Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The United States Department of Health and Human Services

10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 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.

7
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (70%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (30%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (40%)
§102 only3 (30%)
No statute on record3 (30%)

Industry Mix

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

10
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.

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
FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1 49.5% +14.6%
SEAMAN, D MARGARET M 1 76.6% +8.0%
GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN 1 100.0% +0.0%
STOICA, ELLY GERALD 1 66.5% +22.9%
CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI 1 46.9% +27.0%
BEANE, RANDALL L 1 32.5% +37.8%
BOWLES, DAVID PAUL 1 75.0% +17.5%
PETERS, ALEC JON 1 68.6% +61.7%
LEONARD, ARTHUR S 1 50.5% +50.7%
MATALKAH, FATIMAH KHALAF 1 56.3% +11.5%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18271901 REPLICATION-COMPETENT ADENOVIRUS TYPE 4 SARS-COV-2 VACCINES AND THEIR USE GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN 34d

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
17346630 METHODS TO ELIMINATE CANCER STEM CELLS BY TARGETING CD47 MATALKAH, FATIMAH KHALAF 51d overdue
18318588 USES OF MESOTHELIN-TARGETED CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS STOICA, ELLY GERALD 46d overdue
17783171 ANTIBODY-DRUG CONJUGATES SPECIFIC FOR CD276 AND USES THEREOF PETERS, ALEC JON 46d overdue
18032132 HIGH CONCENTRATION METHYLCOBALAMIN OR COMBINATION OF METHYL- AND HYDROXY-COBALAMIN FOR THE TREATMENT OF COBALAMIN C DEFICIENCY DISORDERS CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI 44d overdue
17674378 INTRACELLULAR GENOMIC TRANSPLANT AND METHODS OF THERAPY LEONARD, ARTHUR S 23d overdue
18053308 ANTISENSE THERAPEUTICS FOR BETACORONAVIRUS TREATMENT BEANE, RANDALL L 10d overdue
17923394 ABERRANT POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS (PTMS) IN METHYL- AND PROPIONIC ACIDEMIA AND A MUTANT SIRTUIN (SIRT) TO METABOLIZE PTMS BOWLES, DAVID PAUL 13d
18568738 COMPOUNDS THAT BIND NON-CANONICAL G-QUADRUPLEX STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 16d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1654 2
1626 1
1625 1
1672 1
1647 1
1699 1
1641 1
1631 1
1638 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18568738 COMPOUNDS THAT BIND NON-CANONICAL G-QUADRUPLEX STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1626 §102 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Dec 08, 2023
18288318 PURINE NUCLEOSIDES, THEIR INTERMEDIATES, AND METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF SEAMAN, D MARGARET M 1625 §102 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18271901 REPLICATION-COMPETENT ADENOVIRUS TYPE 4 SARS-COV-2 VACCINES AND THEIR USE GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jul 12, 2023
18318588 USES OF MESOTHELIN-TARGETED CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS STOICA, ELLY GERALD 1647 Other Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending May 16, 2023
18032132 HIGH CONCENTRATION METHYLCOBALAMIN OR COMBINATION OF METHYL- AND HYDROXY-COBALAMIN FOR THE TREATMENT OF COBALAMIN C DEFICIENCY DISORDERS CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI 1699 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2023
18053308 ANTISENSE THERAPEUTICS FOR BETACORONAVIRUS TREATMENT BEANE, RANDALL L 1654 Other Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2022
17923394 ABERRANT POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS (PTMS) IN METHYL- AND PROPIONIC ACIDEMIA AND A MUTANT SIRTUIN (SIRT) TO METABOLIZE PTMS BOWLES, DAVID PAUL 1654 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Nov 04, 2022
17783171 ANTIBODY-DRUG CONJUGATES SPECIFIC FOR CD276 AND USES THEREOF PETERS, ALEC JON 1641 Other Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2022
17674378 INTRACELLULAR GENOMIC TRANSPLANT AND METHODS OF THERAPY LEONARD, ARTHUR S 1631 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Feb 17, 2022
17346630 METHODS TO ELIMINATE CANCER STEM CELLS BY TARGETING CD47 MATALKAH, FATIMAH KHALAF 1638 §102 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2021

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