Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
21 pending office actions • 9 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 | 2 (10%) |
| §101 + other | 11 (52%) |
| §103 only | 4 (19%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAY, JESSICA | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| SALMON, KATHERINE D | 2 | 42.6% | +38.0% |
| WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 2 | 50.1% | +27.6% |
| NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 1 | 55.2% | +29.5% |
| RUIZ, ANGELICA | 1 | 83.1% | +14.5% |
| BROWN, MINDY G | 1 | 52.4% | +47.5% |
| KHATTAR, RAJESH | 1 | 36.2% | +34.8% |
| CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA | 1 | 53.4% | +17.5% |
| YU, TIAN NMN | 1 | 55.3% | +18.7% |
| KIM, YOUNG J | 1 | 64.8% | +18.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15431395 | DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 30d overdue |
| 17000010 | DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 23d overdue |
| 16557931 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING CONTAMINATION BETWEEN SAMPLES | SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 8d |
| 18152042 | METHODS OF DETECTING GENOMIC REARRANGEMENTS USING CELL FREE NUCLEIC ACIDS | GRAY, JESSICA | 27d |
| 17135826 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYSIS OF CTCF BINDING REGIONS IN CELL-FREE DNA | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | 28d |
| 17823915 | DATA REPOSITORY, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR COHORT SELECTION | REYES, REGINALD R | 69d |
| 19342153 | DATA PROCESSING ABSTRACTION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS | RUIZ, ANGELICA | — |
| 18920396 | GENOMIC AND METHYLATION BIOMARKERS FOR DETERMINING PATIENT RISK OF HEART DISEASE AND NOVEL GENOMIC AND EPIGENOMIC DRUG TARGETS TO DECREASE RISK OF HEART DISEASE AND/OR IMPROVE PATIENT OUTCOME AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION OR CARDIAC INJURY | KHATTAR, RAJESH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19018456 | METHODS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER | BROWN, MINDY G | 37d overdue |
| 15431395 | DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 30d overdue |
| 17000010 | DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 23d overdue |
| 17489677 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE THE SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO OF DNA METHYLATION PARTITIONING ASSAYS | SALMON, KATHERINE D | 8d |
| 19540253 | DATABASE FOR THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS | NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | — |
| 19342153 | DATA PROCESSING ABSTRACTION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS | RUIZ, ANGELICA | — |
| 18920396 | GENOMIC AND METHYLATION BIOMARKERS FOR DETERMINING PATIENT RISK OF HEART DISEASE AND NOVEL GENOMIC AND EPIGENOMIC DRUG TARGETS TO DECREASE RISK OF HEART DISEASE AND/OR IMPROVE PATIENT OUTCOME AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION OR CARDIAC INJURY | KHATTAR, RAJESH | — |
| 18661147 | METHODS OF ANALYSIS OF METHYLATED DNA BINDING PROTEINS | CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1682 | 5 |
| 1687 | 4 |
| 3684 | 2 |
| 1681 | 2 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 2154 | 1 |
| 1683 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| 1685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19540253 | DATABASE FOR THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS | NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 3686 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2026 |
| 19342153 | DATA PROCESSING ABSTRACTION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS | RUIZ, ANGELICA | 2154 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19018456 | METHODS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER | BROWN, MINDY G | 1683 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18920396 | GENOMIC AND METHYLATION BIOMARKERS FOR DETERMINING PATIENT RISK OF HEART DISEASE AND NOVEL GENOMIC AND EPIGENOMIC DRUG TARGETS TO DECREASE RISK OF HEART DISEASE AND/OR IMPROVE PATIENT OUTCOME AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION OR CARDIAC INJURY | KHATTAR, RAJESH | 3684 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18661147 | METHODS OF ANALYSIS OF METHYLATED DNA BINDING PROTEINS | CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18620056 | METHODS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER | YU, TIAN NMN | 1681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18447749 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DETECTING NUCLEIC ACID VARIANTS | KIM, YOUNG J | 1681 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18339126 | DETECTION OF EPIGENETIC STATUS USING SEQUENCE-SPECIFIC DEGRADATION | GRAY, JESSICA | 1682 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18314736 | DETECTING DEGRADATION BASED ON STRAND BIAS | LUO, JAMMY NMN | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18172734 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING AN ORIGIN OF A VARIANT | LI, SUN M | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 18152042 | METHODS OF DETECTING GENOMIC REARRANGEMENTS USING CELL FREE NUCLEIC ACIDS | GRAY, JESSICA | 1682 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jan 09, 2023 |
| 18050855 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING PATIENT MONITORING AFTER SURGERY | SALMON, KATHERINE D | 1682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2022 |
| 17823915 | DATA REPOSITORY, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR COHORT SELECTION | REYES, REGINALD R | 3684 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Aug 31, 2022 |
| 17687536 | METHODS AND RELATED ASPECTS FOR ANALYZING MOLECULAR RESPONSE | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 1682 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 04, 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 |
| 17459743 | COMPUTATIONAL DETECTION OF COPY NUMBER VARIATION AT A LOCUS IN THE ABSENCE OF DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF THE LOCUS | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1687 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2021 |
| 17175425 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING FUSION EVENTS | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | 1686 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2021 |
| 17135826 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYSIS OF CTCF BINDING REGIONS IN CELL-FREE DNA | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | 1687 | §101§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 | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Aug 21, 2020 |
| 16557931 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING CONTAMINATION BETWEEN SAMPLES | SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 1685 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Aug 30, 2019 |
| 15431395 | DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1687 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2017 |
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