Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Washington University

68 pending office actions • 41 art units • 66 examiners • 0 of 68 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 72 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

68
Total Pending OAs
42
Non-Final OAs
23
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 27 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 27 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (4)

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.

46
Hard (68%)
17
Medium (25%)
5
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other18 (26%)
§103 only16 (24%)
§112 only4 (6%)
Double-patenting only1 (1%)
Double-patenting + other1 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)28 (41%)

Industry Mix

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

48
Life Sciences
71% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
3% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
13% of docket
9
Business / Other
13% 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.

680 h
Manual time on pending OAs
136 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
238 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN 2 73.0% +6.7%
DUNN, MCKENZIE A 2 53.8% +55.3%
ROBINSON, KYLE G 1 11.8% +16.7%
SALVATORE, LYNDA 1 64.0% +19.4%
ADAMS, WILLIAM PATRICK 1
CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT 1 69.7% +34.8%
LAGOY, KYRA RAND 1 11.8% -14.3%
HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI 1 41.8% +50.4%
HENSON, DEVIN B 1 65.1% +43.5%
PARK, EDWARD 1 82.2% +18.0%

Hard Cases (46)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17699053 GENOME SEQUENCING AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS SMITH, EMILIE ALINE 169d overdue
18061672 PLASMON-ENHANCED FLUORO-DOT ASSAYS LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT 66d overdue
18311991 METHODS FOR TREATING OR PREVENTING HEADACHE DISORDERS SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN 58d overdue
17786473 METHOD OF MEASURING CELL-FREE DNA IN SURGICAL DRAIN FLUID TO SELECT ADJUVANT THERAPY HOPPE, EMMA RUTH 50d overdue
18405437 DEPRESSION BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE FOR THE QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF MOOD STATE AND FOR BIOFEEDBACK FOR MOOD ALTERATION NGUYEN, HUONG Q 16d overdue
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
17916180 IMPLANT DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF CERVICAL CANCER WORSHAM, JESSICA N 8d overdue
18261483 MHC-INDEPENDENT TCRs AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME NICKOL, GARY B 2d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18638327 DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR OUTCOME-ORIENTED PREDICTIONS PARK, EDWARD 62d
19105243 CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFICATION OF PRETREATMENT BIOPSIES ROBINSON, KYLE G
19028550 BIOMEDICAL PATCHES WITH SPATIALLY ARRANGED FIBERS SALVATORE, LYNDA
18970827 COMPUTATIONAL REFOCUSING-ASSISTED DEEP LEARNING CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT
18817716 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTROMYOMETRIAL IMAGING HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI
18812459 Normalization and Calibration for Devices and Systems for Measuring Peripheral Hemodynamics HENSON, DEVIN B
17798514 CSF PHOSPHORYLATED TAU AND AMYLOID BETA PROFILES AS BIOMARKERS OF TAUOPATHIES DUNN, MCKENZIE A
17422051 MULTIPLEXED ASSAY AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF DUNN, MCKENZIE A

