Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

26 pending office actions • 23 art units • 26 examiners • 0 of 26 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

26
Total Pending OAs
17
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

15
Overdue
0
Due this week
9
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (15)Due ≤ 30 days (9)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

1
Hard (4%)
24
Medium (92%)
1
Easy (4%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (4%)
§103 only22 (85%)
§102 only2 (8%)
§112 only1 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
23% of docket
2
Information Tech
8% of docket
1
Communications
4% of docket
3
Semiconductors
12% of docket
14
Mechanical / Eng
54% 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.

260 h
Manual time on pending OAs
52 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
91 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FRITH, SEAN A 1 61.2% +27.6%
NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN 1 74.5% +18.5%
HANNAN, B M M 1 81.8% +17.5%
AGAHI, PUYA 1 48.8% +23.6%
PYLE, SIENNA CHRISTINE 1 72.5% +6.8%
KISH, JAMES M 1 62.5% +12.0%
MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW 1 57.3% +32.3%
KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI 1 45.7% +23.2%
CHOU, SHIEN MING 1 56.0% +30.2%
GATEWOOD, DANIEL S 1 77.8% +18.8%

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
18787513 ROBOTIC PATH PLANNING HANNAN, B M M 56d 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
18119547 FEATURE DRIVEN NEXT VIEW PLANNING OF 3-DIMENSIONAL SURFACES SHECHTMAN, SEAN P 50d overdue

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
18805482 CHARGE MATERIAL FOR RECYCLED LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN 60d overdue
18787513 ROBOTIC PATH PLANNING HANNAN, B M M 56d overdue
18368384 ASSURANCE MODEL FOR AN AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC SYSTEM CHOU, SHIEN MING 53d overdue
18581910 DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION (DBS) METHOD AND DEVICE KISH, JAMES M 43d overdue
18511573 EXPONENTIAL SIGNAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW 30d overdue
18223376 SODIUM-ION BATTERY CATHODE MATERIAL GATEWOOD, DANIEL S 8d overdue
18598664 Concussion Detection System and Method of Operation AGAHI, PUYA 12d
18508058 BIOMIMETIC LIPOSOMES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI 15d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 4
3798 1
1761 1
3657 1
3792 1
1615 1
3666 1
1729 1
3615 1
3658 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19184355 ULTRASOUND SIGNAL COUPLER FRITH, SEAN A 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Apr 21, 2025
18805482 CHARGE MATERIAL FOR RECYCLED LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN 1761 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Aug 14, 2024
18787513 ROBOTIC PATH PLANNING HANNAN, B M M 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2024
18598664 Concussion Detection System and Method of Operation AGAHI, PUYA 3791 §102 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Mar 07, 2024
18584731 SYSTEM FOR DETECTING HEALTH EXPERIENCE FROM EYE MOVEMENT PYLE, SIENNA CHRISTINE 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Feb 22, 2024
18581910 DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION (DBS) METHOD AND DEVICE KISH, JAMES M 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Feb 20, 2024
18511573 EXPONENTIAL SIGNAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Nov 16, 2023
18508058 BIOMIMETIC LIPOSOMES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI 1615 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Nov 13, 2023
18368384 ASSURANCE MODEL FOR AN AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC SYSTEM CHOU, SHIEN MING 3666 §103 Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
18223376 SODIUM-ION BATTERY CATHODE MATERIAL GATEWOOD, DANIEL S 1729 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2023
18209625 OCEAN SPECIES HARVESTING DEVICE VENNE, DANIEL V 3615 §112 Non-Final OA 128d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2023
18204509 AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY OF ARBITRARY PART SHAPES HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Jun 01, 2023
18253302 Wet Read Apparatus and Method to Confirm On-site FNA Biopsy Specimen Adequacy CONNER, SEAN M 2663 §103 Final Rejection 43d Pending May 17, 2023
18138049 COLONOSCOPY PROBE DEVICE RHODES, NORA W 3794 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Apr 22, 2023
18125823 ROBOTIC-ASSISTED OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT) SIPES, JOHN CURTIS 2872 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2023
18119547 FEATURE DRIVEN NEXT VIEW PLANNING OF 3-DIMENSIONAL SURFACES SHECHTMAN, SEAN P 2896 §101 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2023
18110484 ENZYMATIC CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL FOR REPAIR AND CORROSION RESISTANCE AND DURABILITY ADDIE, RAYMOND W 3671 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2023
18080356 WIRELESS SPECTRUM SHARING DATABASE KHAN, MEHMOOD B 2419 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2022
18065549 Micro Punch for Targeted Material Excision HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 13, 2022
17971393 MICROCHANNEL PRINTING ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Oct 21, 2022
17943548 ENZYMATIC CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL ZHANG, KELING NMN 1732 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Sep 13, 2022
17939254 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING A LOGIC DEFECT IN AN APPLICATION DHAKAD, RUPALI 2437 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Sep 07, 2022
17902021 MIXED CATHODE UPCYCLING QUIST, NICOLE LEE 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 02, 2022
17749555 Non-Transgenic Functional Rescue of Neuropeptides KANE, TREVOR LOGAN 1657 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending May 20, 2022
17741887 MOTORIZED CONTROL FOR MEDICAL DEVICE ABBASI, ABDUL HADI 3795 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending May 11, 2022
17592837 Respiration Aid ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D 3785 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Feb 04, 2022

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