Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Agency for Science, Technology and Research

34 pending office actions • 30 art units • 34 examiners • 0 of 34 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 60 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

34
Total Pending OAs
17
Non-Final OAs
16
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 34 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

20
Overdue
1
Due this week
8
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 34 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (20)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (4)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
29
Medium (85%)
3
Easy (9%)
2
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only26 (76%)
§102 only3 (9%)
§112 only3 (9%)
No statute on record2 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

27
Life Sciences
79% of docket
3
Information Tech
9% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
6% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
6% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

340 h
Manual time on pending OAs
68 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
119 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD 1 67.5% +22.2%
LE, PETER D 1 80.2% +16.8%
DOWNING, SAVANNAH STARR 1 75.7% +5.9%
WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL 1 61.6% +29.9%
PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 1 45.0% +37.2%
NGUYEN, TRI V 1 67.6% +57.8%
ABEL, LENORA A 1 69.2% +33.4%
ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE 1 48.6% +43.6%
BATAILLE, PIERRE MICHE 1 92.8% +6.2%
LI, CHANGQING 1 30.0% +34.0%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18260585 GENERATING AN OUTPUT FOR A RECTIFIED LINEAR UNIT (RELU)-ACTIVATED NEURON OF A NEURAL NETWORK BATAILLE, PIERRE MICHE 9d overdue
18712553 MULTIMODAL MICROSCOPY SYSTEM LE, PETER D 70d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18682963 A Method for Gossypol Detoxification and Nutrient Enrichment PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 46d overdue
18246135 FIBRE-BASED OLEOGEL LI, CHANGQING 16d overdue
18568072 Screen-Printing Ink, Method of Manufacturing Same, Method of Producing Screen-Printed Electrode and Screen-Printed Electrode NGUYEN, TRI V 9d overdue
18687881 A METHOD OF PRODUCING A BIOACTIVE POLYMER FILAMENT, THE BIOACTIVE POLYMER FILAMENT AND PRINTING METHODS USING THE SAME WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL 5d
18550256 A WELL INSERT AND A DEVICE FOR 3D CELL CULTURE AND IN VITRO TISSUE MODEL ABEL, LENORA A 22d
18359626 POLYMER PARTICLE PRODUCTION METHOD ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE 23d
18712553 MULTIMODAL MICROSCOPY SYSTEM LE, PETER D 70d
18847662 A Two-Dimensional Discrete Fourier Transform Hardware Accelerator WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD 76d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1653 2
1725 2
1682 2
1654 2
3645 1
2488 1
2884 1
1742 1
1793 1
1764 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18847662 A Two-Dimensional Discrete Fourier Transform Hardware Accelerator WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Sep 16, 2024
18712553 MULTIMODAL MICROSCOPY SYSTEM LE, PETER D 2488 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending May 22, 2024
18704834 A SYSTEM AND METHOD OF NON-CONTACT MEASUREMENT OF ONE OR MORE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF A MATERIAL DOWNING, SAVANNAH STARR 2884 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2024
18687881 A METHOD OF PRODUCING A BIOACTIVE POLYMER FILAMENT, THE BIOACTIVE POLYMER FILAMENT AND PRINTING METHODS USING THE SAME WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL 1742 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Feb 29, 2024
18682963 A Method for Gossypol Detoxification and Nutrient Enrichment PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 1793 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Feb 12, 2024
18568072 Screen-Printing Ink, Method of Manufacturing Same, Method of Producing Screen-Printed Electrode and Screen-Printed Electrode NGUYEN, TRI V 1764 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2023
18550256 A WELL INSERT AND A DEVICE FOR 3D CELL CULTURE AND IN VITRO TISSUE MODEL ABEL, LENORA A 1799 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 12, 2023
18359626 POLYMER PARTICLE PRODUCTION METHOD ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jul 26, 2023
