California Institute Of Technology

Portfolio Summary

63

Total Pending OAs

48

Non-Final OAs

11

Final Rejections

4

Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 61 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

33

Overdue

2

Due this week

18

Due this month

5

Due in next 60 days

3

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

Overdue (33)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (18)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (3)

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.

4

Hard (6%)

43

Medium (68%)

7

Easy (11%)

9

Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

Bucket	Cases
§101 only	4 (6%)
§103 only	42 (67%)
§102 only	1 (2%)
§112 only	7 (11%)
No statute on record	9 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

35

Life Sciences

56% of docket

4

Information Tech

6% of docket

1

Communications

2% of docket

10

Semiconductors

16% of docket

13

Mechanical / Eng

21% 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.

630 h

Manual time on pending OAs

126 h

Time saved (low, 20%)

220 h

Time saved (mid, 35%)

5.5 wks

FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

Examiner	Apps on this docket	Allow rate	Interview lift
BARIA, DINAH N	1	73.0%	+29.5%
NGANGA, BONIFACE N	1	64.1%	+30.1%
SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP	1	76.9%	+16.8%
LUONG, PETER	1	69.0%	+26.9%
KOLKIN, ADAM D.	1	48.3%	+7.3%
CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON	1	71.1%	+48.1%
YUN, JURIE	1	87.3%	+10.2%
GAWORECKI, MARK R	1	90.7%	+6.8%
TOTH, KAREN E	1	46.6%	+25.0%
NGUYEN, THUYHANG NGOC	1	82.9%	+26.7%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #	Title	Examiner	Due in
18661091	DISTRIBUTED TIME RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE SENSOR USING TEMPORALLY CORRELATED PHOTONS	GAWORECKI, MARK R	49d overdue
18749191	VOLUMETRIC SILICON META-OPTICS FOR COMPACT AND LOW-POWER TERAHERTZ SPECTROMETERS	YUN, JURIE	16d
18628616	HIGH-POWER DENSITY ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEM	NGUYEN, THUYHANG NGOC	60d

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #	Title	Examiner	Due in
16817489	Systems and Methods for Determining Molecular Structures with Molecular-Orbital-Based Features	HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD	36d overdue
19175948	MEASUREMENT DEVICE	NGANGA, BONIFACE N	24d overdue
17349785	METHODS FOR DESIGNING ANTIBODY SMALL-MOLECULE CONJUGATES	SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA	10d overdue
17264734	ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY OF MICROORGANISMS AND RELATED MARKERS, COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS	HORTH, LISA ANNE	9d 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 #	Title	Examiner	Due in
19320925	SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF INTRAVASCULARLY IMPLANTABLE PROSTHETIC VALVES	BARIA, DINAH N	31d overdue
19175948	MEASUREMENT DEVICE	NGANGA, BONIFACE N	24d overdue
19052266	SUPER-RESOLVED OBJECT DETECTION WITH SPATIAL GENOMICS	SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP	9d overdue
18634308	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LEFT VENTRICULAR END DIASTOLIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENT	TOTH, KAREN E	9d overdue
18749191	VOLUMETRIC SILICON META-OPTICS FOR COMPACT AND LOW-POWER TERAHERTZ SPECTROMETERS	YUN, JURIE	16d
19002387	ULTRASOUND DETECTION OF CLOTS IN THE BLOODSTREAM	LUONG, PETER	41d
18780407	CROSS-RAY ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY (CRUST) METHODS AND SYSTEMS	CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON	41d
18628616	HIGH-POWER DENSITY ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEM	NGUYEN, THUYHANG NGOC	60d

Top Art Units

Art Unit	Apps
3797	4
3791	4
3798	3
1635	3
1675	3
1618	3
2884	2
2874	2
1797	2
1681	2

