Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
157 pending office actions • 70 clients • 143 examiners • 98 art units • 0 of 157 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 247 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jones Day’s profile covers Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and includes 153 pending office actions. Its career record contains 12721 applications, so the current docket sits within a large prosecution portfolio. That scale supports using the pending figure as an indicator of active examination work rather than as a standalone measure of overall practice volume.
The resolved allowance rate is 73.14%, and the average is 3.51 office actions per allowance. Together, these measures provide separate views of resolved outcomes and prosecution effort. Practitioners can use them when assessing expected examination persistence, while keeping the pending docket distinct from completed-case performance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 33 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. 33 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 | 3 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 11 (7%) |
| §103 only | 36 (23%) |
| §102 only | 5 (3%) |
| §112 only | 6 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 7 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 25 (16%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 63 (40%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, YUNSOO | 3 | 66.0% | +34.0% |
| CHO, SUNG IL | 2 | 91.4% | +8.5% |
| CARTER, TARA ROSE E | 2 | 80.7% | +9.7% |
| COLLINS, DARRYL J | 2 | 89.1% | +5.0% |
| CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | 2 | 57.4% | +40.2% |
| MCDOWELL, BRIAN E | 2 | 74.0% | +31.0% |
| WHITE, DAWANNA SHAR-DAY | 2 | 62.4% | +24.3% |
| RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI | 2 | 54.8% | +53.7% |
| SKOKO III, JOHN JOSEPH | 2 | 53.0% | +55.2% |
| WANG, CHANG YU | 2 | 33.4% | +53.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18990561 | Lenses, Devices, Methods and Systems for Refractive Error | COLLINS, DARRYL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18404577 | Engineered and Fully-Functional Customized Glycoproteins | BARRON, SEAN C | 36d overdue |
| 18188815 | MEMORY MODULE, ACTUATOR, REAR VIEW DEVICE AND VEHICLE | HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | 32d overdue |
| 18607714 | Semiconductor Device Including a Voltage Regulator and an Integrated Circuit Module | HILTUNEN, THOMAS J | 8d overdue |
| 17904311 | AMPHIPHILIC POLYMERS AND THEIR USE FOR IMPROVED PRODUCTION OF NANOPARTICLES FOR THE TARGETED DELIVERY OF ANTIGENS | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 5d |
| 18302154 | Energy-Efficient Recurrent Neural Network Accelerator | KHAN, SHAHID K | 15d |
| 18934930 | Method and System for Dynamically Navigating Routes According to Safety-Related Risk Profiles | KHATIB, RAMI | 22d |
| 17755494 | BATTERY CHARGING DEVICE HAVING A TEMPERATURE SENSOR FOR PROVIDING TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION DURING CHARGING, AND METHOD OF MEASURING DEPLETED OR DISCHARGED BATTERY TEMPERATURE FOR COMPENSATING CHARGING OF A BATTERY CHARGING DEVICE | JEPPSON, PAMELA J | 22d |
| 19185438 | Systems and Methods for Controlling Media Content Access Parameters | JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18731923 | ADMINISTRATION OF AURORA KINASE INHIBITOR AND CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS | WHITE, DAWANNA SHAR-DAY | 98d overdue |
| 18072314 | HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF | WHITE, DAWANNA SHAR-DAY | 7d |
| 18155650 | BIOACTIVE CONJUGATE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | SKOKO III, JOHN JOSEPH | 14d |
| 17262505 | LIFT DRIVE FOR A RAIL-GUIDED CLIMBING SYSTEM | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | 34d |
| 18879787 | WEIGHTED BASE FOR A MOBILE STOP DEVICE, AND MOBILE STOP DEVICE | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | — |
| 18746554 | PRODRUG OF PYRROLIDONE DERIVATIVES AS GLUCOKINASE ACTIVATOR | MCDOWELL, BRIAN E | — |
| 18674627 | EGFR INHIBITORS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI | — |
| 18648187 | BIOACTIVE CONJUGATE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | SKOKO III, JOHN JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1627 | 7 |
| 2872 | 6 |
| 1675 | 6 |
| 1641 | 5 |
| 3634 | 4 |
| 1624 | 4 |
| 1622 | 4 |
| 1725 | 4 |
| 2825 | 3 |
