Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Essenlix Corporation

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§102 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
50% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TSAI, TSUNG YIN 1 81.7% +11.0%
MUI, CHRISTINE T 1 78.3% +20.0%
GIERE, REBECCA M 1 73.5% +32.9%
THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI 1 73.9% +11.7%

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
18272777 Imaging Based Assay Accuracy Improvement Through Guided Training TSAI, TSUNG YIN 13d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18214811 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR EXAMINING DRUG EFFECTS ON MICROORGANISMS MUI, CHRISTINE T 24d overdue
18198280 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR RAPID DETECTION OF ACUTE PHASE REACTANTS AND WHITE BLOOD CELLS GIERE, REBECCA M 4d overdue
17616178 FAST STAINING OF BIOMATERIALS ENHANCED BY IMAGE PROCESSING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI 8d
18272777 Imaging Based Assay Accuracy Improvement Through Guided Training TSAI, TSUNG YIN 13d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2656 1
1797 1
1677 1
2672 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18272777 Imaging Based Assay Accuracy Improvement Through Guided Training TSAI, TSUNG YIN 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jul 17, 2023
18214811 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR EXAMINING DRUG EFFECTS ON MICROORGANISMS MUI, CHRISTINE T 1797 §102 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2023
18198280 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR RAPID DETECTION OF ACUTE PHASE REACTANTS AND WHITE BLOOD CELLS GIERE, REBECCA M 1677 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 16, 2023
17616178 FAST STAINING OF BIOMATERIALS ENHANCED BY IMAGE PROCESSING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI 2672 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Dec 02, 2021

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