 91 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 983 (33%) |
| No statute on record | 38 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLDER, ANNER N | 7 | 79.1% | +13.3% |
| D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY | 7 | 73.2% | +13.9% |
| GOYEA, OLUSEGUN | 6 | 64.9% | +33.3% |
| ANYIKIRE, CHIKAODILI E | 6 | 75.2% | +10.9% |
| CHAO, ALLEN | 6 | 60.0% | +0.0% |
| CHIO, TAT CHI | 5 | 73.0% | +17.5% |
| WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 5 | 82.0% | +12.9% |
| PERRIN, JOSEPH L | 5 | 77.2% | +21.3% |
| BELL, SPENCER E | 5 | 63.0% | +13.4% |
| SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 5 | 58.4% | +36.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895292 | DRIVE DEVICE, OPTICAL SYSTEM AND LITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 5d overdue |
| 18362630 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MULTI-PART MIRROR OF A PROJECTION ILLUMINATION SYSTEM FOR MICROLITHOGRAPHY | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18485164 | MOBILE APPARATUS INCLUDING AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 286d overdue |
| 18291338 | Systems and Methods for Optimization of Disease Therapy | GEDRA, OLIVIA ROSE | 204d overdue |
| 18017559 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PAUSING RADIO LINK FAILURE DETECTION FOR NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS | WELTE, BENJAMIN PETER | 188d overdue |
| 18836408 | CONFIGURATION INPUT APPARATUS, CONFIGURATION INPUT METHOD, AND CONFIGURATION INPUT PROGRAM | NAJI, YOUNES | 146d overdue |
| 18361608 | Generation of 3D Content Moment from Captured Gameplay Video | SONNERS, SCOTT E | 141d overdue |
| 18301133 | DETECTING VALVE LEAKAGE | MARINI, MATTHEW G | 141d overdue |
| 17987432 | Rapidly Cooling Food and Drinks | AMIN, HAMZEH HICHAM | 140d overdue |
| 18122024 | Simultaneous Estimation of Water Encroachment and Bound Fluid in the Absence of NMR in Carbonate Reservoirs | HUYNH, PHUONG | 139d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18633353 | Consumer Device with Dual Wireless Links and Mixer | D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY | 51d overdue |
| 17956570 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 44d overdue |
| 17914600 | Injection Device with Needle Obscuring Element | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 16d overdue |
| 19023065 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED | HOLDER, ANNER N | 8d overdue |
| 18895292 | DRIVE DEVICE, OPTICAL SYSTEM AND LITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 5d overdue |
| 18398895 | POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD | CHIO, TAT CHI | 9d |
| 18578095 | POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD | CHIO, TAT CHI | 12d |
| 19023103 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED | HOLDER, ANNER N | 15d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| LG | 346 |
| Samsung | 242 |
| 211 | |
| Huawei | 192 |
| Saudi Aramco | 114 |
| Sony | 109 |
| SEL | 88 |
| Apple | 67 |
| Sanofi | 62 |
| NTT | 58 |
| Carl Zeiss | 51 |
| Mayo Clinic | 43 |
| Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. | 36 |
| THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION | 36 |
| Hyundai Motor Group | 34 |
| Applied Materials | 28 |
| SAP SE | 27 |
| MAGIC LEAP, INC. | 26 |
| Atlassian | 25 |
| 10x Genomics | 24 |
| Beijing Zitiao Network Technology | 22 |
| Incyte | 22 |
| Ant Group | 21 |
| Fresenius | 20 |
| Gilead Sciences | 19 |
| Rohm | 18 |
| Quectel | 17 |
| Alarm.com | 17 |
| LONGi | 16 |
| Johns Hopkins | 16 |
| Arizona State University | 14 |
| Motional | 14 |
| u-blox AG | 14 |
| Hesai | 13 |
| Fujifilm | 12 |
| DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB | 11 |
| The Heil Co. | 11 |
| NIL Technology ApS | 11 |
| University of Pittsburgh | 11 |
| Autodesk | 10 |
| Moderna | 10 |
| Yield Engineering Systems | 9 |
| CHUGAI SEIYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 9 |
| University of California | 9 |
| NEUROCRINE BIOSCIENCES, INC. | 9 |
| The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. | 8 |
| HP | 8 |
| LX Group | 8 |
| University of Nebraska | 8 |
| BIOCYTOGEN PHARMACEUTICALS (BEIJING) CO., LTD. | 8 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 59 |
| 3783 | 49 |
| 2857 | 34 |
| 2893 | 32 |
| 3723 | 30 |
| 3763 | 27 |
| 2812 | 27 |
| 1711 | 23 |
| 2818 | 23 |
| 1622 | 20 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19248126 | Untitled | Google LLC | KUDDUS, DANIEL A | 2154 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19148483 | Untitled | Google LLC | NGUYEN, KIM T | 2153 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | |
