Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Milstein Zhang & Wu LLC

20 pending office actions • 10 clients • 19 examiners • 16 art units • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
2
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. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (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%)
12
Medium (60%)
1
Easy (5%)
7
Unknown (35%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (55%)
§102 only1 (5%)
§112 only1 (5%)
No statute on record7 (35%)

Industry Mix

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

19
Life Sciences
95% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
5% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VU, JAKE MINH 2 40.5% +27.6%
BAEK, BONG-SOOK 1 41.3% +69.3%
COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY 1 74.7% +15.7%
KIM, SEONG JONG 1
BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 1 36.1% +46.3%
SAEED, KAMAL A 1 84.1% +9.3%
REYNOLDS, FRED H 1 33.0% +39.2%
YOON, TAE H 1 66.3% +25.1%
ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM 1 46.3% +21.8%
BARSKY, JARED 1 50.2% +23.0%

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
18219656 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF DETECTING AND TREATING THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR PLAQUES VU, JAKE MINH 154d overdue
18387769 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 5d overdue
18648420 ISO-OSMOTIC AND NEAR ISO-OSMOTIC OXYGEN THERAPEUTIC FORMULATIONS AND METHODS THEREOF BAEK, BONG-SOOK 4d overdue
18233077 PROTEIN-POLYMER NANOASSEMBLIES AND INTRACELLULAR PROTEIN DELIVERY YOON, TAE H 3d overdue
18574248 CRYSTALLINE POLYMORPHS OF EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR INHIBITOR, AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS THEREOF COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY 2d overdue
18208672 PROTEIN-TEMPLATED SELF-ASSEMBLY OF A COVALENT POLYMER NETWORK FOR INTRACELLULAR TRAFFICKING AND TRACELESS RELEASE ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM 12d
18202033 COMPOSITIONS OF BERBERINE URSODEOXYCHOLATE AND METHODS THEREOF FOR TREATING PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS BARSKY, JARED 15d
17616166 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF DETECTING AND TREATING THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR PLAQUES VU, JAKE MINH 16d

Client Portfolio (10 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16183
16242
16932
16111
16211
16551
16261
16581
17621
16281

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18648420 ISO-OSMOTIC AND NEAR ISO-OSMOTIC OXYGEN THERAPEUTIC FORMULATIONS AND METHODS THEREOF NuvOx Pharma LLC BAEK, BONG-SOOK 1611 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2024
18574248 CRYSTALLINE POLYMORPHS OF EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR INHIBITOR, AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS THEREOF Crimson Biopharm Inc. COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY 1624 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Dec 26, 2023
18519269 Pharmaceutical Mixture Comprising Amorphous Pitolisant Alfred E. Tiefenbacher GmbH & Co. KG KIM, SEONG JONG 1621 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Nov 27, 2023
18387769 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE Shenzhen Hightide Biopharmaceutical, Ltd. BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 1655 Other Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2023
18287301 FLUOROCARBON COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING IMMUNOTHERAPY NuvOx Pharma LLC SAEED, KAMAL A 1626 Other Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2023
18279931 PHOTOCAGED CITRULLINE ANALOGS AND METHODS FOR SITE-SPECIFIC INCORPORATION OF CITRULLINE INTO PROTEINS UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Sep 01, 2023
18233077 PROTEIN-POLYMER NANOASSEMBLIES AND INTRACELLULAR PROTEIN DELIVERY UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS YOON, TAE H 1762 Other Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2023
18219656 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF DETECTING AND TREATING THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR PLAQUES Microvascular Therapeutics, LLC VU, JAKE MINH 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 154d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2023
18208672 PROTEIN-TEMPLATED SELF-ASSEMBLY OF A COVALENT POLYMER NETWORK FOR INTRACELLULAR TRAFFICKING AND TRACELESS RELEASE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 12, 2023
18202033 COMPOSITIONS OF BERBERINE URSODEOXYCHOLATE AND METHODS THEREOF FOR TREATING PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS Shenzhen Hightide Biopharmaceutical Ltd. BARSKY, JARED 1628 Other Final Rejection 15d Pending May 25, 2023
18134495 BERBERINE SALTS, URSODEOXYCHOLIC SALTS AND COMBINATIONS, METHODS OF PREPARATION AND APPLICATION THEREOF Shenzhen Hightide Biopharmaceutical, Ltd. WILLIS, DOUGLAS M 1624 §112 Final Rejection 42d Pending Apr 13, 2023
18088544 POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES AND DERIVATIVES THEREOF FOR NUCLEIC ACID BINDING AND DELIVERY UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS POPA, ILEANA 1633 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Dec 24, 2022
18081604 NANODEVICES AND METHODS FOR MEASURING BIOFLUIDIC FLOW USING A GRAPHENE-BASED MICROELECTRODE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 3791 §102 Final Rejection 9d Pending Dec 14, 2022
18078924 DODECAFLUOROPENTANE EMULSION AS A STROKE AND ISCHEMIA THERAPY BIOVENTURES, LLC SCHUBERG, LAURA J 1631 Other Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Dec 10, 2022
17910779 CROSS-LINKED MEDICATION FOR TREATMENT OF CORONAVIRAL INFECTION AND METHOD OF TREATMENT 1Globe Health Institute, Nanjing SCHACHERMEYER, SAMANTHA LYNN 1693 §103 Final Rejection 56d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2022
17790697 ALKYLATED NUCLEOSIDES, AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS THEREOF FOR NUCLEIC ACID DELIVERY Microvascular Therapeutics, LLC CHO, DAVID H 1693 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Jul 01, 2022
17777363 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR OPTOGENETIC IMMUNOTHERAPY UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS SUNSHINE, HANNAH LOUISE 1647 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending May 17, 2022
17719015 High-Density Flagellin-Displaying Virus-Like Particle As Vaccine Carrier University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS 1652 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Apr 12, 2022
17616166 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF DETECTING AND TREATING THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR PLAQUES Microvascular Therapeutics, LLC VU, JAKE MINH 1618 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Dec 02, 2021
17429297 USE OF ACTIVATORS OF THE ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR FOR TREATING GLUTEN-INDUCED GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES Institut National De Recherche Pour L'Agriculture, L'Alimentation Et I'Environnement XIE, XIAOZHEN 1674 Other Non-Final OA 134d overdue Pending Aug 06, 2021

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