Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, P.C.

56 pending office actions • 37 clients • 54 examiners • 36 art units • 0 of 56 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=2347 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

82.2%
Allowance Rate
n=2347
+0.78σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=2347
3.7
OAs to Allowance
n=1140
-0.17σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1140
1091 days
Time to Allowance
n=1140
+16.4pp
Interview Lift
n=2347
27.0%
RCE Rate
n=2347
0.9%
Appeal Rate
n=2347

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

79.6%
§101 Overcome
n=221
74.4%
§102 Overcome
n=566
73.4%
§103 Overcome
n=856
78.1%
§112 Overcome
n=796

Specialization & Scale

A61K, A61P, C12N
Top CPC Subclasses
36%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=2347
2
Practitioners
n=2347
1173.5
Apps / Practitioner
n=2347

Portfolio Summary

56
Total Pending OAs
42
Non-Final OAs
13
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
6
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. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (6)

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.

30
Hard (54%)
21
Medium (38%)
5
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (2%)
§101 + other4 (7%)
§103 only17 (30%)
§102 only2 (4%)
§112 only3 (5%)
Double-patenting only2 (4%)
Double-patenting + other2 (4%)
Multi-statute (no §101)25 (45%)

Industry Mix

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

47
Life Sciences
84% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
2% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
2% of docket
7
Business / Other
12% 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.

560 h
Manual time on pending OAs
112 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
196 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JOHNSON, KARA D 2 69.3% +24.4%
BASQUILL, SEAN M 2 38.8% +21.7%
ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA 1 52.9% +56.1%
PUTTLITZ, KARL J 1 69.1% +18.6%
SINGH, ANOOP KUMAR 1 42.7% +67.3%
ING, MATTHEW W 1 64.8% +7.9%
KASAYAN, KATRIEL BARCELLANO 1 50.0% +0.0%
WEBB, WALTER E 1 46.5% +18.6%
LEE, JAE W 1 65.6% +39.0%
HAIDER, SYED 1 83.5% +8.0%

Hard Cases (30)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17182044 GENE EXPRESSION-BASED BIOMARKER FOR THE DETECTION AND MONITORING OF BRONCHIAL PREMALIGNANT LESIONS GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M 53d overdue
17778382 ANTI-PD-L1/ANTI-B7-H3 MULTISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES AND USES THEREOF NICKOL, GARY B 23d overdue
18931358 OUTDOOR TABLETOP SYSTEM ING, MATTHEW W 15d overdue
17782908 INFLAMMATION-RESPONSIVE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY HYDROGELS JONES, DAMERON LEVEST 5d overdue
18035358 SYSTEMS FOR BUCCAL RELEASE OF PROTEINS BROWE, DAVID 3d overdue
17786517 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CORRECTION OF DMD MUTATIONS FOX, ALLISON M 2d overdue
18009731 A CELLULAR MARKER OF COVID SEVERITY QIAN, CELINE X 28d
17783573 ALDH3A2 INHIBITION AND FERROPTOSIS INDUCTION FOR CANCER THERAPY HUDSON, AMY ROSE 29d

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
17383941 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR REPAIR OF CRUSHED PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES WITH ERYTHROPOIETIN BASQUILL, SEAN M 24d overdue
18508057 CARDIOMYOCYTES AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME JOHNSON, KARA D 30d
18949619 CELLS LACKING B2M SURFACE EXPRESSION AND METHODS FOR ALLOGENEIC ADMINISTRATION OF SUCH CELLS SINGH, ANOOP KUMAR 34d
18020234 A COMPOSITON COMPRISING MICROCAPSULES BASQUILL, SEAN M 49d
19392118 Untitled ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA
19407141 LIGAND-DRUG CONJUGATES PUTTLITZ, KARL J
18832837 A METHOD OF FORMING A COMPOSITION COMPRISING A PROBIOTIC MICRO-ENCAPSULATED IN A DENATURED PLANT PROTEIN MATRIX WEBB, WALTER E
18773428 METHODS OF EDITING DNA METHYLATION LEE, JAE W

Client Portfolio (37 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16325
16123
16373
16842
16282
16312
16332
16142
16182
16461

