Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Scripps Research Institute

16 pending office actions • 14 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (3)

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%)
11
Medium (69%)
2
Easy (12%)
3
Unknown (19%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (50%)
§102 only3 (19%)
§112 only2 (12%)
No statute on record3 (19%)

Industry Mix

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

16
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

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
ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL 1 56.8% +41.6%
LEE, ANDREW P 1 48.5% +23.4%
GILL, RACHEL B 1 65.6% +27.7%
DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE 1
BOESEN, AGNIESZKA 1 68.1% +21.9%
ENGLISH, CONNOR KENNEDY 1 55.9% +55.6%
SEAMAN, D MARGARET M 1 76.6% +8.0%
KELLY, ROBERT M 1 74.1% +24.6%
FLINDERS, JEREMY C 1 64.3% +15.5%
CANELLA, KAREN A 1 62.6% +32.9%

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18174015 Genotypic and Phenotypic Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells to Monitor Tumor Evolution in Prostate Cancer Patients CANELLA, KAREN A 35d overdue
18504724 HETEROARYL DIAMIDE IRE1/XBP1s ACTIVATORS ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL 26d overdue
18304993 REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION OF POLYNUCLEOTIDES COMPRISING UNNATURAL NUCLEOTIDES FLINDERS, JEREMY C 10d overdue
18327110 ENGINEERED CELLS AND METHODS OF USE KELLY, ROBERT M 2d overdue
18021792 ENGINEERED ARENAVIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF GILL, RACHEL B 20d
18332851 PROTEASE INHIBITORS FOR TREATMENT OF CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS ENGLISH, CONNOR KENNEDY 26d
18257808 IMMUNOGENIC COMPOSITIONS BOESEN, AGNIESZKA 70d
18388023 METHODS FOR MITIGATING AND PREVENTING PROTEOSTASIS-BASED INJURIES LEE, ANDREW P 83d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1627 2
1625 2
1691 1
1671 1
1622 1
1672 1
1638 1
1684 1
1643 1
1693 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18504724 HETEROARYL DIAMIDE IRE1/XBP1s ACTIVATORS ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL 1627 §102 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2023
18388023 METHODS FOR MITIGATING AND PREVENTING PROTEOSTASIS-BASED INJURIES LEE, ANDREW P 1691 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Nov 08, 2023
18021792 ENGINEERED ARENAVIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF GILL, RACHEL B 1671 Other Non-Final OA 20d Pending Oct 10, 2023
18550500 ANTIVIRAL PRODRUGS OF ETV AND FORMULATIONS THEREOF DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE 1622 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18257808 IMMUNOGENIC COMPOSITIONS BOESEN, AGNIESZKA 1672 §102 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jun 15, 2023
18332851 PROTEASE INHIBITORS FOR TREATMENT OF CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS ENGLISH, CONNOR KENNEDY 1625 §102 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jun 12, 2023
18256680 A TAUTOMERIC LIGAND ENABLES BIOMIMETIC C-H HYDROXYLATION WITH MOLECULAR OXYGEN SEAMAN, D MARGARET M 1625 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2023
18327110 ENGINEERED CELLS AND METHODS OF USE KELLY, ROBERT M 1638 §112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jun 01, 2023
18304993 REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION OF POLYNUCLEOTIDES COMPRISING UNNATURAL NUCLEOTIDES FLINDERS, JEREMY C 1684 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Apr 21, 2023
18174015 Genotypic and Phenotypic Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells to Monitor Tumor Evolution in Prostate Cancer Patients CANELLA, KAREN A 1643 §103 Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
17923171 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF SARS-COV-2 SCHACHERMEYER, SAMANTHA LYNN 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 65d Pending Nov 03, 2022
17918448 GUANIDINE-MODIFIED C-TERMINUS VANCOMYCIN COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 12, 2022
17768896 EFFICIENT RNA SWITCHES AND RELATED EXPRESSION SYSTEMS YAMASAKI, ROBERT J 1657 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Apr 14, 2022
17716848 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IN VIVO SYNTHESIS OF UNNATURAL POLYPEPTIDES SHIN, DANA H 1635 Other Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2022
17753138 MONOCYCLIC AGONISTS OF STIMULATOR OF INTERFERON GENES STING KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE 1692 §112 Final Rejection 14d Pending Feb 21, 2022
17419904 THERAPEUTIC COMBINATIONS AS ANTIDOTES FOR ORGANOPHOSPHATE EXPOSURE IVANOVA, SVETLANA M 1627 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2021

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