Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Musc Foundation For Research Development

9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
6
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.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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%)
9
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (89%)
§102 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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
SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L 1 36.9% +15.9%
CERIONI, DANIEL LEE 1 64.8% +28.3%
PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA 1 37.5% +83.3%
NGUYEN, HUONG Q 1 45.6% +44.3%
HIRAKIS, SOPHIA P 1 41.2% +74.1%
WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA 1 61.1% +33.3%
RAHMAN, MASUDUR 1 70.5% +32.3%
GIBBS, TERRA C 1 64.1% +10.6%
BALLARD, KIMBERLY 1 53.7% +48.8%

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18155587 G9A INHIBITION DECREASES STRESS-INDUCED AND DEPENDENCE-INDUCED ESCALATION OF ALCOHOL DRINKING HIRAKIS, SOPHIA P 78d overdue
18449091 DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING NEUROLOGICAL FUNCTIONAL STATUS CERIONI, DANIEL LEE 56d overdue
18000011 NONINVASIVE CRANIAL NERVE THERAPY WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA 52d overdue
18247519 Advanced Cell-Permeable Peptide Carriers PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA 29d overdue
18191314 MONITORING NEUROLOGICAL FUNCTIONAL STATUS NGUYEN, HUONG Q 29d overdue
18478261 COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL OR MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L 10d overdue
17782611 RNAi-BASED TARGETING COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF TO PREVENT ACQUIRED HEARING LOSS GIBBS, TERRA C 10d overdue
17817125 PROCESSES FOR GENERATING SUPERIOR ANTI-TUMOR T-CELL EFFECTOR AND MEMORY CELLS RAHMAN, MASUDUR 9d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 2
1628 1
1631 1
1623 1
3792 1
1633 1
1635 1
1675 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18478261 COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL OR MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L 1628 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18449091 DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING NEUROLOGICAL FUNCTIONAL STATUS CERIONI, DANIEL LEE 3791 §103 Final Rejection 56d overdue Pending Aug 14, 2023
18247519 Advanced Cell-Permeable Peptide Carriers PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2023
18191314 MONITORING NEUROLOGICAL FUNCTIONAL STATUS NGUYEN, HUONG Q 3791 §103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2023
18155587 G9A INHIBITION DECREASES STRESS-INDUCED AND DEPENDENCE-INDUCED ESCALATION OF ALCOHOL DRINKING HIRAKIS, SOPHIA P 1623 §103 Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2023
18000011 NONINVASIVE CRANIAL NERVE THERAPY WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA 3792 §103 Final Rejection 52d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2022
17817125 PROCESSES FOR GENERATING SUPERIOR ANTI-TUMOR T-CELL EFFECTOR AND MEMORY CELLS RAHMAN, MASUDUR 1633 §102 Final Rejection 9d Pending Aug 03, 2022
17782611 RNAi-BASED TARGETING COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF TO PREVENT ACQUIRED HEARING LOSS GIBBS, TERRA C 1635 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2022
17317057 DETECTION OF AUTOREACTIVE FECAL IMMUNOGLOBULIN A (IGA) FOR DIAGNOSIS OF LUPUS BALLARD, KIMBERLY 1675 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending May 11, 2021

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