Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Purdue - Flaster Greenberg P.C.

5 pending office actions • 2 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=38 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

50.0%
Allowance Rate
n=38
+0.09σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=38
OAs to Allowance
n=1 (min 20)
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1 (min 20)
Time to Allowance
n=1 (min 20)
+100.0pp
Interview Lift
n=38
150.0%
RCE Rate
n=38
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=38

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=3 (min 20)
§102 Overcome
n=9 (min 20)
§103 Overcome
n=7 (min 20)
§112 Overcome
n=8 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

A61K, A61P, C12N
Top CPC Subclasses
56%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=38
0
Practitioners
n=38
Apps / Practitioner
n=38 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)

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.

4
Hard (80%)
1
Medium (20%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (40%)
§102 only1 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TAMUKONG, YVETTE BIH 1 100.0% +0.0%
CHEN, CATHERYNE 1 37.4% +18.3%
DAVIS, BRIAN J 1 84.8% -4.1%
COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P 1 71.4% +11.9%
GURLEY, JAMI MICHELLE 1 50.0% +19.3%

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
18285439 IMMUNOFUNCTIONAL CARRIER, METHODS OF USES, AND COMPOSITION MATTERS AS AN ANTITUMOR IMMUNOTHERAPY DAVIS, BRIAN J 3d overdue

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17794917 LIGAND-MEDIATED DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTIC PROTEINS AND THE USES THEREOF GURLEY, JAMI MICHELLE 53d overdue
18123018 Circularly Recyclable Polymers Featuring Topochemically Elongated Carbon-Carbon Bonds COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P 36d overdue
19100347 EFFICIENT GENOTYPE-INDEPENDENT IN PLANTA TRANSFORMATION OF CEREALS TAMUKONG, YVETTE BIH
18579679 PREBIOTIC COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF USE TO IMPROVE GASTROINTESTINAL HEALTH IN PATIENTS WITH DYSBIOSIS AND LEAKY GUT CHEN, CATHERYNE

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17794917 LIGAND-MEDIATED DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTIC PROTEINS AND THE USES THEREOF GURLEY, JAMI MICHELLE 53d overdue
18123018 Circularly Recyclable Polymers Featuring Topochemically Elongated Carbon-Carbon Bonds COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P 36d overdue
18579679 PREBIOTIC COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF USE TO IMPROVE GASTROINTESTINAL HEALTH IN PATIENTS WITH DYSBIOSIS AND LEAKY GUT CHEN, CATHERYNE

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Purdue University 4
Rush University 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16621
16551
16141
16261
16471

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19100347 EFFICIENT GENOTYPE-INDEPENDENT IN PLANTA TRANSFORMATION OF CEREALS Purdue Research Foundation TAMUKONG, YVETTE BIH 1662 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 31, 2025
18579679 PREBIOTIC COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF USE TO IMPROVE GASTROINTESTINAL HEALTH IN PATIENTS WITH DYSBIOSIS AND LEAKY GUT Rush University Medical Center CHEN, CATHERYNE 1655 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2024
18285439 IMMUNOFUNCTIONAL CARRIER, METHODS OF USES, AND COMPOSITION MATTERS AS AN ANTITUMOR IMMUNOTHERAPY Purdue Research Foundation DAVIS, BRIAN J 1614 §102 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 03, 2023
18123018 Circularly Recyclable Polymers Featuring Topochemically Elongated Carbon-Carbon Bonds Purdue Research Foundation COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P 1626 §102§112 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
17794917 LIGAND-MEDIATED DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTIC PROTEINS AND THE USES THEREOF Purdue Research Foundation GURLEY, JAMI MICHELLE 1647 §103§112 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2022

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