Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Trustees of Tufts College

25 pending office actions • 16 art units • 25 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

25
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
4
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (4)

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.

18
Hard (72%)
6
Medium (24%)
1
Easy (4%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (12%)
§103 only4 (16%)
§112 only1 (4%)
Double-patenting + other2 (8%)
Multi-statute (no §101)15 (60%)

Industry Mix

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

19
Life Sciences
76% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
4% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
2
Business / Other
8% 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.

250 h
Manual time on pending OAs
50 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
88 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SONG, JIANFENG 1 56.2% +33.1%
ROBERTS, ANNA L 1 55.7% +40.1%
BASS, DIRK R 1 62.3% +22.6%
LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM 1 56.6% +41.3%
PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT 1 67.2% +37.0%
MARVICH, MARIA 1 54.7% +28.1%
KIELIN, ERIK J 1 67.2% +4.5%
MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 1 14.3% +33.3%
ABBOTT, KODYE LEE 1 57.7% +64.7%
ARON, KIMBERLY A 1 54.7% +34.9%

Hard Cases (18)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17554823 FAP-ACTIVATED RADIOTHERANOSTICS AND USES RELATED THERETO WESTERBERG, NISSA M 183d overdue
18274010 Thread-Based Transistors KIELIN, ERIK J 155d overdue
18360217 RAPID HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING SYSTEM TO ASSESS POTENTIAL TREATMENTS FOR SPORADIC ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE MARVICH, MARIA 87d overdue
16979957 Acquisition of Samples for Evaluating Bacterial Demographics BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN 36d overdue
17778482 DIRECTED CHANGES IN ORGANISM POPULATIONS PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH 17d overdue
18252714 ECTOPIC CELLULAR GROWTH FACTOR EXPRESSION FOR LOW-COST PRODUCTION OF CELL-CULTURED FOODS STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 3d overdue
18002899 EDIBLE CELL BASED VACCINES BOESEN, AGNIESZKA 21d
18348717 BIORESPONSIVE INTERFACES FOR THE ORAL CAVITY MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 26d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18360217 RAPID HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING SYSTEM TO ASSESS POTENTIAL TREATMENTS FOR SPORADIC ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE MARVICH, MARIA 87d overdue
18348717 BIORESPONSIVE INTERFACES FOR THE ORAL CAVITY MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 26d
18256694 SUPPLEMENTED SERUM-FREE MEDIA FOR CULTURED MEAT PRODUCTION ABBOTT, KODYE LEE 34d
18331851 NOVEL PEPTIDE, COMPOSITIONS AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF AGENTS INTO CELLS AND TISSUES ARON, KIMBERLY A 41d
18845749 LIPID NANOPARTICLES FOR TARGETED DELIVERY OF MRNA SONG, JIANFENG
18834377 Ingestible Capsule with Beads for Sampling Content of the Gastrointestinal Tract ROBERTS, ANNA L
18705119 ARTICLES AND METHODS FOR PLASMA SEPARATION BASS, DIRK R
18683663 RADIOFLUORINATED AGENTS FOR PET IMAGING SELECTIVELY TARGETING FIBROBLAST ACTIVATION PROTEIN LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1634 4
3791 3
1613 2
1633 2
1627 1
2814 1
1637 1
1611 1
1632 1
1641 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18845749 LIPID NANOPARTICLES FOR TARGETED DELIVERY OF MRNA SONG, JIANFENG 1613 §102DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 10, 2024
18834377 Ingestible Capsule with Beads for Sampling Content of the Gastrointestinal Tract ROBERTS, ANNA L 1613 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 30, 2024
18705119 ARTICLES AND METHODS FOR PLASMA SEPARATION BASS, DIRK R §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 26, 2024
18683663 RADIOFLUORINATED AGENTS FOR PET IMAGING SELECTIVELY TARGETING FIBROBLAST ACTIVATION PROTEIN LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 14, 2024
18536002 IMMUNOMODULATORY COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT 1627 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 11, 2023
18360217 RAPID HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING SYSTEM TO ASSESS POTENTIAL TREATMENTS FOR SPORADIC ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE MARVICH, MARIA 1634 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 87d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2023
18274010 Thread-Based Transistors KIELIN, ERIK J 2814 §102§103 Non-Final OA 155d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
18348717 BIORESPONSIVE INTERFACES FOR THE ORAL CAVITY MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 3791 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 26d Pending Jul 07, 2023
18256694 SUPPLEMENTED SERUM-FREE MEDIA FOR CULTURED MEAT PRODUCTION ABBOTT, KODYE LEE 1634 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jun 09, 2023
18331851 NOVEL PEPTIDE, COMPOSITIONS AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF AGENTS INTO CELLS AND TISSUES ARON, KIMBERLY A 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jun 08, 2023
18265561 LIPIDOID COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF KAMM, JUDITH MARIE 1637 §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 06, 2023
18205096 LIPID-LIKE NANOCOMPLEXES AND USES THEREOF ANTHOPOLOS, PETER 1611 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 02, 2023
18037430 Spatially-Selective Sampling of Gut Microbiome YOON, CHANEL J 3791 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 17, 2023
18252714 ECTOPIC CELLULAR GROWTH FACTOR EXPRESSION FOR LOW-COST PRODUCTION OF CELL-CULTURED FOODS STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 1632 §102§103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
18034221 ENZYME-ACTIVATED SERUM EXTENDED HALF-LIFE THERAPEUTIC CONJUGATES PETERS, ALEC JON 1641 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 39d Pending Apr 27, 2023
18033492 ENHANCED HYT-INDUCED PROTEIN DEGRADATION USING LIPID NANOPARTICLE DELIVERY ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS 1651 §103§112 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Apr 24, 2023
18041371 CULTURED TISSUE AND BIOREACTOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF NGUYEN, QUANG 1631 §103§112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Feb 10, 2023
18162137 ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODIES FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF LYME DISEASE MORGAN, BAILEY MICHELLE 1645 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 31, 2023
18002899 EDIBLE CELL BASED VACCINES BOESEN, AGNIESZKA 1672 §102§103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Dec 22, 2022
17791775 METHODS FOR INDUCING BIOSTASIS IN A CELL, TISSUE OR ORGAN RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 1634 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 08, 2022
17829271 Low Molecular Weight Silk Compositions and Stabilizing Silk Compositions POPA, ILEANA 1633 §103Other Final Rejection 12d Pending May 31, 2022
17778482 DIRECTED CHANGES IN ORGANISM POPULATIONS PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH 1634 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending May 20, 2022
17648247 METHODS FOR MODULATING THE FUNCTION OF BIOLOGICAL REGULATORY NETWORKS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE BY EXPLOITING THEIR MEMORY PROPERTIES VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN 1638 §101§112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jan 18, 2022
17554823 FAP-ACTIVATED RADIOTHERANOSTICS AND USES RELATED THERETO WESTERBERG, NISSA M 1618 §103§112 Final Rejection 183d overdue Pending Dec 17, 2021
16979957 Acquisition of Samples for Evaluating Bacterial Demographics BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN 3791 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Sep 11, 2020

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