Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Fish & Richardson P.C.

6 pending office actions • 2 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)

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%)
5
Medium (83%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CUEVAS, PEDRO J 1 69.8% +16.0%
RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 1 51.8% +63.5%
GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J 1 84.9% +8.8%
YOON, KEVIN E 1 59.3% +43.1%
KEOGH, MATTHEW R 1 78.6% +14.0%
JEAN-LOUIS, SAMIRA JM 1 61.4% +45.4%

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
18114881 PROSTHETIC VALVES AND METHODS OF MAKING GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J 29d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
15764187 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR (CAR) T CELLS AS THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS FOR AUTO- AND ALLO-IMMUNITY JEAN-LOUIS, SAMIRA JM 332d overdue
18035021 LIVE CELL ASSAY FOR PROTEASE INHIBITION RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 19d overdue
17405577 ENGINEERING PLANT GENOMES USING CRISPR/Cas SYSTEMS KEOGH, MATTHEW R 16d overdue
19041455 WIND-DRIVEN ENERGY APPARATUSES AND METHODS THEREOF CUEVAS, PEDRO J 2d overdue
18112130 ORGANIC SUBLIMABLE MATERIAL-ASSISTED ELECTRODES YOON, KEVIN E 7d

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28961
16341
37741
17351
16631
16451

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19041455 WIND-DRIVEN ENERGY APPARATUSES AND METHODS THEREOF Regents Of The University Of Minnesota CUEVAS, PEDRO J 2896 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2025
18035021 LIVE CELL ASSAY FOR PROTEASE INHIBITION Regents Of The University Of Minnesota RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 1634 §112 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending May 02, 2023
18114881 PROSTHETIC VALVES AND METHODS OF MAKING Regents Of The University Of Minnesota GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2023
18112130 ORGANIC SUBLIMABLE MATERIAL-ASSISTED ELECTRODES BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM YOON, KEVIN E 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Feb 21, 2023
17405577 ENGINEERING PLANT GENOMES USING CRISPR/Cas SYSTEMS Regents Of The University Of Minnesota KEOGH, MATTHEW R 1663 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2021
15764187 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR (CAR) T CELLS AS THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS FOR AUTO- AND ALLO-IMMUNITY Regents Of The University Of Minnesota JEAN-LOUIS, SAMIRA JM 1645 §103 Non-Final OA 332d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2018

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