Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
12 pending office actions • 1 client • 12 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 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 | 10 (83%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 1 | 86.9% | +14.5% |
| KISH, JAMES M | 1 | 62.5% | +12.0% |
| LAU, MICHAEL J | 1 | 70.5% | +25.1% |
| COPPINS, JANET L | 1 | 73.4% | +25.0% |
| MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 1 | 49.0% | +32.7% |
| BAYS, PAMELA M | 1 | 72.2% | +36.9% |
| VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 1 | 83.3% | +14.4% |
| JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 1 | 87.4% | +7.2% |
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 1 | 77.6% | +24.0% |
| TEIXEIRA MOFFAT, JONATHAN CHARLES | 1 | 68.1% | +10.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18738457 | Arrays for Delivering Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) with Selectively Addressable Sub-Elements | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 5d |
| 18374080 | Reducing Electrosensation While Treating a Subject Using Alternating Electric Fields by Deactivating Selected Electrode Elements | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 50d |
| 18214583 | Closed-Loop Technique to Reduce Electrosensation While Treating a Subject Using Alternating Electric Fields | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 70d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17899220 | ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY WITH A SKIN CONTACT LAYER COMPRISING A CONDUCTIVE ADHESIVE COMPOSITE, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF APPLYING TUMOR TREATING FIELDS USING SAME | TEIXEIRA MOFFAT, JONATHAN CHARLES | 410d overdue |
| 18435375 | Sequentially Positioning Sets of Electrode Arrays at Nonoverlapping Positions to Ameliorate Skin Irritation During Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) Therapy | LAU, MICHAEL J | 23d overdue |
| 18392084 | Multi Channel Device for Directional Shaping of Electric Fields e.g., Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) | BAYS, PAMELA M | 17d overdue |
| 18617886 | Reducing Electrosensation When Treating a Subject Using a Rotating Alternating Electric Field by Gradually Increasing the Amplitude of the Field | KISH, JAMES M | 9d overdue |
| 18738457 | Arrays for Delivering Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) with Selectively Addressable Sub-Elements | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 5d |
| 18129510 | Delivering Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) Using Implanted Sheets of Graphite | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 19d |
| 18428639 | Methods for Restoring Sensitivity to TTFields in TTFields-Resistant Cancer Cells with PTGER3 Inhibitors | COPPINS, JANET L | 34d |
| 18398526 | Reducing Electrosensation While Treating a Subject Using Alternating Electric Fields by Increasing the Number of Steps in a Ramp-Up Portion of a Waveform | MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 40d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| NOVOCURE GMBH | 12 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 4 |
| 3792 | 4 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 1628 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18738457 | Arrays for Delivering Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) with Selectively Addressable Sub-Elements | Novocure GmbH | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18617886 | Reducing Electrosensation When Treating a Subject Using a Rotating Alternating Electric Field by Gradually Increasing the Amplitude of the Field | Novocure GmbH | KISH, JAMES M | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18435375 | Sequentially Positioning Sets of Electrode Arrays at Nonoverlapping Positions to Ameliorate Skin Irritation During Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) Therapy | Novocure GmbH | LAU, MICHAEL J | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18428639 | Methods for Restoring Sensitivity to TTFields in TTFields-Resistant Cancer Cells with PTGER3 Inhibitors | Novocure GmbH | COPPINS, JANET L | 1628 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18398526 | Reducing Electrosensation While Treating a Subject Using Alternating Electric Fields by Increasing the Number of Steps in a Ramp-Up Portion of a Waveform | Novocure GmbH | MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18392084 | Multi Channel Device for Directional Shaping of Electric Fields e.g., Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) | Novocure GmbH | BAYS, PAMELA M | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18374080 | Reducing Electrosensation While Treating a Subject Using Alternating Electric Fields by Deactivating Selected Electrode Elements | Novocure GmbH | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18214583 | Closed-Loop Technique to Reduce Electrosensation While Treating a Subject Using Alternating Electric Fields | Novocure GmbH | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18129510 | Delivering Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) Using Implanted Sheets of Graphite | Novocure GmbH | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 17899220 | ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY WITH A SKIN CONTACT LAYER COMPRISING A CONDUCTIVE ADHESIVE COMPOSITE, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF APPLYING TUMOR TREATING FIELDS USING SAME | Novocure GmbH | TEIXEIRA MOFFAT, JONATHAN CHARLES | 3700 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 410d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
| 17850294 | System and Method for Delivering Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) and Measuring Impedance | Novocure GmbH | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jun 27, 2022 |
| 17837638 | Methods of Treating and Preventing Cancer with Alternating Electric Fields, Radioactive Particles, and Systemic Therapy | Novocure GmbH | COX, THADDEUS B | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
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