Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
419 pending office actions • 143 clients • 386 examiners • 201 art units • 0 of 419 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
QUARLES & BRADY LLP reports 407 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and 14283 career applications. The profile combines a substantial unresolved workload with a large application record.
Its resolved allowance rate is 94.55%, and the average is 3.42 office actions per allowance. The allowance rate provides a reported outcome measure, while the office-action average indicates the examination activity associated with allowed matters. For practitioners, these figures help separate current docket scale from historical prosecution performance and process demands.
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 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 61 (15%) |
| §103 only | 113 (27%) |
| §102 only | 14 (3%) |
| §112 only | 21 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 6 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 27 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 163 (39%) |
| No statute on record | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASHEM, LISA | 5 | 75.1% | +12.0% |
| ZEMAN, ROBERT A | 3 | 54.2% | +27.9% |
| GILL, RACHEL B | 3 | 65.4% | +28.8% |
| NEWTON, CHAD A | 2 | 38.4% | +23.4% |
| PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT | 2 | 68.1% | +36.1% |
| COLLINS, CYNTHIA E | 2 | 82.2% | +9.0% |
| MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 2 | 51.7% | +56.9% |
| HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 2 | 79.1% | +10.8% |
| STARKEY, OLIVIA GRACE | 2 | 71.4% | -6.1% |
| KLEIN, BROOKE L | 2 | 54.2% | +54.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17996911 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADMINISTERING A SMELL TEST FOR SARS CORONAVIRUSES AND COVID-19 | TOTH, KAREN E | 190d overdue |
| 18724857 | INTERNET OF THINGS TERMINAL OBJECT MODEL STANDARDIZATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PHAM, MICHAEL | 169d overdue |
| 18117842 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING MICROSACCADE DYNAMICS TO MEASURE ATTENTIONAL RESPONSE TO A STIMULUS | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 146d overdue |
| 18780061 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED RISK-CLASSIFICATION OF ENDOMERIAL CANCER | PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | 139d overdue |
| 18592330 | System for Improved Remote Processing and Interaction with Artificial Survey Administrator | CHOY, PAN G | 126d overdue |
| 17641634 | KEYWORD DETECTIONS BASED ON EVENTS GENERATED FROM AUDIO SIGNALS | SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN | 125d overdue |
| 17293747 | DISK-SHAPED TOOL AND METHOD FOR MACHINING WORKPIECES, CUTTING DEVICE, AND USE OF A CUTTING, GRINDING AND POLISHING DISK TO PRODUCE A SURF ACE STRUCTURE ON A WORKPIECE | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 105d overdue |
| 18266236 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPIDLY RECONSTRUCTING FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES | NASIR, TAQI R | 98d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18322442 | METHODS FOR DIAGNOSING GASTRIC INTESTINAL METAPLASIA | ZEMAN, ROBERT A | 17d overdue |
| 19029949 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MICRO-OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING OF THE COCHLEA | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 13d |
| 19362140 | DATA BASED CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | NEWTON, CHAD A | — |
| 19347608 | TREATMENT METHODS | PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT | — |
| 19231352 | MINITUARIZED INTRAVASCULAR FLUORESCENCE-ULTRASOUND IMAGING CATHETER | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | — |
| 19187153 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SORTING AND DISPENSING PACKAGES | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | — |
| 19032819 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TIME-RESOLVED FORWARD MODEL FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMAGING (MR-ARFI) | KLEIN, BROOKE L | — |
| 18981828 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 18 |
| 3797 | 8 |
| 3798 | 8 |
| 2692 | 7 |
| 3796 | 7 |
| 1645 | 7 |
| 3681 | 6 |
| 2858 | 6 |
| 1671 | 6 |
| 3761 | 6 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19568609 | PROTECTIVE KNEE PAD | Armadillo Industrial Limited | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2026 |
| 19424856 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ENHANCED AND SELECTIVE PHOTOBLEACHING | Bruker Nano, Inc. | HAQ, SHAFIQUL | 1678 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2025 |
| 19399465 | NON-METALLIC ULTRASOUND-DETECTABLE MARKERS | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research | SHENG, CHAO | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2025 |
| 19484328 | DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF DISPLAY PANEL SETTINGS | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. | SHAH, SUJIT | 2624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2025 |
| 19384490 | Meta-Diaphyseal Cones for Revision Knee Arthroplasty | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 3775 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19481096 | DEEP LEARNING MODEL FOR DIAGNOSING PLAQUE EROSION USING CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY | The General Hospital Corporation | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 3798 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2025 |
| 19362140 | DATA BASED CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Tempus AI, Inc. | NEWTON, CHAD A | 3681 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
| 19359400 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AI-ASSISTED PATENT OFFICE ACTION RESPONSE GENERATION | Solve Intelligence, Inc. | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 3629 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19347608 | TREATMENT METHODS | Levon Michael Khachigian | PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT | 1627 | — | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2025 |
| 19330659 | PEANUT CULTIVAR 'IPG 110' | International Peanut Group LLC | COLLINS, CYNTHIA E | 1662 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2025 |
| 19307875 | HYBRID STRUCTURE DISPLAYS | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. | ABEBE, SOSINA | 2626 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19299570 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ACUTE BRAIN FUNCTION IMPAIRMENT | The General Hospital Corporation | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | 3798 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19153797 | MULTIMODAL ULTRASOUND AND ACOUSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NOVEL NON-INVASIVE HEARING ASSESSMENT AND INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING | Regents Of The University Of Minnesota | YANG, YI-SHAN | 3798 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 |
