Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

17 pending office actions • 14 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
8
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.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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.

7
Hard (41%)
9
Medium (53%)
1
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (12%)
§103 only3 (18%)
§102 only1 (6%)
Double-patenting only1 (6%)
Double-patenting + other5 (29%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

15
Life Sciences
88% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
12% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE 1 72.0% +15.0%
WILLIS, DOUGLAS M 1 82.4% +19.5%
HA, JULIE 1 75.6% +44.2%
KIM, DANIELLE A 1 36.7% +57.5%
CLARK, AMY LYNN 1 39.1% +30.9%
XU, XIAOYUN 1 59.9% +31.9%
HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J 1 50.9% +28.8%
HILL, GRACELYN MARKHAM 1 100.0% +0.0%
SALMON, KATHERINE D 1 42.6% +38.0%
STEELE, AMBER D 1 59.0% +9.7%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17827584 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURIES BRADLEY, CHRISTINA 103d overdue
18415255 USES OF HNF4 ALPHA AGONISTS CLARK, AMY LYNN 62d
18710429 INHIBITORS OF THE ONCOGENIC SHP2 PHOSPHATASE AND USES THEREOF WILLIS, DOUGLAS M
18273686 SARS-COV-2 THERAPEUTICS HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J
18327715 MICROSCOPIC IMAGING AND ANALYSES OF EPIGENETIC LANDSCAPE HILL, GRACELYN MARKHAM
18251045 PROGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS FOR BREAST CANCER SALMON, KATHERINE D
18172116 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING DISEASES STEELE, AMBER D

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18419387 TYRAMINE CONTAINING HYDROXYCINNAMIC ACID AMIDE DERIVATIVES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF KIM, DANIELLE A 50d overdue
18361439 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DETECTING COGNITIVE DISORDER XU, XIAOYUN 35d overdue
18652429 TUMOR ASSOCIATED MONOCYTE/MACROPHAGE BINDING PEPTIDE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF HA, JULIE 14d
18415255 USES OF HNF4 ALPHA AGONISTS CLARK, AMY LYNN 62d
18775510 USES AND METHODS FOR PROMOTING INCREASED MITOCHONDRIAL MASS AND FUNCTION SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE
18710429 INHIBITORS OF THE ONCOGENIC SHP2 PHOSPHATASE AND USES THEREOF WILLIS, DOUGLAS M
18273686 SARS-COV-2 THERAPEUTICS HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J
18251045 PROGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS FOR BREAST CANCER SALMON, KATHERINE D

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1654 2
1613 1
1628 1
1797 1
1627 1
1656 1
1682 1
1658 1
1651 1
1623 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18775510 USES AND METHODS FOR PROMOTING INCREASED MITOCHONDRIAL MASS AND FUNCTION SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE §102§103§112DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Jul 17, 2024
18710429 INHIBITORS OF THE ONCOGENIC SHP2 PHOSPHATASE AND USES THEREOF WILLIS, DOUGLAS M §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 15, 2024
18652429 TUMOR ASSOCIATED MONOCYTE/MACROPHAGE BINDING PEPTIDE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF HA, JULIE 1654 DP Final Rejection 14d Pending May 01, 2024
18419387 TYRAMINE CONTAINING HYDROXYCINNAMIC ACID AMIDE DERIVATIVES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF KIM, DANIELLE A 1613 §103DP Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2024
18415255 USES OF HNF4 ALPHA AGONISTS CLARK, AMY LYNN 1628 §102§103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Jan 17, 2024
18361439 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DETECTING COGNITIVE DISORDER XU, XIAOYUN 1797 §103 Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2023
18273686 SARS-COV-2 THERAPEUTICS HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J 1627 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 21, 2023
18327715 MICROSCOPIC IMAGING AND ANALYSES OF EPIGENETIC LANDSCAPE HILL, GRACELYN MARKHAM 1656 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 01, 2023
18251045 PROGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS FOR BREAST CANCER SALMON, KATHERINE D 1682 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 28, 2023
18172116 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING DISEASES STEELE, AMBER D 1658 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Feb 21, 2023
17906818 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING SERRATED COLORECTAL CANCER CLARKE, TRENT R 1651 §103Other Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2022
17799641 MONO AND COMBINATION THERAPIES WITH ULK1/2 INHIBITORS LEE, WILLIAM Y 1623 §112DP Final Rejection 145d overdue Pending Aug 12, 2022
17799639 INHIBITORS OF ULK1/2 AND METHODS OF USING SAME MCDOWELL, BRIAN E 1624 §102 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 12, 2022
17812126 METHODS FOR REVERSING HEPATIC STEATOSIS WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN 1622 §103§112DP Final Rejection Pending Jul 12, 2022
17828627 METHOD FOR IMPROVING DIGESTIVE HEALTH MELLER, MICHAEL V 1655 §102§103DP Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending May 31, 2022
17827584 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURIES BRADLEY, CHRISTINA 1654 §101§102§112Other Final Rejection 103d overdue Pending May 27, 2022
17773775 METABOLIC REPROGRAMMING OF IMMUNE CELLS TO ENHANCE THE EFFICACY OF PROPHYLACTIC AND THERAPEUTIC VACCINES RICCI, CRAIG D 1611 §103 Final Rejection 97d overdue Pending May 02, 2022

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