Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Ontario Institute For Cancer Research (Oicr)

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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 (25%)
2
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (25%)
§112 only1 (25%)
Double-patenting + other2 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

4
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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SHTERENGARTS, SAMANTHA L 1 79.3% +8.0%
RZECZYCKI, PHILLIP MATTHEW 1 63.0% +39.1%
GRAY, JESSICA 1 0.0% +0.0%
GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 1 45.9% +40.9%

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
17630304 MOLECULAR CLASSIFIERS FOR PROSTATE CANCER GRAY, JESSICA 146d overdue

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17612695 PAN-CANCER TRANSCRIPTIONAL SIGNATURE GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 366d overdue
18288213 HALO-SUBSTITUTED AMINO PYRIDINE COMPOUNDS AS INHIBITORS OF THE HAEMATOPOIETIC PROGENITOR KINASE 1 (HPK1) RZECZYCKI, PHILLIP MATTHEW

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1682 2
1623 1
1625 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18288222 HALO-SUBSTITUTED AMINO AZA-HETEROARYL COMPOUNDS AS INHIBITORS OF THE HAEMATOPOIETIC PROGENITOR KINASE 1 (HPK1) SHTERENGARTS, SAMANTHA L 1623 §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2023
18288213 HALO-SUBSTITUTED AMINO PYRIDINE COMPOUNDS AS INHIBITORS OF THE HAEMATOPOIETIC PROGENITOR KINASE 1 (HPK1) RZECZYCKI, PHILLIP MATTHEW 1625 §103§112DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2023
17630304 MOLECULAR CLASSIFIERS FOR PROSTATE CANCER GRAY, JESSICA 1682 §101§112 Final Rejection 146d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2022
17612695 PAN-CANCER TRANSCRIPTIONAL SIGNATURE GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 1682 §112 Non-Final OA 366d overdue Pending Nov 19, 2021

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