Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

26 pending office actions • 18 art units • 26 examiners • 0 of 26 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

26
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
12
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

16
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
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. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (16)Due ≤ 30 days (8)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.

0
Hard (0%)
17
Medium (65%)
4
Easy (15%)
5
Unknown (19%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only16 (62%)
§102 only1 (4%)
§112 only4 (15%)
No statute on record5 (19%)

Industry Mix

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

20
Life Sciences
77% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
4% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
19% 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.

260 h
Manual time on pending OAs
52 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
91 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN 1 45.6% +58.7%
MUSTANSIR, ABID A 1 77.9% +12.0%
BEANE, RANDALL L 1 32.5% +37.8%
NOBLE, MARCIA STEPHENS 1 67.0% +40.2%
DUNN, LINDSAY MICHELLE 1 100.0% +0.0%
MAHLUM, JONATHAN DAVIS 1 57.7% +6.9%
DIBRINO, MARIANNE 1 43.3% +41.2%
BUTTICE, AUDREY L 1 45.8% +21.5%
KELLY, ROBERT M 1 74.1% +24.6%
PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH 1 53.6% +56.7%

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
18261983 BONE-SPECIFIC DELIVERY OF POLYPEPTIDES DUNN, LINDSAY MICHELLE 17d overdue

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
18245281 CYTOTOXIC AND COSTIMULATORY CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS BUTTICE, AUDREY L 119d overdue
18235533 BENEFITS OF SUPPLEMENTATION WITH N-ACETYLCYSTEINE AND GLYCINE TO IMPROVE GLUTATHIONE LEVELS BEANE, RANDALL L 118d overdue
18578641 ENERGY WAVE REFRACTION AND METHODOLOGY TO DETECT GASTRIC DISTENTION AND PREVENT ASPIRATION MUSTANSIR, ABID A 42d overdue
18301048 TARGETING OF SRC-3 IN IMMUNE CELLS AS AN IMMUNOMODULATORY THERAPEUTIC FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER DIBRINO, MARIANNE 19d overdue
18017302 DESIGN OF 3D-PRINTED NASOPHARYNGEAL SWABS PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH 10d overdue
18663524 Fenfluramine for Treatment of Conditions Associated with Spreading Depolarization WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN 14d
18018552 UNIVERSAL ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC T CELL BANKS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME THERAPEUTICALLY KELLY, ROBERT M 16d
18276164 Engineered NKT Cells for Expansion and In Vivo Preservation and Methods of Use for the Control of Tumor Cells NOBLE, MARCIA STEPHENS 71d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 3
1654 2
1644 2
1641 2
1638 2
1631 2
1642 2
1622 1
1632 1
1625 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18663524 Fenfluramine for Treatment of Conditions Associated with Spreading Depolarization WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN 1622 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 14, 2024
18578641 ENERGY WAVE REFRACTION AND METHODOLOGY TO DETECT GASTRIC DISTENTION AND PREVENT ASPIRATION MUSTANSIR, ABID A 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2024
18235533 BENEFITS OF SUPPLEMENTATION WITH N-ACETYLCYSTEINE AND GLYCINE TO IMPROVE GLUTATHIONE LEVELS BEANE, RANDALL L 1654 §112 Non-Final OA 118d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2023
18276164 Engineered NKT Cells for Expansion and In Vivo Preservation and Methods of Use for the Control of Tumor Cells NOBLE, MARCIA STEPHENS 1632 §112 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Aug 07, 2023
18261983 BONE-SPECIFIC DELIVERY OF POLYPEPTIDES DUNN, LINDSAY MICHELLE 1644 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2023
18039661 NOVEL RIPK1 KINASE TARGETING PROTACS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF MAHLUM, JONATHAN DAVIS 1625 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 31, 2023
18301048 TARGETING OF SRC-3 IN IMMUNE CELLS AS AN IMMUNOMODULATORY THERAPEUTIC FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER DIBRINO, MARIANNE 1641 §102 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2023
18245281 CYTOTOXIC AND COSTIMULATORY CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS BUTTICE, AUDREY L 1647 §103 Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2023
18018552 UNIVERSAL ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC T CELL BANKS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME THERAPEUTICALLY KELLY, ROBERT M 1638 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jan 28, 2023
18017302 DESIGN OF 3D-PRINTED NASOPHARYNGEAL SWABS PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH 3781 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2023
17997171 TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF ALLOREACTIVITY USING VIRUS-SPECIFIC IMMUNE CELLS EXPRESSING CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS DAHLE, CHUN WU 1641 Other Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2022
17997161 TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF CANCER USING VIRUS-SPECIFIC IMMUNE CELLS EXPRESSING CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS CHATTIN, AMY MARIE 1643 Other Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2022
17973738 DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DIAGNOSING TREATING AND MONITORING CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN TOTH, KAREN E 3791 §112 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2022
17995540 DAILY LIVING MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM EPPERT, LUCY CLARE 3791 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Oct 05, 2022
17934501 METHODS FOR INDUCING SELECTIVE APOPTOSIS LEONARD, ARTHUR S 1631 Other Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2022
17906490 SARS-COV2-SPECIFIC T CELL COMPOSITIONS AND THEIR USE IN TREATING AND PREVENTING CORONAVIRUS AND OTHER RESPIRATORY VIRUS INFECTIONS BARRON, SEAN C 1653 Other Final Rejection 8d Pending Sep 16, 2022
17757881 T CELL PERFORMANCE ASSAY AS A PROGNOSTIC FACTOR FOR CLINICAL OUTCOME SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN 1642 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jun 22, 2022
17757058 RETINA REGENERATION THROUGH EPIGENETICS MANIPULATION LIEB, JEANETTE M 1654 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jun 08, 2022
17774848 METHOD FOR PRODUCING CYTOTOXIC EFFECTOR MEMORY T-CELLS FOR CAR T-CELL TREATMENT OF CANCER HILL, KEVIN KAI 1638 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending May 05, 2022
17661135 PREDICTION OF THE ONSET OF CRITICAL LIMB THREATENING ISCHEMIA (CLTI) KOETH, MICHELLE M 2671 §103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2022
17576597 DENDRITIC CELL IMMUNOTHERAPY JUEDES, AMY E 1644 Other Final Rejection 132d overdue Pending Jan 14, 2022
17596923 MULTIFUNCTIONAL BIOMESH FOR SURGICAL HERNIA REPAIR MCGRATH, ERIN E 3771 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Dec 21, 2021
17593747 MULTI-RESPIRATORY VIRUS ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC T CELLS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME THERAPEUTICALLY PARKIN, JEFFREY S 1671 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 23, 2021
17287972 ONCOLYTIC VIROTHERAPY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER 1631 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2021
17274529 PRECISION DIAGNOSIS OF CLOSTRIDIOIDES DIFFICILE INFECTION USING A SYSTEMS-BASED BIOMARKERS HINES, JANA A 1645 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2021
16971992 TISSUE ANALYSIS BY MASS SPECTROMETRY GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 §112 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2020

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