Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
18 pending office actions • 10 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days
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.
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.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 3 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 4 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (28%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (6%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 4 | 41.7% | +32.1% |
| SINES, BRIAN J | 2 | 80.3% | +4.8% |
| MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | 1 | 70.9% | +42.6% |
| BALL, JOHN C | 1 | 78.8% | +16.2% |
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.8% | +11.5% |
| HUTSON, RICHARD G | 1 | 65.0% | +52.9% |
| RILEY, JEZIA | 1 | 82.9% | +7.3% |
| NGUYEN, NAM P | 1 | 54.7% | +47.4% |
| FISHER, BRITTANY I | 1 | 84.3% | +12.5% |
| PRIEST, AARON A | 1 | 61.1% | +25.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19439914 | Biochemical Analysis Instrument | SINES, BRIAN J | — |
| 18561834 | METHODS FOR COMPLEMENT STRAND SEQUENCING | RILEY, JEZIA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18010823 | NANOPORE SUPPORT STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF | SINES, BRIAN J | 15d overdue |
| 18010826 | METHOD | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 34d |
| 18889917 | METHOD FOR NANOPORE RNA CHARACTERISATION | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | — |
| 18604714 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING APERTURES IN A SOLID STATE MEMBRANE USING DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
| 17612610 | PROTOCOL FOR DETECTING INTERACTIONS WITHIN ONE OR MORE DNA MOLECULES WITHIN A CELL | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | — |
| 17057863 | METHOD | REGA, KYLE THOMAS | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17781820 | METHOD | FISHER, BRITTANY I | 112d overdue |
| 18596176 | MODIFIED ENZYMES | HUTSON, RICHARD G | 50d overdue |
| 18661820 | BACTERIOPHAGE-DERIVED NANOPORE SENSORS | BALL, JOHN C | 46d overdue |
| 18010826 | METHOD | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 34d |
| 18889917 | METHOD FOR NANOPORE RNA CHARACTERISATION | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | — |
| 18665109 | MUTANT PORE | MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | — |
| 18604714 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING APERTURES IN A SOLID STATE MEMBRANE USING DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
| 18341906 | METHOD | NGUYEN, NAM P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1683 | 4 |
| 1796 | 3 |
| 1681 | 3 |
| 1652 | 2 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| 1637 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1636 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19439914 | Biochemical Analysis Instrument | SINES, BRIAN J | 1796 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 18889917 | METHOD FOR NANOPORE RNA CHARACTERISATION | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1683 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18665109 | MUTANT PORE | MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | 1652 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18661820 | BACTERIOPHAGE-DERIVED NANOPORE SENSORS | BALL, JOHN C | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18604714 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING APERTURES IN A SOLID STATE MEMBRANE USING DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1777 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18596176 | MODIFIED ENZYMES | HUTSON, RICHARD G | 1652 | §102§112DP | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18561834 | METHODS FOR COMPLEMENT STRAND SEQUENCING | RILEY, JEZIA | 1681 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18010826 | METHOD | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1683 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 18341906 | METHOD | NGUYEN, NAM P | 1678 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18010823 | NANOPORE SUPPORT STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF | SINES, BRIAN J | 1796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18160816 | METHOD | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1683 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 18065735 | ENZYME STALLING METHOD | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1683 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
| 17781820 | METHOD | FISHER, BRITTANY I | 1796 | — | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
| 17781469 | METHOD OF CHARACTERISING A TARGET POLYPEPTIDE USING A NANOPORE | PRIEST, AARON A | 1681 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2022 |
| 17763716 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREPARING A NUCLEIC ACID CONSTRUCT FOR SINGLE MOLECULE CHARACTERISATION | ALLEN, SARAH ELIZABETH | 1637 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2022 |
| 17612610 | PROTOCOL FOR DETECTING INTERACTIONS WITHIN ONE OR MORE DNA MOLECULES WITHIN A CELL | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 1682 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2021 |
| 17260611 | POLYNUCLEOTIDE SYNTHESIS METHOD, KIT AND SYSTEM | YU, TIAN NMN | 1681 | §103 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2021 |
| 17057863 | METHOD | REGA, KYLE THOMAS | 1636 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2020 |
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