Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
33 pending office actions • 16 art units • 27 examiners • 0 of 33 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tempus AI Inc. is currently managing 32 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 26 distinct examiners and 16 distinct art units. SABOUR, GHAZAL is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending office actions currently under review. The 32 pending actions are spread across 16 distinct art units, reflecting the technical focuses within the transportation and e-commerce sector.
With 26 distinct examiners involved, the company interacts with many officials, though SABOUR, GHAZAL handles 3 of the actions. This distribution suggests a diversified prosecution strategy across the 16 distinct art units. The busiest examiner pending count of 3 is a portion of the 32 total pending actions. This arrangement indicates that the workload is not concentrated under a single examiner. The presence of 16 distinct art units shows that the company's technology is being evaluated by multiple technical sections of the patent office. SABOUR, GHAZAL is the busiest examiner for these 32 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 2 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 25 (76%) |
| §103 only | 4 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (3%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| SABOUR, GHAZAL | 3 | 37.8% | +43.2% |
| MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 3 | 26.7% | +21.8% |
| NEWTON, CHAD A | 2 | 37.6% | +23.2% |
| SASS, KIMBERLY A. | 2 | 53.4% | +51.7% |
| MOSER, BRUCE M | 1 | 84.2% | +20.1% |
| LAGOY, KYRA RAND | 1 | 9.5% | -11.1% |
| COLEMAN, CHARLES P. | 1 | 16.0% | +19.3% |
| HIGGS, STELLA EUN | 1 | 39.2% | +34.2% |
| GEDRA, OLIVIA ROSE | 1 | 9.1% | +25.0% |
| SMITH, KEVIN LEE | 1 | 36.9% | +20.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18398649 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING PATIENT RECRUITMENT AT CLINICAL SITES | MERCHANT, SHAHID R | 111d overdue |
| 18635663 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING CLINICAL RESPONSE | ILAGAN, VINCENT CAESAR | 99d overdue |
| 19210931 | CANCER TREATMENT EFFICACY EVALUATION UPON UNDERGOING OR COMPLETING A CANCER TREATMENT | SABOUR, GHAZAL | 58d overdue |
| 19067139 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE FOR DIRECTED HYPOTHESIS GENERATION AND RANKING | MOSER, BRUCE M | 19d overdue |
| 17548084 | Systems and Methods for Homogenization of Disparate Datasets | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 5d overdue |
| 18433240 | DETERMINING BIOMARKERS FROM HISTOPATHOLOGY SLIDE IMAGES | VARNDELL, ROSS E | 5d |
| 18544092 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND ARTICLES FOR STRUCTURED ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD IMPUTATION USING DIAGNOSTIC TEMPORAL WINDOW | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 7d |
| 18091320 | MULTIMODAL CARDIO DISEASE STATE PREDICTIONS COMBINING ELECTROCARDIOGRAM, ECHOCARDIOGRAM, CLINICAL AND DEMOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION RELATING TO A PATIENT | SHELDEN, BION A | 22d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19210931 | CANCER TREATMENT EFFICACY EVALUATION UPON UNDERGOING OR COMPLETING A CANCER TREATMENT | SABOUR, GHAZAL | 58d overdue |
| 19067139 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE FOR DIRECTED HYPOTHESIS GENERATION AND RANKING | MOSER, BRUCE M | 19d overdue |
| 16732229 | TRANSCRIPTOME DECONVOLUTION OF METASTATIC TISSUE SAMPLES | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 28d |
| 19362140 | DATA BASED CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | NEWTON, CHAD A | — |
| 18949724 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STRATIFYING PATIENT CANCER RISK USING COMPUTATIONAL ONCOLOGY AND MOLECULAR DATA | COLEMAN, CHARLES P. | — |
| 18913883 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOLECULAR RESIDUAL DISEASE LIQUID BIOPSY ASSAY | SABOUR, GHAZAL | — |
| 18789091 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS FOR CHECK POINT IDENTIFICATION | HIGGS, STELLA EUN | — |
| 18782994 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHENOTYPING USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PROMPTING | GEDRA, OLIVIA ROSE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1685 | 5 |
| 3686 | 4 |
| 3681 | 3 |
| 1686 | 3 |
| 3685 | 2 |
| 3684 | 2 |
| 2154 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 3600 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19362140 | DATA BASED CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | NEWTON, CHAD A | 3681 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
| 19210931 | CANCER TREATMENT EFFICACY EVALUATION UPON UNDERGOING OR COMPLETING A CANCER TREATMENT | SABOUR, GHAZAL | 1686 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19067139 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE FOR DIRECTED HYPOTHESIS GENERATION AND RANKING | MOSER, BRUCE M | 2154 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19042728 | DETECTING CARDIOVASCULAR CONDITION FROM ELECTROCARDIOGRAM DATA USING ENSEMBLE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS | LAGOY, KYRA RAND | 3685 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18949724 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STRATIFYING PATIENT CANCER RISK USING COMPUTATIONAL ONCOLOGY AND MOLECULAR DATA | COLEMAN, CHARLES P. | 3683 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18913883 