Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Dickinson Wright, PLLC

31 pending office actions • 7 clients • 26 examiners • 13 art units • 0 of 31 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=26271 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

86.1%
Allowance Rate
n=26271
+0.50σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=26271
3.2
OAs to Allowance
n=16777
-0.16σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=16777
1028 days
Time to Allowance
n=16777
+8.1pp
Interview Lift
n=26271
24.6%
RCE Rate
n=26271
2.7%
Appeal Rate
n=26271

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

71.0%
§101 Overcome
n=1661
78.7%
§102 Overcome
n=7195
79.0%
§103 Overcome
n=11623
81.4%
§112 Overcome
n=8050

Specialization & Scale

H04L, G06F, H04W
Top CPC Subclasses
11%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=26271
37
Practitioners
n=26271
710.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=26271

Portfolio Summary

31
Total Pending OAs
20
Non-Final OAs
11
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (3)

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.

16
Hard (52%)
10
Medium (32%)
5
Easy (16%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (3%)
§103 only3 (10%)
§112 only4 (13%)
Double-patenting only1 (3%)
Double-patenting + other7 (23%)
Multi-statute (no §101)15 (48%)

Industry Mix

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

22
Life Sciences
71% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
16% of docket
4
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.

310 h
Manual time on pending OAs
62 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
108 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KOVACH, KARA NICOLE 2 85.7% +100.0%
PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE 2 77.9% +31.0%
GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 2 45.9% +40.9%
BUNKER, AMY M 2 29.1% +45.3%
LU, FRANK WEI MIN 2 62.7% +67.3%
MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER 1 69.2% +41.6%
POHNERT, STEVEN C 1 12.2% +18.7%
CORNET, JEAN P 1 42.1% +47.5%
LIRIANO-NG, MELISSA LIZETTE 1
GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA 1 37.0% +55.9%

Hard Cases (17)

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
17996196 A METHOD FOR DETECTION OF WHOLE TRANSCRIPTOME IN SINGLE CELLS PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE 126d overdue
17751023 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING CELL-CELL INTERACTION LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE 121d overdue
17421088 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHYSIOLOGY MONITORING GARMENT HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER 74d overdue
17373653 cDNA SPIKE-IN CONTROL FOR SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS YU, TIAN NMN 51d overdue
18549884 CHEMICAL SAMPLE INDEXING FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS KOVACH, KARA NICOLE 7d
16551620 SAMPLE MULTIPLEXING USING CARBOHYDRATE-BINDING AND MEMBRANE-PERMEABLE REAGENTS BUNKER, AMY M 19d
17789735 CONDUCTIVE THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER ELECTRODES, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH ELECTRODES LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X 33d
18251147 A METHOD FOR SINGLE-CELL NASCENT RNA LABELING AND SEQUENCING GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 61d

Interview Candidates (14)

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
17996196 A METHOD FOR DETECTION OF WHOLE TRANSCRIPTOME IN SINGLE CELLS PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE 126d overdue
18251528 MULTIPLEX DETECTION OF BACTERIAL RESPIRATORY PATHOGENS GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 28d overdue
18549884 CHEMICAL SAMPLE INDEXING FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS KOVACH, KARA NICOLE 7d
16551620 SAMPLE MULTIPLEXING USING CARBOHYDRATE-BINDING AND MEMBRANE-PERMEABLE REAGENTS BUNKER, AMY M 19d
18251147 A METHOD FOR SINGLE-CELL NASCENT RNA LABELING AND SEQUENCING GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 61d
17822948 MEASUREMENT OF PROTEIN EXPRESSION USING REAGENTS WITH BARCODED OLIGONUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES LU, FRANK WEI MIN 71d
19022242 DIGITAL COUNTING OF INDIVIDUAL MOLECULES BY STOCHASTIC ATTACHMENT OF DIVERSE LABELS MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER
18687030 SPATIAL MULTIOMICS USING IN SITU REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POHNERT, STEVEN C

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16825
16814
16844
16833
37922
37962
16351
16281
16371
16571

