Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development

20 pending office actions • 18 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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.

10
Hard (50%)
6
Medium (30%)
3
Easy (15%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§101 + other2 (10%)
§103 only6 (30%)
§112 only2 (10%)
Double-patenting only1 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (35%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
40% of docket
6
Information Tech
30% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
2
Semiconductors
10% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
10% of docket
1
Business / Other
5% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RUNYAN, SILVANA C 1 82.4% +17.1%
HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 1 90.6% +6.2%
BARTLETT, WILLIAM P 1 60.5% +32.1%
AHSAN, SYED M 1 74.1% +18.9%
PERRIN, CLARE M 1 67.9% +42.3%
MENBERU, BENIYAM 1 74.0% +13.1%
EVERETT, CHRISTOPHER E 1 83.7% +23.0%
KIM, HEE SOO 1 79.1% -0.5%
JACKSON III, WALTER 1 100.0% +0.0%
JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE 1

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
18903354 ZERO-SHOT BLACK-BOX DETECTION OF NEURAL TROJANS HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 1d overdue

Hard Cases (10)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18498404 Cofactors FAD and PLP for Promoting Pancreatic Progenitors in Pancreatic Development JACKSON III, WALTER 46d overdue
18574405 AIR QUALITY MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME EVERETT, CHRISTOPHER E 16d overdue
18932231 ECO-FRIENDLY CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE-BASED PREFORMED PARTICLE GELS FOR CONFORMANCE CONTROL IN OIL AND GAS RESERVOIRS RUNYAN, SILVANA C 10d overdue
18220369 DIRECT METAL NANO PATTERNING LUCK, SEAN M 41d
18281514 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING OF MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS HOBBS, MICHAEL L 61d
18884599 GRAPH REPRESENTATION LEARNING APPROACH FOR EFFICIENT PROVENANCE GRAPH SEARCH BARTLETT, WILLIAM P
18826778 IMAGE ENCRYPTION USING COLLATZ CONJECTURE AHSAN, SYED M
18010368 THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT OF NANOFLUIDS USING FUNCTIONALIZED OR EMULSIFIED CARBIDE DERIVED CARBON NANOPARTICLES DIAZ, MATTHEW R

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18574405 AIR QUALITY MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME EVERETT, CHRISTOPHER E 16d overdue
18932231 ECO-FRIENDLY CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE-BASED PREFORMED PARTICLE GELS FOR CONFORMANCE CONTROL IN OIL AND GAS RESERVOIRS RUNYAN, SILVANA C 10d overdue
18400635 TOKEN PRUNING IN SWIN TRANSFORMER ARCHITECTURES MENBERU, BENIYAM 29d
18884599 GRAPH REPRESENTATION LEARNING APPROACH FOR EFFICIENT PROVENANCE GRAPH SEARCH BARTLETT, WILLIAM P
18826778 IMAGE ENCRYPTION USING COLLATZ CONJECTURE AHSAN, SYED M
18645165 PROCESS OF BRINE CONCENTRATION AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF THE SAME PERRIN, CLARE M

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1638 2
3674 1
2433 1
2169 1
2491 1
2681 1
2117 1
2443 1
1682 1
1675 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18932231 ECO-FRIENDLY CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE-BASED PREFORMED PARTICLE GELS FOR CONFORMANCE CONTROL IN OIL AND GAS RESERVOIRS RUNYAN, SILVANA C 3674 §103§112 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2024
18903354 ZERO-SHOT BLACK-BOX DETECTION OF NEURAL TROJANS HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 2433 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Oct 01, 2024
18884599 GRAPH REPRESENTATION LEARNING APPROACH FOR EFFICIENT PROVENANCE GRAPH SEARCH BARTLETT, WILLIAM P 2169 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 13, 2024
18826778 IMAGE ENCRYPTION USING COLLATZ CONJECTURE AHSAN, SYED M 2491 §101§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 06, 2024
18645165 PROCESS OF BRINE CONCENTRATION AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF THE SAME PERRIN, CLARE M §112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 24, 2024
18400635 TOKEN PRUNING IN SWIN TRANSFORMER ARCHITECTURES MENBERU, BENIYAM 2681 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Dec 29, 2023
18574405 AIR QUALITY MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME EVERETT, CHRISTOPHER E 2117 §101§112 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18387937 TOR-BASED MALWARE DETECTION KIM, HEE SOO 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2023
18498404 Cofactors FAD and PLP for Promoting Pancreatic Progenitors in Pancreatic Development JACKSON III, WALTER 1638 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2023
18288778 CIRCULATING NONCODING RNAS AS A SIGNATURE OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER SYMPTOMATOLOGY JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE 1682 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 27, 2023
18378967 Levels of CSF-Seeded alpha-Synuclein Oligomers reflect Parkinson's Disease Severity CHERNYSHEV, OLGA N 1675 DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 11, 2023
18368168 INTELLIGENT VOLTAGE LIMIT VIOLATION PREDICTION AND MITIGATION FOR ACTIVE DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW 2116 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 14, 2023
18281514 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING OF MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS HOBBS, MICHAEL L 1799 §102§112Other Non-Final OA 61d Pending Sep 11, 2023
18233733 ENGINEERED PICOBODY TO ALPHA SYNUCLEIN ALDARONDO, DASIA ALI 1647 §112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 14, 2023
18220369 DIRECT METAL NANO PATTERNING LUCK, SEAN M 2878 §102§112 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jul 11, 2023
18208004 PROCESS AND SYSTEM INCLUDING PRESSURE RETARDED OSMOSIS MEMBRANE FOR INDIRECT SEAWATER ELECTROLYSIS CRANDALL, BRADIE SHELTON 1793 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 09, 2023
18010368 THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT OF NANOFLUIDS USING FUNCTIONALIZED OR EMULSIFIED CARBIDE DERIVED CARBON NANOPARTICLES DIAZ, MATTHEW R 1761 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 14, 2022
18009245 TARGETING OF LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE C, METHODS OF PREPARING SAME, AND METHODS OF USING SAME IN COMBINATION WITH ANTI-CANCER TREATMENTS VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN 1638 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 08, 2022
17966049 VIBRATION ATTENUATION DEVICE AND RESONATOR LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN 2800 §102§112 Final Rejection Pending Oct 14, 2022
17900261 LOW-COST AND SCALABLE SCREEN PRINTED WEARABLE HUMAN BODY TEMPERATURE SENSOR ABOUELELA, MAY A 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Aug 31, 2022

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