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19392118 Untitled President and Fellows of Harvard College ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA §101§102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending
19407141 LIGAND-DRUG CONJUGATES Tripartite Therapeutics Inc. PUTTLITZ, KARL J 1646 §102§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 03, 2025
18949619 CELLS LACKING B2M SURFACE EXPRESSION AND METHODS FOR ALLOGENEIC ADMINISTRATION OF SUCH CELLS President and Fellows of Harvard College SINGH, ANOOP KUMAR 1632 §103§112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 15, 2024
18931358 OUTDOOR TABLETOP SYSTEM Agio International Company, Limited ING, MATTHEW W 3637 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2024
18845476 INDUCED TOTIPOTENT POTENTIAL STEM CELLS, METHODS OF MAKING AND USING Peking University KASAYAN, KATRIEL BARCELLANO §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 10, 2024
18832837 A METHOD OF FORMING A COMPOSITION COMPRISING A PROBIOTIC MICRO-ENCAPSULATED IN A DENATURED PLANT PROTEIN MATRIX Anabio Technologies Ltd. WEBB, WALTER E 1612 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 24, 2024
18773428 METHODS OF EDITING DNA METHYLATION Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research LEE, JAE W §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 15, 2024
18742930 SC-BETA CELLS AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING THE SAME President and Fellows of Harvard College JOHNSON, KARA D §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 13, 2024
18742623 METHOD OF CELL-CLUSTER ANALYSIS Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou HAIDER, SYED 2633 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 13, 2024
18642665 SMALL MOLECULES FOR MOUSE SATELLITE CELL PROLIFERATION President and Fellows of Harvard College SHIAO, REI TSANG DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 22, 2024
18701596 OPTIMIZED BIOSYNTHESIS PATHWAY FOR CANNABINOID BIOSYNTHESIS Cellibre, Inc. LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS 1652 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Apr 15, 2024
18611871 METHOD FOR TREATING ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION WITH QUERCETIN-CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS Quercis Pharma AG CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI 1699 DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 21, 2024
18587488 THERMALLY PROTECTIVE COMPOSITE MATERIAL Bemis Associates, Inc. HANDVILLE, BRIAN 1783 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 26, 2024
18576073 METHODS Genetix Biotherapeutics Inc. TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M 1684 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 02, 2024
18391648 METHOD FOR IMPROVING DIABETIC WOUND HEALING USING MIR-200B Hungkuang University SAPKOTA, SURAJ 4100 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2023
18571123 NOVEL COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS OF VIRAL INFECTIONS Sunregen Healthcare AG MI, QIUWEN 1655 §102 Final Rejection 46d Pending Dec 15, 2023
18533542 THIN-SHELL POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES AND USES THEREOF Academia Sinica PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC 1613 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Dec 08, 2023
18517497 BRIARANE COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE National Museum Of Marine Biology And Aquarium SHI, GENBIN 1628 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 22, 2023
18561712 TREATMENT OF ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME USING S-HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE Genovate Biotechnology Co. Ltd. VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN 1622 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18560883 ENGINEERED CELLS, ENZYMES, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING CANNABINOIDS Cellibre, Inc. GORDON, MELENIE LEE 1651 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Nov 14, 2023
18508057 CARDIOMYOCYTES AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia JOHNSON, KARA D 1632 §103§112 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Nov 13, 2023
18386551 CHROMOSOME NEIGHBORHOOD STRUCTURES AND METHODS RELATING THERETO Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE 1637 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 02, 2023
18495731 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IN VIVO DIRECT GENOME EDITING IN PLANTS The Regents of the University of California KUMAR, VINOD 1663 §103 Final Rejection 96d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2023
18286405 CARDIOMYOCYTES AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia MARTIN, PAUL C 1653 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Oct 11, 2023
18285494 CHEMICAL REPROGRAMMING OF HUMAN SOMATIC CELLS INTO PLURIPOTENT CELLS Peking University MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL 1631 §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 03, 2023
18372855 LIFTING YOKE Danhydra A/S VU, STEPHEN A §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 26, 2023
18231009 METHOD FOR IMMUNE CELL TRACKING Megapro Biomedical Co., Ltd. LEWOCZKO, EVAN MICHAEL 1612 §103DPOther Non-Final OA 70d Pending Aug 07, 2023
18209360 POLYPHARMACEUTICAL DRUG COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS Aveta Biomics, Inc. PURDY, KYLE A 1611 §103 Final Rejection 63d Pending Jun 13, 2023
18205841 LIGAND-POLAR DRUG CONJUGATES Tripartite Therapeutics Inc. HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J 1674 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 05, 2023
