Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research

9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

4
Hard (44%)
4
Medium (44%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (22%)
§103 only2 (22%)
Double-patenting only1 (11%)
Double-patenting + other2 (22%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
11% of docket
2
Business / Other
22% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AHMED, SAMIR ANWAR 1 87.8% +12.4%
JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH 1 68.7% +24.5%
ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE 1
JOHANSEN, PETER N. 1 58.9% +24.3%
BENAVIDES, JENNIFER ANN 1 51.3% +48.6%
JUEDES, AMY E 1 45.0% +41.4%
XIAO, YAN 1 67.8% +51.6%
FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA 1 33.3% +44.4%
LEE, HOI YAN NMN 1 41.0% +79.2%

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
18856807 MULTI-MODAL MACHINE LEARNING TO DETERMINE RISK STRATIFICATION AHMED, SAMIR ANWAR

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18325912 METHODS FOR TREATING MISMATCH REPAIR DEFICIENT LOCALLY ADVANCED RECTAL CANCER USING DOSTARLIMAB XIAO, YAN 9d
17857821 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CANCER WHOLE GENOME AND TRANSCRIPTOME SEQUENCING (CWGTS) FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA 15d
18856763 AUTOMATED METHODS FOR DETERMINING FIBROGLANDULAR DENSITY ON MAMMOGRAMS JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH 33d
18554176 METHODS FOR INHIBITING KRAS ONCOPROTEIN THROUGH ENHANCED GTPASE ACTIVITY JOHANSEN, PETER N.

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
18325912 METHODS FOR TREATING MISMATCH REPAIR DEFICIENT LOCALLY ADVANCED RECTAL CANCER USING DOSTARLIMAB XIAO, YAN 9d
17857821 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CANCER WHOLE GENOME AND TRANSCRIPTOME SEQUENCING (CWGTS) FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA 15d
18856763 AUTOMATED METHODS FOR DETERMINING FIBROGLANDULAR DENSITY ON MAMMOGRAMS JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH 33d
18856807 MULTI-MODAL MACHINE LEARNING TO DETERMINE RISK STRATIFICATION AHMED, SAMIR ANWAR
18554176 METHODS FOR INHIBITING KRAS ONCOPROTEIN THROUGH ENHANCED GTPASE ACTIVITY JOHANSEN, PETER N.
18554184 COMBINATION THERAPY WITH DEXAMETHASONE AND TUMOR-SPECIFIC T CELL ENGAGING MULTI-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES FOR TREATING CANCER BENAVIDES, JENNIFER ANN
18550914 METHODS FOR TREATING GYNECOLOGIC CANCER USING COMBINATION THERAPY WITH ANTI-MUC16 x CD3 MULTISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES AND VEGF INHIBITORS JUEDES, AMY E
17427502 DEUTERATED MITRAGYNINE ANALOGS AS SAFER OPIOID MODULATORS IN THE MITRAGYNINE CLASS LEE, HOI YAN NMN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1644 2
3798 1
1675 1
1642 1
1685 1
1693 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18856807 MULTI-MODAL MACHINE LEARNING TO DETERMINE RISK STRATIFICATION AHMED, SAMIR ANWAR §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 14, 2024
18856763 AUTOMATED METHODS FOR DETERMINING FIBROGLANDULAR DENSITY ON MAMMOGRAMS JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH 3798 §102§103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Oct 14, 2024
18840416 METHODS FOR TREATING CANCER PATIENTS WITH HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION DEFICIENCY BASED ON TEMPLATED INSERTIONS ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 21, 2024
18554176 METHODS FOR INHIBITING KRAS ONCOPROTEIN THROUGH ENHANCED GTPASE ACTIVITY JOHANSEN, PETER N. 1644 §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 05, 2023
18554184 COMBINATION THERAPY WITH DEXAMETHASONE AND TUMOR-SPECIFIC T CELL ENGAGING MULTI-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES FOR TREATING CANCER BENAVIDES, JENNIFER ANN 1675 DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 05, 2023
18550914 METHODS FOR TREATING GYNECOLOGIC CANCER USING COMBINATION THERAPY WITH ANTI-MUC16 x CD3 MULTISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES AND VEGF INHIBITORS JUEDES, AMY E 1644 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 15, 2023
18325912 METHODS FOR TREATING MISMATCH REPAIR DEFICIENT LOCALLY ADVANCED RECTAL CANCER USING DOSTARLIMAB XIAO, YAN 1642 §102§103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending May 30, 2023
17857821 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CANCER WHOLE GENOME AND TRANSCRIPTOME SEQUENCING (CWGTS) FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA 1685 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 05, 2022
17427502 DEUTERATED MITRAGYNINE ANALOGS AS SAFER OPIOID MODULATORS IN THE MITRAGYNINE CLASS LEE, HOI YAN NMN 1693 §103DP Final Rejection Pending Jul 30, 2021

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