Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
477 pending office actions • 233 clients • 436 examiners • 246 art units • 0 of 477 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 902 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP - West Coast focuses on Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and reports 473 pending office actions across 60226 career applications. The pending docket is a central feature of the profile, alongside the firm’s broad application history.
The resolved allowance rate is 82.57%, and the average is 3.21 office actions per allowance. The outcome and action measures provide context for reviewing both resolved prosecution results and the exchanges preceding allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 133 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. 133 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 | 10 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 62 (13%) |
| §103 only | 137 (29%) |
| §102 only | 21 (4%) |
| §112 only | 28 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 7 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 25 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 184 (39%) |
| No statute on record | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GMOSER, WILLIAM L | 3 | 78.0% | +29.5% |
| CHU, CHRIS H | 3 | 53.1% | +8.6% |
| BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3 | 77.3% | +16.9% |
| QUAIM, LAMIA | 2 | 74.6% | +17.5% |
| HIGGS, STELLA EUN | 2 | 39.1% | +34.4% |
| GROSS, CARSON | 2 | 73.0% | +21.5% |
| BATTISTI, DEREK J | 2 | 51.6% | +35.7% |
| DO, ROWLAND | 2 | 70.0% | -5.3% |
| BERTRAM, ERIC D | 2 | 81.3% | +12.4% |
| MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 2 | 46.5% | +54.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18927116 | TRANSCLERAL LASER | BERTRAM, ERIC D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18724915 | A CARDBOARD BOX FOR HOLDING CONTENT, AND A METHOD FOR USING SUCH | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 131d overdue |
| 17144021 | BITERMINAL DNA FRAGMENT TYPES IN CELL-FREE SAMPLES AND USES THEREOF | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 112d overdue |
| 16721619 | CELL-FREE DNA END CHARACTERISTICS | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 93d overdue |
| 18784737 | PREDICTIVE MODELING FOR HEALTHCARE COSTS | TIEDEMAN, JASON S | 92d overdue |
| 17420076 | TRANSPOSASE WITH ENHANCED INSERTION SITE SELECTION PROPERTIES | GOMEZ RODRIGUEZ, JULIO WASHINGTON | 89d overdue |
| 18029812 | VIRAL VACCINE COMPOSITIONS FOR INOCULATING A SUBJECT AGAINST A CORONAVIRUS, AN INFLUENZA VIRUS, OR BOTH | GILL, RACHEL B | 86d overdue |
| 16243041 | Systems and Methods to Control Lithium Plating | NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V | 79d overdue |
| 18688620 | Method and System for Post-Partum Haemorrhage Detection | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 71d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18669373 | VTOL AIRCRAFT FAN TILTING MECHANISMS AND ARRANGEMENTS | GMOSER, WILLIAM L | 15d overdue |
| 19332930 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WELLBORE FRICTION PROFILE | QUAIM, LAMIA | 4d overdue |
| 18334635 | SERVER-BASED HEALTHCARE PATIENT SERVICES | HIGGS, STELLA EUN | 35d |
| 19231409 | AI-BASED HOSPITAL ROOM MANAGEMENT | HIGGS, STELLA EUN | — |
| 19193903 | SUPPORT COMPONENT AND LAMINATION DEVICE | GROSS, CARSON | — |
| 19193916 | SUPPORT COMPONENT AND LAMINATION DEVICE | GROSS, CARSON | — |
| 19031538 | WOVEN PLASTIC BAGS WITH ANGLED AND/OR RADIAL CUTS | BATTISTI, DEREK J | — |
| 19030813 | AIRCRAFT WITH TILTING FAN ASSEMBLIES | GMOSER, WILLIAM L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 11 |
| 1682 | 11 |
| 3677 | 7 |
| 3796 | 7 |
| 1686 | 6 |
| 1641 | 6 |
| 1623 | 6 |
| 1671 | 6 |
| 3715 | 5 |
| 2469 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19543530 | LOCATION-BASED DIGITAL TOKEN MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS | Nant Holdings Ip, LLC | COBB, MICHAEL J | 2615 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2026 |
| 19533289 | SCAN DRIVING CIRCUIT, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF AND DISPLAY PANEL | Yungu (Gu’An) Technology Co., Ltd. | BOLOTIN, DMITRIY | 2623 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2026 |
| 19454004 | THIN-FILM LITHIUM-NIOBATE (TFLN)-BASED MODULATOR FOR FIBER OPTIC GYROSCOPES AND OTHER APPLICATIONS | Optilab, LLC | SMITH, MAURICE C | 2877 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2026 |
| 19438005 | MAGNETIC ANALOG SWITCH AND SUBSTRATE | Logitech Europe S.A. | CHATLY, AMIT | 2624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2025 |
