Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

20 pending office actions • 16 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
2
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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%)
12
Medium (60%)
7
Easy (35%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (45%)
§102 only3 (15%)
§112 only2 (10%)
Double-patenting only5 (25%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

19
Life Sciences
95% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
5% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZHANG, KAIJIANG 2 76.8% +34.8%
HILL, KEVIN KAI 1 36.1% +33.4%
REDDIG, PETER J 1 58.0% +40.1%
CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE 1 100.0% +0.0%
WANG, RUIXUE 1 56.2% +25.7%
SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK 1 57.0% +33.7%
ROGERS, ERIC JASON 1 57.8% +30.0%
PRIEST, JESSICA MARIE 1
KOVACH, KARA NICOLE 1 85.7% +100.0%
JUEDES, AMY E 1 44.7% +41.6%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 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
18557406 MOLECULAR SIGNATURES OF LONG-TERM COVID-19 AND TREATMENT THEREOF CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18458108 EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS VACCINES WANG, RUIXUE 49d overdue
18340699 INFERRING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ACTIVITY FROM DNA METHYLATION AND ITS APPLICATION AS A BIOMARKER KOVACH, KARA NICOLE 16d overdue
18500706 COMBINATION THERAPIES FOR TREATMENT OF BCMA-RELATED CANCERS AND AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS REDDIG, PETER J 5d
17464341 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ACCURATELY IDENTIFYING MUTATIONS ZHANG, KAIJIANG 65d
17412105 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ACCURATELY IDENTIFYING MUTATIONS ZHANG, KAIJIANG 65d
19031042 METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF B CELL MALIGNANCIES USING ADOPTIVE CELL THERAPY HILL, KEVIN KAI
18548017 PROTECTIVE ANTIBODIES AGAINST RESPIRATORY VIRAL INFECTIONS SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK
18262674 TREATMENT FOR HSV-1 USING A MEGANUCLEASE ROGERS, ERIC JASON

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1684 3
1638 2
1672 2
1646 1
1671 1
1642 1
1681 1
1644 1
1674 1
1643 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19031042 METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF B CELL MALIGNANCIES USING ADOPTIVE CELL THERAPY HILL, KEVIN KAI 1638 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 17, 2025
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
18557406 MOLECULAR SIGNATURES OF LONG-TERM COVID-19 AND TREATMENT THEREOF CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE 1672 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 26, 2023
18458108 EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS VACCINES WANG, RUIXUE 1672 §112 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2023
18548017 PROTECTIVE ANTIBODIES AGAINST RESPIRATORY VIRAL INFECTIONS SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK 1671 DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 25, 2023
18262674 TREATMENT FOR HSV-1 USING A MEGANUCLEASE ROGERS, ERIC JASON 1638 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 24, 2023
18350637 IGM-MULTIMERIZED SINGLE-DOMAIN ANTIBODIES THAT BIND ROR1 PRIEST, JESSICA MARIE 1642 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 11, 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
18257814 IMMUNOGENIC COMPOSITIONS JUEDES, AMY E 1644 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 15, 2023
18251871 THERAPEUTIC TARGETING OF MESOTHELIN IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA WITH CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR T CELL THERAPY HOWARD, ZACHARY C 1674 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 04, 2023
18249149 SPECIFIC TARGETING OF TUMOR-INFILTRATING REGULATORY T CELLS (TREGS) USING ICOS AND IL-1R CHATTIN, AMY MARIE 1643 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 14, 2023
18044289 IMPROVED HIGH EFFICIENCY TARGETED IN SITU GENOME-WIDE PROFILING VANN-OJUEKAIYE, KENDRA RAYCHELL 1682 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 07, 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 Non-Final OA 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
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
17312703 TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR TARGETING PEPTIDES FISCHER, JOSEPH 1658 DP Final Rejection Pending Jun 10, 2021
17044779 NANOPARTICLES FOR GENE EXPRESSION AND USES THEREOF REGLAS, GILLIAN CHELSEA 1632 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Oct 01, 2020
17029756 CELL POPULATION ANALYSIS USING SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS FROM SINGLE CELL TRANSCRIPTOMES PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE 1684 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 23, 2020

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