Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
18 pending office actions • 11 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 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. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 13 (72%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (11%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LU, FRANK WEI MIN | 2 | 62.8% | +67.2% |
| KWAK, DEAN P | 1 | 58.4% | +38.0% |
| CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1 | 41.6% | +31.7% |
| OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL | 1 | 62.3% | -12.2% |
| HORLICK, KENNETH R | 1 | 78.9% | +15.2% |
| NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE | 1 | 73.1% | +18.3% |
| KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY | 1 | 52.2% | +0.7% |
| BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 1 | 47.4% | +52.6% |
| LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE | 1 | 57.1% | +50.9% |
| BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | 1 | 61.0% | +17.6% |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13703309 | METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF TARGET CELLS OR TISSUE FOR EXTRACTION OF BIOMOLECULES FROM FIXED BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES | LU, FRANK WEI MIN | 105d overdue |
| 17620612 | METHOD FOR ENRICHING NUCLEIC ACIDS BY SIZE | BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | 72d overdue |
| 18029408 | PATHOGEN DETECTION METHOD | HORLICK, KENNETH R | 65d |
| 18749049 | DRY CHEMISTRY CONTAINER | KWAK, DEAN P | — |
| 18533836 | METHOD FOR ISOLATING NUCLEIC ACIDS FROM A FORMALDEHYDE RELEASER STABILIZED SAMPLE | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | — |
| 18052029 | CATION CHELATOR HOT START | NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE | — |
| 17762565 | MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS OF STABILIZED CELL-CONTAINING BODILY FLUID SAMPLES | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | — |
| 17636582 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR AMPLIFICATION OF STR LOCI | LU, FRANK WEI MIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1693 | 3 |
| 1656 | 3 |
| 1683 | 2 |
| 1684 | 2 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1681 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1636 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18749049 | DRY CHEMISTRY CONTAINER | KWAK, DEAN P | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18533836 | METHOD FOR ISOLATING NUCLEIC ACIDS FROM A FORMALDEHYDE RELEASER STABILIZED SAMPLE | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18343296 | METHOD FOR ISOLATING RNA WITH HIGH YIELD | OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL | 1693 | Other | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18029408 | PATHOGEN DETECTION METHOD | HORLICK, KENNETH R | 1681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 65d | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 18052029 | CATION CHELATOR HOT START | NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE | 1656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2022 |
| 17785251 | METHOD FOR ENRICHING VESICULAR RNA | KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY | 1693 | DP | Final Rejection | 118d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2022 |
| 17762565 | MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS OF STABILIZED CELL-CONTAINING BODILY FLUID SAMPLES | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 1682 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2022 |
| 17636582 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR AMPLIFICATION OF STR LOCI | LU, FRANK WEI MIN | 1683 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2022 |
| 17620615 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES BY SIZE | LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE | 1684 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2021 |
| 17620612 | METHOD FOR ENRICHING NUCLEIC ACIDS BY SIZE | BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | 1693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Dec 17, 2021 |
| 17416814 | URINE STABILIZATION | TSAY, MARSHA M | 1656 | DP | Non-Final OA | 74d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2021 |
| 16848117 | METHOD, LYSIS SOLUTION AND KIT FOR SELECTIVELY DEPLETING ANIMAL NUCLEIC ACIDS IN A SAMPLE | DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE | 1636 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Apr 14, 2020 |
| 15125863 | STABILIZATION AND ISOLATION OF EXTRACELLULAR NUCLEIC ACIDS | POPA, ILEANA | 1633 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2016 |
| 13703309 | METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF TARGET CELLS OR TISSUE FOR EXTRACTION OF BIOMOLECULES FROM FIXED BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES | LU, FRANK WEI MIN | 1683 | §103 | Final Rejection | 105d overdue | Pending | Dec 10, 2012 |
| 17421617 | Methods of Detecting Analytes and Compositions Thereof | RAYMONDA, MATTHEW HAROLD | 1684 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Jul 08, 2021 |
| 17276619 | DEPLETING UNWANTED RNA SPECIES | LEE, JAE W | 1656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2021 |
| 17056393 | PROTECTION OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE MOLECULES DURING RADIATION STERILIZATION | HENSEL, BRENDAN A | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2020 |
| 17049748 | BIOMOLECULE ISOLATION AND INHIBITOR REMOVAL | HIBBERT, CATHERINE S | 1658 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2020 |
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