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1632 3
1678 3
3685 2
3791 2
3783 2
1635 2
1675 2
1644 2
1643 2
1638 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19105243 CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFICATION OF PRETREATMENT BIOPSIES ROBINSON, KYLE G 3685 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 20, 2025
19028550 BIOMEDICAL PATCHES WITH SPATIALLY ARRANGED FIBERS SALVATORE, LYNDA 1789 DP Final Rejection Pending Jan 17, 2025
18980157 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED ELECTROCARDIOGRAM (ECG) INTERPRETATION OF WIDE COMPLEX RHYTHMS ADAMS, WILLIAM PATRICK §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 13, 2024
18970827 COMPUTATIONAL REFOCUSING-ASSISTED DEEP LEARNING CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 05, 2024
18855529 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING CLINICAL PHENOTYPES FOR ALZHEIMER DISEASE DEMENTIA FROM UNSTRUCTURED CLINICAL RECORDS USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING LAGOY, KYRA RAND 3685 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Oct 09, 2024
18817716 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTROMYOMETRIAL IMAGING HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 28, 2024
18812459 Normalization and Calibration for Devices and Systems for Measuring Peripheral Hemodynamics HENSON, DEVIN B §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 22, 2024
18638327 DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR OUTCOME-ORIENTED PREDICTIONS PARK, EDWARD 2675 §101§103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Apr 17, 2024
18682707 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING BRAIN PERFUSION LANDSMAN, ROBERT S §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 09, 2024
18434796 PRECISION RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL THERAPY OF LYMPHOMA AND OTHER DISEASES BAEK, JONGHWAN NMN §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 06, 2024
18416578 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATTENUATION COMPENSATION IN SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT) SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH 2672 §112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 18, 2024
18579811 METHODS OF DETECTING PENTASACCHARIDES AND TREATMENT AND MONITORING OF LYSOSOMAL STORAGE DISEASE FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M 1759 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2024
18405437 DEPRESSION BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE FOR THE QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF MOOD STATE AND FOR BIOFEEDBACK FOR MOOD ALTERATION NGUYEN, HUONG Q 3791 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2024
18400667 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TARGETED CYTOKINE DELIVERY LI, RUIXIANG §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 29, 2023
18394890 ELECTRODE-DECOUPLED REDOX FLOW BATTERY CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J 1729 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 22, 2023
18567428 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING PHYSIOLOGICAL STATUS OF LIVING SUBJECT AND ADMINISTERING SUBSTANCES THEREFOR TURKOWSKI, KAYLA MARIE 3783 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2023
18516382 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SCARLESS WOUND HEALING IN DIABETES ANTHOPOLOS, PETER 1611 §103§112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Nov 21, 2023
18503495 THERAPEUTIC SPLICE-SWITCHING OLIGONUCLEOTIDES FOR CANCER SHIN, DANA H 1635 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 07, 2023
18286205 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF CRX-MEDIATED RETINOPATHIES BEHARRY, ZANNA MARIA 1632 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 09, 2023
18480409 CDK4/6 INHIBITORS AS A TREATMENT FOR CLONAL HEMATOPOIESIS LEE, WILLIAM Y 1623 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 03, 2023
18553411 COMPOSITIONS FOR BINDING SPHINGOSINE-1-PHOSPHATE RECEPTOR 1 (S1P1), IMAGING OF S1P1, AND PROCESSES FOR PREPARATION THEREOF JAVANMARD, SAHAR 1622 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Sep 29, 2023
18282933 SURGICAL DRAIN FOR COLLECTION AND PRESERVATION OF TUMOR-ASSOCIATED BIOMARKERS IN SURGICAL DRAIN FLUID VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG 3783 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 19, 2023
18548755 TRANSCUTANEOUS AURICULAR VAGAL NERVE STIMULATION FOR SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGES STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A 3700 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 01, 2023
18278707 MICROBIAL PRODUCTION OF POLYMERIC AMYLOID FIBERS JOHNSON, TIRONE DEREK 1675 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 24, 2023
18276710 METHODS FOR DETECTING NEUROFILAMENT LIGHT CHAIN IN PLASMA AND CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA 1644 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 10, 2023
18231684 MUSCLE RETENTION IN AGING AND DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (DMD) THROUGH S1P INHIBITION YU, DAVID TUYANG 1635 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2023
18364112 METHODS FOR TREATING CANCER HEES, OLIVER DRAGON 1628 §103§112 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Aug 02, 2023
18261483 MHC-INDEPENDENT TCRs AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME NICKOL, GARY B 1643 §102§112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2023
18260354 ADJUSTABLE SEAL FOR FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM STUART, COLIN W 3791 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 05, 2023
18340417 GENOME-EDITED INVARIANT NATURAL KILLER T (INKT) CELLS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN 1638 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jun 23, 2023
18255655 METHODS OF TREATING AND PREVENTING KIDNEY DISEASE SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 1629 §102§103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jun 02, 2023
18318232 METHODS FOR TREATING HER2-NEGATIVE OR HER2-LOW CANCER LUNDE, GRACE HENRY 1641 §103§112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending May 16, 2023
