Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

William Marsh Rice University

19 pending office actions • 17 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
16
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
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. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 30 days (5)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.

0
Hard (0%)
18
Medium (95%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only16 (84%)
§102 only2 (11%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

12
Life Sciences
63% of docket
2
Information Tech
11% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
21% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SAMARA, HUSAM TURKI 1 55.6% +16.5%
WHITE, SADIE 1 48.7% +32.7%
NOGUEROLA, ALEXANDER STEPHAN 1 82.5% +3.0%
TIEN, LUCY MINYU 1 61.3% +35.6%
SALMON, KATHERINE D 1 42.6% +38.0%
CARPENTER, WILLIAM R 1 54.5% +53.1%
CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL 1 65.0% +54.4%
PHAM, JESSICA THUY 1 16.7% +0.0%
CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT 1 66.2% +32.5%
GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ 1 76.3% +19.3%

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
18662392 CRISPR MEDIATED FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME NOGUEROLA, ALEXANDER STEPHAN 46d overdue

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
18182924 System and Method for Low-Rank Tensor Decomposition with Neural Network Priors PHAM, JESSICA THUY 17d 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
18041823 END EXPANDABLE OPTICAL FIBER BUNDLE GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ 98d overdue
18557747 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CHIMERIC AMPLICON FORMATION SALMON, KATHERINE D 28d overdue
18287684 HYBRID BIOELECTRONIC/ENGINEERED CELL WEARABLE SYSTEM FOR THERAPEUTIC AGENTS DELIVERY AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF CARPENTER, WILLIAM R 3d overdue
18258550 IMPLANTABLE CONSTRUCTS FOR MODULATING AN IMMUNE RESPONSE CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL 9d
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
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1681 2
3774 2
2161 1
1721 1
1795 1
1612 1
1682 1
3783 1
1645 1
2121 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19067354 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPERATING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS USING SINGLE-INSTRUCTION-MULTIPLE-DATA REGISTERS SAMARA, HUSAM TURKI 2161 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Feb 28, 2025
18871122 SOLUTION-PROCESSED PEROVSKITE HETEROSTRUCTURES WHITE, SADIE 1721 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Dec 02, 2024
18662392 CRISPR MEDIATED FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME NOGUEROLA, ALEXANDER STEPHAN 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending May 13, 2024
18571920 HIGH-THROUGHPUT PREPARATION OF MICROPARTICLES WITH PULSATILE RELEASE TIEN, LUCY MINYU 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18557747 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CHIMERIC AMPLICON FORMATION SALMON, KATHERINE D 1682 §102 Non-Final OA 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 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jun 20, 2023
18182924 System and Method for Low-Rank Tensor Decomposition with Neural Network Priors PHAM, JESSICA THUY 2121 §103 Non-Final OA 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 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Mar 08, 2023
18041823 END EXPANDABLE OPTICAL FIBER BUNDLE GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ 3795 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2023
18168401 3D PRINTED SILICA WITH NANOSCALE RESOLUTION MACHNESS, ARIELLA 1743 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2023
18003412 AMPLICON COMPREHENSIVE ENRICHMENT BERTAGNA, ANGELA MARIE 1681 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2022
18001678 A MACHINE LEARNING ENABLED MODEL TO OPTIMIZE DESIGN OF OSSEOINTEGRATION-FRIENDLY PATIENT SPECIFIC 3D PRINTED ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANTS HU, ANN M 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2022
17982232 SERIALLY EXPANDING AN ARTIFICIAL HEART VALVE WITHIN A PEDIATRIC PATIENT PRESTON, REBECCA STRASZHEIM 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2022
17997696 QUANTITATIVE BLOCKER DISPLACEMENT AMPLIFICATION (QBDA) SEQUENCING FOR CALIBRATION-FREE AND MULTIPLEXED VARIANT ALLELE FREQUENCY QUANTITATION PRIEST, AARON A 1681 Other Non-Final OA 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
17904106 METHODS FOR IMPROVED DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS RAHMAN, MASUDUR 1633 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2022
17643562 DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF DIFFRACTIVE LENSLESS CAMERAS FOR IMAGING AND COMPUTER VISION APPLICATIONS DUFFY, CAROLINE TABANCAY 2662 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Dec 09, 2021
17054312 PROXIMITY INDUCED SITE-SPECIFIC ANTIBODY CONJUGATION VAN DRUFF, SYDNEY 1643 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 10, 2020

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