Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 10 clients • 10 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
JACKSON WALKER LLP has 10 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. Its career record includes 1978 applications in this technology area, providing context for the reported current activity.
The resolved allowance rate is 77.79%, and the average is 3.44 office actions per allowance. These figures allow practitioners to examine historical outcomes and the action burden associated with allowance, while the pending docket identifies work still in prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (30%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLS, CHRISTINE M | 1 | 62.0% | +52.0% |
| WEBER, JONATHAN C | 1 | 64.7% | +28.3% |
| SHIRSAT, MARCELA | 1 | 73.8% | +18.9% |
| WILLIAMS, CLAYTON R | 1 | 81.9% | -4.8% |
| KAMM, JUDITH MARIE | 1 | 42.9% | +57.1% |
| HU, ANN M | 1 | 67.8% | +21.5% |
| CHATTIN, AMY MARIE | 1 | 72.2% | +45.7% |
| STEIN, MICHELLE | 1 | 45.3% | +35.5% |
| BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1 | 81.2% | +15.2% |
| DEBERRY, REGINA M | 1 | 50.2% | +30.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18334678 | SYNTHESIS OF NANO-SIZED ZEOLITES | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 27d |
| 19011494 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-DISRUPTIVE MIGRATION OF SOFTWARE COMPONENTS TO A PUBLIC CLOUD SYSTEM | WILLIAMS, CLAYTON R | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19143905 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT FOR CONDITIONING LARGE DIAMETER BURR HOLES | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | — |
| 18688041 | SCAFFOLD FOR SOFT TISSUE AUGMENTATION AND REINFORCEMENT | HU, ANN M | — |
| 18686868 | CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR (CAR) T CELL THERAPY PLATFORM | CHATTIN, AMY MARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18211868 | METHOD FOR REMOVING ASPHALTENES, RESINS AND HEAVY METALS FROM CRUDE OIL | STEIN, MICHELLE | 60d overdue |
| 18334678 | SYNTHESIS OF NANO-SIZED ZEOLITES | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 27d |
| 19388657 | Cargo Container Lock System and Method for Locking Cargo Containers | MILLS, CHRISTINE M | — |
| 19354080 | HANDGUN WITH IMPROVED SAFETY MECHANISM | WEBER, JONATHAN C | — |
| 19143905 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT FOR CONDITIONING LARGE DIAMETER BURR HOLES | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | — |
| 18984124 | PHOTOACTIVATABLE NANOPARTICLES AND USES THEREOF AS AGENTS FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY COMBINATIONS | KAMM, JUDITH MARIE | — |
| 18688041 | SCAFFOLD FOR SOFT TISSUE AUGMENTATION AND REINFORCEMENT | HU, ANN M | — |
| 18686868 | CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR (CAR) T CELL THERAPY PLATFORM | CHATTIN, AMY MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3641 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 2443 | 1 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 1643 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19388657 | Cargo Container Lock System and Method for Locking Cargo Containers | The Cargolock LLC | MILLS, CHRISTINE M | 3675 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2025 |
| 19354080 | HANDGUN WITH IMPROVED SAFETY MECHANISM | Staccato 2011, LLC | WEBER, JONATHAN C | 3641 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19143905 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT FOR CONDITIONING LARGE DIAMETER BURR HOLES | The Regents of the University of Colorado | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | 3775 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19011494 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-DISRUPTIVE MIGRATION OF SOFTWARE COMPONENTS TO A PUBLIC CLOUD SYSTEM | Aviatrix Systems, Inc. | WILLIAMS, CLAYTON R | 2443 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18984124 | PHOTOACTIVATABLE NANOPARTICLES AND USES THEREOF AS AGENTS FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY COMBINATIONS | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM | KAMM, JUDITH MARIE | 1611 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18688041 | SCAFFOLD FOR SOFT TISSUE AUGMENTATION AND REINFORCEMENT | Smartfem Medical Technology Pty Ltd. | HU, ANN M | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18686868 | CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR (CAR) T CELL THERAPY PLATFORM | The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital | CHATTIN, AMY MARIE | 1643 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18211868 | METHOD FOR REMOVING ASPHALTENES, RESINS AND HEAVY METALS FROM CRUDE OIL | Rock Springs Energy Group, LLC | STEIN, MICHELLE | 1771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18334678 | SYNTHESIS OF NANO-SIZED ZEOLITES | UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1736 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 17925082 | ADJUVANTED CONJUGATE OPIOID VACCINE | Tulane University | DEBERRY, REGINA M | 1647 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial77.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Jackson Walker LLP were allowed, across 1,978 applications in USPTO records.
3.44 office actions per allowed application on average.
10 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 10 clients, before 10 examiners in 10 art units.
