Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Research

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

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
33% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH 1 67.3% +25.9%
CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT 1 69.6% +36.1%
LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER 1 100.0% +0.0%
ALAM, DANYAL HASSAN 1 100.0% +0.0%
XIAO, YAN 1 67.9% +51.5%
FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA 1 25.0% +66.7%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18350454 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR SENSITIZING PRC2 MUTANT TUMORS TO IMMUNE CHECKPOINT BLOCKADE THERAPY ALAM, DANYAL HASSAN 8d overdue
18696891 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANONYMIZATION OF IMAGE DATA LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER 4d overdue

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
17857821 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CANCER WHOLE GENOME AND TRANSCRIPTOME SEQUENCING (CWGTS) FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA 15d

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
18707555 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A CORRECTED PLANAR SCINTIGRAPHY IMAGE (CPSI) CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT 4d overdue
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3798 1
2667 1
2664 1
1672 1
1642 1
1685 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18856763 AUTOMATED METHODS FOR DETERMINING FIBROGLANDULAR DENSITY ON MAMMOGRAMS JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH 3798 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Oct 14, 2024
18707555 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A CORRECTED PLANAR SCINTIGRAPHY IMAGE (CPSI) CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT 2667 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 03, 2024
18696891 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANONYMIZATION OF IMAGE DATA LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER 2664 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18350454 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR SENSITIZING PRC2 MUTANT TUMORS TO IMMUNE CHECKPOINT BLOCKADE THERAPY ALAM, DANYAL HASSAN 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2023
18325912 METHODS FOR TREATING MISMATCH REPAIR DEFICIENT LOCALLY ADVANCED RECTAL CANCER USING DOSTARLIMAB XIAO, YAN 1642 §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 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 05, 2022

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