Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
379 pending office actions • 135 clients • 341 examiners • 169 art units • 18 of 379 (5%) have an AI response strategy ready
KLARQUIST SPARKMAN, LLP has a history in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, with 18047 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate pct of 86.58. Currently, it is managing 292 pending office actions. The 86.58 resolved allowance rate pct across 18047 applications indicates an effective long-term strategy. The 292 pending office actions are fewer than the career applications.
The prosecution process averages 3.11 office actions per allowance. This figure reflects the firm's experience in navigating the requirements of Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals over a volume of cases. The 3.11 avg office actions per allowance provides a benchmark for the firm's prosecution efficiency. With 18047 career applications, these metrics offer a view of the firm's performance. Practitioners can use the resolved allowance rate pct and the avg office actions per allowance to set expectations for the prosecution cycle.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 114 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. 114 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 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 47 (12%) |
| §103 only | 104 (27%) |
| §102 only | 15 (4%) |
| §112 only | 28 (7%) |
| Double-patenting only | 12 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 26 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 137 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, JING | 5 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| HUNTER, ALVIN A | 5 | 85.7% | +2.8% |
| SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 4 | 65.2% | +12.7% |
| NASRI, MARYAM A | 3 | 73.6% | +2.7% |
| PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | 3 | 83.1% | +15.5% |
| GILL, RACHEL B | 3 | 65.5% | +28.5% |
| GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | 3 | 65.7% | +46.1% |
| WONG, LINDA | 2 | 84.9% | +15.6% |
| CHOI, JAMES J | 2 | 68.0% | +45.0% |
| 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18370314 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | 124d overdue |
| 18379512 | HIGH LOFT, LOW CENTER-OF-GRAVITY GOLF CLUB HEADS | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | 17d overdue |
| 18975483 | DATA-DRIVEN STRUCTURE EXTRACTION FROM TEXT DOCUMENTS | WONG, LINDA | — |
| 18921260 | GOLF CLUB FITTING SYSTEMS | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | — |
| 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 | — |
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 |
| 18266525 | SMALL MOLECULES AND THEIR USE AS MALT1 INHIBITORS | YOUNGBLOOD, WILLIAM JUSTIN | 91d overdue |
| 18665272 | VIRTUAL DENTAL BRIDGE | ROSEN, ERIC J | 66d overdue |
| 18039202 | METHOD OF FORMING A THIN FILM | ABDELAZIEZ, YASSER A | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18370314 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | 124d overdue |
| 18537626 | INTELLIGENT NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES VIA LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL AND USER INTERFACE ELEMENT METADATA | MCCORD, PAUL C | 26d overdue |
| 18379512 | HIGH LOFT, LOW CENTER-OF-GRAVITY GOLF CLUB HEADS | PASSANITI, SEBASTIANO | 17d overdue |
| 18275925 | ADJUVANTED MUCOSAL SUBUNIT VACCINES FOR PREVENTING SARS-COV-2 TRANSMISSION AND INFECTION | GILL, RACHEL B | 5d overdue |
| 18531430 | GOLF CLUB HEAD | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 29d |
| 18317484 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMMUNE REPERTOIRE MONITORING | GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | 42d |
| 18975483 | DATA-DRIVEN STRUCTURE EXTRACTION FROM TEXT DOCUMENTS | WONG, LINDA | — |
| 18955676 | TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE WITH VARIABLE EFFECTIVE FOCAL LENGTH | CHOI, JAMES J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 10 |
| 3711 | 8 |
| 3772 | 6 |
| 3791 | 6 |
| 1681 | 6 |
| 1663 | 5 |
| 1621 | 5 |
| 1682 | 5 |
| 1662 | 4 |
| 1632 | 4 |
| 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 |
| 19429723 | NON-IONIC SURFACTANTS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | Life Technologies Corporation | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 1692 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2025 |
| 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 |
| 19349863 | VEHICLE MOVEMENT TRACKING | Q-Free Norge AS | KUJUNDZIC, DINO | 3658 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19326676 | ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER ASSEMBLY | Cordance Medical Inc. | RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | 3798 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19164182 | ENHANCED CONVECTION FOR HIGHER MODULE AND SYSTEM EFFICIENCY | UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1721 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19288463 | SIGNALING OF STATE INFORMATION FOR A DECODED PICTURE BUFFER AND REFERENCE PICTURE LISTS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | HANSELL JR., RICHARD A | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 | |
| 19269365 | COPILOT IMPLEMENTATION: RESTRICTING OPERATION TO A DOMAIN OF COMPETENCE | Thia St Co. | OBERLY, VAN HONG | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 | |
