Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
428 pending office actions • 148 clients • 396 examiners • 181 art units • 0 of 428 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
QUARLES & BRADY LLP is a major player in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area, having handled 14242 career applications. The firm boasts a resolved allowance rate of 94.54 percent. This success is achieved with an average of 3.43 office actions per allowance, reflecting the complex nature of life sciences prosecution.
The firm currently manages 319 pending office actions, indicating a high level of ongoing activity. The 94.54 percent allowance rate is particularly impressive given the large volume of 14242 career applications. This data suggests a firm with deep resources and a proven track record in securing patents.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 131 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. 131 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 10 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 63 (15%) |
| §103 only | 125 (29%) |
| §102 only | 13 (3%) |
| §112 only | 20 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 7 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 27 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 159 (37%) |
| No statute on record | 4 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASHEM, LISA | 5 | 75.1% | +12.0% |
| PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT | 3 | 68.1% | +35.1% |
| PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | 3 | 10.7% | +14.4% |
| ZEMAN, ROBERT A | 3 | 54.3% | +27.7% |
| GILL, RACHEL B | 3 | 65.5% | +28.5% |
| NIEBAUER, RONALD T | 3 | 40.8% | +34.0% |
| NEWTON, CHAD A | 2 | 37.9% | +23.6% |
| COLLINS, CYNTHIA E | 2 | 82.2% | +9.0% |
| MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 2 | 51.9% | +56.9% |
| DESIRE, GREGORY M | 2 | 90.6% | +6.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18204028 | INSULATING CONTAINER | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 265d overdue |
| 17996911 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADMINISTERING A SMELL TEST FOR SARS CORONAVIRUSES AND COVID-19 | TOTH, KAREN E | 190d overdue |
| 18724857 | INTERNET OF THINGS TERMINAL OBJECT MODEL STANDARDIZATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PHAM, MICHAEL | 169d overdue |
| 18117842 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING MICROSACCADE DYNAMICS TO MEASURE ATTENTIONAL RESPONSE TO A STIMULUS | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 146d overdue |
| 18780061 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED RISK-CLASSIFICATION OF ENDOMERIAL CANCER | PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | 139d overdue |
| 18807042 | HARNESS FOR CONTAINER AND USE OF SAME | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 127d overdue |
| 18592330 | System for Improved Remote Processing and Interaction with Artificial Survey Administrator | CHOY, PAN G | 126d overdue |
| 17641634 | KEYWORD DETECTIONS BASED ON EVENTS GENERATED FROM AUDIO SIGNALS | SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN | 125d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780061 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED RISK-CLASSIFICATION OF ENDOMERIAL CANCER | PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | 139d overdue |
| 17906288 | TREATMENT METHODS | PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT | 89d overdue |
| 18557768 | PREDICTING MENTAL STATE CHARACTERISTICS OF USERS OF WEARABLE DEVICES | PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | 59d overdue |
| 18131280 | PEPTIDIC OLIGOMERS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | NIEBAUER, RONALD T | 30d overdue |
| 18322442 | METHODS FOR DIAGNOSING GASTRIC INTESTINAL METAPLASIA | ZEMAN, ROBERT A | 17d overdue |
| 19362140 | DATA BASED CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | NEWTON, CHAD A | — |
| 19347608 | TREATMENT METHODS | PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT | — |
| 19231352 | MINITUARIZED INTRAVASCULAR FLUORESCENCE-ULTRASOUND IMAGING CATHETER | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 16 |
| 3797 | 9 |
| 3796 | 7 |
| 1645 | 7 |
| 3798 | 6 |
| 2858 | 6 |
| 3681 | 5 |
| 3774 | 5 |
| 1658 | 5 |
| 1627 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19568609 | PROTECTIVE KNEE PAD | Armadillo Industrial Limited | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2026 |
| 19424856 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ENHANCED AND SELECTIVE PHOTOBLEACHING | Bruker Nano, Inc. | HAQ, SHAFIQUL | 1678 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2025 |
| 19399465 | NON-METALLIC ULTRASOUND-DETECTABLE MARKERS | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research | SHENG, CHAO | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2025 |