| 19383025 | EYE TRACKING USING TIME-BASED FILTERING | Valve Corporation | SCHNURR, JOHN R | 2425 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2025 |
| 19365153 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PLASMAPHERESIS | Viome Circulate, LLC | KIM, SUN U | 1777 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19473764 | MINING METHOD | Element Six GmbH | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 3678 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19353447 | OCT Guided Therapy | Notal Vision Ltd. | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 3797 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19342723 | TRANSACTION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Shenzhen Financial Technology Institute (Financial Technology Institute, Pbc) | DANG, CHRISTINE | 3698 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19332930 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WELLBORE FRICTION PROFILE | Magnetic Variation Services, LLC | QUAIM, LAMIA | 3676 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 19306856 | HYBRID ANALOG KEY STRUCTURE | Logitech Europe S.A. | LAM, TUAN THIEU | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 | |
| 19296291 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONFIRMING FOCUS OF ULTRASOUND BEAMS | Cordance Medical Inc. | JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19152445 | TRANSACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Digital Currency Institute, The People'S Bank Of China | MILEF, ELDA G | 3694 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 19282573 | IDENTIFYING AND GRAPHICALLY REPRESENTING MULTIPLE PARENT NODES OF A CHILD NODE | Kilpatrick, Townsend & Stockton, LLP | SHAH, VAISHALI | 2156 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19272962 | NON-INVASIVE DETECTION OF TISSUE ABNORMALITY USING METHYLATION | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | SABOUR, GHAZAL | 1686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19144498 | DIGITAL CURRENCY CROSS-BORDER TRANSACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON BLOCKCHAIN, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Digital Currency Institute, The People'S Bank Of China | FU, HAO | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2025 |
| 19231409 | AI-BASED HOSPITAL ROOM MANAGEMENT | Hatchmed Corporation | HIGGS, STELLA EUN | 3681 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19222702 | DRILL BITS AND OTHER DOWNHOLE DRILLING TOOLS WITH NON-CYLINDRICAL CUTTER POCKETS | Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. | WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN | 3672 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19217493 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGH BANDWIDTH IMMERSION GRATING | Ram Photonics Industrial, LLC | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19216593 | LUMINANCE COMPENSATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAY PANEL, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | Visionox Technology Inc. | NADKARNI, SARVESH J | 2629 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19212087 | CONDUCTIVE ELEMENT | Quantum Conductors Ltd. | NGUYEN, TRI V | 1764 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19129789 | A FAN SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF OPTIMIZING EFFICIENCY IN A FAN SYSTEM | Zerro Power Systems Pte. Ltd. | AMAYA, CARLOS DAVID | 2836 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19205945 | DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | Yungu (Gu’An) Technology Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, KEVIN M | 2628 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19206002 | DE-TAPE TOOL | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | CAILLOUET, CHRISTOPHER C | 1745 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19197319 | LAND HAZARD COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A LANDING SITE AND A PILOTLESS AIRCRAFT | Wisk Aero LLC | HERRERA, MICHAEL J | 3668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19193903 | SUPPORT COMPONENT AND LAMINATION DEVICE | Yungu (Gu’An) Technology Co., Ltd. | GROSS, CARSON | 1746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19193916 | SUPPORT COMPONENT AND LAMINATION DEVICE | Yungu (Gu’An) Technology Co., Ltd. | GROSS, CARSON | 1746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19124281 | ZIPPER | Zhejiang Weixing Industrial Development Co., Ltd. | BROOKS, KARA JEAN | 3677 