Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 12, 2026

Academia Sinica

18 pending office actions • 14 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

9
Hard (50%)
5
Medium (28%)
4
Easy (22%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (17%)
§103 only3 (17%)
§102 only1 (6%)
§112 only4 (22%)
Double-patenting + other1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (33%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

14
Life Sciences
78% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
6% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
3
Business / Other
17% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JOHNSON, KARA D 2 69.1% +24.6%
LU, CHENG 2 53.7% +66.2%
PARK, EVELYN GRACE 1 53.5% +46.0%
CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 1 47.4% +76.9%
STOFFA, WYATT A 1 79.5% +23.1%
MOU, LIYUAN 1 43.5% +57.7%
SORKIN, DAVID L 1 67.3% +12.8%
STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE 1 80.0% +50.0%
KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 1 63.3% +51.5%
GONZALES, JOSEPHINE MARIA 1 27.4% +37.7%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18281977 ANTI- ENOLASE 1 (ENO1) ANTIBODY AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE 70d

Hard Cases (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17908585 METHOD FOR NATURAL KILLER CELL EXPANSION ROGERS, ERIC JASON 78d overdue
17918947 OLIGONUCLEOTIDE CONJUGATES AND PREPARATION AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF PUTTLITZ, KARL J 8d
18645166 METHOD FOR PROMOTING GROWTH OF PLANTS CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 33d
18689852 COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USES FOR TREATING NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE MOU, LIYUAN
18681077 MICROFLUIDIC MIXER FOR ENHANCED THREE-DIMENSIONAL MIXING SORKIN, DAVID L
18267996 CELL CULTURE SYSTEMS, METHODS AND USES THEREOF GONZALES, JOSEPHINE MARIA
18266882 ANTAGONIST OF INTERLEUKIN-17B RECEPTOR (IL-17RB) AND USE THEREOF BRADLEY, CHRISTINA
18116952 COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR MODULATING FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 3 ACTIVATION RZECZYCKI, PHILLIP MATTHEW

Interview Candidates (12)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18645166 METHOD FOR PROMOTING GROWTH OF PLANTS CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 33d
18281977 ANTI- ENOLASE 1 (ENO1) ANTIBODY AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE 70d
18854965 Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Prediction by Deduction Learning System PARK, EVELYN GRACE
18701598 HIGH RESOLUTION TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER AND METHODS OF PRODUCING THE SAME STOFFA, WYATT A
18697799 CELL CULTURE PLATFORMS, METHODS AND USES THEREOF JOHNSON, KARA D
18689852 COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USES FOR TREATING NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE MOU, LIYUAN
18681077 MICROFLUIDIC MIXER FOR ENHANCED THREE-DIMENSIONAL MIXING SORKIN, DAVID L
18272107 RECOMBINANT POLYPEPTIDES, CONJUGATES COMPRISING THE SAME, AND USES THEREOF KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1642 2
1662 1
2881 1
1628 1
1645 1
1674 1
1631 1
1654 1
1625 1
1646 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18854965 Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Prediction by Deduction Learning System PARK, EVELYN GRACE §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 07, 2024
18645166 METHOD FOR PROMOTING GROWTH OF PLANTS CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 1662 §103§112 Final Rejection 33d Pending Apr 24, 2024
18701598 HIGH RESOLUTION TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER AND METHODS OF PRODUCING THE SAME STOFFA, WYATT A 2881 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 15, 2024
18697799 CELL CULTURE PLATFORMS, METHODS AND USES THEREOF JOHNSON, KARA D §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 02, 2024
18689852 COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USES FOR TREATING NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE MOU, LIYUAN 1628 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 06, 2024
18681077 MICROFLUIDIC MIXER FOR ENHANCED THREE-DIMENSIONAL MIXING SORKIN, DAVID L §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 05, 2024
18281977 ANTI- ENOLASE 1 (ENO1) ANTIBODY AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE 1645 §112 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18272107 RECOMBINANT POLYPEPTIDES, CONJUGATES COMPRISING THE SAME, AND USES THEREOF KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 1674 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 13, 2023
18267996 CELL CULTURE SYSTEMS, METHODS AND USES THEREOF GONZALES, JOSEPHINE MARIA 1631 §101§102§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 16, 2023
18266882 ANTAGONIST OF INTERLEUKIN-17B RECEPTOR (IL-17RB) AND USE THEREOF BRADLEY, CHRISTINA 1654 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 13, 2023
18116952 COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR MODULATING FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 3 ACTIVATION RZECZYCKI, PHILLIP MATTHEW 1625 §101§102 Final Rejection Pending Mar 03, 2023
18010647 ANTIBODIES TO INTERLEUKIN-1BETA AND USES THEREOF LU, CHENG 1642 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 15, 2022
17918947 OLIGONUCLEOTIDE CONJUGATES AND PREPARATION AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF PUTTLITZ, KARL J 1646 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Oct 14, 2022
17966281 CELL CULTURE SUBSTRATES, METHODS AND USES THEREOF JOHNSON, KARA D 1632 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 14, 2022
17908585 METHOD FOR NATURAL KILLER CELL EXPANSION ROGERS, ERIC JASON 1638 §103§112 Final Rejection 78d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2022
17756022 USE OF ANTI-EPCAM ANTIBODIES IN CANCER THERAPY LU, CHENG 1642 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending May 13, 2022
17760803 METHOD FOR IMPROVING GROWTH, STRESS TOLERANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY OF PLANT, AND INCREASING SEED QUALITY OF PLANT MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L 1663 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Mar 16, 2022
17630929 METHODS OF TREATING POMPE DISEASE CHONG, YONG SOO 1623 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 28, 2022

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