Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Washington State University

10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (3)

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%)
9
Medium (90%)
1
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (80%)
§102 only1 (10%)
§112 only1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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.

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
MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD 1 66.8% +32.1%
AHMED, TASNIM M 1 80.5% +5.9%
ADENIJI, IBRAHIM M 1 68.1% +37.1%
YU, TIAN NMN 1 55.1% +13.6%
ABUZEINEH, HANAN ISAM 1 56.9% +49.3%
KIM, BRYAN 1 28.7% +36.7%
DUNN, MCKENZIE A 1 57.1% +50.2%
DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 1 48.2% +22.6%
NGUYEN, NAM P 1 54.7% +46.4%
MYERS, CARLA J 1 48.6% +47.0%

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
18547903 MICRONEEDLE ARRAY WITH AN INTERLOCKING FEATURE AHMED, TASNIM M 29d

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
17999268 SOLID-STATE MICROWAVE STERILIZATION AND PASTEURIZATION KIM, BRYAN 40d

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
17693798 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ANTIGEN DETECTION INCORPORATING INORGANIC NANOSTRUCTURES TO AMPLIFY DETECTION SIGNALS NGUYEN, NAM P 114d overdue
18006009 METHODS FOR SPERMATOGONIAL CULTURE ABUZEINEH, HANAN ISAM 43d overdue
18006200 METHODS OF IDENTIFYING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER YU, TIAN NMN 38d overdue
17963376 NANOZYME LINKED BIOASSAY AND ASSOCIATED METHODS DUNN, MCKENZIE A 7d
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
18264500 COLLAPSIBLE CONTAINER FOR CRYOGENIC STORAGE AND MOVEMENT ADENIJI, IBRAHIM M 69d
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1678 2
1754 1
3783 1
3763 1
1681 1
1633 1
1792 1
1645 1
1682 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18676570 METHODS OF PREPARING PLANT-BASED PREPREGS FOR COMPOSITE LAMINATES MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD 1754 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending May 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 Final Rejection 69d Pending Aug 07, 2023
18006200 METHODS OF IDENTIFYING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER YU, TIAN NMN 1681 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2023
18006009 METHODS FOR SPERMATOGONIAL CULTURE ABUZEINEH, HANAN ISAM 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2023
17999268 SOLID-STATE MICROWAVE STERILIZATION AND PASTEURIZATION KIM, BRYAN 1792 §102 Final Rejection 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
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
17693798 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ANTIGEN DETECTION INCORPORATING INORGANIC NANOSTRUCTURES TO AMPLIFY DETECTION SIGNALS NGUYEN, NAM P 1678 §103 Non-Final OA 114d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2022
17640823 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN 4 COPIES OF EXON 3 OF fAIM AND PROGRESSIVE CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN CATS MYERS, CARLA J 1682 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Mar 06, 2022

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