Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

19 pending office actions • 14 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 95 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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.

6
Hard (32%)
12
Medium (63%)
1
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (47%)
§112 only1 (5%)
Double-patenting + other3 (16%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (32%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
47% of docket
1
Information Tech
5% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
1
Semiconductors
5% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
16% of docket
4
Business / Other
21% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NEWTON, CHAD A 2 38.0% +25.0%
ALBERS, KEVIN S 1 24.5% +51.2%
LEONARD, SAMUEL HAYDEN 1 80.0% +10.2%
SHOMER, ISAAC 1 63.3% +30.3%
WEBB, WALTER E 1 46.4% +18.7%
SAN MARTIN, EDGARDO 1 75.7% +6.2%
LEFF, STEVEN N 1 41.2% +8.0%
KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY 1 52.4% +0.5%
ZOU, NIANXIANG 1 64.0% +24.4%
YU, TIAN NMN 1 55.3% +18.7%

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
18917616 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESTRICTING SMART DEVICE CAMERA USE LEONARD, SAMUEL HAYDEN

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17115183 METHOD FOR DETECTING HEAVY METAL POLLUTANTS USING A FLUORESCENT MATERIAL FROM BACILLUS ENDOPHYTICUS AND METHOD FOR MAKING DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH 38d overdue
18647298 DENTAL POLISHING PASTE CONTAINING NANOPARTICLES WEBB, WALTER E 3d overdue
18362386 DINUCLEAR PHOSPHANE GOLD(I) COMPLEXES FOR TREATING CANCER KOSAR, ANDREW D 22d
18154083 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC ARM BASED ON BRAIN ACTIVITIES HOBAN, MELISSA A 29d
18972136 SUPPORT VEST FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS ALBERS, KEVIN S
18428121 COFFEE BREWING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF BREWING COFFEE LEFF, STEVEN N
17230315 MULTIPLEX REAL-TIME RT-PCR METHOD FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF SARS-COV-2 BY TARGETING VIRAL E, RDRP AND HUMAN RP GENES OR VIRAL N2, RDRP AND HUMAN RP GENES GREENE, CAROLYN LEE

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18647298 DENTAL POLISHING PASTE CONTAINING NANOPARTICLES WEBB, WALTER E 3d overdue
18489441 ASSAY FOR DETECTION OF SARS-COV-2 YU, TIAN NMN 62d
19186280 GATE SYSTEM WITH SMART BRACELET DEVICE AND TEMPERATURE SENSOR NEWTON, CHAD A
19186252 SMART GATE SYSTEM WITH THERMOMETER-CONTROLLED TERMINAL NEWTON, CHAD A
18972136 SUPPORT VEST FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS ALBERS, KEVIN S
18917616 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESTRICTING SMART DEVICE CAMERA USE LEONARD, SAMUEL HAYDEN
18810596 METHOD FOR TREATING BLASTOCYSTIS SHOMER, ISAAC
18415814 METHOD OF DETECTING SARS-COV IN A SAMPLE ZOU, NIANXIANG

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1681 2
3786 1
2649 1
1612 1
2837 1
1792 1
1671 1
1618 1
1625 1
1731 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19186280 GATE SYSTEM WITH SMART BRACELET DEVICE AND TEMPERATURE SENSOR NEWTON, CHAD A §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 22, 2025
19186252 SMART GATE SYSTEM WITH THERMOMETER-CONTROLLED TERMINAL NEWTON, CHAD A §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 22, 2025
18972136 SUPPORT VEST FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS ALBERS, KEVIN S 3786 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2024
18917616 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESTRICTING SMART DEVICE CAMERA USE LEONARD, SAMUEL HAYDEN 2649 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 16, 2024
18810596 METHOD FOR TREATING BLASTOCYSTIS SHOMER, ISAAC DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Aug 21, 2024
18647298 DENTAL POLISHING PASTE CONTAINING NANOPARTICLES WEBB, WALTER E 1612 §103§112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2024
18581197 EARPLUG HAVING BAMBOO ATTENUATOR SAN MARTIN, EDGARDO 2837 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 19, 2024
18428121 COFFEE BREWING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF BREWING COFFEE LEFF, STEVEN N 1792 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 31, 2024
18423681 NANOHYBRID CHITOSAN COMPOSITE-BASED CORROSION INHIBITOR KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 26, 2024
18415814 METHOD OF DETECTING SARS-COV IN A SAMPLE ZOU, NIANXIANG 1671 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 18, 2024
18489441 ASSAY FOR DETECTION OF SARS-COV-2 YU, TIAN NMN 1681 §103§112DPOther Non-Final OA 62d Pending Oct 18, 2023
18363852 HIERARCHIAL SILICA OXIDATION DEHYDROGENATION CATALYST BAEK, JONGHWAN NMN 1618 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2023
18362386 DINUCLEAR PHOSPHANE GOLD(I) COMPLEXES FOR TREATING CANCER KOSAR, ANDREW D 1625 §102§112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 31, 2023
18339291 CEMENT COMPOSITION COMPRISING BIOCHAR CASE, SARAH CATHERINE 1731 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 22, 2023
18154083 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC ARM BASED ON BRAIN ACTIVITIES HOBAN, MELISSA A 3774 §103§112 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 13, 2023
17981063 HIP KNEE RANGE OF MOTION MEASUREMENT DEVICE LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P 3791 §112 Final Rejection 16d Pending Nov 04, 2022
17853044 AUTOMATIC PARKINSONS DISEASE DETECTION BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF LONG-TERM ACOUSTIC FEATURES AND MEL FREQUENCY COEFFICIENTS (MFCCs) LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER 2128 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 29, 2022
17230315 MULTIPLEX REAL-TIME RT-PCR METHOD FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF SARS-COV-2 BY TARGETING VIRAL E, RDRP AND HUMAN RP GENES OR VIRAL N2, RDRP AND HUMAN RP GENES GREENE, CAROLYN LEE 1681 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 14, 2021
17115183 METHOD FOR DETECTING HEAVY METAL POLLUTANTS USING A FLUORESCENT MATERIAL FROM BACILLUS ENDOPHYTICUS AND METHOD FOR MAKING DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH 1657 §103§112 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Dec 08, 2020

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