Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Royal College Of Surgeons In Ireland

4 pending office actions • 4 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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§102 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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
LAU, MICHAEL J 1 70.5% +25.1%
ANGELL, JON E 1 70.7% +21.1%
GRABER, JAMES J 1 46.2% +56.1%
SHEN, WU CHENG WINSTON 1 23.8% +25.6%

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
17779783 AN ACELLULAR NERVE GRAFT SHEN, WU CHENG WINSTON 36d overdue

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17779783 AN ACELLULAR NERVE GRAFT SHEN, WU CHENG WINSTON 36d overdue
17782924 A HEMOSTATIC AGENT AND USES THEREOF GRABER, JAMES J 24d overdue
18723137 A SYSTEM TO TREAT HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION (HFpEF) LAU, MICHAEL J 12d
18018819 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES BY ENHANCING ARGINASE 2 IN MACROPHAGES ANGELL, JON E 84d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3796 1
1637 1
1631 1
1682 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18723137 A SYSTEM TO TREAT HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION (HFpEF) LAU, MICHAEL J 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18018819 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES BY ENHANCING ARGINASE 2 IN MACROPHAGES ANGELL, JON E 1637 §102 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Jan 30, 2023
17782924 A HEMOSTATIC AGENT AND USES THEREOF GRABER, JAMES J 1631 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Jun 06, 2022
17779783 AN ACELLULAR NERVE GRAFT SHEN, WU CHENG WINSTON 1682 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending May 25, 2022

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