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOLECULAR RESIDUAL DISEASE LIQUID BIOPSY ASSAY | SABOUR, GHAZAL | 1686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18789091 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS FOR CHECK POINT IDENTIFICATION | HIGGS, STELLA EUN | 3681 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18782994 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHENOTYPING USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PROMPTING | GEDRA, OLIVIA ROSE | 3600 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18679368 | Systems and Methods for Generating Task-Specific Agent Modules Based on User Requests | SMITH, KEVIN LEE | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18679344 | Systems and Methods for Providing Third-Party Interactions with a Set of Task-Specific Components | SASS, KIMBERLY A. | 3686 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18679338 | Systems and Methods for Deploying a Machine-Learning Model for Performing a Specific Clinical Task | SASS, KIMBERLY A. | 3686 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18679332 | Systems and Methods for Configuring a Task-Specific Machine-Learning Model at a Computer System | FEREJA, SAMUEL D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18674017 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-LABEL CANCER CLASSIFICATION | AUGER, NOAH ANDREW | 1687 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18660213 | DATA BASED CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | NEWTON, CHAD A | 3681 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18651561 | ATTENTION-BASED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING QUALITY CONTROL OF WHOLE-SLIDE IMAGE PREDICTIONS | PERUNGAVOOR, SATHYANARAYA V | 2488 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18635663 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING CLINICAL RESPONSE | ILAGAN, VINCENT CAESAR | 3686 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 99d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18607389 | DISTRIBUTING DIAGNOSTIC PREDICTION MODELS | TO, BAOQUOC N | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18592272 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A RADIOLOGY REPORT | NGUYEN, PHU K | 2616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18433240 | DETERMINING BIOMARKERS FROM HISTOPATHOLOGY SLIDE IMAGES | VARNDELL, ROSS E | 2674 | §101§102§103§112DPOther | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18398649 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING PATIENT RECRUITMENT AT CLINICAL SITES | MERCHANT, SHAHID R | 3684 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 111d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18544092 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND ARTICLES FOR STRUCTURED ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD IMPUTATION USING DIAGNOSTIC TEMPORAL WINDOW | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 3686 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18222324 | TRANSFORMING UNSTRUCTURED PATIENT DATA STREAMS USING SCHEMA MAPPING AND CONCEPT MAPPING WITH QUALITY TESTING AND USER FEEDBACK MECHANISMS | LEE, ANDREW ELDRIDGE | 3684 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 18210449 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING HISTOLOGY IMAGE TRAINING DATASETS FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | CLOW, LORI A | 1671 | §101§102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18298371 | DATA BASED CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SABOUR, GHAZAL | — | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 18176476 | Systems and Methods for Detecting Cellular Pathway Dysregulation in Cancer Specimens | DARRIGRAND, EMILY ANN | 1681 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 18091320 | MULTIMODAL CARDIO DISEASE STATE PREDICTIONS COMBINING ELECTROCARDIOGRAM, ECHOCARDIOGRAM, CLINICAL AND DEMOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION RELATING TO A PATIENT | SHELDEN, BION A | 3685 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
| 17963969 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING ALTERNATIVE SPLICING IN SEQUENCING DATA | RIGGS II, LARRY D | 1686 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2022 |
| 17816345 | Detection of Genetic Variants in Human Leukocyte Antigen Genes | LIN, JERRY | 1685 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
| 17857901 | LARGE SCALE ORGANOID ANALYSIS | NGUYEN, NAM P | 1678 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2022 |
| 17571412 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR JOINT LOW-COVERAGE WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING AND WHOLE EXOME SEQUENCING INFERENCE OF COPY NUMBER VARIATION FOR CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 1685 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2022 |
| 17548084 | Systems and Methods for Homogenization of Disparate Datasets | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 1685 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Dec 10, 2021 |
| 17150992 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-LABEL CANCER CLASSIFICATION | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 1685 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2021 |
| 16732229 | TRANSCRIPTOME DECONVOLUTION OF METASTATIC TISSUE SAMPLES | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 1685 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Dec 31, 2019 |
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