| 18863807 | Untitled | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation | GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | 3624 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | |
| 19137541 | Untitled | LG Electronics Inc. | FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 2487 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19672116 | KLRB1 BINDING AGENTS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | The Brigham And Women'S Hospital, Inc. | HUYNH, PHUONG N | 1641 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2026 |
| 19656478 | TREATMENT FOR ASYMPTOMATIC STARGARDT DISEASE PATIENTS | Alkeus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | MARTIN, KEVIN STEPHEN | 1624 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2026 |
| 19634551 | System and Network for Outfit Planning and Wardrobe Management | Lutzy Inc. | GOYEA, OLUSEGUN | 3627 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2026 |
| 19634955 | System and Network for Outfit Planning and Wardrobe Management | Lutzy Inc. | GOYEA, OLUSEGUN | 3627 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2026 |
| 19634840 | System and Network for Outfit Planning and Wardrobe Management | Lutzy Inc. | GOYEA, OLUSEGUN | 3627 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2026 |
| 19634562 | System and Network for Outfit Planning and Wardrobe Management | Lutzy Inc. | GOYEA, OLUSEGUN | 3627 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2026 |
| 19563165 | Framework for Large-Scale Distributed Language Model Training | 4Mindsai Inc. | LANE, THOMAS BERNARD | 2142 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2026 |
| 19548530 | SHOCK PAD FOR SYNTHETIC TURF AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | Columbia Insurance Company | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2026 |
| 19544165 | ANTI-INFECTIVE SHOE SOLES | Karnali Innovations LLC | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 3732 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2026 |
| 19542084 | INPUT DEVICE | Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. | BUKOWSKI, KENNETH | 2621 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2026 |
| 19539125 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NETWORK DEVICE | Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. | VANGAPATY, SRIHARSHA REDDY | 2475 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2026 |
| 19539216 | DEVICE WITH FEATURES FOR ROTATIONAL ATHERECTOMY AND LITHOTRIPSY | Cardio Flow, Inc. | ROANE, AARON F | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2026 |
| 19538933 | SIDELINK POSITIONING METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE | Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. | MURILLO GARCIA, FABRICIO R | 2633 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2026 |
| 19529937 | MODIFIED LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNELS AND METHODS OF USE | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | PERSONS, JENNA L | 1637 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2026 |
| 19463990 | GELLING SOLUTIONS FOR ADMINISTRATION OF COMPOUNDS TO THE INNER EAR | Spiral Therapeutics, Inc. | HELM, CARALYNNE E | 1615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2026 |
| 19459988 | GELLING SOLUTIONS FOR ADMINISTRATION OF COMPOUNDS TO THE INNER EAR | Spiral Therapeutics Inc. | HELM, CARALYNNE E | 1615 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2026 |
| 19451814 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING 360 VIDEO, METHOD FOR RECEIVING 360 VIDEO, APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING 360 VIDEO, AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING 360 VIDEO | LG Electronics Inc. | HANCE, ROBERT J | 2487 | §102§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2026 |
| 19444137 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, KHAI MINH | 2641 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2026 |
| 19442719 | DISPLAY DEVICE | LG Display Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, KEVIN M | 2628 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2026 |
| 19438786 | DISPLAY APPARATUS | LG Display Co., Ltd. | KOHLMAN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2628 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2026 |
| 19437968 | AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM | Advanced Nova Technologies (Singapore) Holding Pte. Ltd. | REAGAN, JAMES A | 3697 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2025 |
| 19437705 | SIDELINK POSITIONING METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE | Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. | SAMS, MATTHEW C | 2646 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2025 |
