Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Thomas Jefferson University

13 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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 (8%)
7
Medium (54%)
1
Easy (8%)
4
Unknown (31%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§103 only6 (46%)
§102 only1 (8%)
§112 only1 (8%)
No statute on record4 (31%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
62% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
8% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
31% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SIPES, JOHN CURTIS 1 80.0% +12.9%
FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L 1 57.6% +38.1%
FRITH, SEAN A 1 61.2% +27.6%
KOSLOW, CAROL M 1 81.8% +11.9%
OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC 1 51.5% +55.0%
MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 1 47.8% +30.9%
CHEN, STACY BROWN 1 65.9% +40.1%
GAO, ASHLEY HARTMAN 1 59.8% +38.9%
BERTAGNA, ANGELA MARIE 1 44.5% +46.3%
SALVOZA, M FRANCO G 1 69.0% +29.4%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18539995 Persistent Luminescent Nanoparticle and Articles Comprising the Same KOSLOW, CAROL M 31d overdue
18723210 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING NEURO-OPHTHALMIC EXAMINATIONS SIPES, JOHN CURTIS 8d

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
18510470 CORTICAL RECORDING AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHODS AND DEVICES OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC 74d overdue

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18054469 Dumbbell PCR: A Method To Quantify Specific Small RNA Variants With A Single Nucleotide Resolution At Terminal Sequences BERTAGNA, ANGELA MARIE 168d overdue
18558049 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDITIONING AIR MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 124d overdue
18510470 CORTICAL RECORDING AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHODS AND DEVICES OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC 74d overdue
18706936 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC EUS ANCHOR FRITH, SEAN A 49d overdue
18539995 Persistent Luminescent Nanoparticle and Articles Comprising the Same KOSLOW, CAROL M 31d overdue
17996119 CORONAVIRUS VACCINE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE SALVOZA, M FRANCO G 30d overdue
18723210 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING NEURO-OPHTHALMIC EXAMINATIONS SIPES, JOHN CURTIS 8d
18745131 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BREAST CANCER DETECTION USING CO-LOCALIZED ULTRASOUND-MAMMOGRAPHY FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3798 2
1672 2
2872 1
1734 1
3791 1
3763 1
1678 1
1681 1
1759 1
1636 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18723210 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING NEURO-OPHTHALMIC EXAMINATIONS SIPES, JOHN CURTIS 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18745131 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BREAST CANCER DETECTION USING CO-LOCALIZED ULTRASOUND-MAMMOGRAPHY FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L 3798 §112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 17, 2024
18706936 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC EUS ANCHOR FRITH, SEAN A 3798 §103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending May 02, 2024
18539995 Persistent Luminescent Nanoparticle and Articles Comprising the Same KOSLOW, CAROL M 1734 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2023
18510470 CORTICAL RECORDING AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHODS AND DEVICES OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC 3791 §101 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2023
18558049 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDITIONING AIR MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 124d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2023
18034720 GENE SHUFFLED LYSSAVIRUS VACCINE CHEN, STACY BROWN 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending May 01, 2023
18065736 MEASURING FREQUENCY OF PATHOGEN-SPECIFIC T CELLS IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD GAO, ASHLEY HARTMAN 1678 Other Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 14, 2022
18054469 Dumbbell PCR: A Method To Quantify Specific Small RNA Variants With A Single Nucleotide Resolution At Terminal Sequences BERTAGNA, ANGELA MARIE 1681 Non-Final OA 168d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2022
17996119 CORONAVIRUS VACCINE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE SALVOZA, M FRANCO G 1672 Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2022
15733794 NONWOVEN HEMP HURD-BASED MATERIALS SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2021
17378274 HUMAN MIRNAS FOR USE IN DIAGNOSIS, PROGNOSIS, AND THERAPY OF HUMAN CONDITIONS AND DISEASES DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE 1636 §102 Non-Final OA 84d overdue Pending Jul 16, 2021
17290797 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA USING ANTISENSE VAN DRUFF, SYDNEY 1643 Other Non-Final OA 6d Pending May 03, 2021

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