Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Portfolio Summary

39

Total Pending OAs

23

Non-Final OAs

13

Final Rejections

3

Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 38 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

22

Overdue

2

Due this week

13

Due this month

1

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

Overdue (22)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (13)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

2

Hard (5%)

24

Medium (62%)

9

Easy (23%)

4

Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

Bucket	Cases
§101 only	2 (5%)
§103 only	24 (62%)
§112 only	9 (23%)
No statute on record	4 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

23

Life Sciences

59% of docket

3

Information Tech

8% of docket

1

Communications

3% of docket

7

Semiconductors

18% of docket

5

Mechanical / Eng

13% 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.

390 h

Manual time on pending OAs

78 h

Time saved (low, 20%)

136 h

Time saved (mid, 35%)

3.4 wks

FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

Examiner	Apps on this docket	Allow rate	Interview lift
MELLOTT, JAMES M	2	49.8%	+46.6%
MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER	2	71.2%	+37.8%
MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS	1	78.6%	+15.3%
BATES, ZAKIYA W	1	89.0%	-2.5%
TRAN, THAI H	1	71.9%	+25.7%
CAVALLARI, DANIEL	1	78.2%	+14.1%
RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS	1	83.8%	+12.6%
LAPAGE, MICHAEL P	1	78.8%	+34.2%
FRENCH, CORRELL T	1	46.8%	+32.0%
SALCE, JASON P	1	67.6%	+16.1%

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 #	Title	Examiner	Due in
19107537	SURFACTANT FOR CARBON DIOXIDE STORAGE	BATES, ZAKIYA W	53d overdue
18724746	DEVICE FOR CHARACTERIZING A MEDIUM BY CAPACITANCE SPECTROSCOPY	RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS	28d 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 #	Title	Examiner	Due in
18084934	METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE CONVERSION FACTOR BETWEEN THE VOLTAGE APPLIED TO A SYSTEM AND A PARAMETER OF SAID SYSTEM, THE OSCILLATION PERIOD BETWEEN TWO SPIN STATES AND THE EXCHANGE INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO CHARGED PARTICLES AND SYSTEM THEREFOR	PATERSON, BRIGITTE A	12d
18020045	NEUROMUSCULAR CHARACTERISATION METHOD AND ASSOCIATED MEASURING BENCH	TU, AURELIE H	16d

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18724746	DEVICE FOR CHARACTERIZING A MEDIUM BY CAPACITANCE SPECTROSCOPY	RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS	28d overdue
18894951	METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MICROGRID AND ASSOCIATED MICROGRID	CAVALLARI, DANIEL	23d overdue
17780616	FORMING NANOWIRES	MELLOTT, JAMES M	15d overdue
18710778	MULTIPLEX CARS MICROSCOPY DEVICE	LAPAGE, MICHAEL P	5d overdue
17597351	METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY	MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER	5d
18866108	CAPACITIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-ENHANCED ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION METHOD	MELLOTT, JAMES M	6d
18697994	LIGAMENT JOINT SIMULATOR	FRENCH, CORRELL T	13d
18894403	METHOD FOR PROTECTING A MICROGRID FROM A VOLTAGE DROP OR SAG OCCURRING IN A MAIN GRID CONNECTED TO SAID MICROGRID	TRAN, THAI H	21d

Top Art Units

Art Unit	Apps
1759	2
2836	2
2858	2
1635	2
1619	2
1785	1
3674	1
2877	1
3715	1
2421	1

