Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Children's National Medical Center

10 pending office actions • 10 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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 (70%)
3
Medium (30%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (10%)
§101 + other1 (10%)
§103 only3 (30%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL 1 29.8% +32.4%
FRITH, SEAN A 1 62.1% +27.0%
MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L 1 68.3% +48.7%
GOLOVAN, MARK 1 100.0% +0.0%
HANEY, AMANDA MARIE 1 36.5% +44.5%
VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN 1 73.0% +6.7%
JOHNSON, KARA D 1 69.1% +24.6%
CANELLA, KAREN A 1 62.1% +32.9%
O'BRIEN, LEA S 1 51.4% +13.9%
SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN 1 57.8% +15.2%

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
19108200 RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE DETECTION FROM ECHOCARDIOGRAMS FRITH, SEAN A 16d overdue
19199170 BOOSTING THE PREDICTIVE POWER OF VIRUS-SPECIFIC T-CELL (VST) CLINICAL TRIALS VIA GENERATIVE MODELS BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL
18259529 CONNECTION PROTECTOR, SECUREMENT SYSTEM HAVING THE CONNECTION PROTECTOR AND USES THEREOF GOLOVAN, MARK
18251654 CIRCULATING miRNA AND PROTEIN BIOMARKERS FOR FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL DYSTROPHY HANEY, AMANDA MARIE
17907180 SARS-COV-2-SPECIFIC T CELLS AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING THEM JOHNSON, KARA D
17784072 T-CELL EPITOPES OF HUMAN PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3 FOR ADOPTIVE T-CELL IMMUNOTHERAPY CANELLA, KAREN A
17255731 METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR DYE-FREE VISUALIZATION OF BLOOD FLOW AND TISSUE PERFUSION IN LAPAROSCOPY SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN

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
19108200 RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE DETECTION FROM ECHOCARDIOGRAMS FRITH, SEAN A 16d overdue
17421337 EX VIVO ACTIVATED T-LYMPHOCYTIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME O'BRIEN, LEA S 26d
19199170 BOOSTING THE PREDICTIVE POWER OF VIRUS-SPECIFIC T-CELL (VST) CLINICAL TRIALS VIA GENERATIVE MODELS BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL
18835259 ACCESS TOOL FOR DELIVERING CARDIAC THERAPIES TO THE PERICARDIAL SPACE MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L
18251654 CIRCULATING miRNA AND PROTEIN BIOMARKERS FOR FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL DYSTROPHY HANEY, AMANDA MARIE
17907180 SARS-COV-2-SPECIFIC T CELLS AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING THEM JOHNSON, KARA D
17784072 T-CELL EPITOPES OF HUMAN PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3 FOR ADOPTIVE T-CELL IMMUNOTHERAPY CANELLA, KAREN A
17255731 METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR DYE-FREE VISUALIZATION OF BLOOD FLOW AND TISSUE PERFUSION IN LAPAROSCOPY SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3682 1
3798 1
3773 1
3783 1
1682 1
1638 1
1632 1
1643 1
1646 1
3797 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19199170 BOOSTING THE PREDICTIVE POWER OF VIRUS-SPECIFIC T-CELL (VST) CLINICAL TRIALS VIA GENERATIVE MODELS BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL 3682 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 05, 2025
19108200 RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE DETECTION FROM ECHOCARDIOGRAMS FRITH, SEAN A 3798 §101 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2025
18835259 ACCESS TOOL FOR DELIVERING CARDIAC THERAPIES TO THE PERICARDIAL SPACE MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L 3773 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 01, 2024
18259529 CONNECTION PROTECTOR, SECUREMENT SYSTEM HAVING THE CONNECTION PROTECTOR AND USES THEREOF GOLOVAN, MARK 3783 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 27, 2023
18251654 CIRCULATING miRNA AND PROTEIN BIOMARKERS FOR FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL DYSTROPHY HANEY, AMANDA MARIE 1682 §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 03, 2023
18008422 USE OF RECOMBINANT HUMAN ACID SPHINGOMYELINASE TO IMPROVE SKELETAL MYOFIBER REPAIR VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN 1638 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Dec 05, 2022
17907180 SARS-COV-2-SPECIFIC T CELLS AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING THEM JOHNSON, KARA D 1632 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 23, 2022
17784072 T-CELL EPITOPES OF HUMAN PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3 FOR ADOPTIVE T-CELL IMMUNOTHERAPY CANELLA, KAREN A 1643 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 09, 2022
17421337 EX VIVO ACTIVATED T-LYMPHOCYTIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME O'BRIEN, LEA S 1646 §103Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jul 07, 2021
17255731 METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR DYE-FREE VISUALIZATION OF BLOOD FLOW AND TISSUE PERFUSION IN LAPAROSCOPY SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN 3797 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 23, 2020

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