Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Klarquist Sparkman, LLP (Ott-Nih)

15 pending office actions • 2 clients • 15 examiners • 14 art units • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
3
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
12
Medium (80%)
2
Easy (13%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (53%)
§102 only4 (27%)
§112 only2 (13%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

13
Life Sciences
87% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
13% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1 49.5% +14.6%
GILL, RACHEL B 1 65.6% +27.7%
GRAY, PHILLIP A 1 74.0% +10.6%
GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN 1 100.0% +0.0%
FISHER, MELISSA L 1 44.2% +42.3%
QIAN, CELINE X 1 47.9% +16.8%
CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI 1 46.9% +27.0%
HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J 1 52.8% +51.5%
BOWLES, DAVID PAUL 1 75.0% +17.5%
PETERS, ALEC JON 1 68.6% +61.7%

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
18271901 REPLICATION-COMPETENT ADENOVIRUS TYPE 4 SARS-COV-2 VACCINES AND THEIR USE GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN 34d

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
17783171 ANTIBODY-DRUG CONJUGATES SPECIFIC FOR CD276 AND USES THEREOF PETERS, ALEC JON 46d overdue
18032132 HIGH CONCENTRATION METHYLCOBALAMIN OR COMBINATION OF METHYL- AND HYDROXY-COBALAMIN FOR THE TREATMENT OF COBALAMIN C DEFICIENCY DISORDERS CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI 44d overdue
18340863 PEPTIDE HYDROGEL COMPRISING HYDROPHILIC AZIDE-CONTAINING AMINO ACID AND ITS USE FISHER, MELISSA L 35d overdue
18275925 ADJUVANTED MUCOSAL SUBUNIT VACCINES FOR PREVENTING SARS-COV-2 TRANSMISSION AND INFECTION GILL, RACHEL B 5d overdue
18035240 MODIFIED NK CELLS WITH REDUCED CCR5 EXPRESSION AND METHODS OF THEIR USE QIAN, CELINE X 13d
17923394 ABERRANT POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS (PTMS) IN METHYL- AND PROPIONIC ACIDEMIA AND A MUTANT SIRTUIN (SIRT) TO METABOLIZE PTMS BOWLES, DAVID PAUL 13d
18568738 COMPOUNDS THAT BIND NON-CANONICAL G-QUADRUPLEX STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 16d
18263394 NEAR INFRARED PHOTOIMMUNOTHERAPY (NIR-PIT) COMBINATION THERAPY TO TREAT CANCER GRAY, PHILLIP A 33d

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
U.S. Government 14
Ash Stevens, LLC 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37832
16261
16711
16721
16581
16371
16991
16271
16541
16411

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18568738 COMPOUNDS THAT BIND NON-CANONICAL G-QUADRUPLEX STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME The United States Department of Health and Human Services FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1626 §102 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Dec 08, 2023
18275925 ADJUVANTED MUCOSAL SUBUNIT VACCINES FOR PREVENTING SARS-COV-2 TRANSMISSION AND INFECTION The United States Of America, AS Represented By The Secretary, Depart. Of Health And Human Services GILL, RACHEL B 1671 §102 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2023
18263394 NEAR INFRARED PHOTOIMMUNOTHERAPY (NIR-PIT) COMBINATION THERAPY TO TREAT CANCER The United States Department of Health and Human Services GRAY, PHILLIP A 3783 §102 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jul 28, 2023
18271901 REPLICATION-COMPETENT ADENOVIRUS TYPE 4 SARS-COV-2 VACCINES AND THEIR USE The United States Department of Health and Human Services GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jul 12, 2023
18340863 PEPTIDE HYDROGEL COMPRISING HYDROPHILIC AZIDE-CONTAINING AMINO ACID AND ITS USE The United States Department of Health and Human Services FISHER, MELISSA L 1658 §112 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Jun 25, 2023
18035240 MODIFIED NK CELLS WITH REDUCED CCR5 EXPRESSION AND METHODS OF THEIR USE The United States Department of Health and Human Services QIAN, CELINE X 1637 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending May 03, 2023
18032132 HIGH CONCENTRATION METHYLCOBALAMIN OR COMBINATION OF METHYL- AND HYDROXY-COBALAMIN FOR THE TREATMENT OF COBALAMIN C DEFICIENCY DISORDERS The United States Department of Health and Human Services CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI 1699 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2023
18009571 MONOMERIC AND OLIGOMERIC COMPOUND EMBODIMENTS AS CONTRACEPTIVES AND THERAPIES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME Ash Stevens, LLC HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J 1627 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Dec 09, 2022
17923394 ABERRANT POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS (PTMS) IN METHYL- AND PROPIONIC ACIDEMIA AND A MUTANT SIRTUIN (SIRT) TO METABOLIZE PTMS The United States Department of Health and Human Services BOWLES, DAVID PAUL 1654 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Nov 04, 2022
17783171 ANTIBODY-DRUG CONJUGATES SPECIFIC FOR CD276 AND USES THEREOF The United States Department of Health and Human Services PETERS, ALEC JON 1641 Other Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2022
17632783 CANCER DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION The United States Department of Health and Human Services BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE 1682 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2022
17631600 RADIOLABELED SUGARS FOR IMAGING OF FUNGAL INFECTIONS The United States Department of Health and Human Services DONOHUE, SEAN R 1618 §112 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2022
17346630 METHODS TO ELIMINATE CANCER STEM CELLS BY TARGETING CD47 The United States Department of Health and Human Services MATALKAH, FATIMAH KHALAF 1638 §102 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2021
17260905 INTRAOCULAR DELIVERY OF GENE THERAPY EXPRESSION VECTORS The United States Department of Health and Human Services DIOP, FATIMATA SAHRA 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Jan 15, 2021
16971288 USE OF IL-34 TO TREAT RETINAL INFLAMMATION AND NEURODEGENERATION The United States Of America, AS Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health And Human SE FONTAINHAS, AURORA M 1675 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Aug 19, 2020

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