Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sorbonne Universite

8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (88%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
§102 only1 (12%)
§112 only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
25% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, KEMAYA DEANN HUU 1 74.4% +40.0%
SMITH, DAVID E 1 84.9% +7.3%
GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 1 46.0% +40.4%
BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE 1 50.0% +46.7%
QIAN, CELINE X 1 47.9% +16.8%
YU, DAVID TUYANG 1
MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L 1 27.1% +21.7%
TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS 1 54.5% +71.1%

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
18684263 COMPACT MAGNETO-OPTICAL TRAP WITH THERMAL ABLATION SMITH, DAVID E 6d

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
17766006 BIOCOMPATIBLE NUCLEIC ACIDS FOR DIGITAL DATA STORAGE MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L 42d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18006888 BIOMARKERS FOR DIAGNOSING AND MONITORING LUNG CANCER BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE 100d overdue
17642244 NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE FOR REGULATION OF TRANSGENE EXPRESSION TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS 73d overdue
17766006 BIOCOMPATIBLE NUCLEIC ACIDS FOR DIGITAL DATA STORAGE MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L 42d overdue
18273389 A Method for Diagnosing Endometrial or Ovarian Carcinoma GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 23d overdue
18850207 APPARATUS FOR DETECTING CHEMICALS IN A SAMPLE NGUYEN, KEMAYA DEANN HUU 14d
18009731 A CELLULAR MARKER OF COVID SEVERITY QIAN, CELINE X 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1682 2
2877 1
2881 1
1637 1
1635 1
1685 1
1634 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18850207 APPARATUS FOR DETECTING CHEMICALS IN A SAMPLE NGUYEN, KEMAYA DEANN HUU 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 24, 2024
18684263 COMPACT MAGNETO-OPTICAL TRAP WITH THERMAL ABLATION SMITH, DAVID E 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18273389 A Method for Diagnosing Endometrial or Ovarian Carcinoma GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 1682 §102 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jul 20, 2023
18006888 BIOMARKERS FOR DIAGNOSING AND MONITORING LUNG CANCER BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE 1682 §103 Non-Final OA 100d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2023
18009731 A CELLULAR MARKER OF COVID SEVERITY QIAN, CELINE X 1637 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 11, 2022
17917953 ANTISENSE SEQUENCES FOR TREATING AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS YU, DAVID TUYANG 1635 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2022
17766006 BIOCOMPATIBLE NUCLEIC ACIDS FOR DIGITAL DATA STORAGE MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L 1685 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Apr 01, 2022
17642244 NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE FOR REGULATION OF TRANSGENE EXPRESSION TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS 1634 §112 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2022

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