18317780 SURFACE-MODIFIED ANASTOMOSIS DEVICE FUBARA, BLESSING M 1613 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 15, 2023
18036695 MICROBIAL PRODUCTION OF TITIN FIBERS WITH EXCEPTIONAL MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE TSAY, MARSHA M 1656 §101§102 Final Rejection 21d Pending May 12, 2023
18312940 COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR CELL LABELING BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C 1684 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 05, 2023
18311991 METHODS FOR TREATING OR PREVENTING HEADACHE DISORDERS SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN 1642 §103§112 Final Rejection 58d overdue Pending May 04, 2023
18137267 DEFINED MATRIX FOR THE DIFFERENTIATION OF ISLETS VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN 1638 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 20, 2023
18298355 UNSUPERVISED DISCOVERY OF TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITIES KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 10, 2023
18297497 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN OF CRISPR GUIDE RNAS FOR STRAIN-SPECIFIC CONTROL OF MICROBIOTA CONSORTIA CANTRELL, MARANDA SHURIE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 07, 2023
18248191 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMAGING AND TREATING CANCER VU, JAKE MINH 1618 §103§112 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Apr 06, 2023
18043330 SYNTHETIC HYBRID SPIDROIN-AMYLOID-MUSSEL FOOT PROTEIN FOR UNDERWATER ADHESION OF DIVERSE SURFACES ZINGARELLI, SANDRA 1653 §103§112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Feb 27, 2023
18168955 METHODS OF DETERMINING COVID-19 MORTALITY RISK KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 1683 §101§102§103§112 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
18162387 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SUSTAINED OXYGEN RELEASE TO ISCHEMIC TISSUES SAEED, ALI S 1616 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 31, 2023
18061672 PLASMON-ENHANCED FLUORO-DOT ASSAYS LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT 1677 §103§112 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2022
18054503 PARALLEL SINGLE-CELL REPORTER ASSAYS AND COMPOSITIONS PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN 1684 §103 Final Rejection 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 §103§112DPOther 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
17761594 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MICROBIOME MODULATION SINGH, SATYENDRA K 1657 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 11, 2022
17916180 IMPLANT DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF CERVICAL CANCER WORSHAM, JESSICA N 1615 §102§103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17801776 METHODS OF USE OF ANTI-TREM2 ANTIBODIES WANG, CHANG YU 1675 §112Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 23, 2022
17798514 CSF PHOSPHORYLATED TAU AND AMYLOID BETA PROFILES AS BIOMARKERS OF TAUOPATHIES DUNN, MCKENZIE A 1678 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Aug 09, 2022
17786255 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR DENDRITIC CELLS (CAR-DCS) AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME ZHU, JIANJIAN 1631 §103Other Final Rejection 27d Pending Jun 16, 2022
17786473 METHOD OF MEASURING CELL-FREE DNA IN SURGICAL DRAIN FLUID TO SELECT ADJUVANT THERAPY HOPPE, EMMA RUTH 1683 §101§103Other Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2022
17778079 Methods and Compositions for Generating Functionally Mature Beta Cells and Uses Thereof SPENCER, ANDREA LYNNE MORRIS 1631 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending May 19, 2022
17735586 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY WITH CONVENTIONAL LINEAR PARTICLE ACCELERATOR (LINAC) RADIOTHERAPY DEVICES VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S 3798 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 03, 2022
17731195 Sensors for Aromatic Compounds and Methods of Making and Using Same WARD, AARON DUREL 1636 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 27, 2022
17699053 GENOME SEQUENCING AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS SMITH, EMILIE ALINE 1686 §101§102§103Other Final Rejection 169d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2022
17694679 Automated Interpretation of Protein Capillary Electrophoresis Data SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE 1685 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 15, 2022
17634843 METHODS TO DETECT MTBR TAU ISOFORMS AND USE THEREOF RAMADAN, OMAR 1678 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Feb 11, 2022
17628497 PARTICLE-BASED METHOD FOR DEFINING A GUT MICROBIOTA IN HUMANS OR OTHER ANIMAL SPECIES JONES, DAMERON LEVEST 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2022
17610578 AUDITORY PROSTHETIC DEVICES USING EARLY AUDITORY POTENTIALS AS A MICROPHONE AND RELATED METHODS GEDEON, BRIAN T 3796 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 11, 2021
17501059 METHODS OF DETECTION AND TREATMENT FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND FOOT WOUNDS KASAYAN, KATRIEL BARCELLANO 1600 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Oct 14, 2021
17422051 MULTIPLEXED ASSAY AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF DUNN, MCKENZIE A 1678 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 09, 2021
17291959 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR MEMORY-LIKE (CARML) NK CELLS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME SHUPE, ELIZABETH A 1643 §112 Final Rejection 78d overdue Pending May 06, 2021
17055946 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR GENERATING CELLS OF ENDODERMAL LINEAGE AND BETA CELLS AND USES THEREOF STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 1632 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Nov 16, 2020
16946215 SPARSE CO-VARYING UNIT OF THE HUMAN GUT MICROBIOTA THAT DESCRIBES HEALTHY AND IMPAIRED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LIN, JERRY 1685 §101§112 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Jun 10, 2020

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