18038943 MODULATING TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONDENSATES Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE 1682 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 25, 2023
18035683 METHODS Genetix Biotherapeutics Inc. WESTON, ALYSSA G 1633 §102 Final Rejection 62d Pending May 05, 2023
18035358 SYSTEMS FOR BUCCAL RELEASE OF PROTEINS UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD - LYON 1 BROWE, DAVID 1617 §103§112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending May 04, 2023
18034876 USE OF BRAIN ORGANOIDS AND SINGLE CELL GENOMICS TO UNDERSTAND AND TREAT NEURODEVELOPMENTAL AND NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS Massachusetts Institute Of Technology KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 1683 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 01, 2023
18021156 EX VIVO BRAIN TUMOR MODEL Massachusetts Institute Of Technology REGLAS, GILLIAN CHELSEA 1632 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 13, 2023
18020234 A COMPOSITON COMPRISING MICROCAPSULES Teagasc -The Agriculture And Food Development Authority BASQUILL, SEAN M 1614 §103Other Final Rejection 49d Pending Feb 07, 2023
18019954 A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION IN ORAL DOSAGE FORM Teagasc-The Agriculture And Food Development Authority TRAN, SUSAN T 1615 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 06, 2023
18009731 A CELLULAR MARKER OF COVID SEVERITY Sorbonne Universite QIAN, CELINE X 1637 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 11, 2022
17920260 ELAFIBRANOR FOR THE TREATMENT OF PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS Genfit LEE, ANDREW P 1691 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Oct 20, 2022
17917365 CARRIERS FOR EFFICIENT NUCLEIC ACID DELIVERY Tiba Biotech LLC VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE 1612 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 06, 2022
17945709 METHOD OF BIOMARKER DETECTION IN COMPANION ANIMALS Uni Pharma Co., LTD. HUANG, MICKEY NMN 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Sep 15, 2022
17894333 METHODS OF TREATING CDGSH IRON SULFUR DOMAIN 2 INSUFFICIENCY-ASSOCIATED DISORDERS Chang Gung Medical Foundation, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou COPPINS, JANET L 1628 §112 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Aug 24, 2022
17878774 CDC20 VARIANTS RESISTANT TO ANTI-MITOTIC DRUGS AND RELATED METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research YOUTCHOM PENDIE, EMMANUEL LED 1647 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 01, 2022
17786517 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CORRECTION OF DMD MUTATIONS President and Fellows of Harvard College FOX, ALLISON M 1633 §103§112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2022
17783573 ALDH3A2 INHIBITION AND FERROPTOSIS INDUCTION FOR CANCER THERAPY Shrikanta Chattopadhyay HUDSON, AMY ROSE 1636 §103§112 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jun 08, 2022
17782908 INFLAMMATION-RESPONSIVE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY HYDROGELS Nanyang Technological University JONES, DAMERON LEVEST 1618 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jun 06, 2022
17778382 ANTI-PD-L1/ANTI-B7-H3 MULTISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES AND USES THEREOF I-Mab NICKOL, GARY B 1643 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending May 19, 2022
17728927 THERAPEUTIC USES OF GENOME EDITING WITH CRISPR/Cas SYSTEMS The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia WILSON, MICHAEL C 1638 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 25, 2022
17763441 NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITIONS FOR GENE THERAPY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN LIPPOLIS, ALEXANDRA ROSE 1637 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 24, 2022
17588038 IN VIVO GUIDE RNA LIBRARIES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research DHAR, MATASHA 1632 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 28, 2022
17540968 MODIFIED T CELLS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME President and Fellows of Harvard College WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA 1634 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 02, 2021
17615579 REPRODUCIBLE BRAIN ORGANOIDS AND METHODS OF MAKING The Broad Institute, Inc. BEHARRY, ZANNA MARIA 1632 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Nov 30, 2021
17613004 ENDOCRINE DIFFERENTIATION-INDUCING MOLECULE President and Fellows of Harvard College GONZALES, JOSEPHINE MARIA 1631 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 19, 2021
17611560 METHODS OF CHARACTERIZING AND UTILIZING AGENT-CONDENSATE INTERACTIONS Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN 1618 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 15, 2021
17608463 PEPTIDE DERIVATIVES AND CONJUGATES THEREOF FOR TREATING CANCER The University of Sydney REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 §103 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Nov 02, 2021
17383941 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR REPAIR OF CRUSHED PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES WITH ERYTHROPOIETIN Shu-Tung And Alice Li Foundation Inc. BASQUILL, SEAN M 1614 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Jul 23, 2021
17182044 GENE EXPRESSION-BASED BIOMARKER FOR THE DETECTION AND MONITORING OF BRONCHIAL PREMALIGNANT LESIONS Trustees Of Boston University GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M 1684 §102§103 Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2021

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