Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

The George Washington University

16 pending office actions • 13 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)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.

10
Hard (62%)
5
Medium (31%)
1
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other4 (25%)
§103 only5 (31%)
§112 only1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (38%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
19% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA 1 70.3% +35.1%
PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE 1 55.3% +16.7%
IP, JASON M 1 54.9% +25.1%
BUI PHO, PASCAL M 1 63.9% -19.1%
KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA 1 76.5% +33.3%
PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN 1 0.0% +0.0%
BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN 1 65.2% +30.6%
GOFF II, JOHN L 1 59.4% +31.1%
METCALF, MATTHEW CURRAN 1 40.0% +75.0%
LAVARIAS, ARNEL C 1 79.7% +0.3%

Hard Cases (11)

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
17159691 ROBOT-AIDED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER ASGHAR, AMINAH 112d overdue
17950573 PRUSSIAN BLUE NANOPARTICLES FUNCTIONALIZATION WITH LATENCY REVERSING AGENTS AND BROADLY NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE 36d overdue
18890038 CONDITIONAL VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER FOR FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS OF ASD FMRI DATA BUI PHO, PASCAL M 2d overdue
17606507 CMOS COMPATIBLE LIGHT EMITTING TUNNEL JUNCTION (LETJ) TORNOW, MARK W 14d
19065051 HYPER-EXCITATION HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING SYSTEM IP, JASON M 34d
19074681 CHEMICAL FREE EXTRACTION OF LITHIUM FROM BRINE PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE
18642730 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NANOSCALE AXIAL LOCALIZATION AND SUPER RESOLUTION AXIAL IMAGING WITH HEIGHT-CONTROLLED MIRROR KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA
18429316 COMPOSITIONS FOR AND METHODS OF IMPROVING DIRECTED EVOLUTION OF BIOMOLECULES PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18559017 N-ACYL FOSMIDOMYCIN PRODRUG ANALOGS AS NOVEL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENTS BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN 31d overdue
18140454 TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIAL PRINTER AND TRANSFER SYSTEM GOFF II, JOHN L 23d
19065051 HYPER-EXCITATION HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING SYSTEM IP, JASON M 34d
19224405 GUIDEWIRE FOR PREVENTION OF RETENTION AND METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA
19074681 CHEMICAL FREE EXTRACTION OF LITHIUM FROM BRINE PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE
18642730 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NANOSCALE AXIAL LOCALIZATION AND SUPER RESOLUTION AXIAL IMAGING WITH HEIGHT-CONTROLLED MIRROR KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA
18297565 COMPOSITIONS FOR AND METHODS OF TREATING CANCER METCALF, MATTHEW CURRAN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3797 2
2872 2
3783 1
1795 1
3798 1
1624 1
1746 1
1647 1
1636 1
1728 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19224405 GUIDEWIRE FOR PREVENTION OF RETENTION AND METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA 3783 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 30, 2025
19074681 CHEMICAL FREE EXTRACTION OF LITHIUM FROM BRINE PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE 1795 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 10, 2025
19065051 HYPER-EXCITATION HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING SYSTEM IP, JASON M 3797 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 34d Pending Feb 27, 2025
18890038 CONDITIONAL VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER FOR FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS OF ASD FMRI DATA BUI PHO, PASCAL M 3798 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Sep 19, 2024
18642730 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NANOSCALE AXIAL LOCALIZATION AND SUPER RESOLUTION AXIAL IMAGING WITH HEIGHT-CONTROLLED MIRROR KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA 2872 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 22, 2024
18429316 COMPOSITIONS FOR AND METHODS OF IMPROVING DIRECTED EVOLUTION OF BIOMOLECULES PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 31, 2024
18559017 N-ACYL FOSMIDOMYCIN PRODRUG ANALOGS AS NOVEL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENTS BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN 1624 §112 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2023
18140454 TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIAL PRINTER AND TRANSFER SYSTEM GOFF II, JOHN L 1746 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Apr 27, 2023
18297565 COMPOSITIONS FOR AND METHODS OF TREATING CANCER METCALF, MATTHEW CURRAN 1647 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 07, 2023
17919456 PHOTONIC TENSOR CORE MATRIX VECTOR MULTIPLIER LAVARIAS, ARNEL C 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Oct 17, 2022
17950573 PRUSSIAN BLUE NANOPARTICLES FUNCTIONALIZATION WITH LATENCY REVERSING AGENTS AND BROADLY NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE 1636 §103§112Other Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2022
17773486 PHOTOVOLTAIC RECEIVER FOR FREE-SPACE OPTICAL POWER BEAMING KANG, TAE-SIK 1728 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2022
17606507 CMOS COMPATIBLE LIGHT EMITTING TUNNEL JUNCTION (LETJ) TORNOW, MARK W 2891 §102§112 Final Rejection 14d Pending Oct 26, 2021
17282181 KITS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING OPTICAL DYNAMIC CLAMP ON EXCITABLE CELLS PULLIAM, JOSEPH CONSTANTINE 1687 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 01, 2021
17276081 CELLS EXPRESSING ANTIBODIES TARGETING HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME PARKIN, JEFFREY S 1671 §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 12, 2021
17159691 ROBOT-AIDED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER ASGHAR, AMINAH 3797 §101§112 Final Rejection 112d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2021

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