Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Mccarter & English, LLP Wilmington

9 pending office actions • 8 clients • 9 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=574 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

77.9%
Allowance Rate
n=574
+0.74σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=574
3.9
OAs to Allowance
n=311
-0.04σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=311
1035 days
Time to Allowance
n=311
+16.7pp
Interview Lift
n=574
29.8%
RCE Rate
n=574
1.0%
Appeal Rate
n=574

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=14 (min 20)
74.2%
§102 Overcome
n=66
74.7%
§103 Overcome
n=245
77.8%
§112 Overcome
n=54

Specialization & Scale

A61K, C12N, A61P
Top CPC Subclasses
20%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=574
0
Practitioners
n=574
Apps / Practitioner
n=574 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (89%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (78%)
§102 only1 (11%)
§112 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
3
Communications
33% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LEE, JANGWOEN 1 84.3% +19.6%
LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 1 87.8% +26.3%
ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S 1 60.4% +48.5%
SAEED, ALI S 1 31.2% +34.3%
SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH 1 76.9% +25.5%
STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 1 42.9% +34.3%
VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN 1 61.8% +46.2%
WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL 1 57.8% +48.7%
PARKIN, JEFFREY S 1 63.7% +21.2%

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
18679231 USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS TO GENERATE ELECTRONIC MESSAGES ASSOCIATED WITH CONTENT ITEMS LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 11d overdue
18679206 USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL-GENERATED DESCRIPTIONS IN A CONTENT REPOSITORY LEE, JANGWOEN 4d overdue

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
18512349 DROPROPIZINE IN COMBINATION WITH AMBROXOL IN THE DOSAGE FORM OF SYRUP AND TABLETS SAEED, ALI S 31d overdue
18008938 Assay for the detection of the Cys-like protease (Mpro) of SARS-CoV-2 PARKIN, JEFFREY S 30d overdue
18679231 USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS TO GENERATE ELECTRONIC MESSAGES ASSOCIATED WITH CONTENT ITEMS LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 11d overdue
18679206 USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL-GENERATED DESCRIPTIONS IN A CONTENT REPOSITORY LEE, JANGWOEN 4d overdue
18025074 MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS CO-EXPRESSING CXCR4 AND IL-10 AND USES THEREOF VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN 4d overdue
18482064 System For Determining Construction Installation Accuracy SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH 14d
18246742 MEMORY T CELLS AS ADOPTIVE CELL THERAPY FOR VIRAL INFECTIONS STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 27d
18711261 METHODS FOR INTRATUMORAL DELIVERY OF CRISPR/CAS SYSTEMS ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S 69d

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26562
16171
16161
26671
16321
16331
17581
16711

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18679206 USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL-GENERATED DESCRIPTIONS IN A CONTENT REPOSITORY Highspot, Inc. LEE, JANGWOEN 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 30, 2024
18679231 USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS TO GENERATE ELECTRONIC MESSAGES ASSOCIATED WITH CONTENT ITEMS Highspot, Inc. LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending May 30, 2024
18711261 METHODS FOR INTRATUMORAL DELIVERY OF CRISPR/CAS SYSTEMS Christiana Care Gene Editing Institute, Inc. ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S 1617 §102 Final Rejection 69d Pending May 17, 2024
18512349 DROPROPIZINE IN COMBINATION WITH AMBROXOL IN THE DOSAGE FORM OF SYRUP AND TABLETS Productos Farmaceuticos, S.A. De C.V. SAEED, ALI S 1616 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Nov 17, 2023
18482064 System For Determining Construction Installation Accuracy Ddp Specialty Electronic Materials US, LLC SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH 2667 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Oct 06, 2023
18246742 MEMORY T CELLS AS ADOPTIVE CELL THERAPY FOR VIRAL INFECTIONS Fundacion De La Comunitat Valenciana Para La Gestion Del Instituto De Investigacion Sanitaria STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 1632 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 27, 2023
18025074 MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS CO-EXPRESSING CXCR4 AND IL-10 AND USES THEREOF Consorcio Centro De Investigación Biomédica En Red VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN 1633 §112 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2023
18009043 MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF METABOLITES AND/OR PROPERTIES OF BIOFLUIDS UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Dec 08, 2022
18008938 Assay for the detection of the Cys-like protease (Mpro) of SARS-CoV-2 CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS PARKIN, JEFFREY S 1671 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2022

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