| 19288971 | MONITORING ORGAN MORPHOLOGY FOR RADIATION TREATMENT DELIVERY USING ULTRASOUND | The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19151575 | AN ENGINEERED RICE WITH REDUCED VACUOLAR PROTON PYROPHOSPHATASE 5 (VPP5) EXPRESSION | The Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Arkansas | PAGE, BRENT T | 1663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19279811 | INDIVIDUAL DIGITAL ACCESS WITH TERNARY STATES AND ONE-WAY UNCLONABLE FUNCTIONS TO PROTECT DIGITAL FILES | Arizona Board of Regents | LEE, GIL H | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 | |
| 19261441 | Systems and Methods for Vented Helmets | Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc. | MANGINE, HEATHER N | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19232588 | AI ENABLED COMPETENCY BASED FLEX CURRICULUM PLANNER | Arizona Board of Regents | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19231352 | MINITUARIZED INTRAVASCULAR FLUORESCENCE-ULTRASOUND IMAGING CATHETER | The General Hospital Corporation | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 3797 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19136790 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PATIENT-SPECIFIC TREATMENT RECOMMENDATION OPTIMIZED WITH MULTISTAGE MACHINE LEARNING | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research | ERICKSON, BENNETT S | 3683 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19227135 | DATA PROCESSING AND VISUALIZATION METHOD, MEDIUM AND DEVICE | Ndival Technology (Zhuhai) Co., Ltd. | WEBB III, JAMES L | 3624 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19213682 | Location Estimation Systems and Methods for a Material Handling Vehicle | The Raymond Corporation | CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 3661 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 19128963 | ELECTROMAGNETIC COLPOTOMY CUP SYSTEM | The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. | NASSER, ROBERT L | 3992 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19127809 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LONG HAIR TRANSPLANTATION | The General Hospital Corporation | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19195680 | Surface Plasmon Resonance Signal Amplification | Nicoya Lifesciences Inc. | AKANBI, ISIAKA O | 2877 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19193950 | Digital Microfluidic Systems, Cartridges, and Methods Including Integrated Refractive Index Sensing | Nicoya Lifesciences Inc. | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 2877 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19187153 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SORTING AND DISPENSING PACKAGES | AI International, Inc. | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 | |
| 19182191 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION WITH DEEP LEARNING-BASED OUTER VOLUME REMOVAL | Regents Of The University Of Minnesota | ZAKARIA, AKM | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19120195 | BRIGHTNESS-BASED EXTENDED REALITY (XR) LENS TRANSPARENCY ADJUSTMENTS | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. | CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY | 2613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19174514 | THREADED SECUREMENT OF ENCLOSURE COMPONENTS | Schroff GmbH | WILEY, DANIEL J | 3678 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19118689 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT | The General Hospital Corporation | CHOI, DAVID | 3684 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19096485 | SAFE-DRIVING TRAINING SYSTEM AND METHOD | Innocorp, Ltd. | FLETCHER, JERRY-DARYL | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19096693 | MULTIPURPOSE MEDICAL DEVICE | Dignity Health | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 | |
| 19094133 | Clamping Assembly for a Material Handling Vehicle | The Raymond Corporation | NGUYEN, HALBERT NHU | 3652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19089719 | WEARABLE DEVICE-BASED PHYSIOLOGICAL DIGITAL BIOMARKER PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR PREEMPTING DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research | WU, ZHEN Y | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 | |
| 19086928 | PEANUT CULTIVAR 'IPG 517' | International Peanut Group LLC | COLLINS, CYNTHIA E | 1662 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19087437 | MACHINE LEARNING BASED CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | Merit Network, Inc. | BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2439 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19109842 | A MACERATOR | Mastek Limited | TEMPLETON, CHRISTOPHER L | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19073293 | WALL MOUNTED EQUIPMENT SUPPORT | Erico International Corporation | MORRIS, TAYLOR L | 3631 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19109980 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATTENUATING ACOUSTIC WAVES | The General Hospital Corporation | BARBOZA, MARCUS ALEXANDER | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19108988 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED SURGICAL DRAIN | The Brigham And Women'S Hospital, Inc. | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19067139 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE FOR DIRECTED HYPOTHESIS GENERATION AND RANKING | Tempus AI, Inc. | MOSER, BRUCE M | 2154 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19105561 | AUTOMATED DETECTION AND TRACKING OF CORTICAL BLOOD VESSEL TEMPERATURE DURING NEUROSURGERY | Northwestern University | MATTSON, SEAN D | 3798 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19104609 | PUMP ASSEMBLY HAVING OFFSET DISCHARGE TUBE | Server Products, Inc. | ETZEL, ALAN RAYMOND | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19055401 | CANNULA AND STYLET REVERSER | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 3797 | §102 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 19052904 | Methods and Systems for Operating Physical Random Number Generators | Evolution Malta Limited | GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN | 3715 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19052065 | Systems and Methods for Projections from a Material Handling Vehicle | The Raymond Corporation | MA, KAM WAN | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19103487 | HEAT EXCHANGER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREFOR | Conflux Technology Pty Ltd. | LING, FOR K. | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19100916 | RETROGRADE TETHERED CAPSULE ENDOMICROSCOPY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | The General Hospital Corporation | STARKEY, OLIVIA GRACE | 3795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19040967 | Articulated boom, machine, method for manufacturing a connecting piece for an articulated boom and use of an articulated boom | Sennebogen Maschinenfabrik GmbH | CAMPOS JR, JUAN J | 3654 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
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419 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 143 clients, before 386 examiners in 201 art units.