| 19253623 | SECURITY SYSTEM | Portable Multimedia Ltd. | TUN, NAY L | 2685 | §103§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 | §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 | §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 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 | |
| 19090225 | INTRA BLOCK COPY PREDICTION WITH ASYMMETRIC PARTITIONS AND ENCODER-SIDE SEARCH PATTERNS, SEARCH RANGES AND APPROACHES TO PARTITIONING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | NASRI, MARYAM A | 2483 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19090156 | INTRA BLOCK COPY PREDICTION WITH ASYMMETRIC PARTITIONS AND ENCODER-SIDE SEARCH PATTERNS, SEARCH RANGES AND APPROACHES TO PARTITIONING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | NASRI, MARYAM A | 2483 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19090180 | INTRA BLOCK COPY PREDICTION WITH ASYMMETRIC PARTITIONS AND ENCODER-SIDE SEARCH PATTERNS, SEARCH RANGES AND APPROACHES TO PARTITIONING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | NASRI, MARYAM A | 2483 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19088247 | SENSITIVE DATA PROTECTION USING AN AUXILIARY MACHINE-LEARNING TOOL | Thia St Co. | SARKER, SANCHIT K | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 | |
| 19088242 | FINGERPRINT SECURITY OF A MACHINE-LEARNING TOOL | Thia St Co. | HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 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 |
| 19067886 | Speculative Decoding using Expanded Token Matching | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | LEE, JANGWOEN | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 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 |
| 19066796 | ROTATABLE PRINTHEAD FOR ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC PROCESSES | University of Oregon | LIANG, SHIBIN | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 | |
| 19107153 | ENCLAVE ARCHITECTURE | The Blockhouse Technology Limited | FAROOQUI, QUAZI | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 | |
| 19106991 | SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING SPECTRAL DRIFT | Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 | |
| 19057833 | FOUR-LAYERED MATERIAL FOR A FLEXIBLE FLUID RESERVOIR | Tsi Manufacturing, LLC | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 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 |
| 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 | §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 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 | |
| 18877235 | SENSOR HOLDING DEVICE | Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 | |
| 18985677 | COMPRESSION OF CT RECONSTRUCTION IMAGES | James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc. | LE, MICHAEL | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 | |
| 18875141 | SIGNAL ENCODING USING LATENT FEATURE PREDICTION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | PASHA, ATHAR N | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2024 | |
| 18975483 | DATA-DRIVEN STRUCTURE EXTRACTION FROM TEXT DOCUMENTS | SAP SE | WONG, LINDA | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 | |
| 18872484 | LUNG FUNCTION TESTING | Eupnoos Ltd. | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | §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 |
| 18968827 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POWERED DASHBOARD GUIDE | SAP SE | BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S | 2658 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18870588 | DATA DRIVEN ADOPTIVE CONTROL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY SYSTEMS | Sartorius Stedim Data Analytics AB | KHATIB, RAMI | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 | |
| 18958364 | MASS FLOW CONTROL SYSTEM FOR POLYSILICON GRANULES | Rec Silicon Inc. | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 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 |
| 18955676 | TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE WITH VARIABLE EFFECTIVE FOCAL LENGTH | Fei Company | CHOI, JAMES J | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 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 |
| 18935969 | SHIPPING MAILER WITH CORRUGATED MATERIAL HAVING ADHERED AND NON-ADHERED ZONES | Packaging Corporation Of America | HELVEY, PETER N. | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 | |
| 18862482 | DEVICE FOR ARRANGING ON A FLUID-CONDUCTING LINE AND FOR ATTACHING A FLOWMETER, AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A MEASUREMENT VARIABLE OF THE FLUID BEING CONDUCTED BY A LINE | Levitronix GmbH | MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 | |
| 18929459 | INTENT-DRIVEN NETWORK MANAGEMENT | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | NGUYEN, QUANG N | 2441 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18929391 | TANTALUM CATALYST COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE | VASISTH, VISHAL V | 1771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial86.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Klarquist Sparkman, LLP were allowed, across 18,082 applications in USPTO records.
3.11 office actions per allowed application on average.
379 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 135 clients, before 341 examiners in 169 art units.