Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Washington University

61 pending office actions • 49 art units • 60 examiners • 0 of 61 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 67 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

61
Total Pending OAs
46
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
5
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 61 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

35
Overdue
1
Due this week
16
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
5
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. 61 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (35)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (16)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (5)

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.

1
Hard (2%)
49
Medium (80%)
6
Easy (10%)
5
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (2%)
§103 only43 (70%)
§102 only5 (8%)
§112 only6 (10%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
No statute on record5 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

42
Life Sciences
69% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
4
Communications
7% of docket
3
Semiconductors
5% of docket
12
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.

610 h
Manual time on pending OAs
122 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
214 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 2 46.6% +52.8%
LAGOY, KYRA RAND 1 0.0% +0.0%
HORTH, LISA ANNE 1 61.8% +44.1%
CLARK, RYAN T 1 50.2% +19.3%
NGUYEN, TUAN DUC 1 82.5% +17.1%
SONG, HOON K 1 86.1% +8.4%
ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE 1 67.6% +34.2%
PARK, EDWARD 1 82.1% +18.1%
FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN 1 79.4% +18.5%
HODGE, LAURA NICOLE 1 43.7% +45.1%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18661385 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HIGH SPATIOTEMPORAL RADIO-LUMINESCENT IMAGING DOSIMETRY SONG, HOON K 16d overdue
18717314 DEVICES FOR PROVIDING ELECTROPHONIC MICROPHONE AND RELATED METHODS NGUYEN, TUAN DUC 41d
18638327 DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR OUTCOME-ORIENTED PREDICTIONS PARK, EDWARD 62d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18855529 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING CLINICAL PHENOTYPES FOR ALZHEIMER DISEASE DEMENTIA FROM UNSTRUCTURED CLINICAL RECORDS USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING LAGOY, KYRA RAND 11d overdue
16946215 SPARSE CO-VARYING UNIT OF THE HUMAN GUT MICROBIOTA THAT DESCRIBES HEALTHY AND IMPAIRED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LIN, JERRY 46d

