Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 27, 2026

Ariel Scientific Innovations Ltd.

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics

12 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Ariel Scientific Innovations Ltd. has 13 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 13 distinct examiners and 12 distinct art units, so prosecution is spread broadly across the technology area with limited art-unit repetition.

NGUYEN, SANG H is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a material concentration in the profile, making matter-level tracking important. Counsel should organize prior-art analysis and amendment strategy around the individual art-unit assignments rather than rely on a single portfolio-wide examiner playbook.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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 (58%)
5
Medium (42%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§101 + other2 (17%)
§103 only5 (42%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
42% of docket
2
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
25% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
17% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, SANG H 1 88.7% +11.6%
GELAGAY, SHEWAYE 1 71.9% +45.4%
SALIH, AWAT M 1 85.4% +14.8%
CASS, JEAN PAUL 1 72.9% +25.6%
SMITH, DAVID E 1 85.3% +6.9%
GUYAH, REMASH RAJA 1 76.9% +38.6%
VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN 1 83.8% +11.1%
ROSEBACH, CHRISTINA H.W. 1 59.2% -34.5%
DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE 1 20.0% +50.0%
LE, PHAT NGOC 1 73.3% +28.7%

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
18854561 CONTROLLING A DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION BEAM TO COUNTERACT ANTENNA MOVEMENT SALIH, AWAT M 61d
19223062 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM AN OPTICAL SIGNAL NGUYEN, SANG H —

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
18227122 SETDB1-MICROTUBULE INTERACTION AND USE THEREOF DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE 5d overdue
19113637 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED TRANSFER OF VULNERABILITY DETECTION TO CONTENT DISARM AND RECONSTRUCTION RULES GELAGAY, SHEWAYE —
18720184 NANO RELATIVISTIC MOTOR SMITH, DAVID E —
18716170 TUNABLE MICROWAVE/MMW REFLECTOR GUYAH, REMASH RAJA —
18687448 COMBINATIONS OF CANNABIS AND PLANT-DERIVED COMPOUNDS AS ANTI-CELL PROLIFERATION-RELATED DISEASE AGENTS VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN —
18420213 POLYMERIC CRYSTALLINE COMPOSITION, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME AND USES THEREOF ROSEBACH, CHRISTINA H.W. —
17924067 SIGNAL RANDOMNESS VALUE ESTIMATION LE, PHAT NGOC —

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
18227122 SETDB1-MICROTUBULE INTERACTION AND USE THEREOF DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE 5d overdue
18854561 CONTROLLING A DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION BEAM TO COUNTERACT ANTENNA MOVEMENT SALIH, AWAT M 61d
19223062 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM AN OPTICAL SIGNAL NGUYEN, SANG H —
19113637 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED TRANSFER OF VULNERABILITY DETECTION TO CONTENT DISARM AND RECONSTRUCTION RULES GELAGAY, SHEWAYE —
18722342 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE AND A METHOD OF LANDING SAME CASS, JEAN PAUL —
18716170 TUNABLE MICROWAVE/MMW REFLECTOR GUYAH, REMASH RAJA —
18687448 COMBINATIONS OF CANNABIS AND PLANT-DERIVED COMPOUNDS AS ANTI-CELL PROLIFERATION-RELATED DISEASE AGENTS VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN —
17924067 SIGNAL RANDOMNESS VALUE ESTIMATION LE, PHAT NGOC —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1622 2
2877 1
2436 1
2845 1
3666 1
2881 1
3648 1
1766 1
2182 1
1794 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19223062 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM AN OPTICAL SIGNAL NGUYEN, SANG H 2877 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 30, 2025
19113637 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED TRANSFER OF VULNERABILITY DETECTION TO CONTENT DISARM AND RECONSTRUCTION RULES GELAGAY, SHEWAYE 2436 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 20, 2025
18854561 CONTROLLING A DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION BEAM TO COUNTERACT ANTENNA MOVEMENT SALIH, AWAT M 2845 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Oct 07, 2024
18722342 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE AND A METHOD OF LANDING SAME CASS, JEAN PAUL 3666 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 20, 2024
18720184 NANO RELATIVISTIC MOTOR SMITH, DAVID E 2881 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 14, 2024
18716170 TUNABLE MICROWAVE/MMW REFLECTOR GUYAH, REMASH RAJA 3648 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 04, 2024
18687448 COMBINATIONS OF CANNABIS AND PLANT-DERIVED COMPOUNDS AS ANTI-CELL PROLIFERATION-RELATED DISEASE AGENTS VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN 1622 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 28, 2024
18420213 POLYMERIC CRYSTALLINE COMPOSITION, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME AND USES THEREOF ROSEBACH, CHRISTINA H.W. 1766 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 23, 2024
18227122 SETDB1-MICROTUBULE INTERACTION AND USE THEREOF DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE 1622 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2023
17924067 SIGNAL RANDOMNESS VALUE ESTIMATION LE, PHAT NGOC 2182 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 08, 2022
17639413 MICROBIAL ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES RIPA, BRYAN D 1794 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2022
17434266 Sarcopoterium Spinosum Extract for Treating Inflammation BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 1655 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 26, 2021

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Ariel Scientific Innovations Ltd. have?

Ariel Scientific Innovations Ltd. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 12 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Ariel Scientific Innovations Ltd. applications?

Sang H Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Ariel Scientific Innovations Ltd.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are Ariel Scientific Innovations Ltd.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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