Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

28 pending office actions • 24 art units • 28 examiners • 0 of 28 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

28
Total Pending OAs
19
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

14
Overdue
2
Due this week
7
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (14)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (5)

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%)
14
Medium (50%)
4
Easy (14%)
10
Unknown (36%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (50%)
§112 only4 (14%)
No statute on record10 (36%)

Industry Mix

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

21
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
7% of docket
1
Semiconductors
4% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
14% 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.

280 h
Manual time on pending OAs
56 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
98 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KIM, KIHO 1 85.5% +4.2%
NGANGA, BONIFACE N 1 64.1% +30.1%
DANG, DUY M 1 91.4% +6.0%
KENYON, JOHN S 1 80.3% +17.4%
SPENCER, ANDREA LYNNE MORRIS 1 25.0% +0.0%
REINIER, BARBARA DIANE 1 79.7% +9.5%
YOON, CHANEL J 1 52.1% +38.2%
STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE 1 50.0% +100.0%
WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA 1 57.6% +42.1%
BRETZ, COREY LANE 1 0.0% +0.0%

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
18629260 AUTOMATED NONLINEAR REGISTRATION IN MULTI-MODALITY IMAGING DANG, DUY M 31d overdue

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18350077 METHODS AND FORMULATIONS FOR GENE THERAPY, AND FOR COMBINING GENE THERAPY WITH DITPA TREATMENT, OF ALLAN-HERNDON-DUDLEY SYNDROME BRETZ, COREY LANE 6d
18288146 UV A LIGHT EXPOSURE INCREASES MITOCHONDRIAL ANTI-VIRAL PROTEIN EXPRESSION IN TRACHEAL CELLS VIA CELL-TO-CELL COMMUNICATION AND USES THEREOF SPENCER, ANDREA LYNNE MORRIS 12d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18235945 ENDOSCOPIC FLUID ASPIRATION DEVICE YOON, CHANEL J 60d overdue
18352622 NOVEL AND EFFICIENT METHOD FOR REPROGRAMMING IMMORTALIZED LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINES TO INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA 16d overdue
18530467 COMPOUNDS AND METHODS TO SENSITIZE CANCER CELLS TO TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITORS KENYON, JOHN S 34d
18546947 ANTI-TL1A ANTIBODY COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATMENT IN THE LUNG STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE 50d
18636419 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-INVASIVELY PROBING IN-VIVO MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION USING FUNCTIONAL MRI (fMRI) NGANGA, BONIFACE N 53d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1631 3
1635 2
1642 2
2884 1
3797 1
2662 1
1625 1
2682 1
3791 1
1645 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18668909 System, Devices, and Methods for Time-Resolved Fluorescent Spectroscopy KIM, KIHO 2884 Other Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending May 20, 2024
18636419 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-INVASIVELY PROBING IN-VIVO MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION USING FUNCTIONAL MRI (fMRI) NGANGA, BONIFACE N 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18629260 AUTOMATED NONLINEAR REGISTRATION IN MULTI-MODALITY IMAGING DANG, DUY M 2662 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2024
18530467 COMPOUNDS AND METHODS TO SENSITIZE CANCER CELLS TO TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITORS KENYON, JOHN S 1625 Other Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 06, 2023
18288146 UV A LIGHT EXPOSURE INCREASES MITOCHONDRIAL ANTI-VIRAL PROTEIN EXPRESSION IN TRACHEAL CELLS VIA CELL-TO-CELL COMMUNICATION AND USES THEREOF SPENCER, ANDREA LYNNE MORRIS 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 24, 2023
18367154 DEEP LEARNING-BASED ATTENUATION CORRECTION OF CARDIAC IMAGING DATA REINIER, BARBARA DIANE 2682 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 12, 2023
18235945 ENDOSCOPIC FLUID ASPIRATION DEVICE YOON, CHANEL J 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2023
18546947 ANTI-TL1A ANTIBODY COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATMENT IN THE LUNG STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE 1645 Other Non-Final OA 50d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18352622 NOVEL AND EFFICIENT METHOD FOR REPROGRAMMING IMMORTALIZED LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINES TO INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA 1634 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2023
18350077 METHODS AND FORMULATIONS FOR GENE THERAPY, AND FOR COMBINING GENE THERAPY WITH DITPA TREATMENT, OF ALLAN-HERNDON-DUDLEY SYNDROME BRETZ, COREY LANE 1635 Other Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jul 11, 2023
18326912 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF STRATIFYING INFLAMMATORY DISEASE PATIENTS HUDSON, AMY ROSE 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending May 31, 2023
18320653 Methods for Detecting and Treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome STOICA, ELLY GERALD 1647 Other Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending May 19, 2023
18011589 PATIENT TRANSFER ASSEMBLY WITH DETACHABLE SUPPORT SURFACE LAMPRECHT, JOEL 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2022
17998857 EXOSOME-DERIVED PIWI-INTERACTING RNA AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF KIM, TAEYOON 1631 §112 Final Rejection 23d Pending Nov 15, 2022
17914050 BIOMARKER PANELS FOR STRATIFICATION OF RESPONSE TO IMMUNE CHECKPOINT BLOCKADE IN CANCER SALMON, KATHERINE D 1682 §112 Final Rejection 27d Pending Sep 23, 2022
17930558 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IN VIVO DUAL RECOMBINASE-MEDIATED CASSETTE EXCHANGE (dRMCE) AND DISEASE MODELS THEREOF MOLOYE, TITILAYO 1632 Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 08, 2022
17796436 METHOD OF TREATING PANCREATIC CANCER UNDERDAHL, THANE E 1699 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jul 29, 2022
17766704 CORTICAL NEURAL PROGENITOR CELLS FROM IPSCS HUMPHRIES, NICHOLAS ADAM 1631 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Apr 05, 2022
17766706 MESH CHOPPING OF NEURAL PROGENITOR CELL AGGREGATES ABUZEINEH, HANAN ISAM 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2022
17639654 Use of Calcineurin Inhibitor Free CTLA4-IG + Anti-IL6/IL6R For Long Term Immunosuppression in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients OUSPENSKI, ILIA I 1644 Other Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Mar 02, 2022
17565834 METHODS OF DIAGNOSIS, SELECTION, AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES AND CONDITIONS CAUSED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH METHANOGENS FERNANDEZ, SUSAN EMILY 1651 §103 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2021
17617878 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IN VIVO DUAL RECOMBINASE-MEDIATED CASSETTE EXCHANGE (dRMCE) AND DISEASE MODELS THEREOF MCLEOD, AFRICA MHAIRIE 1635 Other Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2021
17533065 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING CANCER AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES SANG, HONG 1646 §103 Non-Final OA 97d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2021
17435159 ANTI-CD38 AGENTS FOR DESENSITIZATION AND TREATMENT OF ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REJECTION OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTS STONEBRAKER, ALYSSA RAE 1642 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Aug 31, 2021
17334109 METHODS OF STRATIFYING AND TREATING A SUB-POPULATION OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE PATIENTS WHALEY, PABLO S 3619 §112 Non-Final OA 20d Pending May 28, 2021
17292025 USE OF CLAZAKIZUMAB TO DESENSITIZE AND IMPROVE RENAL TRANSPLANTATION IN HLA-SENSITIZED PATIENTS SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN 1642 Other Final Rejection 78d overdue Pending May 07, 2021
17279259 METHODS OF TREATING AND DIAGNOSING INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 1657 §112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2021
17266488 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING CANCER AND AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES LADD, CAROLYN LOUISE 1622 Other Final Rejection 56d Pending Feb 05, 2021

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