Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Fish & Richardson P.C. (Johns Hopkins)

12 pending office actions • 4 clients • 12 examiners • 11 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
4
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
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
3
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 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.

1
Hard (8%)
10
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§103 only9 (75%)
§102 only1 (8%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
75% of docket
1
Information Tech
8% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH 1 30.3% +34.0%
HALVORSON, MARK 1 48.0% +21.6%
GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA 1 75.6% +25.0%
PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC 1 42.7% +49.8%
GRAY, JESSICA 1 0.0% +0.0%
DIBRINO, MARIANNE 1 43.3% +41.2%
GILL, RACHEL B 1 65.6% +27.7%
MORALES, PEDRO JESUS 1 66.7% +50.0%
PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER 1 58.6% +56.4%
HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD 1 34.8% +22.8%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18284131 METHODS OF DETERMINING TREATMENT OUTCOME GRAY, JESSICA 31d overdue
17616740 DETERMINING CAUSES OF DISEASES SUCH AS CANCER, USING MACHINE LEARNING ANALYSIS OF GENETIC DATA HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD 22d

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
18030465 DETECTION OF ACE2 IgM AUTOANTIBODIES AS MARKERS OF SEVERITY AND MECHANISM IN COVID19 PATIENTS GILL, RACHEL B 124d overdue
18629488 GENETIC ALTERATIONS IN ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE AND OTHER GENES IN MALIGNANT GLIOMA HALVORSON, MARK 85d overdue
18572352 COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION AND MULTI-LABELING OF SERIALLY SECTIONED TISSUE GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA 46d overdue
18351087 HLA-RESTRICTED EPITOPES ENCODED BY SOMATICALLY MUTATED GENES DIBRINO, MARIANNE 24d overdue
17622504 METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR TARGETED EXPANSION OF REGULATORY T CELLS PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER 19d overdue
17616740 DETERMINING CAUSES OF DISEASES SUCH AS CANCER, USING MACHINE LEARNING ANALYSIS OF GENETIC DATA HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD 22d
18088074 PROCESSING EVENT DATA BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING MORALES, PEDRO JESUS 33d
18841323 System and Method for Annotating Pathology Images to Predict Outcome REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH 41d

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16822
36861
16461
26771
16131
16411
16711
21241
16751
16851

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18841323 System and Method for Annotating Pathology Images to Predict Outcome Vinay Pulim REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH 3686 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Aug 23, 2024
18629488 GENETIC ALTERATIONS IN ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE AND OTHER GENES IN MALIGNANT GLIOMA Duke University HALVORSON, MARK 1646 Other Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2024
18572352 COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION AND MULTI-LABELING OF SERIALLY SECTIONED TISSUE The Johns Hopkins University GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA 2677 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2023
18569366 METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR TREATING CANCER Regents Of The University Of Minnesota PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC 1613 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Dec 12, 2023
18284131 METHODS OF DETERMINING TREATMENT OUTCOME The Johns Hopkins University GRAY, JESSICA 1682 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023
18351087 HLA-RESTRICTED EPITOPES ENCODED BY SOMATICALLY MUTATED GENES The Johns Hopkins University DIBRINO, MARIANNE 1641 §102 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023
18030465 DETECTION OF ACE2 IgM AUTOANTIBODIES AS MARKERS OF SEVERITY AND MECHANISM IN COVID19 PATIENTS The Johns Hopkins University GILL, RACHEL B 1671 §103 Non-Final OA 124d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2023
18088074 PROCESSING EVENT DATA BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING The Johns Hopkins University MORALES, PEDRO JESUS 2124 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Dec 23, 2022
17622504 METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR TARGETED EXPANSION OF REGULATORY T CELLS The Johns Hopkins University PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER 1675 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2021
17616740 DETERMINING CAUSES OF DISEASES SUCH AS CANCER, USING MACHINE LEARNING ANALYSIS OF GENETIC DATA The Johns Hopkins University HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD 1685 §101 Final Rejection 22d Pending Dec 06, 2021
17611788 RAPID ANEUPLOIDY DETECTION The Johns Hopkins University KIM, YOUNG J 1681 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 16, 2021
17047006 NON-INVASIVE DETECTION OF RESPONSE TO IMMUNOTHERAPY The Johns Hopkins University HANEY, AMANDA MARIE 1682 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending Oct 12, 2020

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