Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

George Mason University

16 pending office actions • 15 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
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.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

9
Hard (56%)
6
Medium (38%)
1
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other5 (31%)
§103 only6 (38%)
§112 only1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
38% of docket
5
Information Tech
31% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
2
Business / Other
12% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WATHEN, BRIAN W 1 84.2% +15.7%
MESSMORE, JONATHAN R 1 76.9% +9.6%
AHSAN, SYED M 1 74.1% +18.9%
BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J 1 75.3% +12.6%
HABTE, KAHSAY 1 85.0% +7.4%
CELANI, NICHOLAS P 1 46.0% +42.3%
WESTON, ALYSSA G 1 60.0% +51.3%
LEWIS, IYONDA LATIFAH 1 100.0% +0.0%
GARYU, LIANKO G 1 66.0% +45.3%
GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE 1 29.7% +35.7%

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
18482686 LOCAL AREA INTEGRATED DRONE, AIRCRAFT, VEHICLE, AND ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM LEWIS, IYONDA LATIFAH 47d

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
18517066 METHOD FOR INDUCING AND DETECTING SOLUBLE LOX-1 (sLOX-1) IN CULTURED BLOOD CLOTS WESTON, ALYSSA G 5d
18431443 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURITY SOFTWARE PATCH TYPE DETECTION CELANI, NICHOLAS P 56d
18321738 METHOD FOR INDUCING AND DETECTING SOLUBLE LOX-1 (sLOX-1) IN CULTURED BLOOD CLOTS CELSA, BENNETT M 71d
19183655 CARBON-EQUIVALENT OFFSETS FROM CONTRAIL REDUCTION WATHEN, BRIAN W
18882799 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION MESSMORE, JONATHAN R
18659680 MACHINE LEARNING BASED APPROACH TO DETECT STEALTHY COMMAND AND CONTROL NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS AHSAN, SYED M
18632761 PAN-CASPASE INHIBITORS HABTE, KAHSAY
18235564 MICROFLUIDIC BASED METHODS TO STUDY INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18517066 METHOD FOR INDUCING AND DETECTING SOLUBLE LOX-1 (sLOX-1) IN CULTURED BLOOD CLOTS WESTON, ALYSSA G 5d
18431443 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURITY SOFTWARE PATCH TYPE DETECTION CELANI, NICHOLAS P 56d
19183655 CARBON-EQUIVALENT OFFSETS FROM CONTRAIL REDUCTION WATHEN, BRIAN W
18659680 MACHINE LEARNING BASED APPROACH TO DETECT STEALTHY COMMAND AND CONTROL NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS AHSAN, SYED M
18647604 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCORING AND RANKING COMMON WEAKNESSES MAPPED TO VULNERABILITIES FOUND IN NETWORKED AND/OR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J
18461041 Heteromultivalent Nucleic Acid Scaffolds and Uses Thereof GARYU, LIANKO G
18235564 MICROFLUIDIC BASED METHODS TO STUDY INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2482 1
2491 1
2439 1
4100 1
2449 1
1633 1
2647 1
1654 1
1797 1
3665 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19183655 CARBON-EQUIVALENT OFFSETS FROM CONTRAIL REDUCTION WATHEN, BRIAN W §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 18, 2025
18882799 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION MESSMORE, JONATHAN R 2482 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 12, 2024
18659680 MACHINE LEARNING BASED APPROACH TO DETECT STEALTHY COMMAND AND CONTROL NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS AHSAN, SYED M 2491 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 09, 2024
18647604 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCORING AND RANKING COMMON WEAKNESSES MAPPED TO VULNERABILITIES FOUND IN NETWORKED AND/OR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J 2439 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 26, 2024
18632761 PAN-CASPASE INHIBITORS HABTE, KAHSAY 4100 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 11, 2024
18431443 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURITY SOFTWARE PATCH TYPE DETECTION CELANI, NICHOLAS P 2449 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 56d Pending Feb 02, 2024
18517066 METHOD FOR INDUCING AND DETECTING SOLUBLE LOX-1 (sLOX-1) IN CULTURED BLOOD CLOTS WESTON, ALYSSA G 1633 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 5d Pending Nov 22, 2023
18482686 LOCAL AREA INTEGRATED DRONE, AIRCRAFT, VEHICLE, AND ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM LEWIS, IYONDA LATIFAH 2647 §103 Non-Final OA 47d Pending Oct 06, 2023
18461041 Heteromultivalent Nucleic Acid Scaffolds and Uses Thereof GARYU, LIANKO G 1654 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 05, 2023
18235564 MICROFLUIDIC BASED METHODS TO STUDY INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE 1797 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 18, 2023
18223190 CONFIRMATION OF CARBON-EQUIVALENT OFFSETS FROM CONTRAIL REDUCTION AND MARKET EXCHANGE FOR SAME GEIST, RICHARD EDWIN 3665 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 18, 2023
18321738 METHOD FOR INDUCING AND DETECTING SOLUBLE LOX-1 (sLOX-1) IN CULTURED BLOOD CLOTS CELSA, BENNETT M 1651 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 71d Pending May 22, 2023
18247800 DNA NANOSTRUCTURES FOR BOOSTING IMMUNITY AGAINST CANCER BURKHART, MICHAEL D 1638 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 04, 2023
18067365 MINING ALL ATOM SIMULATIONS FOR DIAGNOSING AND TREATING DISEASE EZEWOKO, MICHAEL I 1672 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 16, 2022
17314199 Pill Shape Classification using Imbalanced Data with Human-Machine Hybrid Explainable Model WONG, LUT 2127 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 07, 2021
17236752 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR ANALYZING MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION KISH, JAMES M 3700 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 21, 2021

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