Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

King's College London

22 pending office actions • 20 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (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.

11
Hard (50%)
10
Medium (45%)
1
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§101 + other3 (14%)
§103 only9 (41%)
§112 only1 (5%)
Double-patenting + other1 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (32%)

Industry Mix

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

13
Life Sciences
59% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
36% 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
VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN 2 73.0% +6.7%
FLORES, ROBERTO W 1 49.4% +13.7%
LEWIS, CAMRYN BROOKE 1 5.6% +12.5%
ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A 1 48.6% +58.2%
GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J 1 85.1% +8.7%
MORAN, EDWARD JOHN 1 41.6% +61.0%
BRUTUS, JOEL F 1 72.6% +17.9%
OH, HARRY Y 1 85.1% +17.0%
PORTILLO, JAIRO H 1 53.4% +30.6%
CAI, JIAJIA JANIE 1 27.1% +19.4%

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
18432113 CONTRASTIVE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING-BASED NAVIGATION IN MEDICAL IMAGING OH, HARRY Y 28d

Hard Cases (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18702419 ESTIMATION OF BLOOD PRESSURE IN THE HEART BRUTUS, JOEL F 5d overdue
17767859 ANTI-CANCER LEUCINE-RICH PEPTIDES AND USES THEREOF DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R 2d overdue
18853081 BODY PART SUPPORT ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A 70d
18448811 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING GAMMA DELTA T CELLS IN THE GUT VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN 70d
19148532 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING ADVERSE OUTCOME INFORMATION LEWIS, CAMRYN BROOKE
18714532 PROSTHETIC SPHINCTER APPARATUS GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J
18712981 Dental Photo-Curing Device MORAN, EDWARD JOHN
18288233 IMPROVEMENTS IN DENTISTRY CAI, JIAJIA JANIE

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
18579582 Seizure Forecasting in Subsutaneous Electroencephalography Data Using Machine Learning PORTILLO, JAIRO H 46d overdue
18702419 ESTIMATION OF BLOOD PRESSURE IN THE HEART BRUTUS, JOEL F 5d overdue
18432113 CONTRASTIVE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING-BASED NAVIGATION IN MEDICAL IMAGING OH, HARRY Y 28d
18853081 BODY PART SUPPORT ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A 70d
19470722 AUTOMATIC GAZE ESTIMATION FLORES, ROBERTO W
19148532 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING ADVERSE OUTCOME INFORMATION LEWIS, CAMRYN BROOKE
18712981 Dental Photo-Curing Device MORAN, EDWARD JOHN
18288233 IMPROVEMENTS IN DENTISTRY CAI, JIAJIA JANIE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3772 2
1638 2
2621 1
3683 1
3798 1
3781 1
3797 1
3657 1
3791 1
1761 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19470722 AUTOMATIC GAZE ESTIMATION FLORES, ROBERTO W 2621 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 29, 2025
19148532 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING ADVERSE OUTCOME INFORMATION LEWIS, CAMRYN BROOKE 3683 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 16, 2025
18853081 BODY PART SUPPORT ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A 3798 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Sep 30, 2024
18714532 PROSTHETIC SPHINCTER APPARATUS GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J 3781 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 29, 2024
18712981 Dental Photo-Curing Device MORAN, EDWARD JOHN 3772 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 23, 2024
18702419 ESTIMATION OF BLOOD PRESSURE IN THE HEART BRUTUS, JOEL F 3797 §101 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2024
18432113 CONTRASTIVE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING-BASED NAVIGATION IN MEDICAL IMAGING OH, HARRY Y 3657 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Feb 05, 2024
18579582 Seizure Forecasting in Subsutaneous Electroencephalography Data Using Machine Learning PORTILLO, JAIRO H 3791 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2024
18288233 IMPROVEMENTS IN DENTISTRY CAI, JIAJIA JANIE 1761 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2023
18288236 TIP FOR A VIBRATING SCALER AND A VIBRATING SCALER SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P 3772 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Oct 25, 2023
18490714 METHOD FOR ISOLATING HUMAN DERMAL FIBROBLASTS STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 1632 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 19, 2023
18551843 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING NKG2D, CXCR2, AND DAP10/DAP12 FUSION POLYPEPTIDES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF CUNNINGCHEN, KATHLEEN MARY 1646 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 21, 2023
18279796 PYRIDINE DERIVATIVES USEFUL AS HCN2 MODULATORS AULAKH, CHARANJIT 1621 §112 Final Rejection Pending Aug 31, 2023
18448811 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING GAMMA DELTA T CELLS IN THE GUT VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN 1638 §102§112 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Aug 11, 2023
18448807 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING GAMMA DELTA T CELLS IN THE GUT VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN 1638 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 11, 2023
18030996 NANOPARTICLE FOR ANTI-CANCER PEPTIDES AND USES THEREOF KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 1658 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 08, 2023
18020010 LITHIATED SILICON LI, JUN 1732 §103 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending Feb 06, 2023
18002761 OXINE-CONTAINING CELL RADIOLABELLING AGENTS MEJIAS, SAMANTHA LEE 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
17767859 ANTI-CANCER LEUCINE-RICH PEPTIDES AND USES THEREOF DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R 1654 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2022
17634720 IMMUNORESPONSIVE CELLS ARMOURED WITH SPATIOTEMPORALLY RESTRICTED ACTIVITY OF CYTOKINES OF THE IL-1 SUPERFAMILY ABBOTT, KODYE LEE 1634 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 11, 2022
17423602 A METHOD FOR TREATING CANCER WITH IMMUNOGLOBULIN E (IGE) DENT, ALANA HARRIS 1643 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 16, 2021
17272126 ENGINEERED REGULATORY T CELL SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 1633 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 26, 2021

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