Pending Office Actions

App #	Title	Examiner	Art Unit	Statutes	Status	Due in	AI	Filed
19320925	SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF INTRAVASCULARLY IMPLANTABLE PROSTHETIC VALVES	BARIA, DINAH N	3774	§103	Non-Final OA	31d overdue	Pending	Sep 05, 2025
19175948	MEASUREMENT DEVICE	NGANGA, BONIFACE N	3797	§101	Non-Final OA	24d overdue	Pending	Apr 10, 2025
19052266	SUPER-RESOLVED OBJECT DETECTION WITH SPATIAL GENOMICS	SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP	2876	§103	Non-Final OA	9d overdue	Pending	Feb 12, 2025
19002387	ULTRASOUND DETECTION OF CLOTS IN THE BLOODSTREAM	LUONG, PETER	3797	§103	Non-Final OA	41d	Pending	Dec 26, 2024
18825733	SYSTEM FOR LOCALIZING AND MONITORING BIOPSY AND ABLATION NEEDLES WITHIN THE BODY	KOLKIN, ADAM D.	3798	§103	Non-Final OA	29d	Pending	Sep 05, 2024
18780407	CROSS-RAY ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY (CRUST) METHODS AND SYSTEMS	CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON	3797	§103	Non-Final OA	41d	Pending	Jul 22, 2024
18749191	VOLUMETRIC SILICON META-OPTICS FOR COMPACT AND LOW-POWER TERAHERTZ SPECTROMETERS	YUN, JURIE	2884	§103	Non-Final OA	16d	Pending	Jun 20, 2024
18661091	DISTRIBUTED TIME RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE SENSOR USING TEMPORALLY CORRELATED PHOTONS	GAWORECKI, MARK R	2884	§112	Non-Final OA	49d overdue	Pending	May 10, 2024
18634308	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LEFT VENTRICULAR END DIASTOLIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENT	TOTH, KAREN E	3791	Other	Non-Final OA	9d overdue	Pending	Apr 12, 2024
18628616	HIGH-POWER DENSITY ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEM	NGUYEN, THUYHANG NGOC	3761	§103	Non-Final OA	60d	Pending	Apr 05, 2024
18444514	DEEP TISSUE IN VIVO PRINTING	ZHANG, LEI	3798	§103	Non-Final OA	41d	Pending	Feb 16, 2024
18431197	METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MODULATING APPETITE AND INTAKE OF SODIUM	GIBBS, TERRA C	1635	§103	Non-Final OA	6d	Pending	Feb 02, 2024
18537495	ALL-INTEGRATED PHOTONIC TRANSCEIVER WITH A COMMON APERTURE	WOODS, BRANDON SEAN	2845	§103	Final Rejection	—	Pending	Dec 12, 2023
18504053	GENERATING COUNTERFACTUAL EXPLANATIONS OF TUMOR SPATIAL PROTEOMES TO ENHANCE CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY	HOANG, HAN DINH	2661	§103	Non-Final OA	44d overdue	Pending	Nov 07, 2023
18476808	NOVEL COATING METHOD OF COMPLEX 3D STRUCTURES USING LOW PRESSURE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION	CHEN, KEATH T	1716	§103	Non-Final OA	28d	Pending	Sep 28, 2023
18470945	ALL-INTEGRATED COMPLEX SIGNAL GENERATION AND PROCESSING	WONG, TINA MEI SENG	2874	§103	Non-Final OA	22d	Pending	Sep 20, 2023
18277310	SYSTEM FOR MEASURING MULTIPHASE FLOW IN DOWNHOLE CONDITIONS AND FLOW REGIMES	SULTANA, DILARA	2858	§103	Non-Final OA	70d overdue	Pending	Aug 15, 2023
18230448	FEATURES EXTRACTION NETWORK FOR ESTIMATING NEURAL ACTIVITY FROM ELECTRICAL RECORDINGS	MENGISTU, TEWODROS E	2127	§103	Non-Final OA	12d	Pending	Aug 04, 2023
18360969	PROCESS FOR AREA-SELECTIVE ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION OF ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS AND FILTERS	BELOUSOV, ALEXANDER	2818	§103	Non-Final OA	28d	Pending	Jul 28, 2023
18336863	THERMOACOUSTIC AND ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY	KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI	3797	§103	Non-Final OA	274d overdue	Pending	Jun 16, 2023
18205179	Si-SUBSTITUTED LITHIUM THIOBORATE MATERIAL WITH HIGH LITHIUM ION CONDUCTIVITY FOR USE AS SOLID-STATE ELECTROLYTE AND ELECTRODE ADDITIVE	CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG	1751	Other	Non-Final OA	29d	Pending	Jun 02, 2023
