Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
26 pending office actions • 9 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 26 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 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. 26 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 | 5 (19%) |
| §103 only | 15 (58%) |
| §112 only | 1 (4%) |
| No statute on record | 5 (19%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 4 | 49.1% | +27.5% |
| ZEMAN, MARY K | 2 | 59.0% | +34.5% |
| VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | 2 | 28.8% | +47.2% |
| HORLICK, KENNETH R | 1 | 78.9% | +15.2% |
| RUIZ, ANGELICA | 1 | 83.0% | +14.7% |
| LIU, GUOZHEN | 1 | 49.0% | +24.7% |
| GUSSOW, ANNE | 1 | 58.2% | +43.0% |
| SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 1 | 30.4% | +29.4% |
| JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE | 1 | — | — |
| DAUNER, JOSEPH G | 1 | 56.8% | +34.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19342223 | DATA PROCESSING ABSTRACTION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS | RUIZ, ANGELICA | 1d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17462906 | DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 126d overdue |
| 16560752 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING ALLELIC IMBALANCE IN CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACID SAMPLES | VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | 79d overdue |
| 17219338 | DETERMINING TUMOR FRACTION FOR A SAMPLE BASED ON METHYL BINDING DOMAIN CALIBRATION DATA | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 60d overdue |
| 15431395 | DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 30d overdue |
| 17162897 | SIGNIFICANCE MODELING OF CLONAL-LEVEL ABSENCE OF TARGET VARIANTS | VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | 26d overdue |
| 17823915 | DATA REPOSITORY, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR COHORT SELECTION | REYES, REGINALD R | 69d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17462906 | DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 126d overdue |
| 15796642 | DIAGNOSTIC METHODS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 99d overdue |
| 16560752 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING ALLELIC IMBALANCE IN CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACID SAMPLES | VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | 79d overdue |
| 17407000 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING THE CELLULAR ORIGIN OF CELL-FREE DNA | ZEMAN, MARY K | 73d overdue |
| 18907227 | DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF A TUMOR BASED ON METHYLATION STATUS OF CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES | SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 67d overdue |
| 19018456 | METHODS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER | GUSSOW, ANNE | 37d overdue |
| 18470187 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR QUANTIFYING IMMUNE CELL DNA | DAUNER, JOSEPH G | 36d overdue |
| 15431395 | DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1687 | 7 |
| 1682 | 5 |
| 1681 | 4 |
| 1686 | 3 |
| 3684 | 2 |
| 1685 | 2 |
| 2154 | 1 |
| 1683 | 1 |
| 1635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19362169 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETECT RARE MUTATIONS AND COPY NUMBER VARIATION | HORLICK, KENNETH R | 1681 | Other | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
| 19342223 | DATA PROCESSING ABSTRACTION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS | RUIZ, ANGELICA | 2154 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19239357 | METHODS FOR MULTI-RESOLUTION ANALYSIS OF CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACIDS | LIU, GUOZHEN | 1686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19018456 | METHODS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER | GUSSOW, ANNE | 1683 | §103 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18907227 | DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF A TUMOR BASED ON METHYLATION STATUS OF CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES | SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 3684 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 67d overdue | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18506858 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR COPY-NUMBER INFORMED TISSUE-OF-ORIGIN ANALYSIS | JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE | 1682 | Other | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18470187 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR QUANTIFYING IMMUNE CELL DNA | DAUNER, JOSEPH G | 1682 | Other | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
| 18365744 | QUALITY CONTROL METHOD | BERTAGNA, ANGELA MARIE | 1681 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 105d overdue | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18339116 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYZING METHYLATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES | WILDER, CYNTHIA B | 1681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18325759 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENRICHING METHYLATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES | YU, TIAN NMN | 1681 | Other | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18152042 | METHODS OF DETECTING GENOMIC REARRANGEMENTS USING CELL FREE NUCLEIC ACIDS | GRAY, JESSICA | 1682 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jan 09, 2023 |
| 17823915 | DATA REPOSITORY, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR COHORT SELECTION | REYES, REGINALD R | 3684 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Aug 31, 2022 |
| 17693744 | Machine Learning for Somatic Single Nucleotide Variant Detection in Cell-free Tumor Nucleic acid Sequencing Applications | ZEMAN, MARY K | 1686 | Other | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2022 |
| 17682759 | DETERMINING CELL TYPE ORIGIN OF CIRCULATING CELL-FREE DNA WITH MOLECULAR COUNTING | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 1682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 125d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2022 |
| 17489677 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE THE SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO OF DNA METHYLATION PARTITIONING ASSAYS | SALMON, KATHERINE D | 1682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Sep 29, 2021 |
| 17462906 | DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1687 | §101 | Final Rejection | 126d overdue | Pending | Aug 31, 2021 |
| 17407000 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING THE CELLULAR ORIGIN OF CELL-FREE DNA | ZEMAN, MARY K | 1686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Aug 19, 2021 |
| 17219338 | DETERMINING TUMOR FRACTION FOR A SAMPLE BASED ON METHYL BINDING DOMAIN CALIBRATION DATA | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 1685 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2021 |
| 17199286 | METHODS FOR CLASSIFYING GENETIC MUTATIONS DETECTED IN CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACIDS AS TUMOR OR NON-TUMOR ORIGIN | SKIBINSKY, ANNA | 1635 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Mar 11, 2021 |
| 17162897 | SIGNIFICANCE MODELING OF CLONAL-LEVEL ABSENCE OF TARGET VARIANTS | VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | 1687 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Jan 29, 2021 |
| 17135826 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYSIS OF CTCF BINDING REGIONS IN CELL-FREE DNA | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | 1687 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Dec 28, 2020 |
| 17000010 | DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1687 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Aug 21, 2020 |
| 16560752 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING ALLELIC IMBALANCE IN CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACID SAMPLES | VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | 1687 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 79d overdue | Pending | Sep 04, 2019 |
| 16557931 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING CONTAMINATION BETWEEN SAMPLES | SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 1685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Aug 30, 2019 |
| 15796642 | DIAGNOSTIC METHODS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1687 | §103 | Final Rejection | 99d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2017 |
| 15431395 | DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1687 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2017 |
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