Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Meso Scale Technologies LLC

15 pending office actions • 12 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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.

1
Hard (7%)
7
Medium (47%)
1
Easy (7%)
6
Unknown (40%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (7%)
§103 only7 (47%)
§112 only1 (7%)
No statute on record6 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

15
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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GODDARD, LAURA B 2 50.7% +14.6%
CHOWDHURY, IQBAL HOSSAIN 1 73.6% +57.8%
DENT, ALANA HARRIS 1 44.6% +32.4%
CHESTNUT, BARRY A 1 73.5% +5.9%
WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C 1 61.0% +20.0%
CHEU, CHANGHWA J 1 74.6% +47.4%
YU, TIAN NMN 1 55.1% +13.6%
LU, FRANK WEI MIN 1 63.0% +66.3%
HAVLIN, ROBERT H 1 52.3% +27.2%
LI, BAO Q 1 75.9% +26.2%

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
17667714 BIOMARKERS OF THERAPEUTIC RESPONSIVENESS GODDARD, LAURA B 72d

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
17693918 BIOMARKERS OF THERAPEUTIC RESPONSIVENESS GODDARD, LAURA B 89d overdue
18666008 GENETIC MARKER AND/OR BIOMARKERS FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, AND ULTRASENSITIVE ASSAYS FOR BIOMARKERS OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY CHOWDHURY, IQBAL HOSSAIN 59d overdue
18320411 ASSAY METHODS WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C 49d overdue
17930513 METHOD FOR DETECTING SENSE AND ANTISENSE STRANDS IN AN OLIGONUCLEOTIDE DUPLEX LU, FRANK WEI MIN 35d overdue
18145735 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ASSAY MEASUREMENTS YU, TIAN NMN 22d overdue
18413155 DIAGNOSTIC METHODS FOR LIVER DISORDERS DENT, ALANA HARRIS 5d overdue
17749716 ASSAYS FOR VIRAL STRAIN DETERMINATION LI, BAO Q 14d
17890782 DIAGNOSTIC METHODS FOR INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS HAVLIN, ROBERT H 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1681 2
1678 2
1642 2
1656 1
1643 1
1672 1
1683 1
1626 1
1671 1
1687 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18666008 GENETIC MARKER AND/OR BIOMARKERS FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, AND ULTRASENSITIVE ASSAYS FOR BIOMARKERS OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY CHOWDHURY, IQBAL HOSSAIN 1656 Other Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending May 16, 2024
18413155 DIAGNOSTIC METHODS FOR LIVER DISORDERS DENT, ALANA HARRIS 1643 Other Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2024
18473064 ORTHOPOXVIRUS SEROLOGY ASSAYS CHESTNUT, BARRY A 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Sep 22, 2023
18320411 ASSAY METHODS WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C 1681 Other Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending May 19, 2023
18118432 DIAGNOSTIC METHODS FOR LIVER DISORDERS CHEU, CHANGHWA J 1678 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Mar 07, 2023
18145735 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ASSAY MEASUREMENTS YU, TIAN NMN 1681 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2022
17930513 METHOD FOR DETECTING SENSE AND ANTISENSE STRANDS IN AN OLIGONUCLEOTIDE DUPLEX LU, FRANK WEI MIN 1683 Other Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Sep 08, 2022
17890782 DIAGNOSTIC METHODS FOR INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS HAVLIN, ROBERT H 1626 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Aug 18, 2022
17749716 ASSAYS FOR VIRAL STRAIN DETERMINATION LI, BAO Q 1671 Other Final Rejection 14d Pending May 20, 2022
17693918 BIOMARKERS OF THERAPEUTIC RESPONSIVENESS GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2022
17667714 BIOMARKERS OF THERAPEUTIC RESPONSIVENESS GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 §101 Final Rejection 72d Pending Feb 09, 2022
17531868 MULTIPLEXED ASSAY KITS FOR EVALUATION OF SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA 1687 §103 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2021
17607731 KITS FOR DETECTING ONE OR MORE TARGET NUCLEIC ACID ANALYTES IN A SAMPLE AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 1682 Other Final Rejection 19d Pending Oct 29, 2021
17494155 ANTIBODY ARRAY FOR MEASURING A PANEL OF AMYLOIDS LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE 1684 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2021
17099190 ASSAY PANELS RAMADAN, OMAR 1678 §112 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Nov 16, 2020

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