Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation

17 pending office actions • 11 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 30 days (4)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%)
12
Medium (71%)
4
Easy (24%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (65%)
§102 only1 (6%)
§112 only4 (24%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

12
Life Sciences
71% of docket
2
Information Tech
12% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
12% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
6% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZAIDI, SYED A 1 81.8% +12.7%
CANNON, RYAN SMITH 1 55.1% +36.7%
SNYDER, STEVEN G 1 80.3% -8.3%
IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED 1 87.6% +11.8%
JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE 1 100.0% +0.0%
ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D 1 53.1% +3.0%
FAN, WEIHUA 1 83.0% +13.0%
WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD 1 30.0% +0.0%
MONSUR, NASIMA 1 78.5% +26.2%
HUANG, CHENG YUAN 1 38.2% +24.8%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18837922 AGENT DATA PROCESSING SNYDER, STEVEN G 88d overdue
18565463 ELITE SAFFLOWER EVENT FAN, WEIHUA 23d overdue
19134654 ATTACK AND FAULT TOLERANT IOT NETWORK ZAIDI, SYED A 11d overdue
18685782 Crown Rot Resistance JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE 19d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18565463 ELITE SAFFLOWER EVENT FAN, WEIHUA 23d overdue
18672931 Rust Resistance Gene IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED 15d overdue
19134654 ATTACK AND FAULT TOLERANT IOT NETWORK ZAIDI, SYED A 11d overdue
18844822 TRANSFERRABLE ELECTRODE FOR PRINTED ELECTRONICS CANNON, RYAN SMITH 10d overdue
18258619 THERMALLY STABILISED CONDUCTIVE POLYMER COATINGS HUANG, CHENG YUAN 1d overdue
18351091 Systems, Methods, and Apparatus for Determining AC losses in Superconductors MONSUR, NASIMA 47d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1663 5
1662 3
2432 1
1726 1
2184 1
3645 1
2858 1
1787 1
1619 1
2857 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19134654 ATTACK AND FAULT TOLERANT IOT NETWORK ZAIDI, SYED A 2432 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending May 30, 2025
18844822 TRANSFERRABLE ELECTRODE FOR PRINTED ELECTRONICS CANNON, RYAN SMITH 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2024
18837922 AGENT DATA PROCESSING SNYDER, STEVEN G 2184 §112 Non-Final OA 88d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2024
18672931 Rust Resistance Gene IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED 1662 Other Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 23, 2024
18685782 Crown Rot Resistance JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE 1662 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Feb 22, 2024
18573545 ACOUSTIC DEPTH MAP ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D 3645 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Dec 22, 2023
18565463 ELITE SAFFLOWER EVENT FAN, WEIHUA 1663 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2023
18479609 EXPRESSION OF NITROGENASE POLYPEPTIDES IN PLANT CELLS WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD 1663 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Oct 02, 2023
18351091 Systems, Methods, and Apparatus for Determining AC losses in Superconductors MONSUR, NASIMA 2858 §112 Final Rejection 47d Pending Jul 12, 2023
18258619 THERMALLY STABILISED CONDUCTIVE POLYMER COATINGS HUANG, CHENG YUAN 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2023
18184606 PLANTS WITH MODIFIED TRAITS BUI, PHUONG T 1663 §102 Final Rejection 75d Pending Mar 15, 2023
18012815 HYDROGELS STEINKE, SEAN JAMES 1619 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2022
18009503 Log data compliance QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2022
17786360 PREPARATION OF HALOGENATED ALKOXYETHANE BAHTA, MEDHANIT W 1692 §103 Non-Final OA 93d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2022
17297728 Rust Resistance Gene SHARMA, SANTOSH 1663 §112 Final Rejection 12d Pending May 27, 2021
17046561 GENES ASSOCIATED WITH RESISTANCE TO WHEAT YELLOW RUST STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA 1663 §112 Non-Final OA 99d overdue Pending Oct 09, 2020
16312217 HIGH AMYLOSE WHEAT - III DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON 1662 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Dec 20, 2018

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