Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Penn State Research Foundation

26 pending office actions • 23 art units • 25 examiners • 0 of 26 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 46 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

26
Total Pending OAs
19
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

17
Overdue
0
Due this week
7
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. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (17)Due ≤ 30 days (7)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.

0
Hard (0%)
23
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only21 (81%)
§102 only2 (8%)
No statute on record3 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

18
Life Sciences
69% of docket
1
Information Tech
4% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
8% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
19% 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.

260 h
Manual time on pending OAs
52 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
91 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MAHLUM, JONATHAN DAVIS 2 57.7% +6.9%
SUE-AKO, ANDREW B. 1 71.5% +27.4%
DUMBRIS, SETH M 1 76.1% +17.0%
WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD 1 67.5% +22.2%
SHAW, PETER C 1 76.1% +35.8%
CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG 1 74.8% +16.4%
KUBELIK, ANNE R 1 76.2% -1.1%
JACKSON III, WALTER 1
SONG, INJA 1 65.5% +48.1%
SINCLAIR, DAVID M 1 68.0% +20.4%

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
18793671 MATCHING LAYER FOR ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD 46d overdue
18490614 PHOTOTHERMAL CURING OF THERMOSET RESINS SONG, INJA 37d overdue
18675291 LIGHT SOURCES THAT INCREASE OBJECT CHROMA WHEN DIMMED CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG 28d overdue
18938602 APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITY TUNING SUE-AKO, ANDREW B. 15d overdue
18883435 CERAMIC OXIDE COMPOSITES REINFORCED WITH 2D MX-ENES DUMBRIS, SETH M 8d
18680161 Embedding Security into Ferroelectric FET Array via In-Situ Memory Operation SHAW, PETER C 41d
18264145 METHOD OF MAKING HIGH VOLUMETRIC ENERGY DENSITY CAPACITOR SINCLAIR, DAVID M 77d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1638 2
1631 2
1625 2
3674 1
1784 1
3645 1
2493 1
2844 1
1663 1
1744 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18938602 APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITY TUNING SUE-AKO, ANDREW B. 3674 Other Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Nov 06, 2024
18883435 CERAMIC OXIDE COMPOSITES REINFORCED WITH 2D MX-ENES DUMBRIS, SETH M 1784 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Sep 12, 2024
18793671 MATCHING LAYER FOR ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2024
18680161 Embedding Security into Ferroelectric FET Array via In-Situ Memory Operation SHAW, PETER C 2493 §102 Non-Final OA 41d Pending May 31, 2024
18675291 LIGHT SOURCES THAT INCREASE OBJECT CHROMA WHEN DIMMED CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG 2844 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending May 28, 2024
18708993 HIGH FLAVONOID CORN AND USES THEREOF KUBELIK, ANNE R 1663 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending May 09, 2024
18562068 ONCOLYTIC VIRUS BASED CANCER THERAPY JACKSON III, WALTER 1638 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 17, 2023
18490614 PHOTOTHERMAL CURING OF THERMOSET RESINS SONG, INJA 1744 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2023
18264145 METHOD OF MAKING HIGH VOLUMETRIC ENERGY DENSITY CAPACITOR SINCLAIR, DAVID M 2848 §103 Final Rejection 77d Pending Aug 03, 2023
18332359 A MULTIPLEX CRISPR BASED ASSAY FOR THE SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS AND NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH 1683 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2023
18035573 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING BACTERIAL GENE EXPRESSION ZAHORIK, AMANDA MARY 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending May 05, 2023
18030390 NOVEL REDOX-BASED THERAPEUTIC APPROACH FOR TREATMENT OF CANCER FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1626 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 05, 2023
18018230 MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SEXUAL STAGE PLASMODIUM PARASITES YAMASAKI, ROBERT J 1657 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2023
18158250 CERAMIC COATING FOR CORROSION RESISTANCE OF NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING DAVIS, SHARON M 3646 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jan 23, 2023
18005944 SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATING TO WATER ELECTROLYSIS CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Jan 18, 2023
18012024 METHODS OF GENERATING HEMATOPOIETIC CELL PREPARATIONS SPENCER, ANDREA LYNNE MORRIS 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
18010690 SPHINGOSINE-1-PHOSPHATE RECEPTOR 1 AGONIST AND LIPOSOMAL FORMULATIONS THEREOF MAHLUM, JONATHAN DAVIS 1625 §103 Non-Final OA 80d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2022
17900503 ALKYLRESORCINOL HOMOLOGUES AS ANTIOXIDANTS KOHLER, STEPHANIE A 1791 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Aug 31, 2022
17758539 Biodegradable and Multifunctional Neural Block Devices FARRAR, LAUREN PENG 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2022
17783393 GRAPHENE-BASED GAS SENSING PLATFORM HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH 1798 §103 Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending Jun 08, 2022
17719833 LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMA CATHETER FOR LESS-INVASIVE, LOCALIZED TREATMENT OF ENDOCARDITIS AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS DELLA, JAYMI E 3794 Non-Final OA 168d overdue Pending Apr 13, 2022
17633321 Engineered CRISPR/Cas9 Systems for Simultaneous Long-term Regulation of Multiple Targets DHAR, MATASHA 1632 §103 Non-Final OA 120d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2022
17599188 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS RELATING TO TREATMENT OF CANCER MAHLUM, JONATHAN DAVIS 1625 Other Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2021
17439733 METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR TREATING CANCER THUESON, HANNA MARIE 1638 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Sep 15, 2021
17431887 METHODS FOR DIAGNOSIS AND/OR THERAPY OF DISORDERS THAT CORRELATE WITH DENNDIA VARIANT 2 SHIN, DANA H 1635 §103 Final Rejection 118d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2021
17178972 GENERATING GABAergic NEURONS IN BRAINS NGUYEN, QUANG 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Feb 18, 2021

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