Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
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.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
3
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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 (44%)
2
Easy (22%)
3
Unknown (33%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (44%)
§112 only2 (22%)
No statute on record3 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PAPCIAK, SHARON M 1 49.6% +22.3%
JOHANSEN, PETER N. 1 60.0% +23.8%
DUNN, LINDSAY MICHELLE 1 100.0% +0.0%
BURKHART, MICHAEL D 1 62.4% +10.9%
BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE 1 50.0% +46.7%
GODDARD, LAURA B 1 50.7% +14.6%
TICHY, JENNIFER M.H. 1 65.2% +33.8%
WU, JULIE ZHEN QIN 1 61.8% +52.2%
RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 1 51.8% +63.5%

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
18368647 METHODS OF PERSONALIZED PRECONDITIONING FOR CELL THERAPY DUNN, LINDSAY MICHELLE 26d

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
17817735 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS WITH CD28 MUTATIONS AND USE THEREOF GODDARD, LAURA B 8d overdue
17514742 NON-INVASIVE METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY ENRICHING PLURIPOTENT CELLS TICHY, JENNIFER M.H. 4d overdue
16990185 NON-HLA RESTRICTED T CELL RECEPTORS AND USES THEREOF RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 4d overdue
18606866 INTESTINAL MICROBIOTA AND GVHD PAPCIAK, SHARON M 6d
18506518 ANTIGEN-BINDING PROTEINS TARGETING MELANOMA DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGENS AND USES THEREOF JOHANSEN, PETER N. 28d
17400689 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY WU, JULIE ZHEN QIN 33d
17890694 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IDENTIFYING AND TREATING SUBJECTS AT RISK OF POOR CANCER SURVIVAL BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE 34d
18118072 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DETECTING RISK OF CANCER RELAPSE BURKHART, MICHAEL D 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1644 2
1657 1
1638 1
1682 1
1642 1
1653 1
1643 1
1634 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18606866 INTESTINAL MICROBIOTA AND GVHD PAPCIAK, SHARON M 1657 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Mar 15, 2024
18506518 ANTIGEN-BINDING PROTEINS TARGETING MELANOMA DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGENS AND USES THEREOF JOHANSEN, PETER N. 1644 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Nov 10, 2023
18368647 METHODS OF PERSONALIZED PRECONDITIONING FOR CELL THERAPY DUNN, LINDSAY MICHELLE 1644 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Sep 15, 2023
18118072 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DETECTING RISK OF CANCER RELAPSE BURKHART, MICHAEL D 1638 §112 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Mar 06, 2023
17890694 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IDENTIFYING AND TREATING SUBJECTS AT RISK OF POOR CANCER SURVIVAL BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE 1682 Other Non-Final OA 34d Pending Aug 18, 2022
17817735 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS WITH CD28 MUTATIONS AND USE THEREOF GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 Other Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2022
17514742 NON-INVASIVE METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY ENRICHING PLURIPOTENT CELLS TICHY, JENNIFER M.H. 1653 Other Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Oct 29, 2021
17400689 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY WU, JULIE ZHEN QIN 1643 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Aug 12, 2021
16990185 NON-HLA RESTRICTED T CELL RECEPTORS AND USES THEREOF RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 1634 §112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2020

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