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19022242 DIGITAL COUNTING OF INDIVIDUAL MOLECULES BY STOCHASTIC ATTACHMENT OF DIVERSE LABELS BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER 1635 §103DPOther Final Rejection Pending Jan 15, 2025
18687030 SPATIAL MULTIOMICS USING IN SITU REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY POHNERT, STEVEN C §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2024
18686936 NOVEL CRYSTALLINE POLYMORPH OF LURBINECTEDIN AND IMPROVED PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF LURBINECTEDIN Natco Pharma Limited CORNET, JEAN P 1628 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2024
18686824 MULTIPLEXED PROTEOMICS ANALYSIS USING OLIGONUCLEOTIDE-CONJUGATED ANTIBODIES BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY LIRIANO-NG, MELISSA LIZETTE §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 26, 2024
18686822 TEMPLATE SWITCH OLIGONUCLEOTIDE (TSO) FOR MRNA 5' ANALYSIS BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY KOVACH, KARA NICOLE §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 26, 2024
18440197 TARGET ENRICHMENT USING NUCLEIC ACID PROBES FOR scRNAseq BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Feb 13, 2024
18418143 ASSAY FOR DETECTING CLOSELY-RELATED SEROTYPES OF HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV) BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY WILDER, CYNTHIA B 1681 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 19, 2024
18572149 SMART GARMENT FOR REMOTE DELIVERY OF THERAPY Mgi Holdco Ltd. LUAN, SCOTT 3792 §102§103 Final Rejection 72d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18540659 ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION COMPONENTS AND PROCESSES Nat Diagnostics, Inc. MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE 1637 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 14, 2023
18558052 MULTIPLEXED UNBIASED NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION METHOD BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE 1682 §102DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 30, 2023
18549884 CHEMICAL SAMPLE INDEXING FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS Singleron (Nanjing) Biotechnologies, Ltd. KOVACH, KARA NICOLE 1681 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Sep 08, 2023
18548972 ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION OF PATHOGENS BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY HANEY, AMANDA MARIE 1682 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 05, 2023
18251536 RAPID IDENTIFICATION AND TYPING OF VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY SWITZER, JULIET CAROLINE 1682 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 03, 2023
18251528 MULTIPLEX DETECTION OF BACTERIAL RESPIRATORY PATHOGENS BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 1682 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending May 02, 2023
18251147 A METHOD FOR SINGLE-CELL NASCENT RNA LABELING AND SEQUENCING Singleron (Nanjing) Biotechnologies, Ltd. GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 1682 §103§112 Final Rejection 61d Pending Apr 28, 2023
18186449 IMMUNOLOGICAL ANALYSIS METHODS BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY BUNKER, AMY M 1684 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 20, 2023
18041975 BLOOD CELL LYSING AGENT FOR ISOLATING BACTERIA FROM BLOOD CULTURE BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE 1657 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Feb 16, 2023
17996196 A METHOD FOR DETECTION OF WHOLE TRANSCRIPTOME IN SINGLE CELLS Singleron (Nanjing) Biotechnologies, Ltd. PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE 1684 §102§112 Final Rejection 126d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2022
17822948 MEASUREMENT OF PROTEIN EXPRESSION USING REAGENTS WITH BARCODED OLIGONUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY LU, FRANK WEI MIN 1683 §112 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Aug 29, 2022
17821449 MEASUREMENT OF PROTEIN EXPRESSION USING REAGENTS WITH BARCODED OLIGONUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY LU, FRANK WEI MIN 1683 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 22, 2022
17789735 CONDUCTIVE THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER ELECTRODES, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH ELECTRODES Mgi Holdco Ltd. LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X 3792 §102§103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Jun 28, 2022
17751023 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING CELL-CELL INTERACTION Singleron Biotechnologies Inc. LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE 1684 §102§103 Final Rejection 121d overdue Pending May 23, 2022
17745806 MOLECULAR BARCODING ON OPPOSITE TRANSCRIPT ENDS BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY GUSSOW, ANNE 1683 §112DP Non-Final OA Pending May 16, 2022
17545845 MULTIPLEXED SINGLE CELL IMMUNOASSAY BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY HANDY, DWAYNE K 1798 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 08, 2021
17373653 cDNA SPIKE-IN CONTROL FOR SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY YU, TIAN NMN 1681 §103§112 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2021
17421088 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHYSIOLOGY MONITORING GARMENT Mgi Holdco. Ltd. HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER 3796 §103§112 Final Rejection 74d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2021
17421173 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHYSIOLOGY MONITORING KNEE BRACE Mgi Holdco Ltd. FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2021
17157872 COMPOSITIONS AND KITS FOR MOLECULAR COUNTING BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY PRIEST, AARON A 1681 §103DPOther Final Rejection Pending Jan 25, 2021
16959809 MULTI-FUNCTIONAL TUBULAR WORN GARMENT Mgi Holdco Ltd. ROBERTS, ANNA L 3791 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 02, 2020
16551620 SAMPLE MULTIPLEXING USING CARBOHYDRATE-BINDING AND MEMBRANE-PERMEABLE REAGENTS Cellular Research, Inc. BUNKER, AMY M 1684 §112 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Aug 26, 2019
16540971 APTAMER BARCODING Cellular Research, Inc. PULLIAM, JOSEPH CONSTANTINE 1687 §102§103DP Final Rejection Pending Aug 14, 2019

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