Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Soochow University

18 pending office actions • 18 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 61 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
6
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (3)

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%)
10
Medium (56%)
4
Easy (22%)
4
Unknown (22%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (33%)
§102 only4 (22%)
§112 only4 (22%)
No statute on record4 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

15
Life Sciences
83% of docket
1
Information Tech
6% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
6% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LANIER, BENJAMIN E 1 69.2% +17.4%
FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1 49.5% +14.6%
JAVANMARD, SAHAR 1 65.3% +35.6%
CHEN, YU 1 67.7% +29.9%
RAMPHAL, LATASHA DEVI 1 33.3% +48.7%
AMIN, ALPA NILESH 1 50.0% +0.0%
SHOMER, ISAAC 1 63.1% +30.7%
BAEK, JONGHWAN NMN 1 66.7% +0.0%
KIM, TAEYOON 1 51.5% +51.4%
KHAN, AMINA S 1 48.0% +43.3%

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
18280914 RESPIRATION FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD BASED ON BODY SURFACE SIGNIFICANCE ANALYSIS CHEN, YU 299d overdue
18012611 DRUG-LOADED POLYMER VESICLE HAVING ASYMMETRIC MEMBRANE STRUCTURE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND APPLICATION THEREOF IN PREPARATION OF DRUGS FOR TREATING ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA SHOMER, ISAAC 96d overdue
18358237 Fashion Personality Prediction and Clothing Recommendation Method and Device Based on Social Networks RAMPHAL, LATASHA DEVI 36d overdue
18037556 METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT REACTION OF ISATIN COMPOUND AND CYCLOPROPENONE COMPOUND AT LOW CATALYTIC AMOUNT FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 31d overdue
18027301 POLYAMINO ACID-GRAFTED MODIFIED WATER-REPELLENT FABRIC AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR KHAN, AMINA S 8d overdue
18035685 SYNERGISTIC STEM CELL-BASED MEDICATION FOR TREATING MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND RELATED APPLICATION KIM, TAEYOON 4d overdue
18617185 GROUP DELEGATION COMPUTING METHOD LANIER, BENJAMIN E 62d
18466829 APPLICATION OF SMALL-MOLECULE COMPOUND IN PREPARATION OF ANTITUMOR DRUG JAVANMARD, SAHAR 82d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2437 1
1626 1
1622 1
2613 1
3688 1
1655 1
1612 1
1618 1
1631 1
1761 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18617185 GROUP DELEGATION COMPUTING METHOD LANIER, BENJAMIN E 2437 §112 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18037556 METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT REACTION OF ISATIN COMPOUND AND CYCLOPROPENONE COMPOUND AT LOW CATALYTIC AMOUNT FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1626 §112 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Nov 26, 2023
18466829 APPLICATION OF SMALL-MOLECULE COMPOUND IN PREPARATION OF ANTITUMOR DRUG JAVANMARD, SAHAR 1622 §102 Non-Final OA 82d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18280914 RESPIRATION FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD BASED ON BODY SURFACE SIGNIFICANCE ANALYSIS CHEN, YU 2613 §102 Non-Final OA 299d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2023
18358237 Fashion Personality Prediction and Clothing Recommendation Method and Device Based on Social Networks RAMPHAL, LATASHA DEVI 3688 §103 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
18012321 SALVIA PLEBIA AND SCUTELLARIAE RADIX COMPOUND ACNE CREAM, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF AMIN, ALPA NILESH 1655 §102 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18012611 DRUG-LOADED POLYMER VESICLE HAVING ASYMMETRIC MEMBRANE STRUCTURE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND APPLICATION THEREOF IN PREPARATION OF DRUGS FOR TREATING ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA SHOMER, ISAAC 1612 Other Non-Final OA 96d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2023
18196929 CAPSAICIN-DERIVED PHOTOSENSITIZER, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF BAEK, JONGHWAN NMN 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 12, 2023
18035685 SYNERGISTIC STEM CELL-BASED MEDICATION FOR TREATING MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND RELATED APPLICATION KIM, TAEYOON 1631 §102 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 05, 2023
18027301 POLYAMINO ACID-GRAFTED MODIFIED WATER-REPELLENT FABRIC AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR KHAN, AMINA S 1761 Other Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Mar 20, 2023
18044565 IMMUNOADJUVANT-BASED HYDROGEL COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF WHITEMAN, BRIAN A 1636 §103 Final Rejection 63d Pending Mar 08, 2023
18012218 ANTI-TUMOR NANO ADJUVANT BASED ON VESICLE FORMED BY CROSS-LINKED BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE 1616 Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending Dec 21, 2022
17921553 STEM CELL DRUG FOR TREATING DIABETES UNDERDAHL, THANE E 1699 §112 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2022
17920637 PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION OF INTERFERING PEPTIDE TARGETING SARS-CoV-2 N PROTEIN KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 1658 §103 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Oct 21, 2022
17800754 SNP MOLECULAR MARKER RELATED TO SINIPERCA CHUATSI INFECTIOUS SPLEEN AND KIDNEY NECROSIS VIRUS RESISTANCE, DETECTION METHOD AND USE THEREOF KENNEDY, SARAH JANE 1682 §103 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2022
17598051 METHOD FOR INDUCING GELATION AND BIOMIMETIC MINERALIZATION OF SILK FIBROIN SOLUTION BY ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE PRAGANI, RAJAN 1614 Non-Final OA 171d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2022
17631034 USE OF DRUG IN INHIBITING THE PRODUCTION AND MATURATION OF RED BLOOD CELLS HOWARD, ZACHARY C 1674 §112 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Jan 28, 2022
17631439 TARGETED EXOSOME BASED ON RBD REGION OF SARS-COV-2 S PROTEIN AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 239d overdue Pending Jan 28, 2022

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