Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Imperial College Innovations Limited

22 pending office actions • 19 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
17
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
20
Medium (91%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (9%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only19 (86%)
§102 only1 (5%)
No statute on record2 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

13
Life Sciences
59% of docket
1
Information Tech
5% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
3
Semiconductors
14% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
18% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SHOMER, ISAAC 1 63.1% +30.7%
D' AMBROSIO, THEA 1 55.6% +56.8%
DIGGS, TANISHA 1 54.6% +53.8%
SCHLUETER, MARY GRACE 1 80.0% +33.3%
KREMER, MATTHEW 1 43.8% +52.6%
KHAN, USMAN A 1 74.7% +12.3%
DERUSSO, JOHN J 1 81.3% +13.6%
EMCH, GREGORY S 1 49.0% +44.3%
GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA 1 35.7% +53.3%
CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA 1 53.4% +17.4%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18249495 ENHANCED FEEDSTOCK FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING DERUSSO, JOHN J 2d overdue
18267907 A MUSCLE STIMULATION AND MONITORING APPARATUS SCHLUETER, MARY GRACE 22d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18042965 A METHOD FOR DETERMINING A DIAGNOSTIC OUTCOME CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA 44d overdue
18039997 Verifying Neural Networks KHAN, USMAN A 36d overdue
18352101 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF WOUNDS D' AMBROSIO, THEA 31d overdue
18206206 SAMPLING CATHETER KREMER, MATTHEW 28d overdue
18248505 PROTEOME ANALYSIS IN PULMONARY HYPERTENSION EMCH, GREGORY S 16d overdue
18249495 ENHANCED FEEDSTOCK FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING DERUSSO, JOHN J 2d overdue
18570611 SUB-MICRON PARTICLE SHOMER, ISAAC 12d
18258985 MATERIALS FOR TUNGSTEN BORIDE NEUTRON SHIELDING DIGGS, TANISHA 12d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3796 2
3791 2
1681 2
1612 1
1654 1
1761 1
2637 1
1744 1
1678 1
1658 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18570611 SUB-MICRON PARTICLE SHOMER, ISAAC 1612 Other Non-Final OA 12d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18352101 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF WOUNDS D' AMBROSIO, THEA 1654 Other Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
18258985 MATERIALS FOR TUNGSTEN BORIDE NEUTRON SHIELDING DIGGS, TANISHA 1761 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 22, 2023
18267907 A MUSCLE STIMULATION AND MONITORING APPARATUS SCHLUETER, MARY GRACE 3796 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Jun 16, 2023
18206206 SAMPLING CATHETER KREMER, MATTHEW 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jun 06, 2023
18039997 Verifying Neural Networks KHAN, USMAN A 2637 §102 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18249495 ENHANCED FEEDSTOCK FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING DERUSSO, JOHN J 1744 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2023
18248505 PROTEOME ANALYSIS IN PULMONARY HYPERTENSION EMCH, GREGORY S 1678 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Apr 10, 2023
18248285 METHODS AND MEANS FOR AMPLIFICATION-BASED QUANTIFICATION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA 1681 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 07, 2023
18042965 A METHOD FOR DETERMINING A DIAGNOSTIC OUTCOME CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA 1681 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
18004125 THERAPEUTIC NUCLEIC ACIDS, PEPTIDES AND USES II KOMATSU, LI N 1658 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 03, 2023
18012468 A MECHANOMYOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS CERIONI, DANIEL LEE 3791 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2022
17997787 METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING RNA BINDING PROTEIN BINDING SITES ON RNA OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Nov 02, 2022
17922678 PROCESSING 1H-NMR SPECTRAL DATA LEE, BYUNG RO 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 01, 2022
17907343 MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING METHOD AND DEVICE PATEL, RISHI R 2896 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2022
17906602 DEVICE FOR PERFUSION AND PRESERVATION OF TISSUE SPECIMENS EX VIVO KOSAR, AARON J 1655 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Sep 16, 2022
17798921 DETECTION OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN HUMAN BRAINS FROM IMAGES BARNES JR, CARL E 2178 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2022
17786355 1H-PYRAZOLO[3,4-D]PYRIMIDINE COMPOUNDS USEFUL FOR THE TREATMENT OF PLATINUM-RESISTANT CANCER VALLE, ERNESTO 1623 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jun 16, 2022
17767824 POLYMERIC COMPOSITION BOYLE, ROBERT C 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 08, 2022
17762931 METHOD FOR ISOLATING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES ZINGARELLI, SANDRA 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Mar 23, 2022
17753496 APPARATUS AND METHOD SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2022
17439121 COMPONENT FOR A STRETCHABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE GUMEDZOE, PENIEL M 2899 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Sep 14, 2021

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