Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc.

17 pending office actions • 10 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
10
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
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
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 ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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.

7
Hard (41%)
8
Medium (47%)
1
Easy (6%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (12%)
§103 only6 (35%)
§112 only1 (6%)
Double-patenting + other2 (12%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (29%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

16
Life Sciences
94% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
6% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GRABER, JAMES J 2 45.9% +57.0%
WANG, RUIXUE 1 57.4% +22.1%
VALENROD, YEVGENY 1 72.6% +25.1%
LEITH, NANCY J 1 74.7% +43.8%
CORNET, JEAN P 1 42.1% +47.5%
LANDSMAN, ROBERT S 1 81.3% +13.3%
LEONARD, ARTHUR S 1 50.9% +50.5%
SUNSHINE, HANNAH LOUISE 1 67.7% +14.1%
RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 1 56.7% +59.7%
WHITE, ASHLEY TAYLOR 1 26.3% +45.7%

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
18245257 METHODS FOR TREATING OR MODULATING AN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE LANDSMAN, ROBERT S 24d overdue

Hard Cases (8)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17779841 USE OF PROTEASE SERINE 21 (PRSS21) ANTIGEN TESTING IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA SALMON, KATHERINE D 11d overdue
17918644 CHIMERIC MYD88 RECEPTORS SUNSHINE, HANNAH LOUISE 34d
16467358 DNA METHYLATION PROFILING FOR T-CELL IMMUNOTHERAPY MOSS, NATALIE M 70d
18681966 METHODS TO DETERMINE CD4+ MEMORY T CELL RESPONSES TO SARS-COV-2 INFECTION OR VACCINATION WANG, RUIXUE
18272536 Systems and Methods for Base Editing Of HBG1/2 Gene Promoter and Fetal Hemoglobin Induction LEITH, NANCY J
17801907 RECOMBINANT FIBCD1 AND USE THEROF IN THE TREATMENT OF MUSCLE ATROPHY WHITE, ASHLEY TAYLOR
17605639 GENE KNOCK-OUTS TO IMPROVE T CELL FUNCTION ABBOTT, KODYE LEE
17819810 TUMOR SUPPRESSION BY MODULATION OF NON-CANONICAL AUTOPHAGY (LAP) IN MYELOID CELLS GAO, ASHLEY HARTMAN

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
17917198 B7-H3 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 72d overdue
18245257 METHODS FOR TREATING OR MODULATING AN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE LANDSMAN, ROBERT S 24d overdue
18541691 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF HEARING LOSS VALENROD, YEVGENY 11d overdue
17918644 CHIMERIC MYD88 RECEPTORS SUNSHINE, HANNAH LOUISE 34d
17258533 USE OF IL-12 TO ALTER EPIGENETIC EFFECTOR PROGRAMS IN CD8 T CELLS GRABER, JAMES J 79d
18681966 METHODS TO DETERMINE CD4+ MEMORY T CELL RESPONSES TO SARS-COV-2 INFECTION OR VACCINATION WANG, RUIXUE
18272536 Systems and Methods for Base Editing Of HBG1/2 Gene Promoter and Fetal Hemoglobin Induction LEITH, NANCY J
18257680 METHODS OF TREATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH CASTOR CORNET, JEAN P

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1631 3
1628 2
1647 2
1634 2
1653 2
1636 1
1638 1
1678 1
1687 1
1682 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18681966 METHODS TO DETERMINE CD4+ MEMORY T CELL RESPONSES TO SARS-COV-2 INFECTION OR VACCINATION WANG, RUIXUE §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 07, 2024
18541691 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF HEARING LOSS VALENROD, YEVGENY 1628 §112Other Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2023
18272536 Systems and Methods for Base Editing Of HBG1/2 Gene Promoter and Fetal Hemoglobin Induction LEITH, NANCY J 1636 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 14, 2023
18257680 METHODS OF TREATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH CASTOR CORNET, JEAN P 1628 §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 15, 2023
18245257 METHODS FOR TREATING OR MODULATING AN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE LANDSMAN, ROBERT S 1647 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2023
18003093 METHODS OF GENERATING AN ACTIVATION INDUCIBLE EXPRESSION SYSTEM IN IMMUNE CELLS LEONARD, ARTHUR S 1631 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 22, 2022
17918644 CHIMERIC MYD88 RECEPTORS SUNSHINE, HANNAH LOUISE 1647 §102§103§112Other Final Rejection 34d Pending Oct 13, 2022
17917198 B7-H3 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 1634 §103 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2022
17801907 RECOMBINANT FIBCD1 AND USE THEROF IN THE TREATMENT OF MUSCLE ATROPHY WHITE, ASHLEY TAYLOR 1653 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 24, 2022
17783040 Method for Preparing CD7-Negative, CD3-Positive T Cells GRABER, JAMES J 1631 §103DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Jun 07, 2022
17550051 Use of FOXP3 Enhancers to Modulate Regulatory T Cells WILSON, MICHAEL C 1638 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2021
17605639 GENE KNOCK-OUTS TO IMPROVE T CELL FUNCTION ABBOTT, KODYE LEE 1634 §102§103§112Other Final Rejection Pending Oct 22, 2021
17819810 TUMOR SUPPRESSION BY MODULATION OF NON-CANONICAL AUTOPHAGY (LAP) IN MYELOID CELLS GAO, ASHLEY HARTMAN 1678 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Aug 15, 2022
17792284 ERROR SUPPRESSION IN GENETIC SEQUENCING THOMPSON, MILANA KAYE 1687 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 12, 2022
17779841 USE OF PROTEASE SERINE 21 (PRSS21) ANTIGEN TESTING IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA SALMON, KATHERINE D 1682 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending May 25, 2022
17258533 USE OF IL-12 TO ALTER EPIGENETIC EFFECTOR PROGRAMS IN CD8 T CELLS GRABER, JAMES J 1631 §103Other Final Rejection 79d Pending Jan 07, 2021
16467358 DNA METHYLATION PROFILING FOR T-CELL IMMUNOTHERAPY MOSS, NATALIE M 1653 §101§103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jun 06, 2019

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