Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Barnes & Thornburg LLP (Texas A&M)

10 pending office actions • 1 client • 10 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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%)
9
Medium (90%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (70%)
§102 only1 (10%)
Double-patenting + other1 (10%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
90% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
10% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 1 48.2% +22.6%
DHAR, MATASHA 1 44.7% +50.1%
MENON, KRISHNAN S 1 59.8% +11.8%
BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS 1
SMITH, ADAM MICHAEL 1
HAVLIN, ROBERT H 1 52.3% +27.2%
RUIZ MARTIN, LUIS MIGUEL 1 45.6% +53.1%
CRAIGO, WILLIAM A 1 49.3% +38.7%
VARMA, AKASH K 1 65.7% +34.8%
SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 1 42.2% +38.8%

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
17588458 MAGNETIC RESONANCE CONTRAST AGENTS AND METHODS THEREOF SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 77d overdue
17996562 NALOXONE NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS THEREOF CRAIGO, WILLIAM A 67d overdue
18168409 SARS-COV-2 MAIN PROTEASE INHIBITORS HAVLIN, ROBERT H 45d overdue
18526487 METHODS OF TREATING COMPOUNDS USING VISIBLE LIGHT-ENABLED ACTIVATION OF PEROXYDISULFATE MENON, KRISHNAN S 31d overdue
18001604 DENTAL COMPONENTS RUIZ MARTIN, LUIS MIGUEL 13d
17995145 ASTATINE PURIFICATION METHOD VARMA, AKASH K 29d
18571505 METHODS OF PROCESSING ADULT NEURAL CELLS FROM MAMMALS AND ASSAYS THEREOF DHAR, MATASHA 61d
18292542 VACCINE COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING BRUCELLA STRAINS AND METHODS THEREOF DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 62d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Texas A&M 10

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16451
16321
17771
16921
16381
16261
37721
16151
17731
16181

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18292542 VACCINE COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING BRUCELLA STRAINS AND METHODS THEREOF The Texas A&M University System DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 1645 DPOther Non-Final OA 62d Pending Jan 26, 2024
18571505 METHODS OF PROCESSING ADULT NEURAL CELLS FROM MAMMALS AND ASSAYS THEREOF The Texas A&M University System DHAR, MATASHA 1632 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Dec 18, 2023
18526487 METHODS OF TREATING COMPOUNDS USING VISIBLE LIGHT-ENABLED ACTIVATION OF PEROXYDISULFATE The Texas A&M University System MENON, KRISHNAN S 1777 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2023
18224207 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREPARATION OF HIGHLY REACTIVE ALKALI METAL DENDRITES FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF ORGANOLITHIUM REAGENTS The Texas A&M University System BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS 1692 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jul 20, 2023
18318305 TREATING OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS USING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES RELEASED BY HUMAN INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL DERIVED NEURAL STEM CELLS The Texas A&M University System SMITH, ADAM MICHAEL 1638 §102 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending May 16, 2023
18168409 SARS-COV-2 MAIN PROTEASE INHIBITORS Texas A&M University System HAVLIN, ROBERT H 1626 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2023
18001604 DENTAL COMPONENTS The Texas A&M University System RUIZ MARTIN, LUIS MIGUEL 3772 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Dec 13, 2022
17996562 NALOXONE NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS THEREOF The Texas A&M University System CRAIGO, WILLIAM A 1615 Other Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2022
17995145 ASTATINE PURIFICATION METHOD The Texas A&M University System VARMA, AKASH K 1773 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Sep 30, 2022
17588458 MAGNETIC RESONANCE CONTRAST AGENTS AND METHODS THEREOF The Texas A&M University System SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 1618 §103 Final Rejection 77d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2022

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