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
18818523 METHODS OF DETECTING ONCOGENIC FUSIONS AND USES THEREOF HORTH, LISA ANNE 43d overdue
18706109 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CLASSIFYING WIDE COMPLEX TACHYCARDIAS (WCTS) ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE 22d overdue
17831103 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS OF SURGICAL DRAIN FLUID USING INTERCHANGEABLE AND CUSTOMIZABLE NUCLEIC ACID BASED TESTS KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 10d overdue
18716989 DEVICE FOR REVERSIBLY BLOCKING ACTIVITIES OF TARGET REGION AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME CLARK, RYAN T 5d
18168955 METHODS OF DETERMINING COVID-19 MORTALITY RISK KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 9d
18620007 ELECTROPORATION AND ELECTROPHORESIS DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS RELATED TO ENDOVASCULAR APPLICATIONS FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN 20d
18717314 DEVICES FOR PROVIDING ELECTROPHONIC MICROPHONE AND RELATED METHODS NGUYEN, TUAN DUC 41d
18613582 Mechanical Cardiac Support Device And Methods Of Using Same HODGE, LAURA NICOLE 55d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 3
1644 3
1683 3
1675 3
3792 2
1682 2
1643 2
1618 2
3685 1
1681 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18855529 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING CLINICAL PHENOTYPES FOR ALZHEIMER DISEASE DEMENTIA FROM UNSTRUCTURED CLINICAL RECORDS USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING LAGOY, KYRA RAND 3685 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Oct 09, 2024
18818523 METHODS OF DETECTING ONCOGENIC FUSIONS AND USES THEREOF HORTH, LISA ANNE 1681 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2024
18716989 DEVICE FOR REVERSIBLY BLOCKING ACTIVITIES OF TARGET REGION AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME CLARK, RYAN T 3794 §102 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jun 06, 2024
18717314 DEVICES FOR PROVIDING ELECTROPHONIC MICROPHONE AND RELATED METHODS NGUYEN, TUAN DUC 2699 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jun 06, 2024
18661385 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HIGH SPATIOTEMPORAL RADIO-LUMINESCENT IMAGING DOSIMETRY SONG, HOON K 2884 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending May 10, 2024
18706109 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CLASSIFYING WIDE COMPLEX TACHYCARDIAS (WCTS) ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2024
18638327 DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR OUTCOME-ORIENTED PREDICTIONS PARK, EDWARD 2675 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Apr 17, 2024
18620007 ELECTROPORATION AND ELECTROPHORESIS DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS RELATED TO ENDOVASCULAR APPLICATIONS FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18613582 Mechanical Cardiac Support Device And Methods Of Using Same HODGE, LAURA NICOLE 3792 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Mar 22, 2024
18590933 AEROSOL CONTAINMENT MASK AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF LEE, MICHELLE J 3786 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2024
18405437 DEPRESSION BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE FOR THE QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF MOOD STATE AND FOR BIOFEEDBACK FOR MOOD ALTERATION NGUYEN, HUONG Q 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2024
18516382 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SCARLESS WOUND HEALING IN DIABETES ANTHOPOLOS, PETER 1611 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Nov 21, 2023
18448821 METHODS FOR ACTIVATING IMMUNE CELLS AND TREATING OCULAR NEOVASCULARIZATION HAMA, JOANNE 1647 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Aug 11, 2023
18364112 METHODS FOR TREATING CANCER HEES, OLIVER DRAGON 1628 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Aug 02, 2023
18261874 METHODS FOR DETECTING utDNA SALMON, KATHERINE D 1682 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jul 18, 2023
18353913 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE ALIGNMENT AND REGISTRATION HYTREK, ASHLEY LYNN 2665 §102 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2023
18261483 MHC-INDEPENDENT TCRs AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME NICKOL, GARY B 1643 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2023
18340417 GENOME-EDITED INVARIANT NATURAL KILLER T (INKT) CELLS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES HILL, KEVIN KAI 1638 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jun 23, 2023
18333172 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TARGETED CYTOKINE DELIVERY LI, RUIXIANG 1674 §112 Non-Final OA 81d overdue Pending Jun 12, 2023
18255655 METHODS OF TREATING AND PREVENTING KIDNEY DISEASE SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 1629 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jun 02, 2023
18318232 METHODS FOR TREATING HER2-NEGATIVE OR HER2-LOW CANCER LUNDE, GRACE HENRY 1641 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending May 16, 2023
18036695 MICROBIAL PRODUCTION OF TITIN FIBERS WITH EXCEPTIONAL MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE TSAY, MARSHA M 1656 §102 Non-Final OA 21d Pending May 12, 2023
18314024 NANOEMULSION AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF JACKSON-TONGUE, LAKIA J 1645 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 08, 2023
18251823 METHOD OF TREATING A TUMOR WITH A COMBINATION OF AN IL-7 PROTEIN AND A NUCLEOTIDE VACCINE OUSPENSKI, ILIA I 1644 §103 Non-Final OA 81d overdue Pending May 04, 2023
18310412 ULTRAHIGH-SPEED MULTI-PARAMETRIC PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY BASED ON A THIN-FILM OPTICAL-ACOUSTIC COMBINER MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO 2877 §103 Final Rejection 93d overdue Pending May 01, 2023
18248191 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMAGING AND TREATING CANCER VU, JAKE MINH 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Apr 06, 2023
18029210 METHODS TO DETERMINE RISK OF NEUROTOXICITY ALABI, OYELEYE A 1797 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2023
18179966 Focused Ultrasound Device NGANGA, BONIFACE N 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2023
