Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Academia Sinica

17 pending office actions • 14 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
12
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.

7
Hard (41%)
6
Medium (35%)
4
Easy (24%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (18%)
§103 only4 (24%)
§102 only1 (6%)
§112 only4 (24%)
Double-patenting + other1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (24%)

Industry Mix

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

13
Life Sciences
76% 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
18% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JOHNSON, KARA D 2 69.1% +24.6%
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%
BRADLEY, CHRISTINA 1 62.9% +33.0%

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 (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17908585 METHOD FOR NATURAL KILLER CELL EXPANSION ROGERS, ERIC JASON 78d overdue
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 (11)

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
1662 1
2881 1
1628 1
1645 1
1674 1
1631 1
1654 1
1625 1
1642 1
1632 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
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
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
17612635 METHOD FOR AMPLIFYING AND DETECTING RIBONUCLEIC ACID (RNA) FRAGMENTS VANN-OJUEKAIYE, KENDRA RAYCHELL 1682 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Nov 19, 2021

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