Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

William Marsh Rice University

24 pending office actions • 21 art units • 24 examiners • 0 of 24 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

24
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (4)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.

13
Hard (54%)
10
Medium (42%)
1
Easy (4%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (4%)
§103 only8 (33%)
Double-patenting only1 (4%)
Double-patenting + other2 (8%)
Multi-statute (no §101)12 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

16
Life Sciences
67% of docket
2
Information Tech
8% of docket
1
Communications
4% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
2
Business / Other
8% 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.

240 h
Manual time on pending OAs
48 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
84 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, DUNE NGOC 1
SAMARA, HUSAM TURKI 1 54.9% +18.0%
WHITE, SADIE 1 48.9% +31.4%
NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA 1 55.5% +25.0%
DIGGS, TANISHA 1 54.9% +53.9%
GILLIARD, DELOMIA L 1 89.6% +10.4%
BERHANU, ETSUB D 1 65.3% +24.8%
MAEWALL, SNIGDHA 1 58.7% +10.4%
TIEN, LUCY MINYU 1 60.5% +37.0%
SALMON, KATHERINE D 1 42.6% +38.0%

Hard Cases (13)

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
18557747 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CHIMERIC AMPLICON FORMATION SALMON, KATHERINE D 28d overdue
18871122 SOLUTION-PROCESSED PEROVSKITE HETEROSTRUCTURES WHITE, SADIE 15d
18118834 ANODES, CATHODES, AND SEPARATORS FOR BATTERIES AND METHODS TO MAKE AND USE SAME CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT 26d
18571920 HIGH-THROUGHPUT PREPARATION OF MICROPARTICLES WITH PULSATILE RELEASE TIEN, LUCY MINYU 75d
19195045 Private and Decentralized 3D from Crowd Sourced Image Data NGUYEN, DUNE NGOC
18863937 FLASH JOULE HEATING FOR PRODUCTION OF 1D CARBON AND/OR BORON NITRIDE NANOMATERIALS NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA
18756897 Flash Joule Heating Synthesis Method and Compositions Thereof DIGGS, TANISHA
18737264 NEURAL WAVEFRONT SHAPING FOR GUIDESTAR-FREE IMAGING THROUGH AN OBSCURANT GILLIARD, DELOMIA L

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
18557747 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CHIMERIC AMPLICON FORMATION SALMON, KATHERINE D 28d overdue
18871122 SOLUTION-PROCESSED PEROVSKITE HETEROSTRUCTURES WHITE, SADIE 15d
19067354 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPERATING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS USING SINGLE-INSTRUCTION-MULTIPLE-DATA REGISTERS SAMARA, HUSAM TURKI 70d
18571920 HIGH-THROUGHPUT PREPARATION OF MICROPARTICLES WITH PULSATILE RELEASE TIEN, LUCY MINYU 75d
18863937 FLASH JOULE HEATING FOR PRODUCTION OF 1D CARBON AND/OR BORON NITRIDE NANOMATERIALS NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA
18756897 Flash Joule Heating Synthesis Method and Compositions Thereof DIGGS, TANISHA
18737264 NEURAL WAVEFRONT SHAPING FOR GUIDESTAR-FREE IMAGING THROUGH AN OBSCURANT GILLIARD, DELOMIA L
18665034 RAPID SAMPLING OF INTERSTITIAL FLUID USING A MICRONEEDLE ARRAY AND VACCUM-ASSISTED SKIN PATCH BERHANU, ETSUB D

