Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Washington State University

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials

11 pending office actions • 11 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 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 (45%)
4
Medium (36%)
2
Easy (18%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (9%)
§103 only4 (36%)
§112 only2 (18%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (36%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
91% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
9% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 1 45.5% +80.0%
MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD 1 67.1% +31.9%
WINTERS, SEAN AYERS 1 88.2% +19.3%
CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN 1 38.4% +36.2%
RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1 45.8% +32.9%
SHEIKH, HAROON S 1 70.8% +18.3%
YU, TIAN NMN 1 55.1% +20.4%
DUNN, MCKENZIE A 1 53.8% +56.3%
TSAY, MARSHA M 1 45.7% +52.7%
DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 1 47.6% +21.1%

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
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
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
18816382 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR GENOME EDITING ACROSS GRAFT-JUNCTIONS CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA —
18235950 SELF-CROSSLINKING COMPOSITE BINDERS FOR ELECTRODES CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN —
18100282 FUEL CELL AND ELECTROLYZER HOTBOX MODULE USING CONDUCTIVE ZIRCONIA STACKS SHEIKH, HAROON S —

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18006200 METHODS OF IDENTIFYING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER YU, TIAN NMN 38d overdue
17963376 NANOZYME LINKED BIOASSAY AND ASSOCIATED METHODS DUNN, MCKENZIE A 7d
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 78d
18676570 METHODS OF PREPARING PLANT-BASED PREPREGS FOR COMPOSITE LAMINATES MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD 84d
18816382 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR GENOME EDITING ACROSS GRAFT-JUNCTIONS CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA —
18426083 DIFFUSED B-Ga2O3 PHOTOCONDUCTIVE DEVICES WINTERS, SEAN AYERS —
18235950 SELF-CROSSLINKING COMPOSITE BINDERS FOR ELECTRODES CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN —
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
1754 1
2892 1
1722 1
1759 1
1751 1
1681 1
1678 1
1656 1
1645 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18816382 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR GENOME EDITING ACROSS GRAFT-JUNCTIONS CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 1662 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 27, 2024
18676570 METHODS OF PREPARING PLANT-BASED PREPREGS FOR COMPOSITE LAMINATES MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD 1754 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending May 29, 2024
18426083 DIFFUSED B-Ga2O3 PHOTOCONDUCTIVE DEVICES WINTERS, SEAN AYERS 2892 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 29, 2024
18235950 SELF-CROSSLINKING COMPOSITE BINDERS FOR ELECTRODES CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN 1722 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 21, 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
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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