Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only1 (14%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
86% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, VI X 1 85.9% +13.3%
KUO, JONATHAN T 1 72.5% +27.1%
CARTER, TARA ROSE E 1 80.7% +9.5%
ANTHOPOLOS, PETER 1 57.2% +58.8%
MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E 1 46.3% +54.4%
HALL, DEANNA K 1 75.8% +15.4%
POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE 1 58.8% +33.8%

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
18826636 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INTRA-CORPOREAL MANIPULATION AND DECOMPRESSION OF BODILY STRUCTURES NGUYEN, VI X 14d

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
17925572 PERCUTANEOUS INVASIVE INSTRUMENT GUIDE POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE 60d overdue
18167475 MODULAR, PERCUTANEOUS DUAL-LUMEN CANNULA SYSTEM HALL, DEANNA K 5d
18826636 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INTRA-CORPOREAL MANIPULATION AND DECOMPRESSION OF BODILY STRUCTURES NGUYEN, VI X 14d
18278688 NEURAL CONTROL OF ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY ANTHOPOLOS, PETER 14d
18229495 AUTOMATED CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION DEVICE MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E 14d
18771579 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEURAL TISSUE ANATOMY ESTIMATION AND SELECTIVE NEURAL STIMULATION KUO, JONATHAN T 19d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3771 2
3792 1
3773 1
1611 1
3785 1
3783 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18826636 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INTRA-CORPOREAL MANIPULATION AND DECOMPRESSION OF BODILY STRUCTURES NGUYEN, VI X 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 06, 2024
18771579 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEURAL TISSUE ANATOMY ESTIMATION AND SELECTIVE NEURAL STIMULATION KUO, JONATHAN T 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jul 12, 2024
18583007 ADAPTER FOR SURGICAL RETRACTOR POSITIONING DEVICE CARTER, TARA ROSE E 3773 Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending Feb 21, 2024
18278688 NEURAL CONTROL OF ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY ANTHOPOLOS, PETER 1611 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Aug 24, 2023
18229495 AUTOMATED CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION DEVICE MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Aug 02, 2023
18167475 MODULAR, PERCUTANEOUS DUAL-LUMEN CANNULA SYSTEM HALL, DEANNA K 3783 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Feb 10, 2023
17925572 PERCUTANEOUS INVASIVE INSTRUMENT GUIDE POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2022

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