18043330 SYNTHETIC HYBRID SPIDROIN-AMYLOID-MUSSEL FOOT PROTEIN FOR UNDERWATER ADHESION OF DIVERSE SURFACES ZINGARELLI, SANDRA 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Feb 27, 2023
18168955 METHODS OF DETERMINING COVID-19 MORTALITY RISK KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 1683 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Feb 14, 2023
18164502 CELLS AND METHODS OF USES AND MAKING THE SAME SINGH, ANOOP KUMAR 1632 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Feb 03, 2023
18004545 SARS-COV-2 inhibitors KATAKAM, SUDHAKAR 1658 §112 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Jan 06, 2023
18061672 PLASMON-ENHANCED FLUORO-DOT ASSAYS LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT 1677 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2022
18054503 PARALLEL SINGLE-CELL REPORTER ASSAYS AND COMPOSITIONS PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN 1684 §103 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2022
17923029 METHODS FOR TREATING OR REDUCING THE SEVERITY OF A VIRAL INFECTION BELYAVSKYI, MICHAIL A 1644 §103 Non-Final OA 105d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2022
17918933 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVING SC-BETA CELLS OR ENHANCING THEIR UTILITY BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W 1651 DPOther Final Rejection 70d Pending Oct 14, 2022
17918792 SARS COV-2 VACCINES AND HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS BASED ON VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS VECTORS YAO, LEI 1642 §112 Final Rejection 29d Pending Oct 13, 2022
18045744 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING THERAPEUTIC OUTCOME LEE, HOI YAN NMN 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Oct 11, 2022
17916180 IMPLANT DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF CERVICAL CANCER WORSHAM, JESSICA N 1615 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17914817 Uses of Tau Phosphosites as Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease FONTAINHAS, AURORA M 1675 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2022
17948760 THORACIC DUCT AS A SAMPLE COLLECTION RESERVOIR GRAY, JESSICA 1682 Other Final Rejection 12d Pending Sep 20, 2022
17908863 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PANCREATIC CANCER VISHNYAKOVA, ELENA VLADIMIROVNA 1691 §103 Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2022
17800171 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING OPTICAL IMAGING USING DUO-SPOT POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS NGO, BRIAN 2851 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2022
17866246 USE OF MORPHOMETRIC CHANGES IN THE BRAIN AS A BIOMARKER TO PREDICT BRAIN TUMOR SURVIVAL BEGEMAN, ANDREW W 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2022
17786473 METHOD OF MEASURING CELL-FREE DNA IN SURGICAL DRAIN FLUID TO SELECT ADJUVANT THERAPY HOPPE, EMMA RUTH 1683 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2022
17786255 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR DENDRITIC CELLS (CAR-DCS) AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME ZHU, JIANJIAN 1631 Other Final Rejection 27d Pending Jun 16, 2022
17840368 METHODS FOR TREATING MICROGLIAL DYSFUNCTION WANG, CHANG YU 1675 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2022
17837224 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING CELL SURFACE OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR (OXTR) HUTTER, GILLIAN A 1625 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jun 10, 2022
17831103 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS OF SURGICAL DRAIN FLUID USING INTERCHANGEABLE AND CUSTOMIZABLE NUCLEIC ACID BASED TESTS KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 1683 Other Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2022
17776186 LIPOSOME COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATMENT TARGETED TO TUMOR ENDOTHELIUM ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 11, 2022
17766112 METHODS OF DETECTING circRNA BORGEEST, CHRISTINA M 1675 §112 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Apr 01, 2022
17699053 GENOME SEQUENCING AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS SMITH, EMILIE ALINE 1686 Non-Final OA 169d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2022
17691041 PREDICTING RESPONSE TO TREATMENTS IN PATIENTS WITH CLEAR CELL RENAL CELL CARCINOMA JOHANSEN, PETER N. 1644 Other Final Rejection 58d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2022
17628497 PARTICLE-BASED METHOD FOR DEFINING A GUT MICROBIOTA IN HUMANS OR OTHER ANIMAL SPECIES JONES, DAMERON LEVEST 1618 §102 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2022
17627502 ANTI-GRP78 ANTIBODIES AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF ALLEN, MICHAEL D 1671 §112 Non-Final OA 127d overdue Pending Jan 14, 2022
17574524 METHOD TO PERFORM SPECTRAL BIOPSY OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL BRAIN FUNCTION MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jan 12, 2022
17291959 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR MEMORY-LIKE (CARML) NK CELLS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME SHUPE, ELIZABETH A 1643 §103 Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending May 06, 2021
17280222 BALLOON ENCAPSULATION AND ISOVOLUMETRIC SUCTION THROMBECTOMY CATHETER AND METHODS THEREOF MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN 3771 §112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Mar 26, 2021
17187727 METHODS OF ESTIMATION-BASED SEGMENTATION AND TRANSMISSION-LESS ATTENUATION AND SCATTER COMPENSATION IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGING HOANG, HAN DINH 2661 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Feb 26, 2021
17170553 RECURSIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NEUROMODULATION SYSTEM TRAN, JULIE THI 3791 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Feb 08, 2021
16946215 SPARSE CO-VARYING UNIT OF THE HUMAN GUT MICROBIOTA THAT DESCRIBES HEALTHY AND IMPAIRED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LIN, JERRY 1685 §101 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Jun 10, 2020

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