Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The George Washington University

11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 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.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (7)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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.

1
Hard (9%)
7
Medium (64%)
1
Easy (9%)
2
Unknown (18%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (9%)
§103 only5 (45%)
§102 only2 (18%)
§112 only1 (9%)
No statute on record2 (18%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
36% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
18% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
45% 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
IP, JASON M 1 54.5% +25.7%
MAYNARD, JOHNATHAN A 1 39.9% +7.2%
BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN 1 65.4% +24.5%
GOFF II, JOHN L 1 59.3% +30.7%
BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN 1 49.4% +55.0%
LAVARIAS, ARNEL C 1 79.6% -0.7%
VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE 1 46.7% +22.1%
PYLE, SIENNA CHRISTINE 1 72.5% +6.8%
KANG, TAE-SIK 1 58.0% +27.2%
TORNOW, MARK W 1 77.1% +13.3%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17159691 ROBOT-AIDED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER ASGHAR, AMINAH 112d overdue

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
17773486 PHOTOVOLTAIC RECEIVER FOR FREE-SPACE OPTICAL POWER BEAMING KANG, TAE-SIK 60d overdue
17950573 PRUSSIAN BLUE NANOPARTICLES FUNCTIONALIZATION WITH LATENCY REVERSING AGENTS AND BROADLY NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE 36d overdue
18559017 N-ACYL FOSMIDOMYCIN PRODRUG ANALOGS AS NOVEL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENTS BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN 31d overdue
17606507 CMOS COMPATIBLE LIGHT EMITTING TUNNEL JUNCTION (LETJ) TORNOW, MARK W 14d
18140454 TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIAL PRINTER AND TRANSFER SYSTEM GOFF II, JOHN L 23d
19065051 HYPER-EXCITATION HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING SYSTEM IP, JASON M 34d
18030449 AUSCULTATION WEARABLE WITH MECHANICAL AMPLIFIER AND OFFSET ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN 71d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3797 2
3791 2
3798 1
1624 1
1746 1
2872 1
1636 1
1728 1
2891 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19065051 HYPER-EXCITATION HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING SYSTEM IP, JASON M 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Feb 27, 2025
18890038 CONDITIONAL VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER FOR FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS OF ASD FMRI DATA MAYNARD, JOHNATHAN A 3798 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Sep 19, 2024
18559017 N-ACYL FOSMIDOMYCIN PRODRUG ANALOGS AS NOVEL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENTS BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN 1624 Other Non-Final OA 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
18030449 AUSCULTATION WEARABLE WITH MECHANICAL AMPLIFIER AND OFFSET ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN 3791 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Apr 05, 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 Other Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2022
17901979 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRIPLE-PARAMETRIC OPTICAL MAPPING PYLE, SIENNA CHRISTINE 3791 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Sep 02, 2022
17773486 PHOTOVOLTAIC RECEIVER FOR FREE-SPACE OPTICAL POWER BEAMING KANG, TAE-SIK 1728 §112 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2022
17606507 CMOS COMPATIBLE LIGHT EMITTING TUNNEL JUNCTION (LETJ) TORNOW, MARK W 2891 §102 Final Rejection 14d Pending Oct 26, 2021
17159691 ROBOT-AIDED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER ASGHAR, AMINAH 3797 §101 Final Rejection 112d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2021

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