Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
314 pending office actions • 132 clients • 283 examiners • 161 art units • 0 of 314 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 384 patents granted in the last 365 days
This profile covers Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and includes 9201 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 82.16%, and the average is 3.54 office actions per allowance. The data reflects a substantial prosecution record with a reported allowance outcome for a majority of resolved matters and repeated office-action activity before allowance.
The profile shows 312 pending office actions, creating a large active docket. That workload makes prioritization, response coordination, and consistent treatment of recurring examination issues practical necessities. The historical allowance rate and action average can guide portfolio planning, but they do not determine the result of any pending application. Counsel should use the metrics as context while evaluating each biotechnology and pharmaceutical case on its own record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 94 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. 94 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 | 5 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 29 (9%) |
| §103 only | 69 (22%) |
| §102 only | 16 (5%) |
| §112 only | 33 (11%) |
| Double-patenting only | 11 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 34 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 112 (36%) |
| No statute on record | 5 (2%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 5 | 50.7% | +39.2% |
| BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 4 | 47.1% | +19.0% |
| TEHRANI, DANIEL | 3 | 60.9% | +41.9% |
| WILLIS, DOUGLAS M | 3 | 82.4% | +19.7% |
| GRANT, ROBERT J | 3 | 76.3% | +17.5% |
| CHEN, WENREN | 2 | 15.3% | +29.2% |
| VARMA, ASHISH K | 2 | 74.4% | +32.4% |
| ANDERSON, REBECCA L | 2 | 73.3% | +23.7% |
| REDWOOD, CHRISTOPHER EVAN | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | 2 | 87.2% | +10.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18945261 | VEHICLE WITH A GATED CAMERA AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A VEHICLE UTILIZING A GATED CAMERA | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | — |
| 18798308 | INHIBITORS OF BTK AND MUTANTS THEREOF | WILLIS, DOUGLAS M | — |
| 18514898 | METHOD OF OPERATING A COORDINATE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | RATCLIFFE, LUKE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18625848 | ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF LIGHTING THAT UTILIZES REMOVABLE DIFFUSERS | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 188d overdue |
| 18030633 | VACCINE COMPOSITIONS | GILL, RACHEL B | 118d overdue |
| 18045476 | FOLDIBLE REACHING AND GRASPING TOOL | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 89d overdue |
| 17429451 | PROSTHETIC TOOTH | NELSON, CHRISTINE L | 80d overdue |
| 18554778 | 2-((4-((S)-2-(4-CHLORO-2-FLUOROPHENYL)-2-METHYLBENZO[D][1,3]DIOXOL-4-YL)PIPERIDIN-1-YL)METHYL)-1-(((S)-OXETAN-2-YL)METHYL)-1H-IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVES AS ACTIVATORS OF THE GLP1 RECEPTOR FOR THE TREATMENT OF OBESITY | BORALSKY, LUKE ALAN | 53d overdue |
| 18047255 | TREATMENT OF RPE65-ASSOCIATED EYE DISEASES AND DISORDERS | SINGH, ANOOP KUMAR | 42d overdue |
| 18128937 | ALTERNATING ELECTRIC FIELD WAVEFORM FOR ELECTROSENSATION REDUCTION | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 32d overdue |
| 18412266 | ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATIONS VIA DYNAMICALLY VARIABLE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS | SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | 30d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16938515 | Devices and Methods for Ultrasound Monitoring | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 37d overdue |
| 18196379 | TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND DEVICES AND METHODS | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 7d |
| 17698457 | TRANSDUCER APPARATUSES FOR DELIVERING TUMOR TREATING FIELDS TO A SUBJECT'S BODY | TEHRANI, DANIEL | 7d |
| 18080026 | TRANSDUCER ARRAY WITH ADHESIVE LAYER SHAPED TO REDUCE SKIN IRRITATION | TEHRANI, DANIEL | 9d |
| 18023035 | 1H-IMIDAZO [4,5-H] QUINAZOLINE COMPOUND AS NOVEL SELECTIVE FLT3 INHIBITORS | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 15d |
| 17640704 | CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 30d |
| 18090316 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ULTRASOUND MONITORING | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 60d |
| 18283301 | A DEVICE, A METHOD AND A SOFTWARE PRODUCT FOR ADAPTING A REGULATED DIGITAL PLATFORM | CHEN, WENREN | 76d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1624 | 9 |
| 1626 | 8 |
| 3792 | 8 |
| 1621 | 7 |
| 1627 | 7 |
| 1645 | 6 |
| 1629 | 6 |
| 1622 | 6 |
| 2859 | 6 |
| 3645 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19019869 | Untitled | General Electric Company | CHEN, WENREN | 3626 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19541682 | CRISPR-RELATED METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS TARGETING LOW-DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR (LDLR) | Editas Medicine, Inc. | MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | 1652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2026 |
