Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Washington State University

14 pending office actions • 14 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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.

5
Hard (36%)
7
Medium (50%)
2
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (7%)
§103 only7 (50%)
§112 only2 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

11
Life Sciences
79% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
14% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 1 47.4% +76.9%
SPEED, DEQUANTARIUS JAVON 1 73.1% +77.8%
WINTERS, SEAN AYERS 1 88.4% +19.6%
AHMED, TASNIM M 1 81.2% +5.0%
ADENIJI, IBRAHIM M 1 67.7% +38.8%
RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1 45.4% +32.7%
SHEIKH, HAROON S 1 70.5% +18.9%
YU, TIAN NMN 1 55.3% +18.7%
ABUZEINEH, HANAN ISAM 1 56.0% +51.4%
KIM, BRYAN 1 28.5% +36.9%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18547903 MICRONEEDLE ARRAY WITH AN INTERLOCKING FEATURE AHMED, TASNIM M 29d
18426083 DIFFUSED B-Ga2O3 PHOTOCONDUCTIVE DEVICES WINTERS, SEAN AYERS

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
18006009 METHODS FOR SPERMATOGONIAL CULTURE ABUZEINEH, HANAN ISAM 43d overdue
18006200 METHODS OF IDENTIFYING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER YU, TIAN NMN 38d overdue
17640823 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN 4 COPIES OF EXON 3 OF fAIM AND PROGRESSIVE CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN CATS MYERS, CARLA J 15d
17999268 SOLID-STATE MICROWAVE STERILIZATION AND PASTEURIZATION KIM, BRYAN 40d
18100282 FUEL CELL AND ELECTROLYZER HOTBOX MODULE USING CONDUCTIVE ZIRCONIA STACKS SHEIKH, HAROON S

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
18006009 METHODS FOR SPERMATOGONIAL CULTURE ABUZEINEH, HANAN ISAM 43d overdue
18006200 METHODS OF IDENTIFYING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER YU, TIAN NMN 38d overdue
17999268 SOLID-STATE MICROWAVE STERILIZATION AND PASTEURIZATION KIM, BRYAN 40d
18264500 COLLAPSIBLE CONTAINER FOR CRYOGENIC STORAGE AND MOVEMENT ADENIJI, IBRAHIM M 69d
18816382 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR GENOME EDITING ACROSS GRAFT-JUNCTIONS CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA
18632652 METHOD AND MODIFIED ORGANISMS FOR BIOSYNTHESIS OF TARGET FATTY ACIDS SPEED, DEQUANTARIUS JAVON
18426083 DIFFUSED B-Ga2O3 PHOTOCONDUCTIVE DEVICES WINTERS, SEAN AYERS
18251958 CONVERSION OF CO-MINGLED WASTE PLASTICS TO MONOMERS AND FUELS IN SEQUENTIAL CATALYTIC PROCESS RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1662 1
1663 1
2892 1
3783 1
3763 1
1759 1
1751 1
1681 1
1633 1
1792 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18816382 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR GENOME EDITING ACROSS GRAFT-JUNCTIONS CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 1662 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 27, 2024
18632652 METHOD AND MODIFIED ORGANISMS FOR BIOSYNTHESIS OF TARGET FATTY ACIDS SPEED, DEQUANTARIUS JAVON 1663 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 11, 2024
18426083 DIFFUSED B-Ga2O3 PHOTOCONDUCTIVE DEVICES WINTERS, SEAN AYERS 2892 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 29, 2024
18547903 MICRONEEDLE ARRAY WITH AN INTERLOCKING FEATURE AHMED, TASNIM M 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 25, 2023
18264500 COLLAPSIBLE CONTAINER FOR CRYOGENIC STORAGE AND MOVEMENT ADENIJI, IBRAHIM M 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Aug 07, 2023
18251958 CONVERSION OF CO-MINGLED WASTE PLASTICS TO MONOMERS AND FUELS IN SEQUENTIAL CATALYTIC PROCESS RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1759 §112 Non-Final OA Pending May 05, 2023
18100282 FUEL CELL AND ELECTROLYZER HOTBOX MODULE USING CONDUCTIVE ZIRCONIA STACKS SHEIKH, HAROON S 1751 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 23, 2023
18006200 METHODS OF IDENTIFYING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER YU, TIAN NMN 1681 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2023
18006009 METHODS FOR SPERMATOGONIAL CULTURE ABUZEINEH, HANAN ISAM 1633 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2023
17999268 SOLID-STATE MICROWAVE STERILIZATION AND PASTEURIZATION KIM, BRYAN 1792 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Nov 18, 2022
17963376 NANOZYME LINKED BIOASSAY AND ASSOCIATED METHODS DUNN, MCKENZIE A 1678 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Oct 11, 2022
17995624 GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM FOR RAPID CONSTRUCTION OF MULTIPLE-GENE PATHWAY IN OLEAGINOUS YEASTS TSAY, MARSHA M 1656 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 06, 2022
17943587 CHIMERIC RECOMBINANT PROTEIN ENCODING EPITOPES WITH IDENTITY TO BACTERIAL, FUNGAL, PARASITE AND HUMAN METABOLIC ENZYMES INVOLVED IN PATHOGENESIS DURING SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 1645 §112 Non-Final OA 78d Pending Sep 13, 2022
17640823 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN 4 COPIES OF EXON 3 OF fAIM AND PROGRESSIVE CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN CATS MYERS, CARLA J 1682 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 15d Pending Mar 06, 2022

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