Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Dignity Health

12 pending office actions • 8 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)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.

10
Hard (83%)
2
Medium (17%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (17%)
§101 + other3 (25%)
§103 only2 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (42%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
25% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
67% of docket
1
Business / Other
8% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC 1 52.7% +40.2%
SHIN, SOO JUNG 1 87.1% +16.3%
MACCAGNO, PIERRE L 1 23.0% +31.5%
MENSH, ANDREW J 1 64.0% +19.3%
PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE 1 24.1% +13.9%
TRAN, NHU 1 68.8% +24.2%
KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE 1 45.8% +100.0%
MOLOYE, TITILAYO 1 63.1% +47.1%
NGUYEN, HUONG Q 1 45.7% +44.6%
MATALKAH, FATIMAH KHALAF 1 55.3% +28.5%

Hard Cases (10)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18923266 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION AND MONITORING OF OVER SEDATION TO PREVENT HARM TO PATIENTS MACCAGNO, PIERRE L 157d overdue
16975877 CHITINASE PROTEINS IN NEUROLOGIC DISEASE OGUNTADE, ELIZABETH BISOLA 35d overdue
18545736 CATHETER SYSTEM FOR DRAINING A BODILY FLUID FROM A FLUID SOURCE IN A BODY TRAN, NHU 3d overdue
18261319 MODULATION OF CHITINASE PROTEIN EXPRESSION MOLOYE, TITILAYO 20d
17118944 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EARLY DETECTION OF SEPSIS HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER 27d
19195051 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SPATIAL QUANTITATIVE AND ANATOMICALLY ACCURATE SURGICAL CORRIDOR MODELING PLATFORM NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC
18936762 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR SELECTIVELY PRESENTING IMAGES CAPTURED BY CONFOCAL LASER ENDOMICROSCOPY SHIN, SOO JUNG
18726513 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SHUNT EVALUATION MENSH, ANDREW J

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18923266 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION AND MONITORING OF OVER SEDATION TO PREVENT HARM TO PATIENTS MACCAGNO, PIERRE L 157d overdue
18117842 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING MICROSACCADE DYNAMICS TO MEASURE ATTENTIONAL RESPONSE TO A STIMULUS NGUYEN, HUONG Q 146d overdue
18545736 CATHETER SYSTEM FOR DRAINING A BODILY FLUID FROM A FLUID SOURCE IN A BODY TRAN, NHU 3d overdue
18261319 MODULATION OF CHITINASE PROTEIN EXPRESSION MOLOYE, TITILAYO 20d
19195051 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SPATIAL QUANTITATIVE AND ANATOMICALLY ACCURATE SURGICAL CORRIDOR MODELING PLATFORM NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC
18936762 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR SELECTIVELY PRESENTING IMAGES CAPTURED BY CONFOCAL LASER ENDOMICROSCOPY SHIN, SOO JUNG
18726513 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SHUNT EVALUATION MENSH, ANDREW J
18576509 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR APPLYING STIMULATION IN THE ASSESSMENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 3
3781 2
3797 1
3687 1
1632 1
1638 1
3796 1
1677 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19195051 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SPATIAL QUANTITATIVE AND ANATOMICALLY ACCURATE SURGICAL CORRIDOR MODELING PLATFORM NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC 3797 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 2025
18936762 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR SELECTIVELY PRESENTING IMAGES CAPTURED BY CONFOCAL LASER ENDOMICROSCOPY SHIN, SOO JUNG §101 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 04, 2024
18923266 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION AND MONITORING OF OVER SEDATION TO PREVENT HARM TO PATIENTS MACCAGNO, PIERRE L 3687 §101§103 Non-Final OA 157d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2024
18726513 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SHUNT EVALUATION MENSH, ANDREW J 3781 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 03, 2024
18576509 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR APPLYING STIMULATION IN THE ASSESSMENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE 3791 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 04, 2024
18545736 CATHETER SYSTEM FOR DRAINING A BODILY FLUID FROM A FLUID SOURCE IN A BODY TRAN, NHU 3781 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18553713 DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR PRECISION RADIATION TREATMENT KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE 3791 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 02, 2023
18261319 MODULATION OF CHITINASE PROTEIN EXPRESSION MOLOYE, TITILAYO 1632 §103§112 Final Rejection 20d Pending Jul 13, 2023
18117842 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING MICROSACCADE DYNAMICS TO MEASURE ATTENTIONAL RESPONSE TO A STIMULUS NGUYEN, HUONG Q 3791 §103 Final Rejection 146d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2023
17906715 METHOD OF ENGINEERING AND ISOLATING ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS MATALKAH, FATIMAH KHALAF 1638 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 19, 2022
17118944 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EARLY DETECTION OF SEPSIS HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER 3796 §101 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 11, 2020
16975877 CHITINASE PROTEINS IN NEUROLOGIC DISEASE OGUNTADE, ELIZABETH BISOLA 1677 §101§102§103Other Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending Aug 26, 2020

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