| 19425122 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DILUTING SUBSEA SCALING INHIBITOR TO PREVENT PRODUCTION STRING BREAKDOWN | Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras | QUAIM, LAMIA | 3676 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2025 |
| 19389508 | System for Preventive Inhibition of Scaling in Oil Wells and Process for Preventive Inhibition of Scaling in Oil Wells | Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras | VARMA, ASHISH K | 3674 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2025 |
| 19372624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLADE PITCH CONTROL OF CYCLOIDAL MARINE PROPULSION SYSTEM | ABB Schweiz AG | ZAMORA ALVAREZ, ERIC J | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2025 |
| 19367242 | VACUUM SEALABLE CONTAINER | Honeybee Robotics, LLC | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 3733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2025 |
| 19273187 | IMMERSED ROTARY JET SPINNING DEVICES (IRJS) AND USES THEREOF | President and Fellows of Harvard College | LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 1744 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19234885 | LIGHT ASSEMBLY CONTROLLER | VIDENDUM PRODUCTION SOLUTIONS INC. | CHAN, WEI | 2845 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19137229 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIRCRAFT PROPULSION | Limo Air Drive Corp. | GENTILE, ALEXANDER VINCENT | 3664 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19135524 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MINING VEHICLE AND SCHEDULING SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A DRIVING SCHEDULE FOR A MINING VEHICLE | ABB Schweiz AG | SARWAR, BABAR | 3667 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19134828 | METHODS OF MODULATING IMMUNE FUNCTION IN PLANTS | Resurrect Bio Ltd. | FAN, WEIHUA | 1663 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19178563 | Device and Method for Disconnecting Jammed Subsea Wet-Mate Connectors | Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras | SAYRE, JAMES G | 3679 | §102 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19094272 | PAYLOAD RELEASE SYSTEM | Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company | RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | 3642 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19094375 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEHAVIOR ADAPTATION OF AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEMS BASED ON DRIVING STYLES OF SURROUNDING ROAD ACTORS | Torc Robotics, Inc. | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 3662 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19113882 | ACTIVE FILTER PRE-CHARGING FOR A CONVERTER WITH ACTIVE FILTER CELLS | ABB Schweiz AG | TIKU, SISAY G | 2838 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19085483 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE LEAK DETECTION | Torc Robotics, Inc. | LEE, BRANDON DONGPA | 3662 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19082476 | RECOMBINANT ATTENUATED SALMONELLA VACCINES (RASVS) AGAINST INFECTIONS BY AVIAN PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI (APEC) | Huvepharma Inc. | HAUK TEODORO, PRICILA NMN | 1645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19075625 | INTEGRATED DNS SERVICE PROVIDER SERVICES USING CERTIFICATE-BASED AUTHENTICATION | Verisign, Inc. | AHSAN, SYED M | 2491 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19069470 | SUSTAINABLE MOVEMENT PLANNING FOR AN ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM | ABB Schweiz AG | SLOWIK, ELIZABETH J | 3662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19059891 | GTLD DOMAIN NAME REGISTRIES RDAP ARCHITECTURE | Verisign, Inc. | RASHID, HARUNUR | 2497 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19105140 | DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS COMPRISING SILICA PARTICLES | Sigrid Therapeutics AB | GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V | 1615 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19046780 | EXTENDABLE POLE FOR CLEANING TOOL | UNGER MARKETING INTERNATIONAL, LLC | MAH, CHUCK Y | 3677 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19042947 | GATED CAMERA AND GATE-BASED FOCUS ADAPTION | Torc Robotics, Inc. | CHEN, CHIA WEI A | 2637 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19042136 | CYCLONIC SEPARATOR FOR GAS TURBINE ENGINE | General Electric Company | CLARK, RYAN C | 3745 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19039451 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC SIGNAL SYSTEMS | Torc Robotics, Inc. | PENDLETON, DIONNE | 2689 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18881934 | MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL FOR CONVERTER WITH FILTER CELLS BASED ON OFFLINE-COMPUTED PULSE PATTERNS AND ONLINE CELL BALANCING | ABB Schweiz AG | CHOI, SEUNG HO | 2838 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19004916 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING COMPONENT LIFETIME | Torc Robotics, Inc. | BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW | 3667 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19004848 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVE FATIGUE ACCUMULATION MODEL | Torc Robotics, Inc. | RHEE, ROY B | 3664 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18877741 | SURGICAL MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, AUXILIARY IMAGING DEVICE, AND SURGICAL FIELD IMAGING METHOD | Teikyo University | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18987624 | SYNTHESIS OF BROMODOMAIN INHIBITORS | Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | CHEN, PO-CHIH | 1621 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18986886 | LINEAR MOTOR WITH CAPACITIVE POWER TRANSFER | B&R Industrial Automation GmbH | SECK, AHMED F | 2834 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18985488 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A LINEAR MOTOR | B&R Industrial Automation GmbH | IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18982504 | GATE DRIVE CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING A SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCH | B & R Industrial Automation GmbH | BERHANE, ADOLF D | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18981748 | SHARED REGISTRATION SYSTEM | Verisign, Inc. | KELLER, MICHAEL A | 2418 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18874981 | CSF-1R INHIBITORS AND USES THEREOF | Myrobalan Therapeutics, Inc. | ANDERSON, REBECCA L | 1626 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18981334 | MESSAGE AND WARNING DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE | Torc Robotics, Inc. | LAU, HOI CHING | 2689 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18980111 | PICK AND PLACE SYSTEM FOR LOGISTICS APPLICATIONS | B&R Industrial Automation GmbH | MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | 3651 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18980787 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A VESSEL WATER INTERFACE, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A POSITIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AN EGO VESSEL AND A TARGET VESSEL | ABB Schweiz AG | LI, RUIPING | 2676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18978367 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE ALERTING | Torc Robotics, Inc. | CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 3661 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18976553 | METHOD FOR LABELLING A WATER SURFACE WITHIN AN IMAGE, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A TRAINING DATASET FOR TRAINING, VALIDATING, AND/OR TESTING A MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM, MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM FOR DETECTING A WATER SURFACE IN AN IMAGE, AND WATER SURFACE DETECTION SYSTEM | ABB Schweiz AG | BOYAR, NOAH WILLIAM | 2669 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18873192 | DIASTOLIC FUNCTION EVALUATION SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | Adventist Health System/Sunbelt, Inc. | JACOB, OOMMEN | 3797 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18872994 | METHODS FOR UNIFIED CONCENTRATION AND BUFFER EXCHANGE | AstraZeneca AB | KRUSE, DAVID H | 1663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18971399 | METHOD FOR SELECTIVE REMOVAL OF UNDIFFERENTIATED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS | Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation | MCCORMICK, CATHERINE LYNN | 1638 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18971214 | CONDENSED HETEROCYCLIC DERIVATIVES AS BCL-2 INHIBITORS FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEOPLASTIC DISEASES | Newave Pharmaceutical Inc. | STOCKTON, LAURA LYNNE | 1626 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18966518 | POWER CONVERTER TOPOLOGY AND CONTROL SCHEME FOR MITIGATING THERMAL BOWING IN GAS TURBINE ENGINES | General Electric Company | CHAU, ALAIN | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18961722 | BI-DIRECTIONAL ROBOTIC CRAWLER FOR TRANSPORTING A SENSOR SYSTEM ABOUT A STRUCTURE | Honeybee Robotics, LLC | FIX, THOMAS S | 3618 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18869604 | TOUGH ADHESION WITH A TOUGH GEL AND CHITOSAN BRIDGING POLYMER | President and Fellows of Harvard College | HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18960626 | DETERMINING TRANSDUCER LOCATIONS FOR DELIVERY OF TUMOR TREATING FIELDS USING SIMULATIONS BASED ON APPROXIMATE TUMOR LOCATION | Novocure GmbH | SOHRABY, PARDIS | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18961009 | DETERMINING TRANSDUCER LOCATIONS FOR DELIVERY OF TUMOR TREATING FIELDS USING SIMULATIONS BASED ON MODELS OF HEALTHY SUBJECTS | Novocure GmbH | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 2662 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18958141 | AUTOMATIC ANCHOR IMAGE SELECTION | Novocure GmbH | AMIN, JWALANT B | 2612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial82.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Mccarter & English, LLP Boston were allowed, across 9,201 applications in USPTO records.
3.54 office actions per allowed application on average.
314 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 132 clients, before 283 examiners in 161 art units.
