Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Promega Corporation

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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%)
3
Medium (60%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (40%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
§102 only1 (20%)
No statute on record2 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LEA EDMONDS, LISA S 1 86.8% +4.9%
WHITE, DAWANNA SHAR-DAY 1 62.3% +24.5%
OTTON, ALICIA L 1 65.0% +9.0%
PAK, YONG D 1 74.4% +13.7%
BOWERS, ERIN M 1 54.9% +11.4%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18905507 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS INVENTORY MANAGEMENT LEA EDMONDS, LISA S 30d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18252083 IMPROVED SMALL MOLECULES WHITE, DAWANNA SHAR-DAY 31d overdue
18312487 BIOLUMINESCENCE-TRIGGERED PHOTOCATALYTIC LABELING BOWERS, ERIN M 12d
18311977 CIRCULARLY PERMUTED DEHALOGENASE VARIANTS PAK, YONG D 23d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2847 1
1627 1
1699 1
1652 1
1653 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18905507 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS INVENTORY MANAGEMENT LEA EDMONDS, LISA S 2847 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Oct 03, 2024
18252083 IMPROVED SMALL MOLECULES WHITE, DAWANNA SHAR-DAY 1627 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending May 08, 2023
18312418 PHOTOACTIVATABLE COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF OTTON, ALICIA L 1699 §102 Final Rejection 42d Pending May 04, 2023
18311977 CIRCULARLY PERMUTED DEHALOGENASE VARIANTS PAK, YONG D 1652 Other Non-Final OA 23d Pending May 04, 2023
18312487 BIOLUMINESCENCE-TRIGGERED PHOTOCATALYTIC LABELING BOWERS, ERIN M 1653 Other Non-Final OA 12d Pending May 04, 2023

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