Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

King Saud University

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 85 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
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
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (86%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (57%)
§102 only2 (29%)
§112 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
71% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MACHNESS, ARIELLA 1 59.7% +28.4%
JACKSON, MONIQUE R 1 34.7% +44.0%
NASSER, ROBERT L 1 73.1% +10.8%
XU, XIAOYUN 1 59.6% +32.3%
TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK 1 0.0% +0.0%
DICKINSON, PAUL W 1 63.0% +9.5%
HAN, ROBIN 1 32.2% +60.9%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17819472 METHOD FOR EARLY DETERMINATION OF GENDER BY MULTIPLEX PCR DETECTING FOUR GENES TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK 27d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17019332 FACE SHIELD FOR USE WITH DENTAL LOUPES HAN, ROBIN 96d overdue
19242212 THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) PRINTER HAVING A VARIOUSLY CONFIGURABLE PRINTING PLATFORM ASSEMBLY MACHNESS, ARIELLA 8d overdue
18768574 MULTIFUNCTIONAL FABRIC FOR GARMENTS JACKSON, MONIQUE R 9d
17998904 QUANTUM OPTICS PROFILES FOR SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS, AND PROGNOSIS OF DISEASES XU, XIAOYUN 15d
18198228 Method and Apparatus for Storing Energy NASSER, ROBERT L 50d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1743 1
1787 1
3992 1
1797 1
1682 1
1618 1
3786 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19242212 THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) PRINTER HAVING A VARIOUSLY CONFIGURABLE PRINTING PLATFORM ASSEMBLY MACHNESS, ARIELLA 1743 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2025
18768574 MULTIFUNCTIONAL FABRIC FOR GARMENTS JACKSON, MONIQUE R 1787 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jul 10, 2024
18198228 Method and Apparatus for Storing Energy NASSER, ROBERT L 3992 §112 Non-Final OA 50d Pending May 16, 2023
17998904 QUANTUM OPTICS PROFILES FOR SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS, AND PROGNOSIS OF DISEASES XU, XIAOYUN 1797 §102 Final Rejection 15d Pending Nov 15, 2022
17819472 METHOD FOR EARLY DETERMINATION OF GENDER BY MULTIPLEX PCR DETECTING FOUR GENES TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK 1682 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 12, 2022
17863066 HYBRID NANOPARTICLES COMPRISING MANGANESE OXIDE AND HIGHLY REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE FOR THERANOSTIC APPLICATIONS DICKINSON, PAUL W 1618 §102 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2022
17019332 FACE SHIELD FOR USE WITH DENTAL LOUPES HAN, ROBIN 3786 §103 Non-Final OA 96d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2020

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