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1612 2
2161 1
1721 1
1761 1
2661 1
3791 1
1682 1
3783 1
1645 1
1763 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19195045 Private and Decentralized 3D from Crowd Sourced Image Data NGUYEN, DUNE NGOC §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 2025
19067354 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPERATING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS USING SINGLE-INSTRUCTION-MULTIPLE-DATA REGISTERS SAMARA, HUSAM TURKI 2161 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Feb 28, 2025
18871122 SOLUTION-PROCESSED PEROVSKITE HETEROSTRUCTURES WHITE, SADIE 1721 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 15d Pending Dec 02, 2024
18863937 FLASH JOULE HEATING FOR PRODUCTION OF 1D CARBON AND/OR BORON NITRIDE NANOMATERIALS NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 07, 2024
18756897 Flash Joule Heating Synthesis Method and Compositions Thereof DIGGS, TANISHA 1761 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 27, 2024
18737264 NEURAL WAVEFRONT SHAPING FOR GUIDESTAR-FREE IMAGING THROUGH AN OBSCURANT GILLIARD, DELOMIA L 2661 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 07, 2024
18665034 RAPID SAMPLING OF INTERSTITIAL FLUID USING A MICRONEEDLE ARRAY AND VACCUM-ASSISTED SKIN PATCH BERHANU, ETSUB D 3791 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 15, 2024
18293734 IDENTIFICATION OF PRO- AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY LIPIDS RELATING TO IMMUNE RESPONSE TO MEDICAL IMPLANTS MAEWALL, SNIGDHA 1612 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 30, 2024
18571920 HIGH-THROUGHPUT PREPARATION OF MICROPARTICLES WITH PULSATILE RELEASE TIEN, LUCY MINYU 1612 §103§112 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18557747 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CHIMERIC AMPLICON FORMATION SALMON, KATHERINE D 1682 §101§102 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2023
18287684 HYBRID BIOELECTRONIC/ENGINEERED CELL WEARABLE SYSTEM FOR THERAPEUTIC AGENTS DELIVERY AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF CARPENTER, WILLIAM R 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 20, 2023
18258550 IMPLANTABLE CONSTRUCTS FOR MODULATING AN IMMUNE RESPONSE CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL 1645 DP Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jun 20, 2023
18246451 ULTRAFAST FLASH JOULE HEATING SYNTHESIS METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING SAME FIGUEROA, JOHN J 1763 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 23, 2023
18182924 System and Method for Low-Rank Tensor Decomposition with Neural Network Priors PHAM, JESSICA THUY 2121 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2023
18118834 ANODES, CATHODES, AND SEPARATORS FOR BATTERIES AND METHODS TO MAKE AND USE SAME CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT 1727 §102§112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Mar 08, 2023
18173246 ELECTROTHERMAL FLOW-ENHANCED ELECTROCHEMICAL MAGNETO-IMMUNOSENSOR EVANS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 1677 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 23, 2023
18109457 VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVE FOR FLASH JOULE HEATING SYSTEM AND METHOD BELAY, DILNESSA B 1736 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 14, 2023
17999960 NON-EXTENSIBLE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES IN DNA AMPLIFICATION REACTIONS CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH 1683 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 28, 2022
17997696 QUANTITATIVE BLOCKER DISPLACEMENT AMPLIFICATION (QBDA) SEQUENCING FOR CALIBRATION-FREE AND MULTIPLEXED VARIANT ALLELE FREQUENCY QUANTITATION PRIEST, AARON A 1681 §103DP Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2022
17972053 GREEN HIGH STRENGTH CEMENT GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A 1731 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2022
17716389 INTERFACIAL SEEDING OF CELLS AND PARTICLES ON SURFACES FOR DIAGNOSTICS AND THERAPEUTICS SCHUBERG, LAURA J 1631 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 08, 2022
17054312 PROXIMITY INDUCED SITE-SPECIFIC ANTIBODY CONJUGATION VAN DRUFF, SYDNEY 1643 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 10, 2020
16860004 MULTIVASCULAR NETWORKS AND FUNCTIONAL INTRAVASCULAR TOPOLOGIES WITHIN BIOCOMPATIBLE HYDROGELS PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E 3799 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 27, 2020
15550951 MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES CANDELARIA, JULIANA IRENE 1600 §103DP Final Rejection Pending Aug 14, 2017

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