Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Virginia Commonwealth University

10 pending office actions • 9 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
5
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 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.

4
Hard (40%)
6
Medium (60%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (40%)
§102 only2 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
60% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
2
Business / Other
20% 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
KANAAN, MOHAMAD HASSAN 1 0.0% +0.0%
STOCKTON, LAURA LYNNE 1 75.2% +33.7%
FRENCH, CORRELL T 1 46.2% +33.5%
O'KEEFE, SEAN P 1 65.6% +12.5%
SULTANA, DILARA 1 80.5% +16.5%
LEE, CHIHYI NMN 1 32.9% +58.5%
TICHY, JENNIFER M.H. 1 65.0% +34.3%
GRASER, JENNIFER E 1 76.5% +23.6%
JOHANNSEN, DIANA B 1 53.3% +42.5%
SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 1 41.8% +38.6%

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
18435411 TEM Orientation Mapping via Dark-Field Vector Images SULTANA, DILARA

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18030160 A FACTOR H BINDING PROTEIN B (FHBB) BASED CHIMERIC VACCINE FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF PERIODONTAL DISEASE GRASER, JENNIFER E 19d overdue
18809461 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY KANAAN, MOHAMAD HASSAN
18593023 BRAIN PHANTOM WITH EMBEDDED SENSORS FOR BRAIN INJURY MODELING FRENCH, CORRELL T
18276574 METHODS FOR TREATING GLIOBLASTOMAS WITH SEPIAPTERIN LEE, CHIHYI NMN
18003949 METHODS FOR THE DETECTION OF LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS JOHANNSEN, DIANA B

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
18440289 3D PRINTED MAGNETOCALORIC DEVICES WITH CONTROLLED MICROCHANNELS AND MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME O'KEEFE, SEAN P 45d overdue
18030160 A FACTOR H BINDING PROTEIN B (FHBB) BASED CHIMERIC VACCINE FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF PERIODONTAL DISEASE GRASER, JENNIFER E 19d overdue
17574790 Methods and Compositions for Two-Stage Microbubble Delivery of Active Agents SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 12d
18727826 NALTREXAMINE DERIVATIVES BEARING 5-MEMBER HETEROCYCLIC RING SYSTEMS AND OPIOID RECEPTOR MODULATORS STOCKTON, LAURA LYNNE
18593023 BRAIN PHANTOM WITH EMBEDDED SENSORS FOR BRAIN INJURY MODELING FRENCH, CORRELL T
18435411 TEM Orientation Mapping via Dark-Field Vector Images SULTANA, DILARA
18276574 METHODS FOR TREATING GLIOBLASTOMAS WITH SEPIAPTERIN LEE, CHIHYI NMN
18304022 MICRODEVICES AND PROCESSES TO SEPARATE AND PROCESS MIXED FORENSIC BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES TICHY, JENNIFER M.H.

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3796 1
3715 1
1738 1
4100 1
1628 1
1653 1
1645 1
1682 1
1618 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18809461 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY KANAAN, MOHAMAD HASSAN 3796 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 20, 2024
18727826 NALTREXAMINE DERIVATIVES BEARING 5-MEMBER HETEROCYCLIC RING SYSTEMS AND OPIOID RECEPTOR MODULATORS STOCKTON, LAURA LYNNE §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 10, 2024
18593023 BRAIN PHANTOM WITH EMBEDDED SENSORS FOR BRAIN INJURY MODELING FRENCH, CORRELL T 3715 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 01, 2024
18440289 3D PRINTED MAGNETOCALORIC DEVICES WITH CONTROLLED MICROCHANNELS AND MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME O'KEEFE, SEAN P 1738 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2024
18435411 TEM Orientation Mapping via Dark-Field Vector Images SULTANA, DILARA 4100 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 07, 2024
18276574 METHODS FOR TREATING GLIOBLASTOMAS WITH SEPIAPTERIN LEE, CHIHYI NMN 1628 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 09, 2023
18304022 MICRODEVICES AND PROCESSES TO SEPARATE AND PROCESS MIXED FORENSIC BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES TICHY, JENNIFER M.H. 1653 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 20, 2023
18030160 A FACTOR H BINDING PROTEIN B (FHBB) BASED CHIMERIC VACCINE FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF PERIODONTAL DISEASE GRASER, JENNIFER E 1645 §102§112 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2023
18003949 METHODS FOR THE DETECTION OF LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS JOHANNSEN, DIANA B 1682 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Dec 30, 2022
17574790 Methods and Compositions for Two-Stage Microbubble Delivery of Active Agents SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jan 13, 2022

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