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19124268 | MAINTENANCE METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK NODE INFORMATION, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd. | THIEU, BENJAMIN M | 2453 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19123544 | JOINT WITH TWO DEGREES OF FREEDOM | Pollen Robotics | BROWN, JOSEPH HENRY | 3618 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19186478 | SELECTION AND DECODING OF AN OPTICAL PATTERN WITHIN A REAL SCENE USING A FROZEN IMAGE FROM A VIDEO PREVIEW | Scandit AG | NGUYEN, DAVID VAN | 2617 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19181999 | METHODS FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF PAIN | The Board Of Supervisors Of Louisiana State University And Agriculture And Mechanical College | RODRIGUEZ, RAYNA B | 1628 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19180145 | FOLDABLE SUPPORT DEVICE AND FOLDABLE DISPLAY DEVICE | Kunshan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd. | SHRESTHA, SAGAR | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 19175944 | ESTABLISHING A TRUST RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A PERIPHERAL DEVICE AND A SERVER | Logitech Europe S.A. | GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D | 2496 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19175955 | PROFILE CACHING FOR A PERIPHERAL DEVICE | Logitech Europe S.A. | PATEL, SANJIV D | 2625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19117643 | COMBINED BOTTOM STOP, ZIPPER, AND ZIPPER PRODUCT | Zhejiang Weixing Industrial Development Co., Ltd. | UPCHURCH, DAVID M | 3677 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19098898 | FLEET ROUTING CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD | Zum Services, Inc. | SANTOS-DIAZ, MARIA C | 3629 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19093041 | ELECTRICALLY POWERED VEHICLES WITH REDUNDANT POWER DISTRIBUTION CIRCUITS | Wisk Aero LLC | BUKHARI, AQEEL H | 2836 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19091597 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL SHOPPING ENVIRONMENTS | Shopfulfill Ip LLC | WEINER, ARIELLE E | 3689 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19089404 | SMART DRAIN COVER FOR SINK STERILIZATION AND MITIGATION OF AEROSOLIZED PATHOGENS | Oregon Health & Science University | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19088054 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY AND SEARCH ENGINE HARDWARE | Khalifa University Of Science And Technology | AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 | |
| 19074418 | DISPLAY PANEL | Yungu (Gu’An) Technology Co., Ltd. | SHEN, YUZHEN | 2623 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 09, 2025 |
| 19074098 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED RETAIL AND ECOMMERCE SHOPPING PLATFORMS | Shopfulfill Ip LLC | PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN | 3688 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19068919 | REEL BASED CLOSURE DEVICES FOR TIGHTENING A SKI BOOT | BOA Technology, Inc. | PRANGE, SHARON M | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19107594 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF USING QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION FOR SECURE USER AND DATA AUTHENTICATION | Pqcee Pte. Ltd. | FIELDS, COURTNEY D | 2436 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19067639 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURE KEY DISPERSAL | Arash Esmailzadeh | MAAZOUZ, GHIZLANE | 2499 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19107587 | CONTROL METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR SWITCH POWER SOURCE, AND SWITCH POWER SOURCE | Bcd Shanghai Micro-Electronics Company Limited | ZHANG, JUE | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19065005 | COVER CLIPS FOR SUB-GIRTS IN EXTERIOR WALL SYSTEM ASSEMBLIES | Sto Corp. | CAJILIG, CHRISTINE T | 3633 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19064384 | GENERATIVE AI FOR SUMMARIZING WEB SESSIONS | Quantum Metric, Inc. | DIVECHA, KAMAL B | 2453 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19063749 | AUTO-LOCATING AND AUTONOMOUS OPERATION DATA STORAGE | Wilder Systems Inc. | KERRIGAN, MICHAEL V | 3664 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial82.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP - West Coast were allowed, across 60,226 applications in USPTO records.
3.21 office actions per allowed application on average.
477 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 233 clients, before 436 examiners in 246 art units.
