Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
57% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
43% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DONOHUE, SEAN R 1 41.5% +21.7%
GU, QINHUA 1 75.0% +30.4%
CERMAK, ADAM JASON 1 71.3% +4.7%
NICOL, ALEXANDER W 1 42.0% +44.9%
XIAO, YAN 1 67.9% +51.5%
HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA 1 57.1% +14.5%
SMALE, AVERY E 1 72.9% +22.2%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18603721 COMPOUNDS AND COMPOSITIONS USEFUL AS RADIOTRACERS FOR IMAGING OF REACTIVE OXIDATIVE SPECIES DONOHUE, SEAN R 28d overdue
17048879 A MEDICAL DEVICE FOR DEPLOYING A CATHETER THAT CAN BE OPERATED WITH A SINGLE HAND, AND A METHOD SMALE, AVERY E 24d overdue
18276812 ENGINEERED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES AND THEIR USES NICOL, ALEXANDER W 9d
18316672 EPHA3 AND MULTI-VALENT TARGETING OF TUMORS XIAO, YAN 21d
17989669 COMBINED NITRITE AND LIGHT TREATMENT TO PREVENT DEVICE THROMBOSIS HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA 36d
18289875 GENE THERAPY FOR DENT DISEASE GU, QINHUA 60d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3783 2
1618 1
1633 1
1634 1
1642 1
3792 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18603721 COMPOUNDS AND COMPOSITIONS USEFUL AS RADIOTRACERS FOR IMAGING OF REACTIVE OXIDATIVE SPECIES DONOHUE, SEAN R 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2024
18289875 GENE THERAPY FOR DENT DISEASE GU, QINHUA 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Nov 07, 2023
18454673 DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUSLY CONTROLLING A BALLOON CATHETER CERMAK, ADAM JASON 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Aug 23, 2023
18276812 ENGINEERED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES AND THEIR USES NICOL, ALEXANDER W 1634 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 10, 2023
18316672 EPHA3 AND MULTI-VALENT TARGETING OF TUMORS XIAO, YAN 1642 Other Non-Final OA 21d Pending May 12, 2023
17989669 COMBINED NITRITE AND LIGHT TREATMENT TO PREVENT DEVICE THROMBOSIS HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Nov 17, 2022
17048879 A MEDICAL DEVICE FOR DEPLOYING A CATHETER THAT CAN BE OPERATED WITH A SINGLE HAND, AND A METHOD SMALE, AVERY E 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2020

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