Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sichuan University

12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

3
Hard (25%)
7
Medium (58%)
1
Easy (8%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (25%)
§103 only7 (58%)
§112 only1 (8%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
83% of docket
1
Information Tech
8% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MORGAN, BAILEY MICHELLE 2 57.1% +56.3%
DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 1 48.2% +22.6%
CASTILHO, EDUARDO D 1 47.4% +20.7%
DANIELS, MATTHEW J 1 69.1% +25.4%
HUSON, MONICA ANNE 1 79.5% +13.6%
WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 1 33.3% +76.9%
SMITH, JENNIFER A 1 61.6% +25.7%
WILSON, MICHAEL C 1 41.7% +17.6%
SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 1 65.8% +47.7%
JOHANSEN, JOHN E 1 76.7% +26.1%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18949811 APPLICATION OF T1FR PROTEIN IN INHIBITION OF PATHOGENICITY OF ADHERENT-INVASIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI (AIEC) DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 229d overdue
17637028 APPLICATION OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA VACCINE IN RESPIRATORY DISEASE MORGAN, BAILEY MICHELLE 92d overdue
17879983 EXPONENTIAL MODEL-BASED METHOD FOR PREDICTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW VELOCITY FIELD IN RIVER CHANNEL WITH EMERGENT VEGETATION JOHANSEN, JOHN E 31d overdue

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18949811 APPLICATION OF T1FR PROTEIN IN INHIBITION OF PATHOGENICITY OF ADHERENT-INVASIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI (AIEC) DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 229d overdue
17637028 APPLICATION OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA VACCINE IN RESPIRATORY DISEASE MORGAN, BAILEY MICHELLE 92d overdue
18206595 Method for Preparing N-P Compound Fertilizer from Incinerated Sewage Sludge Ash (ISSA) SMITH, JENNIFER A 60d overdue
17637057 APPLICATION OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA VACCINE IN TREATING INFECTION ASSOCIATED WITH BURN OR SCALD INJURY MORGAN, BAILEY MICHELLE 38d overdue
17879983 EXPONENTIAL MODEL-BASED METHOD FOR PREDICTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW VELOCITY FIELD IN RIVER CHANNEL WITH EMERGENT VEGETATION JOHANSEN, JOHN E 31d overdue
17915548 AAV CAPSIDS VARIANTS AND USES THEREOF WILSON, MICHAEL C 8d overdue
18272340 MODIFIED CROSS-LINKED POLYETHYLENE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECYCLED PRODUCT AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR HUSON, MONICA ANNE 4d overdue
17798719 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR AND USE THEREOF SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 2d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1645 3
1742 2
3698 1
1612 1
1731 1
1638 1
1633 1
2187 1
1762 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18949811 APPLICATION OF T1FR PROTEIN IN INHIBITION OF PATHOGENICITY OF ADHERENT-INVASIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI (AIEC) DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 1645 §101 Non-Final OA 229d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2024
18822218 ACCOUNTING METHOD FOR CARBON FOOTPRINT OF LEATHER PRODUCT CASTILHO, EDUARDO D 3698 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Sep 01, 2024
18810008 GUIDE PLATE STRUCTURE FOR INJECTING FLOWABLE COMPOSITE RESIN AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF DANIELS, MATTHEW J 1742 §112 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 20, 2024
18272340 MODIFIED CROSS-LINKED POLYETHYLENE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECYCLED PRODUCT AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR HUSON, MONICA ANNE 1742 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
18346290 NATURAL-POLYPHENOLS-BASED MULTI-STAGE POROUS HYDROGEL SUSTAINED RELEASE DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM AND ITS PREPARATION METHOD WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 1612 Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 03, 2023
18206595 Method for Preparing N-P Compound Fertilizer from Incinerated Sewage Sludge Ash (ISSA) SMITH, JENNIFER A 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jun 06, 2023
17915548 AAV CAPSIDS VARIANTS AND USES THEREOF WILSON, MICHAEL C 1638 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2022
17798719 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR AND USE THEREOF SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 1633 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2022
17637057 APPLICATION OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA VACCINE IN TREATING INFECTION ASSOCIATED WITH BURN OR SCALD INJURY MORGAN, BAILEY MICHELLE 1645 §103 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Aug 10, 2022
17879983 EXPONENTIAL MODEL-BASED METHOD FOR PREDICTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW VELOCITY FIELD IN RIVER CHANNEL WITH EMERGENT VEGETATION JOHANSEN, JOHN E 2187 §101 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Aug 03, 2022
17637028 APPLICATION OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA VACCINE IN RESPIRATORY DISEASE MORGAN, BAILEY MICHELLE 1645 §101 Non-Final OA 92d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2022
17824476 Photocurable thermochromic adhesive, adhesive composition and preparation as well as application thereof BETIT, JACOB F 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 218d overdue Pending May 25, 2022

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