Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
14 pending office actions • 5 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 7 (50%) |
| §103 only | 3 (21%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| No statute on record | 3 (21%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALMON, KATHERINE D | 2 | 42.6% | +38.0% |
| SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH | 2 | 61.8% | +56.5% |
| KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES | 2 | 58.1% | +37.7% |
| HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 2 | 34.8% | +22.8% |
| GUSSOW, ANNE | 1 | 58.2% | +43.0% |
| BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 1 | 50.0% | +46.7% |
| AUGER, NOAH ANDREW | 1 | 34.8% | +37.7% |
| KRIANGCHAIVECH, KETTIP | 1 | 20.8% | +32.8% |
| MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 1 | 27.1% | +21.7% |
| SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 1 | 33.3% | +40.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17144021 | BITERMINAL DNA FRAGMENT TYPES IN CELL-FREE SAMPLES AND USES THEREOF | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 112d overdue |
| 17105175 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING LONGITUDINAL BIOLOGICAL FEATURE DATA | AUGER, NOAH ANDREW | 104d overdue |
| 16721619 | CELL-FREE DNA END CHARACTERISTICS | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 93d overdue |
| 17047676 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING TUMOR FRACTION IN CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACID | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 19d overdue |
| 15931022 | MODEL-BASED FEATURIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION | KRIANGCHAIVECH, KETTIP | 10d overdue |
| 16235901 | MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY DETECTION | SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 5d overdue |
| 17458194 | Sample Validation for Cancer Classification | SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH | 3d overdue |
| 16719938 | CANCER TISSUE SOURCE OF ORIGIN PREDICTION WITH MULTI-TIER ANALYSIS OF SMALL VARIANTS IN CELL-FREE DNA SAMPLES | KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES | 6d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17144021 | BITERMINAL DNA FRAGMENT TYPES IN CELL-FREE SAMPLES AND USES THEREOF | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 112d overdue |
| 17105175 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING LONGITUDINAL BIOLOGICAL FEATURE DATA | AUGER, NOAH ANDREW | 104d overdue |
| 16721619 | CELL-FREE DNA END CHARACTERISTICS | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 93d overdue |
| 17716395 | CELL-FREE DNA METHYLATION AND NUCLEASE-MEDIATED FRAGMENTATION | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 89d overdue |
| 17384251 | DETECTING CANCER, CANCER TISSUE OF ORIGIN, AND/OR A CANCER CELL TYPE | SALMON, KATHERINE D | 84d overdue |
| 17047676 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING TUMOR FRACTION IN CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACID | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 19d overdue |
| 15931022 | MODEL-BASED FEATURIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION | KRIANGCHAIVECH, KETTIP | 10d overdue |
| 16235901 | MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY DETECTION | SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1685 | 6 |
| 1682 | 3 |
| 1683 | 3 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18011145 | METHYLATED DNA FRAGMENT ENRICHMENT, METHODS, COMPOSITIONS AND KITS | SALMON, KATHERINE D | 1682 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 17968155 | DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATIONS USING NUCLEIC ACID FRAGMENTS | GUSSOW, ANNE | 1683 | Other | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Oct 18, 2022 |
| 17957643 | SEQUENCING OF VIRAL DNA FOR PREDICTING DISEASE RELAPSE | SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH | 1683 | Other | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
| 17817421 | SOMATIC VARIANT COOCCURRENCE WITH ABNORMALLY METHYLATED FRAGMENTS | KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES | 1685 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Aug 04, 2022 |
| 17716395 | CELL-FREE DNA METHYLATION AND NUCLEASE-MEDIATED FRAGMENTATION | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 1682 | §103 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | Apr 08, 2022 |
| 17458194 | Sample Validation for Cancer Classification | SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH | 1683 | §101 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 26, 2021 |
| 17384251 | DETECTING CANCER, CANCER TISSUE OF ORIGIN, AND/OR A CANCER CELL TYPE | SALMON, KATHERINE D | 1682 | §103 | Final Rejection | 84d overdue | Pending | Jul 23, 2021 |
| 17144021 | BITERMINAL DNA FRAGMENT TYPES IN CELL-FREE SAMPLES AND USES THEREOF | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 1685 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | Jan 07, 2021 |
| 17105175 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING LONGITUDINAL BIOLOGICAL FEATURE DATA | AUGER, NOAH ANDREW | 1687 | §101 | Final Rejection | 104d overdue | Pending | Nov 25, 2020 |
| 17047676 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING TUMOR FRACTION IN CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACID | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 1685 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2020 |
| 15931022 | MODEL-BASED FEATURIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION | KRIANGCHAIVECH, KETTIP | 1686 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2020 |
| 16721619 | CELL-FREE DNA END CHARACTERISTICS | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 1685 | Other | Non-Final OA | 93d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2019 |
| 16719938 | CANCER TISSUE SOURCE OF ORIGIN PREDICTION WITH MULTI-TIER ANALYSIS OF SMALL VARIANTS IN CELL-FREE DNA SAMPLES | KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES | 1685 | §101 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Dec 18, 2019 |
| 16235901 | MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY DETECTION | SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 1685 | §101 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2018 |
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