18317533	OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR-BASED MOLECULAR SENSOR	PETKOVSEK, DANIEL	2874	§103	Non-Final OA	63d	Pending	May 15, 2023
18134295	Non-Uniform-Thickness Layers and Methods for Forming	MELLOTT, JAMES M	1759	§103	Final Rejection	61d	Pending	Apr 13, 2023
18187419	TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSDUCTION AND STORAGE OF QUANTUM LEVEL SIGNALS	CHANG, JOSEPH	2849	§103	Non-Final OA	38d overdue	Pending	Mar 21, 2023
18024477	PROBIOTIC TREATMENTS FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE	PAGUIO FRISING, MICHELLE F	1651	§103	Final Rejection	58d overdue	Pending	Mar 02, 2023
18177566	COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CROSSING BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER	BORGEEST, CHRISTINA M	1675	§112	Non-Final OA	63d	Pending	Mar 02, 2023
18175378	METHOD FOR GENERATION OF RANDOM QUANTUM STATES AND VERIFICATION OF QUANTUM DEVICES	HALES, BRIAN J	2125	§103	Non-Final OA	30d overdue	Pending	Feb 27, 2023
18173735	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS OF MOLECULES AND MOLECULAR COMPLEXES	HAVLIN, ROBERT H	1626	§102	Non-Final OA	42d	Pending	Feb 23, 2023
18022056	ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS COMPOSITIONS HAVING PREFERRED EXPRESSION LEVELS	SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK	1671	§103	Non-Final OA	13d	Pending	Feb 17, 2023
18078283	CO2 CAPTURE USING CARBONATE SORBENTS	JONES, CHRISTOPHER P	1776	§103	Non-Final OA	131d overdue	Pending	Dec 09, 2022
18074369	METHOD OF MAPPING SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF CELLULAR COMPONENTS	LU, FRANK WEI MIN	1683	§112	Non-Final OA	43d overdue	Pending	Dec 02, 2022
17993602	NON-INVASIVE METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTINUOUS SWEAT INDUCTION AND COLLECTION	BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS	3791	§103	Final Rejection	14d	Pending	Nov 23, 2022
17984177	System for Optically Analyzing a Test Sample and Method Therefor	GERIDO, DWAN A	1797	§103	Non-Final OA	6d	Pending	Nov 09, 2022
18047789	MINIATURIZED IMPLANTABLE ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR DEVICES	CHEN, TSE W	3791	§103	Final Rejection	23d	Pending	Oct 19, 2022
17960629	PHOTOACTIVATABLE VIBRATIONAL PROBES AND USES THEREOF	ADAMS, MICHELLE	1797	§112	Non-Final OA	28d	Pending	Oct 05, 2022
17937614	THERMAL STATE SWITCHES IN MACROPHAGES	YU, DAVID TUYANG	1635	Other	Non-Final OA	20d	Pending	Oct 03, 2022
17931808	AAV CAPSID VARIANTS	SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN	1635	§103	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Sep 13, 2022
17800311	SINGLE CHAIN TRIMER MHC CLASS II NUCLEIC ACIDS AND PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE	CHANDRA, GYAN	1674	§103	Non-Final OA	17d overdue	Pending	Aug 17, 2022
17820232	CELL-TO-CELL DELIVERY OF RNA CIRCUITS	PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH	1634	Other	Non-Final OA	3d overdue	Pending	Aug 16, 2022
17886374	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NON-INVASIVE PULSE PRESSURE WAVEFORM MEASUREMENT	TOMBERS, JOSEPH A	3791	§103	Non-Final OA	26d	Pending	Aug 11, 2022
17796112	ACOUSTIC APPARATUS AND METHODS OF USE FOR COLLECTING HEALTH RELATED DATA	FANG, MICHAEL YIMING	3798	§103	Non-Final OA	3d overdue	Pending	Jul 28, 2022
17861077	ENHANCED NUCLEIC ACID IDENTIFICATION AND DETECTION	CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA	1681	§103	Non-Final OA	18d overdue	Pending	Jul 08, 2022
17849075	METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INHIBITING P97	PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER	1675	§103	Final Rejection	29d	Pending	Jun 24, 2022