18260585 GENERATING AN OUTPUT FOR A RECTIFIED LINEAR UNIT (RELU)-ACTIVATED NEURON OF A NEURAL NETWORK BATAILLE, PIERRE MICHE 2138 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jul 06, 2023
18246135 FIBRE-BASED OLEOGEL LI, CHANGQING 1791 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023
18245249 FUSION PROTEIN FOR BACTERIAL SURFACE DISPLAY ZINGARELLI, SANDRA 1653 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Mar 14, 2023
18044493 PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME TAN, RICHARD 2849 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2023
18044268 POLYMER COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF ACTIVE AMINE GROUPS, RELATED POLYMERS AND RELATED METHODS THEREOF FANG, SHANE 1766 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2023
18040066 Characterising Macrophages and Methods Thereof POHNERT, STEVEN C 1683 §102 Final Rejection 84d Pending Jan 31, 2023
18016315 A HYDROGEL BINDER AND A FREE-STANDING ELECTRODE FEHR, JULIA MARIE 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jan 13, 2023
18014449 Wound Healing Composition and Uses Thereof ALLEN, MARIANNE P 1647 §112 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jan 04, 2023
18009377 A Method for Assessing Transduction Efficiency and/or Specificity of Vectors at Single Cell Level LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE 1684 §102 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Dec 09, 2022
18008148 A CORAL-LIKE COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND A METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME GATEWOOD, DANIEL S 1729 §103 Final Rejection 86d overdue Pending Dec 02, 2022
17995612 HYDROGELS, METHODS OF FABRICATION AND USES THEREOF MILLER, DAVID L 1763 §112 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Oct 06, 2022
17912802 USE OF A COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION COMPRISING AN INHIBITOR OF NLRP1 INFLAMMASOME ACTIVATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF HUMAN AIRWAY INFLAMMATION SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L 1628 Other Non-Final OA 125d overdue Pending Sep 19, 2022
17904348 NUCLEIC ACID PROBES HANEY, AMANDA MARIE 1682 §103 Final Rejection 86d Pending Aug 16, 2022
17798025 ANTIGEN-BINDING MOLECULES AGAINST ALPPL2 AND/OR ALPP AND USES THEREOF BERHANE, SELAM 1675 §112 Final Rejection 27d Pending Aug 05, 2022
17797950 A METHOD OF DETERMINING A STRUCTURE OF RIBONUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES AND RELATED KITS GRAY, JESSICA 1682 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2022
17788462 COMPOSITION COMPRISING MIR-335 WHITEMAN, BRIAN A 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2022
17786384 METHOD FOR TREATING ANGELMAN SYNDROME AND RELATED DISORDERS BEANE, RANDALL L 1654 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2022
17779547 A Method To Synthesize A Porous Carbon-Sulfur Composite Cathode For A Sodium-Sulfur Battery DOVE, TRACY MAE 1725 §103 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending May 24, 2022
17777960 METHOD AND SERVER FOR FEDERATED MACHINE LEARNING HAN, JOSEP 2122 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 18, 2022
17766522 A PRESSURE SENSING DEVICE AND RELATED METHODS CRUICKSHANK, DESTINY JOI 3791 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2022
17582418 Method of Modulating a Fibrotic Condition CHOWDHURY, IQBAL HOSSAIN 1656 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Jan 24, 2022
17629338 A SERIES OF INJECTABLE HYDROGELS SELF-ASSEMBLED FROM SHORT PEPTIDES FOR VARIOUS BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS D' AMBROSIO, THEA 1654 Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jan 21, 2022
17574169 Method of Detecting the Presence of an Analyte in a Sample NGUYEN, BAO THUY L 1677 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Jan 12, 2022
17610743 A Method of Making Dental Articles ROBITAILLE, JOHN P 1743 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Nov 12, 2021
16977592 COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND A METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME TAYLOR, JORDAN W 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 02, 2020
16070209 PROTEIN CAGE-STABILIZED PICKERING EMULSIONS AND THE USE THEREOF MOSS, NATALIE M 1653 §103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2018

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