| 1785 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19313968 | Mixed Refrigerant Composition and Heat Pump Including the Same | SK Enmove Co., Ltd. | CAI, JIAJIA JANIE | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19300565 | Methods for Internet Communication Security | Stealthpath, Inc. | GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J | 2433 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19288834 | GENERATIVE PROTEIN DESIGN WITH SMOOTHED ENERGY-BASED MODELS | Genentech, Inc. | BICKHAM, DAWN MARIE | 1685 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19217102 | DUAL SLOT DIE COATER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRODES USING SAME | SK On Co., Ltd. | THOMAS, BINU | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19214788 | Pulse Width Control Apparatus and Method | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | JAGER, RYAN C | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 | |
| 19202226 | Systems and Methods for Dynamic Management of Geo-Fenced and Geo-Targeted Media Content and Content Alternatives in Content Management Systems | Ipar, LLC | ZAIDI, SYED A | 2432 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19123113 | Lighting Device, Rear-View Device and Motor Vehicle | Motherson Innovations Company Limited | GRAMLING, SEAN P | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19185438 | Systems and Methods for Controlling Media Content Access Parameters | Ipar, LLC | JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE | 3699 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19176354 | Overdrive I/O ESD Protection Network | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | WELLS, KENNETH B | 2842 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19176327 | Device and Method for Diagnosis of the Same | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA | 2112 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19176369 | Pre-Charging Bit Lines Through Charge-Sharing | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited. | CHO, SUNG IL | 2825 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19089163 | Bio-Detector Device for Bio-Targets | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | BALL, JOHN C | 1795 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19088837 | Spinal Stability System with Expandable Cannula | Masal Inc. | CARTER, TARA ROSE E | 3773 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19069350 | Programmable Regulator Voltage Controlled Ring Oscillator | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | GANNON, LEVI | 2849 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19052420 | Device and Method for Measuring a Duty Cycle of a Clock Signal | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | MAINI, RAHUL | 2858 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19050451 | REARVIEW DEVICE WITH MOVEABLE HEAD ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING SAME | Smr Patents S.À.R.L. | MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 3632 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19044697 | Circuit for Outputting a Stepdown Voltage and Method for Stepping Down a Voltage | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | JACKSON, LAKAISHA | 2838 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 19029418 | DEEP LEARNING FOR NEW AND ENLARGING LESIONS | Genentech, Inc. | USTARIS, JOSEPH G | 2483 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18994429 | Ophthalmic Devices, Systems and/or Methods for Management of Ocular Conditions | Brien Holden Vision Institute Limited | COLLINS, DARRYL J | 2872 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18879787 | WEIGHTED BASE FOR A MOBILE STOP DEVICE, AND MOBILE STOP DEVICE | Peri SE | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | 3634 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2024 |
| 18991841 | Apparatus for Introducing Active Material for Use in Secondary Battery | SK On Co., Ltd. | MYERS, GLENN F | 3652 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18990561 | Lenses, Devices, Methods and Systems for Refractive Error | Brien Holden Vision Institute Limited | COLLINS, DARRYL J | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18985598 | Fire Extinguishing System for Electric Vehicle and Fire Extinguishing Method for Electric Vehicle | SK On Co., Ltd. | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 3752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18985477 | REARVIEW MIRROR DEVICE | Motherson Innovations Company Limited | OWENS, DANELL L | 2882 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18981914 | Roller Cleaning Apparatus | SK On Co., Ltd. | CARTER, MONICA SMITH | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18979763 | Systems and Methods for Multi-Phase Clock Generation | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | POOS, JOHN W | 2896 | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18960027 | DECORATIVE ANTIQUE COPPER COATING WITH HTL COMPATIBILITY AND NOVEL INTER-LAYER ADHESION MECHANISM | Motherson Innovations Company Limited | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1785 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18951018 | Characterizing Fault Injection on Power Distribution Networks with Voltage Sensors | Mitre