17849132	METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INHIBITING CORONAVIRAL REPLICATION	SU-TOBON, QIWEN NMN	1636	§112	Non-Final OA	66d overdue	Pending	Jun 24, 2022
17844456	CYCLIC PEPTIDES AS PROTEIN TARGETING AGENTS	JONES, DAMERON LEVEST	1618	§112	Non-Final OA	203d overdue	Pending	Jun 20, 2022
17835751	SELF-ASSEMBLING VIRAL SPIKE-EABR NANOPARTICLES	BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI	1672	§103	Final Rejection	15d	Pending	Jun 08, 2022
17710456	3D PRINTING OF METAL CONTAINING STRUCTURES	NGUYEN, TRI V	1764	§103	Final Rejection	81d overdue	Pending	Mar 31, 2022
17692778	ACOUSTIC REMOTE CONTROL OF MICROBIAL IMMUNOTHERAPY	EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL	1632	Other	Non-Final OA	31d overdue	Pending	Mar 11, 2022
17626847	NEW SYNTHESES OF Z-SELECTIVE OLEFIN METATHESIS CATALYSTS	PO, MING CHEUNG	1771	§103	Non-Final OA	50d overdue	Pending	Jan 13, 2022
17522241	ELECTRODIALYZER AND ELECTRODIALYSIS SYSTEM FOR CO2 CAPTURE FROM OCEAN WATER	PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE	1795	§103	Final Rejection	89d overdue	Pending	Nov 09, 2021
17509926	SCALABLE AND DISTRIBUTED MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORK WITH UNIFIED ENCODER (SULU)	KAPOOR, DEVAN	2126	§103	Non-Final OA	89d overdue	Pending	Oct 25, 2021
17352162	SENSITIVE AND MULTIPLEXED DETECTION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS AND PROTEINS FOR LARGE SCALE SEROLOGICAL TESTING	SISSON, BRADLEY L	1682	Other	Non-Final OA	46d overdue	Pending	Jun 18, 2021
17349785	METHODS FOR DESIGNING ANTIBODY SMALL-MOLECULE CONJUGATES	SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA	1687	§101	Non-Final OA	10d overdue	Pending	Jun 16, 2021
17308599	CATIONIC MUCIC ACID POLYMER-BASED DELIVERY SYSTEMS	WESTERBERG, NISSA M	1618	Other	Non-Final OA	50d overdue	Pending	May 05, 2021
17184567	METHODS FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING, SYNTHESIS, AND DETECTION OF BIOCHEMISTRY	LEE, JOHN	1794	§103	Non-Final OA	60d overdue	Pending	Feb 24, 2021
17167849	OPTICAL SYSTEM	NGUYEN, THONG Q	2872	§103	Non-Final OA	9d	Pending	Feb 04, 2021
17264734	ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY OF MICROORGANISMS AND RELATED MARKERS, COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS	HORTH, LISA ANNE	1681	§101	Non-Final OA	9d overdue	Pending	Jan 29, 2021
17127762	SELF ORGANIZATION OF NEUROMORPHIC MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURES	DASGUPTA, SHOURJO	2144	§103	Non-Final OA	60d overdue	Pending	Dec 18, 2020
17006591	PROTEASE SENSITIVE GVPC AND RELATED GAS VESICLE GENE CLUSTERS, EXPRESSION SYSTEMS, CONSTRUCTS, VECTORS, GENETIC CIRCUITS, CELLS, COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTRAST-ENHANCED IMAGING	REYNOLDS, FRED H	1658	§112	Non-Final OA	30d overdue	Pending	Aug 28, 2020
16959998	PROBIOTICS, METABOLITES, AND USES THEREOF	BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE	1657	Other	Non-Final OA	8d	Pending	Jul 02, 2020
16817489	Systems and Methods for Determining Molecular Structures with Molecular-Orbital-Based Features	HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD	1685	§101	Final Rejection	36d overdue	Pending	Mar 12, 2020
16458614	Carrier Nanoparticles And Related Compositions, Methods And Systems	DICKINSON, PAUL W	1618	§103	Final Rejection	30d overdue	Pending	Jul 01, 2019
15893456	USE OF GUT MICROBIOTA IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPEUTICS OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE	DUTT, ADITI	1675	Other	Non-Final OA	28d	Pending	Feb 09, 2018

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