Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
15 pending office actions • 1 client • 15 examiners • 13 art units • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
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.
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.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 9 (60%) |
| §112 only | 3 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (7%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (13%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUSSOW, ANNE | 1 | 58.4% | +42.2% |
| CHONG, KIMBERLY | 1 | 72.4% | +12.6% |
| BUNNER, BRIDGET E | 1 | 64.2% | +19.8% |
| MCCOLLUM, ANDREA K | 1 | 60.9% | +32.1% |
| TRAN, CHRISTINA L | 1 | 48.1% | +43.5% |
| FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH | 1 | 52.0% | -6.4% |
| PETERS, ALEC JON | 1 | 68.4% | +58.0% |
| CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH | 1 | 31.3% | +56.7% |
| CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA | 1 | 53.4% | +17.8% |
| MOAZZAMI, NAGHMEH NINA | 1 | 72.3% | +43.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17621088 | FORCED INTERCALATION (FIT)-APTAMERS: PROBES BASED ON FORCED INTERCALATION | CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA | 38d overdue |
| 17743422 | TUNABLE ANCHOR FOR LIPOSOMAL SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACID ASSEMBLY | TRAN, CHRISTINA L | 23d overdue |
| 17634908 | CONTROLLING THE DNA HYBRIDIZATION CHAIN REACTION | CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH | 5d |
| 17749977 | SYNERGISTIC IMMUNOSTIMULATION THROUGH THE DUAL ACTIVATION OF TLR3/9 WITH SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACIDS | MCCOLLUM, ANDREA K | 12d |
| 17752407 | ENCODING HIERARCHICAL ASSEMBLY PATHWAYS OF PROTEINS WITH DNA | BUNNER, BRIDGET E | 28d |
| 17635444 | MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVATING ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC T CELL RESPONSES | PETERS, ALEC JON | 57d |
| 17311108 | Protein Crystal Engineering Through DNA Hybridization Interactions | MOAZZAMI, NAGHMEH NINA | 79d |
| 18283710 | CRISPR-MEDIATED CLEAVAGE OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDE-DETECTABLE MARKER CONJUGATES FOR DETECTION OF TARGET ANALYTES | GUSSOW, ANNE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Northwestern University | 15 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1683 | 2 |
| 1637 | 2 |
| 1636 | 1 |
| 1647 | 1 |
| 1674 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1641 | 1 |
| 1681 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18283710 | CRISPR-MEDIATED CLEAVAGE OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDE-DETECTABLE MARKER CONJUGATES FOR DETECTION OF TARGET ANALYTES | Northwestern University | GUSSOW, ANNE | 1683 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 17814211 | ADOPTIVE CELL THERAPY USING SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACIDS (SNAS) | Northwestern University | CHONG, KIMBERLY | 1636 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
| 17752407 | ENCODING HIERARCHICAL ASSEMBLY PATHWAYS OF PROTEINS WITH DNA | Northwestern University | BUNNER, BRIDGET E | 1647 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | May 24, 2022 |
| 17749977 | SYNERGISTIC IMMUNOSTIMULATION THROUGH THE DUAL ACTIVATION OF TLR3/9 WITH SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACIDS | Northwestern University | MCCOLLUM, ANDREA K | 1674 | Other | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | May 20, 2022 |
| 17743422 | TUNABLE ANCHOR FOR LIPOSOMAL SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACID ASSEMBLY | Northwestern University | TRAN, CHRISTINA L | 1637 | Other | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | May 12, 2022 |
| 17760990 | HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN-LIKE NANOPARTICLES AS INDUCERS OF FERROPTOSIS IN CANCER | Northwestern University | FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH | 1617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Mar 16, 2022 |
| 17635444 | MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVATING ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC T CELL RESPONSES | Northwestern University | PETERS, ALEC JON | 1641 | §112 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Feb 15, 2022 |
| 17634908 | CONTROLLING THE DNA HYBRIDIZATION CHAIN REACTION | Northwestern University | CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH | 1683 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Feb 11, 2022 |
| 17621088 | FORCED INTERCALATION (FIT)-APTAMERS: PROBES BASED ON FORCED INTERCALATION | Northwestern University | CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA | 1681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2021 |
| 17311108 | Protein Crystal Engineering Through DNA Hybridization Interactions | Northwestern University | MOAZZAMI, NAGHMEH NINA | 1652 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Jun 04, 2021 |
| 17054441 | SELF-MANAGEABLE ABNORMAL SCAR TREATMENT WITH SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACID (SNA) TECHNOLOGY | Northwestern University | NGUYEN, JOHN P | 1619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Nov 10, 2020 |
| 17076607 | SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACIDS WITH DENDRITIC LIGANDS | Northwestern University | SHIN, DANA H | 1635 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2020 |
| 17046482 | ADDRESSING NANOMEDICINE COMPLEXITY THROUGH NOVEL HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING AND MACHINE LEARNING | Northwestern University | BEIL, RANDI LYNN | 1684 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Oct 09, 2020 |
| 16975987 | NANOPATTERNING FOR CONTROLLING CELL CYTOSKELETON | Northwestern University | STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E | 1632 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Aug 26, 2020 |
| 16611548 | CONJUGATION OF PEPTIDES TO SPHERICAL NUCLEIC ACIDS (SNAS) USING TRACELESS LINKERS | Northwestern University | VYAS, KEYUR ANILKUMAR | 1637 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2019 |
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