Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Trustees of Dartmouth College

10 pending office actions • 10 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
1
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
1
Due this week
2
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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%)
6
Medium (60%)
3
Easy (30%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (60%)
§112 only3 (30%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% 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
EPPERT, LUCY CLARE 1 52.9% +55.7%
HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J 1 52.8% +51.5%
TAKENAKA, RISA 1 15.4% +100.0%
MOORE, WHITNEY 1 88.3% +9.7%
AMPONSAH, OSEI K 1 72.0% +33.6%
HUDSON, AMY ROSE 1 75.1% +11.4%
LU, FRANK WEI MIN 1 63.0% +66.3%
ESSEX, LAURA ANN 1 59.6% +33.8%
ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM 1 72.7% +2.9%
MARTIN, PAUL C 1 42.0% +21.7%

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
18209941 Localizing Underwater Robots from the Air MOORE, WHITNEY 118d overdue

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
18263471 METHODS FOR INCREASING VIRAL TRANSDUCTION OF CELLS TAKENAKA, RISA 13d

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
18578900 FLEXIBLE PIEZOELECTRIC ARRAY FOR WEARABLE BLOOD PRESSURE SENSING EPPERT, LUCY CLARE 31d overdue
18468907 C19 SCAFFOLDS AND STEROIDS AND METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J 30d overdue
18015627 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CELL CAPTURE, BIOMARKER DETECTION, AND CONTACT-FREE CELL LYSIS LU, FRANK WEI MIN 16d overdue
17917174 CROSS-REACTIVE CORONAVIRUS ANTIBODIES AND USES THEREOF ESSEX, LAURA ANN 8d overdue
18016109 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CRISPR/CAS9 GUIDE RNA EFFICIENCY AND SPECIFICITY AGAINST GENETICALLY DIVERSE HIV-1 ISOLATES HUDSON, AMY ROSE 5d
18019757 ACYCLIC/CYCLIC ETHER BASED ELECTROLYTES OUTSTRETCHING THE LOW TEMPERATURE LIMIT OF SODIUM METAL ANODE AMPONSAH, OSEI K 9d
18263471 METHODS FOR INCREASING VIRAL TRANSDUCTION OF CELLS TAKENAKA, RISA 13d
16289118 Method for Enhancing Red Blood Cell Quality and Survival During Storage MARTIN, PAUL C 75d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 1
1627 1
1632 1
3646 1
1752 1
1636 1
1683 1
1675 1
1725 1
1653 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18578900 FLEXIBLE PIEZOELECTRIC ARRAY FOR WEARABLE BLOOD PRESSURE SENSING EPPERT, LUCY CLARE 3791 §112 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2024
18468907 C19 SCAFFOLDS AND STEROIDS AND METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE THEREOF HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J 1627 Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Sep 18, 2023
18263471 METHODS FOR INCREASING VIRAL TRANSDUCTION OF CELLS TAKENAKA, RISA 1632 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jul 28, 2023
18209941 Localizing Underwater Robots from the Air MOORE, WHITNEY 3646 §103 Final Rejection 118d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2023
18019757 ACYCLIC/CYCLIC ETHER BASED ELECTROLYTES OUTSTRETCHING THE LOW TEMPERATURE LIMIT OF SODIUM METAL ANODE AMPONSAH, OSEI K 1752 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Feb 03, 2023
18016109 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CRISPR/CAS9 GUIDE RNA EFFICIENCY AND SPECIFICITY AGAINST GENETICALLY DIVERSE HIV-1 ISOLATES HUDSON, AMY ROSE 1636 §112 Final Rejection 5d Pending Jan 13, 2023
18015627 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CELL CAPTURE, BIOMARKER DETECTION, AND CONTACT-FREE CELL LYSIS LU, FRANK WEI MIN 1683 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2023
17917174 CROSS-REACTIVE CORONAVIRUS ANTIBODIES AND USES THEREOF ESSEX, LAURA ANN 1675 §112 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2022
17782952 POLYESTER-BASED SOLID POLYMER COMPOSITE ELECTROLYTES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM 1725 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jun 06, 2022
16289118 Method for Enhancing Red Blood Cell Quality and Survival During Storage MARTIN, PAUL C 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Feb 28, 2019

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