Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Norton Rose Fulbright - Ut Southwestern

8 pending office actions • 1 client • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=87 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.7%
Allowance Rate
n=87
+0.57σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=87
OAs to Allowance
n=18 (min 20)
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=18 (min 20)
Time to Allowance
n=18 (min 20)
-27.3pp
Interview Lift
n=87
66.7%
RCE Rate
n=87
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=87

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=1 (min 20)
§102 Overcome
n=2 (min 20)
45.8%
§103 Overcome
n=24
§112 Overcome
n=9 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

A61K, G01N, A61P
Top CPC Subclasses
46%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=87
0
Practitioners
n=87
Apps / Practitioner
n=87 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due later (1)

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%)
6
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (12%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
§112 only1 (12%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
62% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOYLAN, JAMES T 1 62.9% +11.2%
PRONZATI, GINA 1 67.7% +39.0%
MEJIAS, SAMANTHA LEE 1 47.8% +63.2%
BORSCH, NICHOLAS S 1 72.5% +12.1%
SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM 1 81.5% +23.6%
HUDSON, AMY ROSE 1 75.1% +11.2%
SVEIVEN, MICHAEL CAMERON 1 35.0% +50.0%
BRAUN, MADELINE E 1 68.1% +25.2%

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
17998037 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING A TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT USING PATHOLOGICAL IMAGES SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM 46d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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
17998037 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING A TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT USING PATHOLOGICAL IMAGES SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM 46d overdue
17265333 ADJUVANT EFFECT OF THE TLR1/2 AGONIST DIPROVOCIM SYNERGIZES WITH CHECKPOINT-INHIBITING ANTIBODIES TO ELIMINATE DISEASE BRAUN, MADELINE E 42d overdue
18177265 ENDORECTAL COOLING DEVICE HOLDER BORSCH, NICHOLAS S 5d overdue
18933931 IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CONVERT LATERAL SCANNING INTO AXIAL REMOTE FOCUSING BOYLAN, JAMES T 2d overdue
18032760 PROINFLAMMATORY PRODRUGS MEJIAS, SAMANTHA LEE 71d
18683101 SLC13A5 GENE THERAPY VECTORS AND USES THEREOF PRONZATI, GINA
17905285 METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS AND/OR PROGNOSIS OF LIVER DISEASE PROGRESSION AND RISK OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA AND DISCOVERY OF THERAPEUTIC COMPOUNDS AND TARGETS TO TREAT LIVER DISEASE AND CANCER HUDSON, AMY ROSE
17684639 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DETECTING PROTEIN TARGETS SVEIVEN, MICHAEL CAMERON

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
University of Texas 8

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24861
16331
16181
37941
26721
16361
16781
16241

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18933931 IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CONVERT LATERAL SCANNING INTO AXIAL REMOTE FOCUSING The Board Of Regents Of The University Of Texas System BOYLAN, JAMES T 2486 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2024
18683101 SLC13A5 GENE THERAPY VECTORS AND USES THEREOF The Board Of Regents Of The University Of Texas System PRONZATI, GINA 1633 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 12, 2024
18032760 PROINFLAMMATORY PRODRUGS The Board Of Regents Of The University Of Texas System MEJIAS, SAMANTHA LEE 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Apr 19, 2023
18177265 ENDORECTAL COOLING DEVICE HOLDER The Board Of Regents Of The University Of Texas System BORSCH, NICHOLAS S 3794 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Mar 02, 2023
17998037 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING A TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT USING PATHOLOGICAL IMAGES The Board Of Regents Of The University Of Texas System SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM 2672 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Nov 06, 2022
17905285 METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS AND/OR PROGNOSIS OF LIVER DISEASE PROGRESSION AND RISK OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA AND DISCOVERY OF THERAPEUTIC COMPOUNDS AND TARGETS TO TREAT LIVER DISEASE AND CANCER The Board Of Regents Of The University Of Texas System HUDSON, AMY ROSE 1636 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 30, 2022
17684639 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DETECTING PROTEIN TARGETS The Board Of Regents Of The University Of Texas System SVEIVEN, MICHAEL CAMERON 1678 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 02, 2022
17265333 ADJUVANT EFFECT OF THE TLR1/2 AGONIST DIPROVOCIM SYNERGIZES WITH CHECKPOINT-INHIBITING ANTIBODIES TO ELIMINATE DISEASE The Board Of Regents Of The University Of Texas System BRAUN, MADELINE E 1624 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Feb 02, 2021

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