Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

41 pending office actions • 38 art units • 41 examiners • 0 of 41 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 54 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

41
Total Pending OAs
28
Non-Final OAs
12
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 41 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

24
Overdue
0
Due this week
11
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 41 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (24)Due ≤ 30 days (11)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (2)

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 (2%)
26
Medium (63%)
5
Easy (12%)
9
Unknown (22%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (2%)
§103 only22 (54%)
§102 only3 (7%)
§112 only5 (12%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
No statute on record9 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

26
Life Sciences
63% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
5% of docket
3
Semiconductors
7% of docket
10
Mechanical / Eng
24% 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.

410 h
Manual time on pending OAs
82 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
144 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MA, CALVIN 1 75.8% +13.3%
MILO, MICHAEL 1 49.1% +55.6%
MONSUR, NASIMA 1 78.5% +26.2%
ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG 1 52.8% +29.1%
FARAG, AMAL ALY 1 67.0% +37.6%
SCHWARTZ, RAPHAEL M 1 67.2% +31.3%
BARRON, SEAN C 1 53.5% +30.9%
ALEJANDRO, RAYMOND 1 79.3% +22.3%
NICKOL, GARY B 1 43.9% +26.4%
KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY 1 52.2% +0.0%

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
18676682 CLOSED-LOOP NEUROMODULATION TO TREAT A CONDITION OF A BRAIN USING AN ADAPTIVE BRAIN STATE MODEL ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG 50d

