Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

13 pending office actions • 10 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
2
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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%)
9
Medium (69%)
2
Easy (15%)
2
Unknown (15%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (38%)
§102 only4 (31%)
§112 only2 (15%)
No statute on record2 (15%)

Industry Mix

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

12
Life Sciences
92% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZHANG, KAIJIANG 2 76.5% +35.3%
REDDIG, PETER J 1 58.0% +40.0%
WANG, RUIXUE 1 57.6% +23.2%
OUSPENSKI, ILIA I 1 77.6% +20.3%
KOVACH, KARA NICOLE 1 100.0% +0.0%
ROONEY, NORA MAUREEN 1 60.5% +23.2%
NGUYEN, QUANG 1 38.2% +52.8%
WHALEY, PABLO S 1 25.2% +21.2%
KOSTURKO, GEORGE W 1 54.2% +49.1%
YU, MISOOK 1 38.5% +15.8%

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
18340699 INFERRING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ACTIVITY FROM DNA METHYLATION AND ITS APPLICATION AS A BIOMARKER KOVACH, KARA NICOLE 16d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18063532 METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR CANINE BREED IDENTIFICATION WHALEY, PABLO S 7d

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
17631399 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INDUCING NOTCH SIGNALING IN TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENTS YU, MISOOK 73d overdue
18458108 EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS VACCINES WANG, RUIXUE 49d overdue
18173485 METHODS FOR ENHANCING ANTI-TUMOR ACTIVITY OF EXHAUSTED T CELLS NGUYEN, QUANG 2d overdue
18500706 COMBINATION THERAPIES FOR TREATMENT OF BCMA-RELATED CANCERS AND AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS REDDIG, PETER J 5d
18063532 METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR CANINE BREED IDENTIFICATION WHALEY, PABLO S 7d
18365110 TARGETING OF PERI-NECROTIC TUMOR CELLS OUSPENSKI, ILIA I 21d
17999240 ANTI-FIBROTIC COMPOSITION AND RELATED METHODS KOSTURKO, GEORGE W 26d
18310649 KSHV ONCOPROTEIN ANTIGENS AND EPITOPES FOR EXPANDING ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC T CELLS ROONEY, NORA MAUREEN 42d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1684 3
1641 2
1646 1
1672 1
1644 1
1681 1
1631 1
3619 1
1621 1
1632 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18500706 COMBINATION THERAPIES FOR TREATMENT OF BCMA-RELATED CANCERS AND AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS REDDIG, PETER J 1646 Other Non-Final OA 5d Pending Nov 02, 2023
18458108 EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS VACCINES WANG, RUIXUE 1672 §112 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2023
18365110 TARGETING OF PERI-NECROTIC TUMOR CELLS OUSPENSKI, ILIA I 1644 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 03, 2023
18340699 INFERRING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ACTIVITY FROM DNA METHYLATION AND ITS APPLICATION AS A BIOMARKER KOVACH, KARA NICOLE 1681 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2023
18310649 KSHV ONCOPROTEIN ANTIGENS AND EPITOPES FOR EXPANDING ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC T CELLS ROONEY, NORA MAUREEN 1641 §102 Non-Final OA 42d Pending May 02, 2023
18173485 METHODS FOR ENHANCING ANTI-TUMOR ACTIVITY OF EXHAUSTED T CELLS NGUYEN, QUANG 1631 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2023
18063532 METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR CANINE BREED IDENTIFICATION WHALEY, PABLO S 3619 §112 Final Rejection 7d Pending Dec 08, 2022
17999240 ANTI-FIBROTIC COMPOSITION AND RELATED METHODS KOSTURKO, GEORGE W 1621 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Nov 18, 2022
17631399 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INDUCING NOTCH SIGNALING IN TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENTS YU, MISOOK 1641 §102 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Jan 28, 2022
17435610 PROTEIN RESIDUE MAPPING USING A COMBINATION OF DEEP MUTATIONAL SCANNING AND PHAGE DISPLAY HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE 1684 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Sep 01, 2021
17464341 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ACCURATELY IDENTIFYING MUTATIONS ZHANG, KAIJIANG 1684 §102 Non-Final OA 65d Pending Sep 01, 2021
17412105 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ACCURATELY IDENTIFYING MUTATIONS ZHANG, KAIJIANG 1684 §102 Non-Final OA 65d Pending Aug 25, 2021
17044779 NANOPARTICLES FOR GENE EXPRESSION AND USES THEREOF REGLAS, GILLIAN CHELSEA 1632 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Oct 01, 2020

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