| 19436695 | PLATFORMS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZATION USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | X Development LLC | STANDKE, ADAM C | 2129 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2025 |
| 19435464 | PLATFORMS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DATA NORMALIZATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING | X Development LLC | DHARITHREESAN, NIDHI | 1686 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2025 |
| 19431513 | PLATFORMS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS | X Development LLC | STANDKE, ADAM C | 2129 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2025 |
| 19429949 | PLATFORMS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS WITH SPECIALIZED DATA | X Development LLC | STANDKE, ADAM C | 2129 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2025 |
| 19425314 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, METHOD OF TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | LG Electronics Inc. | BENNETT, STUART D | 2481 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2025 |
| 19420848 | TREATMENT OF POST-BARIATRIC HYPOGLYCEMIA | Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | BOWLES, DAVID PAUL | 1654 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2025 |
| 19421916 | VIDEO GENERATION NEURAL NETWORKS WITH CAMERA AND SUBJECT MOTION INPUTS | Gdm Holding LLC | CLOTHIER, MATTHEW MORRIS | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2025 |
| 19417711 | METHODS FOR SPATIAL ANALYSIS USING RNA-TEMPLATED LIGATION | 10X Genomics, Inc. | YOUNG, BRIAN ELLIS | 1684 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2025 |
| 19415015 | CRYSTALLINE WAVEGUIDES AND WEARABLE DEVICES CONTAINING THE SAME | Magic Leap, Inc. | EDUN, MUHAMMAD N | 2629 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2025 |
| 19410608 | Sulfur-Containing Surface Polymers | Yield Engineering Systems, Inc. | RICE, STEVEN | 1787 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2025 |
| 19396597 | DISPLAY DEVICE | LG Display Co., Ltd. | LEE, NICHOLAS J | 2624 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2025 |
| 19393295 | VERIFIABLE CRYPTOGRAPHIC OBFUSCATION | Circle Internet Group, Inc. | SHAW, BRIAN F | 2432 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2025 |
| 19484747 | APPROXIMATE NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH USING SPILLED ASSIGNMENTS | Google LLC | VU, BAI DUC | 2163 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2025 |
| 19482692 | TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT OF DRILL STRING COMPONENTS | Eavor Technologies Inc. | QUAIM, LAMIA | 3676 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2025 |
| 19482590 | TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT OF DOWNHOLE TOOLS | Eavor Technologies Inc. | LEE, CRYSTAL J | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2025 |
| 19482606 | DRILLING IN HOT ZONES ON COILED TUBING | Eavor Technologies Inc. | MICHENER, BLAKE E | 3676 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2025 |
| 19482662 | DRILLING IN HOT ZONES WITH A MULTIPLE TUBING DRILL STRING | Eavor Technologies Inc. | MICHENER, BLAKE E | 3676 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2025 |
| 19481938 | PREDICTING MOTOR FUNCTION SCORES IN POMPE DISEASE TREATMENT | Genzyme Corporation | PATEL, JAY M | 3681 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2025 |
| 19379950 | DOCUMENT SEARCH SYSTEM, DOCUMENT SEARCH METHOD, PROGRAM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. | HOANG, HAU HAI | 2154 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2025 |
| 19370692 | GESTURE-BASED VIRTUAL INTERFACES | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. | HALEY, JOSEPH R | 2621 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19369580 | CONTENT INTERACTION DRIVEN BY EYE METRICS | Magic Leap, Inc. | ZHENG, XUEMEI | 2629 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19477372 | DRILLING A MULTILATERAL CLOSED-LOOP GEOTHERMAL WELL | Eavor Technologies Inc. | WALLACE, KIPP CHARLES | 3674 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19361705 | IMAGE DECODING DEVICE AND IMAGE CODING DEVICE | Dolby International AB | HOLDER, ANNER N | 2484 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
| 19476446 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SAME | LG Electronics Inc. | PHAM, CLINT V | 3663 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial86.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Fish & Richardson P.C. were allowed, across 116,083 applications in USPTO records.
3.29 office actions per allowed application on average.
2,993 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 481 clients, before 2257 examiners in 485 art units.