Pending Office Actions

App #	Title	Examiner	Art Unit	Statutes	Status	Due in	AI	Filed
19130165	ASSEMBLY COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE CIRCULAR POLYCRYSTALLINE COLLOIDAL MONOLAYER TETHERED ON A SOLID SUBSTRATE	MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS	1785	§112	Non-Final OA	22d	Pending	May 15, 2025
19107537	SURFACTANT FOR CARBON DIOXIDE STORAGE	BATES, ZAKIYA W	3674	§103	Non-Final OA	53d overdue	Pending	Feb 27, 2025
18866108	CAPACITIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-ENHANCED ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION METHOD	MELLOTT, JAMES M	1759	Other	Non-Final OA	6d	Pending	Nov 15, 2024
18894403	METHOD FOR PROTECTING A MICROGRID FROM A VOLTAGE DROP OR SAG OCCURRING IN A MAIN GRID CONNECTED TO SAID MICROGRID	TRAN, THAI H	2836	§103	Final Rejection	21d	Pending	Sep 24, 2024
18894951	METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MICROGRID AND ASSOCIATED MICROGRID	CAVALLARI, DANIEL	2836	§103	Non-Final OA	23d overdue	Pending	Sep 24, 2024
18724746	DEVICE FOR CHARACTERIZING A MEDIUM BY CAPACITANCE SPECTROSCOPY	RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS	2858	§112	Non-Final OA	28d overdue	Pending	Jun 27, 2024
18710778	MULTIPLEX CARS MICROSCOPY DEVICE	LAPAGE, MICHAEL P	2877	§103	Final Rejection	5d overdue	Pending	May 16, 2024
18697994	LIGAMENT JOINT SIMULATOR	FRENCH, CORRELL T	3715	§103	Non-Final OA	13d	Pending	Apr 02, 2024
18577082	COMPUTERIZED METHOD FOR AUDIOVISUAL DELINEARIZATION	SALCE, JASON P	2421	§112	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Jan 05, 2024
18516616	VARIANTS OF A DNA POLYMERASE OF THE POLX FAMILY	MARTIN, RACHEL E	1657	§103	Non-Final OA	8d	Pending	Nov 21, 2023
18506516	SECURE TIME SYNCHRONIZATION	AYALA, KEVIN ALEXIS	2496	§103	Non-Final OA	42d overdue	Pending	Nov 10, 2023
18287923	IDENTIFICATION OF A NEW GENE INVOLVED IN SEX DETERMINATION IN CUCURBITACEAE	STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA	1663	§112	Final Rejection	78d overdue	Pending	Oct 23, 2023
18551791	PULSE-TRAIN LASER-PLASMA ACCELERATOR	OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W	2881	§103	Non-Final OA	50d overdue	Pending	Sep 21, 2023
18259368	DISACCHARIDES FOR TREATING BONE DISEASES	GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD	1693	§103	Non-Final OA	104d overdue	Pending	Jun 26, 2023
18258798	METHOD FOR PARTITIONING TIME SERIES	WOLFSON, ETHAN NOAH	2673	§103	Non-Final OA	14d	Pending	Jun 21, 2023
18254297	METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE PART	LIU, XUE H	1742	§112	Non-Final OA	28d	Pending	May 24, 2023
18253205	METHOD AND SERVER FOR DELEGATED QUANTUM COMPUTING USING A HARDWARE ENCLAVE	BARRETT, RYAN S	2148	Other	Non-Final OA	10d overdue	Pending	May 16, 2023
18299907	METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND DEVICE FOR QUANTIZING A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK	AKINTOLA, OLABODE	3691	§103	Final Rejection	28d	Pending	Apr 13, 2023
18247001	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC NOISE IN MAGNETO-RESISTIVE SENSORS	SCHINDLER, DAVID M	2858	§103	Non-Final OA	23d overdue	Pending	Mar 28, 2023
18027686	DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A CRYSTALLINE CONVERSION LAYER FROM A SOLUTION	QI, HUA	1714	§103	Final Rejection	8d overdue	Pending	Mar 22, 2023
18020045	NEUROMUSCULAR CHARACTERISATION METHOD AND ASSOCIATED MEASURING BENCH	TU, AURELIE H	3791	§101	Non-Final OA	16d	Pending	Feb 06, 2023
18014977	COMPOUNDS FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY	BABIC, CHRISTOPHER M	1633	§112	Non-Final OA	46d overdue	Pending	Jan 06, 2023
18146748	NANOPHOTODETECTOR-BASED DEVICE FOR BIOMOLECULAR DETECTION	WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C	1681	§112	Final Rejection	4d overdue	Pending	Dec 27, 2022
18084934	METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE CONVERSION FACTOR BETWEEN THE VOLTAGE APPLIED TO A SYSTEM AND A PARAMETER OF SAID SYSTEM, THE OSCILLATION PERIOD BETWEEN TWO SPIN STATES AND THE EXCHANGE INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO CHARGED PARTICLES AND SYSTEM THEREFOR	PATERSON, BRIGITTE A	2896	§101	Final Rejection	12d	Pending	Dec 20, 2022
18082711	METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A ZIRCONIA PART TO A TITANIUM ELEMENT	PATEL, DEVANG R	1735	§103	Non-Final OA	33d	Pending	Dec 16, 2022
17784500	MEDICAL COMPOSITION OR DEVICE COMPRISING OLIGO(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) POLYMERS	VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE	1612	Other	Final Rejection	157d overdue	Pending	Nov 21, 2022
17784507	MEDICAL COMPOSITION OR DEVICE COMPRISING OLIGO(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) POLYMERS	SASTRI, SATYA B	1762	§103	Non-Final OA	71d overdue	Pending	Nov 21, 2022
17912549	Cyclic ether-anhydride photopolyaddition and uses thereof	MCCLENDON, SANZA L	1765	§103	Non-Final OA	266d overdue	Pending	Sep 19, 2022
17810022	METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY	MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER	1635	§103	Non-Final OA	21d	Pending	Jun 30, 2022
17781202	LUMINESCENT ZWITTERIONIC POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES	HAQ, SHAFIQUL	1678	§112	Final Rejection	22d	Pending	May 31, 2022
17780616	FORMING NANOWIRES	MELLOTT, JAMES M	1759	§103	Non-Final OA	15d overdue	Pending	May 27, 2022
17642634	REPELLENT COMPOSITION AND USES	OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH	1619	§103	Non-Final OA	36d overdue	Pending	Mar 11, 2022
17630052	COMPLEMENT ACTIVE FRAGMENT-LOADED THREE-DIMENSIONAL BIOMATERIAL FOR DENTAL AND/OR OTHER TISSUE REGENERATION	COUGHLIN, DANIEL F	1619	§103	Non-Final OA	15d	Pending	Jan 25, 2022
17629436	Intra-Aneurysm Device	MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN	3771	§103	Final Rejection	19d	Pending	Jan 24, 2022
17629161	ANTIBODY AGAINST THE OPRF PROTEIN OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA, USE THEREOF AS A MEDICAMENT AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAME	BERHANE, SELAM	1675	§112	Final Rejection	73d overdue	Pending	Jan 21, 2022
17628938	IRON AND COBALT MOLECULAR COMPLEXES FOR THE SELECTIVE ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTION OF CO2 INTO CO, WITH FLOW CELLS	VAN, LUAN V	1795	§103	Non-Final OA	38d overdue	Pending	Jan 21, 2022
17597351	METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY	MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER	1635	§103	Final Rejection	5d	Pending	Jan 04, 2022
17288879	SYNTHETIC PEPTIDES INDUCING IMMUNOGENIC CELL DEATH	NIEBAUER, RONALD T	1658	Other	Final Rejection	60d overdue	Pending	Apr 26, 2021
15733316	METHOD FOR PREPARING SYNTHETIC PHYLLOSILICATES	CORALLO, CATRIONA MARY	1732	§103	Non-Final OA	80d overdue	AI Ready	Jun 25, 2020