Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

11 pending office actions • 8 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)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%)
8
Medium (73%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (27%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (64%)
§102 only1 (9%)
No statute on record3 (27%)

Industry Mix

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

11
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI 1 54.5% +53.7%
VALENROD, YEVGENY 1 72.6% +25.4%
LANDSMAN, ROBERT S 1 81.3% +12.9%
WHITEMAN, BRIAN A 1 68.2% +17.0%
O'NEILL, MARISOL ANN 1 52.2% +64.7%
HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J 1 52.8% +51.5%
PYLA, EVELYN Y 1 55.1% +47.8%
SUNSHINE, HANNAH LOUISE 1 71.0% +13.3%
RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 1 51.8% +63.5%
SINGH, ANOOP KUMAR 1 42.8% +67.6%

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

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18015657 SUBSTITUTED 4-(3-AMINOPROP-1-YL)AMINOQUINOLINE ANALOGS AS MODULATORS OF MELANOMA-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 11 UBIQUITIN LIGASE HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J 104d overdue
17917198 B7-H3 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 72d overdue
17636152 SCHIZOPHRENIA-RELATED MICRODELETION GENE 2510002D24Rik IS ESSENTIAL FOR SOCIAL MEMORY SINGH, ANOOP KUMAR 59d overdue
18245257 METHODS FOR TREATING OR MODULATING AN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE LANDSMAN, ROBERT S 24d overdue
18642382 METHODS OF TREATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH CASTOR RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI 16d overdue
18541691 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF HEARING LOSS VALENROD, YEVGENY 11d overdue
18042015 COMPOSITIONS AND METHOD FOR TREATING THALASSEMIA WHITEMAN, BRIAN A 2d overdue
18041873 Use of Amylase or Maltose to Treat or Prevent Neurodegeneration O'NEILL, MARISOL ANN 9d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1627 2
1647 2
1633 2
1628 1
1636 1
1634 1
1632 1
1638 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18642382 METHODS OF TREATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH CASTOR RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI 1627 Other Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2024
18541691 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF HEARING LOSS VALENROD, YEVGENY 1628 Other Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2023
18245257 METHODS FOR TREATING OR MODULATING AN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE LANDSMAN, ROBERT S 1647 §102 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2023
18042015 COMPOSITIONS AND METHOD FOR TREATING THALASSEMIA WHITEMAN, BRIAN A 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Feb 17, 2023
18041873 Use of Amylase or Maltose to Treat or Prevent Neurodegeneration O'NEILL, MARISOL ANN 1633 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Feb 16, 2023
18015657 SUBSTITUTED 4-(3-AMINOPROP-1-YL)AMINOQUINOLINE ANALOGS AS MODULATORS OF MELANOMA-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 11 UBIQUITIN LIGASE HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J 1627 §103 Non-Final OA 104d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2023
17927038 Recombinant P5 Promoter for Use in Reducing DNA Contamination of AAV Preparations PYLA, EVELYN Y 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Nov 22, 2022
17918644 CHIMERIC MYD88 RECEPTORS SUNSHINE, HANNAH LOUISE 1647 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Oct 13, 2022
17917198 B7-H3 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 1634 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2022
17636152 SCHIZOPHRENIA-RELATED MICRODELETION GENE 2510002D24Rik IS ESSENTIAL FOR SOCIAL MEMORY SINGH, ANOOP KUMAR 1632 §103 Final Rejection 59d overdue Pending Feb 17, 2022
17550051 Use of FOXP3 Enhancers to Modulate Regulatory T Cells WILSON, MICHAEL C 1638 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2021

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