Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
368 pending office actions • 130 clients • 330 examiners • 189 art units • 15 of 368 (4%) have an AI response strategy ready
KLARQUIST SPARKMAN, LLP has 18129 career applications in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and 366 pending office actions. Those figures show a large historical portfolio accompanied by substantial current prosecution activity in the same technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 86.57%. Each allowance required an average of 3.11 office actions, indicating that successful matters generally progressed through multiple examination exchanges. The profile can therefore inform both outcome assessment and planning for ongoing prosecution effort.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 112 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. 112 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 | 7 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 56 (15%) |
| §103 only | 92 (25%) |
| §102 only | 15 (4%) |
| §112 only | 24 (7%) |
| Double-patenting only | 10 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 20 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 141 (38%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUNTER, ALVIN A | 6 | 85.7% | +2.8% |
| WANG, JING | 5 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 4 | 65.3% | +12.5% |
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 3 | 79.3% | +22.3% |
| GILL, RACHEL B | 3 | 65.4% | +28.8% |
| NGUYEN, NAM P | 3 | 54.8% | +48.7% |
| RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 2 | 83.3% | +15.3% |
| WONG, LINDA | 2 | 84.9% | +15.5% |
| CHOI, JAMES J | 2 | 68.3% | +44.9% |
| MCCORD, PAUL C | 2 | 69.3% | +25.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18975483 | DATA-DRIVEN STRUCTURE EXTRACTION FROM TEXT DOCUMENTS | WONG, LINDA | — |
| 18792777 | IRON TYPE GOLF CLUB HEAD | HUNTER, ALVIN A | — |
| 18791808 | GOLF CLUB HEADS | HUNTER, ALVIN A | — |
| 18761819 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | HUNTER, ALVIN A | — |
| 18750180 | GOLF CLUB | HUNTER, ALVIN A | — |
| 18515737 | GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH VERTICAL CENTER OF GRAVITY ADJUSTMENT | HUNTER, ALVIN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18329816 | COLDWATER DISEASE VACCINE COMPRISING AN ATTENUATED FLAVOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM STRAIN | GRASER, JENNIFER E | 132d overdue |
| 18503854 | BIOREMEDIATION USING CO-METABOLISM SUBSTRATES | XU, QING | 128d overdue |
| 18104703 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION USING A BACKGROUND SERVICE OF AN OPERATING SYSTEM | TURK, BROCK E | 127d overdue |
| 17637058 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IN VIVO GENE EDITING | LIPPOLIS, ALEXANDRA ROSE | 125d overdue |
| 17007922 | AUTOMATIC BITE SETTING | FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | 103d overdue |
| 18665272 | VIRTUAL DENTAL BRIDGE | ROSEN, ERIC J | 66d overdue |
| 18039202 | METHOD OF FORMING A THIN FILM | ABDELAZIEZ, YASSER A | 60d overdue |
| 18041862 | FLEXIBLE DOUBLE-ENDED VIBRATING DEVICE | PENG, BO JOSEPH | 60d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537626 | INTELLIGENT NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES VIA LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL AND USER INTERFACE ELEMENT METADATA | MCCORD, PAUL C | 26d overdue |
| 18275925 | ADJUVANTED MUCOSAL SUBUNIT VACCINES FOR PREVENTING SARS-COV-2 TRANSMISSION AND INFECTION | GILL, RACHEL B | 5d overdue |
| 18380388 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED FLUORESCENCE | NGUYEN, NAM P | 26d |
| 18531430 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 29d |
| 18877235 | SENSOR HOLDING DEVICE | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | — |
| 18975483 | DATA-DRIVEN STRUCTURE EXTRACTION FROM TEXT DOCUMENTS | WONG, LINDA | — |
| 18955676 | TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE WITH VARIABLE EFFECTIVE FOCAL LENGTH | CHOI, JAMES J | — |
| 18942315 | METHOD FOR PRESSURE EQUALISATION OF SIMULTANEOUSLY OPERATED COLUMNS | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 13 |
| 3711 | 12 |
| 3791 | 9 |
| 3772 | 7 |
| 1631 | 6 |
| 3783 | 6 |
| 1681 | 6 |
| 1624 | 5 |
| 2193 | 5 |
| 1633 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19640048 | ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR AND SOLE STRUCTURE WITH SENSORY NODE ELEMENTS DISPOSED AT DISCRETE LOCATIONS | Nike, Inc. | DENKOVIC, HALEY | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 06, 2026 |
| 19376996 | Using Fixed-Weight Language Models to Create and Interact with a Retrieval Index | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | ZHAO, YU | 2169 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2025 |
| 19360639 | SEGMENTED ARTICLES OF FOOTWEAR | Nike, Inc. | KAVANAUGH, JOHN T | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2025 |
| 19349863 | VEHICLE MOVEMENT TRACKING | Q-Free Norge AS | KUJUNDZIC, DINO | 3658 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19342148 | HASH-BASED ENCODER DECISIONS FOR VIDEO CODING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | PICON-FELICIANO, ANA J | 2482 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19326676 | ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER ASSEMBLY | Cordance Medical Inc. | RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | 3798 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19288463 | SIGNALING OF STATE INFORMATION FOR A DECODED PICTURE BUFFER AND REFERENCE PICTURE LISTS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | HANSELL JR., RICHARD A | 2486 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19253623 | SECURITY SYSTEM | Portable Multimedia Ltd. | TUN, NAY L | 2685 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19253404 | CONTINUOUS CUSTOM DENTAL RESTORATION MANUFACTURING PROCESS AND SYSTEM | James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc. | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1743 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19249928 | ADJUSTING QUANTIZATION/SCALING AND INVERSE QUANTIZATION/SCALING WHEN SWITCHING COLOR SPACES | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | PHILIPPE, GIMS S | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19140995 | PHASE LOCK DETECTOR | Novelda AS | HILTUNEN, THOMAS J | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19242855 | PROCESSING OF VIDEO OPERATIONS AS SUBTASKS FOR VIDEO FRAGMENTS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | BECKER, JOSEPH W | 2483 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19197829 | OCCLUDING PURGE VENTURI SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | Emerging Acquisitions, LLC | COLON MORALES, DAVID | 3753 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19182210 | SCANNING TIP FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC-ULTRASOUND MINI PROBE | ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | LY, TOMMY TAI | 3797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19120354 | PACKET DURATION ESTIMATION | Nordic Semiconductor ASA | PEREZ, JAMES M | 2635 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19095982 | HELICAL SCAN PHOTOACOUSTIC-ULTRASONIC ENDOSCOPE | ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19088247 | SENSITIVE DATA PROTECTION USING AN AUXILIARY MACHINE-LEARNING TOOL | Thia St Co. | SARKER, SANCHIT K | 2495 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19088242 | FINGERPRINT SECURITY OF A MACHINE-LEARNING TOOL | Thia St Co. | HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C | 2432 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19113166 | LIGHT-SHIELDING HARD CAPSULE CONTAINING MAGNESIUM OXIDE | Capsugel Belgium NV | SAEED, ALI S | 1616 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19073634 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SHIP PROPELLER SHAFT REMOVAL | Vigor Industrial LLC | CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | 3726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19109417 | SEQUENCE GENERATOR | Vitalthings Uwb AS | WELLS, KENNETH B | 2836 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19067898 | Context-Dependent Generation of Supplemental Information on a Per-Level Basis in a Neural Network | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI | 2653 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2025 |
| 19067886 | Speculative Decoding using Expanded Token Matching | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | LEE, JANGWOEN | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2025 |
| 19066796 | ROTATABLE PRINTHEAD FOR ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC PROCESSES | University of Oregon | LIANG, SHIBIN | 1741 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19107013 | AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW DEVICE INSERTION APPARATUS FOR INSERTING AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW DEVICE FOR GLAUCOMA TREATMENT INTO EYE | Seoul National University Hospital | MILLER, SERENITY A | 3771 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19106991 | SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING SPECTRAL DRIFT | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19057833 | FOUR-LAYERED MATERIAL FOR A FLEXIBLE FLUID RESERVOIR | Tsi Manufacturing, LLC | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19037591 | NEURAL NETWORK MARGIN PROPOSAL | James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc. | BAKER, CHARLOTTE M | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 | |
| 19034136 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED AUTHENTICATION PLATFORM | Banqu, Inc. | TSANG, HENRY | 2495 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19014433 | FOOTWEAR STROBEL INCLUDING A SHANK, AN ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR | Nike, Inc. | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18992165 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF 3D VOLUMETRIC ULTRASOUND IMAGING | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19008298 | SUPPORT GARMENT | Nike, Inc. | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 1754 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 19005395 | VIBRATION CONTROL OF STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF EXPOSURE APPARATUS | Nikon Corporation | RIDDLE, CHRISTINA A | 2882 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18878637 | MAXILLO-MANDIBULAR MEASUREMENT TOOL | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE | 3772 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18719795 | MACROCYCLIC PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE CONTAINING SAME AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT | Whan In Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. | KIFLE, BRUCK | 1624 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18877235 | SENSOR HOLDING DEVICE | Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18985677 | COMPRESSION OF CT RECONSTRUCTION IMAGES | James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc. | LE, MICHAEL | 2614 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18975483 | DATA-DRIVEN STRUCTURE EXTRACTION FROM TEXT DOCUMENTS | SAP SE | WONG, LINDA | 2655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18872484 | LUNG FUNCTION TESTING | Eupnoos Ltd. | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18970684 | COMBINED CHANGE-POINT ANALYZER FOR DATABASE SYSTEMS | SAP SE | ADAMS, CHARLES D | 2165 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18870588 | DATA DRIVEN ADOPTIVE CONTROL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY SYSTEMS | Sartorius Stedim Data Analytics AB | KHATIB, RAMI | 3669 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18955676 | TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE WITH VARIABLE EFFECTIVE FOCAL LENGTH | Fei Company | CHOI, JAMES J | 2878 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18954772 | IRON MAN (IMA) OVEREXPRESSION INCREASES DISEASE RESISTANCE | Salk Institute For Biological Studies | MEYER, GEORGE WILLIAM | 1662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18952892 | Dynamic Feature Management and Version Control in Distributed Software Applications | SAP SE | DO, CHAT C | 2193 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18949779 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY IMPORTING GEOSPATIAL DATA INTO THE H3 INDEXING SYSTEM | Southern Oregon University | SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA | 2164 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18866040 | AUTOFLOWERING GENES | Phylos Bioscience, Inc. | WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | 1663 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18942823 | Selecting and Placing Objects in Images | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | MAHROUKA, WASSIM | 2665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18942315 | METHOD FOR PRESSURE EQUALISATION OF SIMULTANEOUSLY OPERATED COLUMNS | Dionex Softron GmbH | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 | |
| 18864483 | RADIO ROUTING | Nordic Semiconductor ASA | ZHANG, ZHENSHENG | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 | |
| 18935969 | SHIPPING MAILER WITH CORRUGATED MATERIAL HAVING ADHERED AND NON-ADHERED ZONES | Packaging Corporation Of America | HELVEY, PETER N. | 3734 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial86.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Klarquist Sparkman, LLP were allowed, across 18,129 applications in USPTO records.
3.11 office actions per allowed application on average.
368 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 130 clients, before 330 examiners in 189 art units.
