Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

National Institutes Of Biomedical Innovation Health And Nutrition

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)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%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (33%)
§102 only3 (50%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

6
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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHONG, KIMBERLY 2 72.4% +12.7%
FONTAINHAS, AURORA M 1 37.5% +48.0%
FRUMKIN, JESSE P 1 69.8% +46.9%
STEINKE, SEAN JAMES 1 7.1% -7.7%
EMCH, GREGORY S 1 49.0% +44.3%

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
17776743 NUCLEIC ACID LIPID PARTICLE VACCINE ENCAPSULATING HPV MRNA STEINKE, SEAN JAMES 9d

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
17605656 METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING ENDOMETRIOSIS, DISEASE STATE MONITORING METHOD, AND KIT EMCH, GREGORY S 31d overdue
17789402 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING RENAL FUNCTION FRUMKIN, JESSE P 22d
18265617 OPTIC NERVE PROTECTING AGENT CONTAINING ANTI-LRP1 ANTIBODY FONTAINHAS, AURORA M 29d
17638723 MOLECULAR TARGETED NUCLEIC ACID MEDICINE FOR GASTRIC CANCER CHONG, KIMBERLY 29d
17905442 PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF ANEURYSMS USING MIR-33B INHIBITOR CHONG, KIMBERLY 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1636 2
1675 1
1685 1
1619 1
1678 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18265617 OPTIC NERVE PROTECTING AGENT CONTAINING ANTI-LRP1 ANTIBODY FONTAINHAS, AURORA M 1675 §102 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jun 06, 2023
17905442 PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF ANEURYSMS USING MIR-33B INHIBITOR CHONG, KIMBERLY 1636 Other Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 01, 2022
17789402 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING RENAL FUNCTION FRUMKIN, JESSE P 1685 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 27, 2022
17776743 NUCLEIC ACID LIPID PARTICLE VACCINE ENCAPSULATING HPV MRNA STEINKE, SEAN JAMES 1619 §102 Final Rejection 9d Pending May 13, 2022
17638723 MOLECULAR TARGETED NUCLEIC ACID MEDICINE FOR GASTRIC CANCER CHONG, KIMBERLY 1636 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Feb 25, 2022
17605656 METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING ENDOMETRIOSIS, DISEASE STATE MONITORING METHOD, AND KIT EMCH, GREGORY S 1678 §102 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2021

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