Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Jackson Laboratory

10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (2)

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 (80%)
1
Easy (10%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (50%)
§102 only3 (30%)
§112 only1 (10%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
50% of docket
2
Information Tech
20% of docket
1
Communications
10% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HICKS, SHIRLEY D. 1 63.3% +54.2%
FRUMKIN, JESSE P 1 69.8% +46.9%
PEDAPATI, CHANDHANA 1 66.7% +35.6%
NOBLE, MARCIA STEPHENS 1 67.0% +40.2%
MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP 1 50.8% +57.1%
WILSON, MICHAEL C 1 41.7% +17.6%
HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN 1 55.6% +40.1%
FERNANDEZ RIVAS, OMAR F 1 69.4% +1.0%
ROSSI, VY BUI 1 31.7% +44.0%
ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF 1 60.1% +25.4%

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18327976 MURINE-MHC-DEFICIENT HLA-TRANSGENIC NOD-MOUSE MODELS FOR T1D THERAPY DEVELOPMENT NOBLE, MARCIA STEPHENS 49d overdue
18602428 GENE MUTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH TANDEM DUPLICATOR PHENOTYPE FRUMKIN, JESSE P 42d overdue
18560081 Determining Visual Frailty Index Using Machine Learning Models PEDAPATI, CHANDHANA 30d overdue
18015043 TRANSGENIC MOUSE MODEL EXPRESSING HUMAN HLA-A201 RESTRICTION GENE WILSON, MICHAEL C 25d overdue
17275653 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS IN A GENOME ROSSI, VY BUI 4d overdue
18874860 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING CROSS-SPECIES GENE AND GENE VARIANT RELATIONSHIPS HICKS, SHIRLEY D. 12d
18007429 Automated Phenotyping of Behavior MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP 14d
16755065 TRANSGENIC SELECTION METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1685 2
2168 1
2669 1
1632 1
3797 1
1638 1
3791 1
2128 1
1646 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18874860 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING CROSS-SPECIES GENE AND GENE VARIANT RELATIONSHIPS HICKS, SHIRLEY D. 2168 §102 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Dec 13, 2024
18602428 GENE MUTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH TANDEM DUPLICATOR PHENOTYPE FRUMKIN, JESSE P 1685 Other Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Mar 12, 2024
18560081 Determining Visual Frailty Index Using Machine Learning Models PEDAPATI, CHANDHANA 2669 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2023
18327976 MURINE-MHC-DEFICIENT HLA-TRANSGENIC NOD-MOUSE MODELS FOR T1D THERAPY DEVELOPMENT NOBLE, MARCIA STEPHENS 1632 §112 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18007429 Automated Phenotyping of Behavior MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP 3797 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jan 30, 2023
18015043 TRANSGENIC MOUSE MODEL EXPRESSING HUMAN HLA-A201 RESTRICTION GENE WILSON, MICHAEL C 1638 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Jan 06, 2023
17813561 METHOD OF SELECTING A TREATMENT FOR AN MS PATIENT HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN 3791 §102 Final Rejection 72d Pending Jul 19, 2022
17788486 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DIAGNOSIS OF MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS/CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (ME/CFS) FROM IMMUNE MARKERS FERNANDEZ RIVAS, OMAR F 2128 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2022
17275653 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS IN A GENOME ROSSI, VY BUI 1685 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2021
16755065 TRANSGENIC SELECTION METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF 1646 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Apr 09, 2020

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