Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Duane Morris LLP - San Diego

14 pending office actions • 11 clients • 14 examiners • 13 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
0
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

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%)
10
Medium (71%)
0
Easy (0%)
4
Unknown (29%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (57%)
§102 only2 (14%)
No statute on record4 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
71% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
3
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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOYD, JENNIFER A 1 31.1% +46.5%
BARSKY, JARED 1 50.2% +23.0%
HADEN, SALLY CLINE 1 32.1% +41.4%
NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI 1 33.3% +41.4%
LYNCH, ROBERT A 1 80.0% +13.4%
MERCIER, MELISSA S 1 71.9% +5.9%
PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP 1 58.1% +27.8%
VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE 1 46.7% +22.1%
ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J 1 91.6% +10.2%
DAHLIN, HEATHER RAQUEL 1 46.5% +48.9%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18035079 CONNECTION COMPONENT, SHIELD MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J 4d overdue
18501879 SURGICAL INSTRUMENT WITH GUARDED BLADE LYNCH, ROBERT A 14d

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
19026003 COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING GENITAL HERPES AND METHODS OF THEIR USE BARSKY, JARED 42d overdue
18219477 SURGICAL TOOL FOR TRANSRETINAL PNEUMATIC DISPLACEMENT OF SUB-RETINAL HEMORRHAGE PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP 37d overdue
18760702 FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM HADEN, SALLY CLINE 30d overdue
18306254 AMINO ACID COMPOSITIONS AND FUNCTIONAL FOOD AFFECTING TUMOR GROWTH AND USES THEREOF DAHLIN, HEATHER RAQUEL 24d overdue
18412192 AGRICULTURAL ADMIXTURES NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI 17d overdue
18035079 CONNECTION COMPONENT, SHIELD MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J 4d overdue
19202728 FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, APPARATUS FOR MAKING FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BOYD, JENNIFER A 6d
18501879 SURGICAL INSTRUMENT WITH GUARDED BLADE LYNCH, ROBERT A 14d

Client Portfolio (11 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16152
17861
16281
37321
37711
37831
16361
28311
16291
16221

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19202728 FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, APPARATUS FOR MAKING FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Maine-Lee Technology Group LLC BOYD, JENNIFER A 1786 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending May 08, 2025
19026003 COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING GENITAL HERPES AND METHODS OF THEIR USE Pagari Life Science Corp. BARSKY, JARED 1628 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2025
18760702 FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Maine-Lee Technology Group LLC HADEN, SALLY CLINE 3732 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jul 01, 2024
18412192 AGRICULTURAL ADMIXTURES California Safe Soil, LLC NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI 1615 Other Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2024
18501879 SURGICAL INSTRUMENT WITH GUARDED BLADE Opticgon LLC LYNCH, ROBERT A 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 03, 2023
18240284 DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR ULTRA-LOW DOSE ESTROGEN COMBINATIONS AND METHODS AND USES THEREOF Lupin Inc. MERCIER, MELISSA S 1615 §102 Final Rejection 27d Pending Aug 30, 2023
18219477 SURGICAL TOOL FOR TRANSRETINAL PNEUMATIC DISPLACEMENT OF SUB-RETINAL HEMORRHAGE Opticgon LLC PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2023
18037234 UMLILO ANTISENSE TRANSCRIPTION INHIBITORS Lemba BV VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 16, 2023
18035079 CONNECTION COMPONENT, SHIELD MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Kyocera Corporation ALHAWAMDEH, NADER J 2831 §102 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 02, 2023
18306254 AMINO ACID COMPOSITIONS AND FUNCTIONAL FOOD AFFECTING TUMOR GROWTH AND USES THEREOF Chengdu Shangyi Information Technology Co., Ltd. DAHLIN, HEATHER RAQUEL 1629 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2023
18136797 TREATMENT OF BRAIN COPPER DISORDERS Sasha A. Philbert ELENISTE, PIERRE PAUL 1622 Other Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2023
17963122 METHODS OF TREATMENT AND NOVEL CONSTRUCTS Auckland UniServices Limited STEADMAN, DAVID J 1656 Other Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2022
17642641 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR RESCUING RETINAL AND CHOROIDAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION Ocunexus Therapeutics, Inc. ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL 1627 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2022
17119776 CHANNEL MODULATORS Ocunexus Therapeutics, Inc. CHERNYSHEV, OLGA N 1675 Other Non-Final OA 30d Pending Dec 11, 2020

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