Corporation | BONZO, BRYCE P | 2114 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18949192 | Systems and Methods for Generating Synthesizable Netlists From Register Transfer Level Designs | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. | LIN, ARIC | 2851 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18937208 | Systems and Methods for Controlling Power Management Operations in a Memory Device | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | HO, HOAI V | 2827 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18937191 | Circuitry for Power Management Assertion | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | CHO, SUNG IL | 2825 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18934930 | Method and System for Dynamically Navigating Routes According to Safety-Related Risk Profiles | Mitre Corporation | KHATIB, RAMI | 3669 | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18918229 | Systems and Methods for Artificial Intelligence-Based Maintenance of An Air Conditioning System | Alisea S.r.l. | VU, TUAN A | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 | |
| 18900301 | DETECTION OF GAIT ACTIVITY | Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 3791 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18850823 | Stanchion for Scaffolding, Scaffolding, and Method for Producing a Stanchion | Peri SE | PEZZLO, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER | 3634 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18890094 | RIP1 INHIBITORY COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME | Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY | 1624 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18883612 | IMMUNOGENIC COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATMENT OF HEPATITIS B | Brii Biosciences Limited | CHESTNUT, BARRY A | 1672 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18815976 | Device with High-Density Memory Cells and Method of Manufacturing the Same | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | LEE, DA WEI | 2817 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18840250 | USE OF INDAZOLE COMPOUND FOR TREATING PSORIASIS | Wuhan Createrna Science And Technology Co., Ltd. | ONDACHI, PAULINE WANJIKU MUCH | 1627 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18800988 | ORAL FORMULATIONS OF CYTIDINE ANALOGS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | Celgene Corporation | TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V | 1615 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18793133 | Water Purification System | Waterfleet, LLC | SPIES, BRADLEY R | 1776 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18786733 | Integrated Circuit Having a High Cell Density | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | SLUTSKER, JULIA | 2891 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18832616 | STAIRWAY, SET OF STAIRS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SET OF STAIRS | Peri SE | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | 3633 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18832201 | Rear View Device with Actuator and Gasket Sealing Head Mover | Motherson Innovations Company Ltd. | NGUYEN, DUNG T | 2871 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18730692 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION OF A CYP11A1 INHIBITOR | Orion Corporation | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18776606 | CEREBLON BINDING COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, AND METHODS OF TREATMENT THEREWITH | Celgene Corporation | DAVIS, BRIAN J | 1614 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18777207 | SEPARATOR AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | SK Ie Technology Co., Ltd. | HARRIS, MARY GRACE | 1729 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18729585 | BEAM FOR SCAFFOLD PLATFORMS, SCAFFOLD PLATFORM PLANE, METHOD FOR FORMING A SCAFFOLD PLATFORM PLANE, AND USE OF A BEAM | Peri SE | MARTINEZ, DAVID E | 3634 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18767365 | Devices, Systems and/or Methods for Myopia Control | Brien Holden Vision Institute Limited | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 2872 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18767295 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING (S)-4-(4-(4-(((2-(2,6-DIOXOPIPERIDIN-3-YL)-1-OXOISOINDOLIN-4-YL)OXY)METHYL)BENZYL)PIPERAZIN-1-YL)-3-FLUOROBENZONITRILE AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | Celgene Corporation | BAEK, BONG-SOOK | 1611 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial73.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Jones Day were allowed, across 12,721 applications in USPTO records.
3.51 office actions per allowed application on average.
157 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 70 clients, before 143 examiners in 98 art units.