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
18710849 NASAL TRANS-ESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY SYSTEM AND DEVICE FARAG, AMAL ALY 88d overdue
18743323 SYSTEMS FOR IN-CAGE ANIMAL BEHAVIOR SENSING MONSUR, NASIMA 37d overdue
18567888 COMPOSITE FIBER INKS AND ELECTRODES AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME ALEJANDRO, RAYMOND 23d overdue
18893214 MOMENT ARM EXTENSION SYSTEM FOR EXOSUIT MILO, MICHAEL 8d overdue
18531168 TARGETING ANTI-HUMAN PD 1H/VISTA TO TREAT HEMATOLOGIC DISORDERS NICKOL, GARY B 1d overdue
19246456 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING THERMAL HAPTIC FEEDBACK IN A VIRTUAL OR AUGMENTED REALITY MA, CALVIN 9d
18575437 FLUID SHEAR STRESS FOR EX VIVO ACTIVATION OF IMMUNE EFFECTOR CELLS BARRON, SEAN C 15d
18693572 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF STRUCTURES OF INTEREST IN MR IMAGES USING A WEIGHTED ACTIVE SHAPE MODEL SCHWARTZ, RAPHAEL M 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2858 2
1629 2
3791 2
2629 1
3786 1
3796 1
3798 1
2671 1
1653 1
1752 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19246456 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING THERMAL HAPTIC FEEDBACK IN A VIRTUAL OR AUGMENTED REALITY MA, CALVIN 2629 Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jun 23, 2025
18893214 MOMENT ARM EXTENSION SYSTEM FOR EXOSUIT MILO, MICHAEL 3786 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2024
18743323 SYSTEMS FOR IN-CAGE ANIMAL BEHAVIOR SENSING MONSUR, NASIMA 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2024
18676682 CLOSED-LOOP NEUROMODULATION TO TREAT A CONDITION OF A BRAIN USING AN ADAPTIVE BRAIN STATE MODEL ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG 3796 §101 Non-Final OA 50d Pending May 29, 2024
18710849 NASAL TRANS-ESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY SYSTEM AND DEVICE FARAG, AMAL ALY 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 88d overdue Pending May 16, 2024
18693572 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF STRUCTURES OF INTEREST IN MR IMAGES USING A WEIGHTED ACTIVE SHAPE MODEL SCHWARTZ, RAPHAEL M 2671 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Mar 20, 2024
18575437 FLUID SHEAR STRESS FOR EX VIVO ACTIVATION OF IMMUNE EFFECTOR CELLS BARRON, SEAN C 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Dec 29, 2023
18567888 COMPOSITE FIBER INKS AND ELECTRODES AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME ALEJANDRO, RAYMOND 1752 Other Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2023
18531168 TARGETING ANTI-HUMAN PD 1H/VISTA TO TREAT HEMATOLOGIC DISORDERS NICKOL, GARY B 1643 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2023
18563804 MACROLIDE COMPOUNDS KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 22, 2023
18559184 WDR5 INHIBITORS AND MODULATORS TRAN, ERIC 1629 §102 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Nov 06, 2023
18288034 HYDROPHILIC POLY(THIOKETAL) URETHANE SCAFFOLDS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF LEONARD, MICHAEL L 1763 §102 Non-Final OA 86d Pending Oct 23, 2023
18381126 Markers of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer and Uses Thereof SALMON, KATHERINE D 1682 §112 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Oct 17, 2023
18379251 SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN PARATHYROID TISSUE AND THYROID TISSUE AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME MUSTANSIR, ABID A 3791 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Oct 12, 2023
18284060 VENO-ARTERIAL VENOUS CROSS-CIRCULATION FOR EXTRACORPOREAL ORGAN SUPPORT VAN BUREN, LAUREN K 1655 DPOther Non-Final OA 70d Pending Sep 25, 2023
18547549 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR B1-SELECTIVE EXCITATION FOR SPATIAL LOCALIZATION IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING NAVARRO, HUGO IVAN 2858 §103 Final Rejection 35d Pending Aug 23, 2023
18454285 OPTOELECTROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR MASSIVE PARALLEL TRAPPING AND ENHANCED SPECTROSCOPY OF SINGLE NANOSCALE OBJECTS CHOI, JAMES J 2878 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Aug 23, 2023
18364809 PCR DETECTION OF SMALL FRAGMENTS OF A KNOWN NUCLEIC ACID TARGET HORLICK, KENNETH R 1681 §103 Non-Final OA 103d overdue Pending Aug 03, 2023
18361068 SCALABLE MULTIPLEX DETECTION OF SOMATIC MUTATIONS ZHANG, KAIJIANG 1684 §112 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Jul 28, 2023
18226204 HUMAN ADAPTABLE VARIABLE STIFFNESS SPRINGS STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A 3794 §112 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
18273728 ALTERING PROTEIN FUNCTION BY PHARMACOLOGICAL TARGETING OF MEMBRANE DOMAINS SODERQUIST, ARLEN 1797 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Jul 21, 2023
18223785 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF OPTICAL NEURAL STIMULATION FOR INTRAOPERATIVE NERVE MONITORING TU, AURELIE H 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18268009 CLASS OF BIOMATERIALS FOR PROMOTING LARGE BLOOD VESSEL GROWTH CESARE, JOSEPH DAVID 1675 Other Non-Final OA 20d Pending Jun 16, 2023
18253094 ANTAGONISTS OF THE MUSCARINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR M4 SOLOLA, TAOFIQ A 1625 Non-Final OA 175d overdue Pending May 16, 2023
18134539 METHOD OF PREVENTING KIDNEY INJURY DISRUPTION OF INTESTINAL LYMPHATICS CHONG, YONG SOO 1623 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Apr 13, 2023
18030434 SIDE VIEWING ENDOSCOPIC ENDCAP SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L 3799 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2023
18179941 MULTI-ARTICULATED CATHETERS WITH SAFETY METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMAGE-GUIDED COLLABORATIVE INTRAVASCULAR DEPLOYMENT NGO, MEAGAN N 3781 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Mar 07, 2023
18177068 LIPOPHILIC SIRNA CONJUGATES FOR THE TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATORY DISEASES SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN 1635 Other Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2023
18173983 POWERED-ON PASSIVE KNEE PROSTHESIS SYSTEM SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Feb 24, 2023
18065360 MINI-PROMOTER NGUYEN, QUANG 1631 §112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Dec 13, 2022
17928765 USE OF 2-HOBA TO TREAT ATHEROSCLEROSIS BARSKY, JARED 1628 Other Final Rejection 56d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2022
17993218 SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ENHANCED LEARNING USING BRAIN-GUIDED NON-INVASIVE BRAIN STIMULATION HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA 3792 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Nov 23, 2022
17998433 METHODS OF TREATING SJÖGRENS SYNDROME PIHONAK, SARAH 1627 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2022
17823707 ERGOTHIONEINE PET COMPOUNDS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF DONOHUE, SEAN R 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 97d overdue Pending Aug 31, 2022
17820418 CROSS-REACTIVE ANTIBODIES AND USES THEREOF LEE, YIE CHIA 1642 §112 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2022
17780782 PROTON TRANSPORT MEMBRANES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USE THEREOF BUCHANAN, JACOB 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending May 27, 2022
17618838 DIBENZYLAMINES AS AMINO ACID TRANSPORT INHIBITORS SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 1629 Other Final Rejection 27d Pending Dec 13, 2021
17618829 AMINO ACID TRANSPORT INHIBITORS AND THE USES THEREOF PATEL, SAGAR S 1626 Other Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2021
17459652 SYSTEMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF CANDIDATES FOR GENETIC TESTING USING CLINICAL DATA AND MACHINE LEARNING AUGER, NOAH ANDREW 1687 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Aug 27, 2021
17275764 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING SKIN DISEASES DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R 1654 Other Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Mar 12, 2021
17180816 MANIPULATING THE CIRCADIAN CLOCK TO INCREASE GENE EXPRESSION SHARMA, SANTOSH 1663 §103 Final Rejection 92d overdue Pending Feb 21, 2021

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