Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Institute For Basic Science

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 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%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§102 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
75% of docket
1
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LANIER, BENJAMIN E 1 69.2% +17.4%
LIPPOLIS, ALEXANDRA ROSE 1 36.4% +70.1%
JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN 1 35.2% -7.9%
WALTERS JR, ROBERT S 1 51.4% +50.4%

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18025446 TARGETED DEAMINASE AND BASE EDITING USING SAME LIPPOLIS, ALEXANDRA ROSE 87d overdue
18131347 QUANTUM-RESISTANT CRYPTOSYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDED IN THE SAME LANIER, BENJAMIN E 12d
17869360 METHOD OF PREPARING GRAPHYNE WALTERS JR, ROBERT S 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2437 1
1637 1
1742 1
1717 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18131347 QUANTUM-RESISTANT CRYPTOSYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDED IN THE SAME LANIER, BENJAMIN E 2437 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Apr 05, 2023
18025446 TARGETED DEAMINASE AND BASE EDITING USING SAME LIPPOLIS, ALEXANDRA ROSE 1637 §102 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2023
18110050 CATALYST FOR ELECTROLYSIS AND PREPARING METHOD OF THE SAME JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN 1742 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Feb 15, 2023
17869360 METHOD OF PREPARING GRAPHYNE WALTERS JR, ROBERT S 1717 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jul 20, 2022

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