| 19362140 | DATA BASED CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Tempus AI, Inc. | NEWTON, CHAD A | 3681 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
| 19359400 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AI-ASSISTED PATENT OFFICE ACTION RESPONSE GENERATION | Solve Intelligence, Inc. | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 3629 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19347608 | TREATMENT METHODS | Levon Michael Khachigian | PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT | 1627 | — | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2025 |
| 19330659 | PEANUT CULTIVAR 'IPG 110' | International Peanut Group LLC | COLLINS, CYNTHIA E | 1662 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2025 |
| 19299570 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ACUTE BRAIN FUNCTION IMPAIRMENT | The General Hospital Corporation | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 | |
| 19153797 | MULTIMODAL ULTRASOUND AND ACOUSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NOVEL NON-INVASIVE HEARING ASSESSMENT AND INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING | Regents Of The University Of Minnesota | YANG, YI-SHAN | 3798 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 |
| 19288971 | MONITORING ORGAN MORPHOLOGY FOR RADIATION TREATMENT DELIVERY USING ULTRASOUND | The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19151575 | AN ENGINEERED RICE WITH REDUCED VACUOLAR PROTON PYROPHOSPHATASE 5 (VPP5) EXPRESSION | The Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Arkansas | PAGE, BRENT T | 1663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19261441 | Systems and Methods for Vented Helmets | Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc. | MANGINE, HEATHER N | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19232588 | AI ENABLED COMPETENCY BASED FLEX CURRICULUM PLANNER | Arizona Board of Regents | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 | |
| 19136790 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PATIENT-SPECIFIC TREATMENT RECOMMENDATION OPTIMIZED WITH MULTISTAGE MACHINE LEARNING | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research | ERICKSON, BENNETT S | 3683 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19231352 | MINITUARIZED INTRAVASCULAR FLUORESCENCE-ULTRASOUND IMAGING CATHETER | The General Hospital Corporation | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 3797 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19227135 | DATA PROCESSING AND VISUALIZATION METHOD, MEDIUM AND DEVICE | Ndival Technology (Zhuhai) Co., Ltd. | WEBB III, JAMES L | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 | |
| 19215178 | INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY FOR INTRAOPERATIVE FUNCTIONAL MAPPING | Northwestern University | POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR | 3797 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19213682 | Location Estimation Systems and Methods for a Material Handling Vehicle | The Raymond Corporation | CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 | |
| 19128963 | ELECTROMAGNETIC COLPOTOMY CUP SYSTEM | The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. | NASSER, ROBERT L | 3992 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19127809 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LONG HAIR TRANSPLANTATION | The General Hospital Corporation | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 | |
| 19195680 | Surface Plasmon Resonance Signal Amplification | Nicoya Lifesciences Inc. | AKANBI, ISIAKA O | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 | |
| 19193950 | Digital Microfluidic Systems, Cartridges, and Methods Including Integrated Refractive Index Sensing | Nicoya Lifesciences Inc. | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 | |
| 19182191 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION WITH DEEP LEARNING-BASED OUTER VOLUME REMOVAL | Regents Of The University Of Minnesota | ZAKARIA, AKM | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 | |
| 19174514 | THREADED SECUREMENT OF ENCLOSURE COMPONENTS | Schroff GmbH | WILEY, DANIEL J | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 | |
| 19096485 | SAFE-DRIVING TRAINING SYSTEM AND METHOD | Innocorp, Ltd. | FLETCHER, JERRY-DARYL | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 | |
| 19094232 | Thermal Imaging Sensing for Autonomous Industrial Vehicles | The Raymond Corporation | REDA, MATTHEW J | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 | |
| 19094133 | Clamping Assembly for a Material Handling Vehicle | The Raymond Corporation | NGUYEN, HALBERT NHU | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 | |
| 19086928 | PEANUT CULTIVAR 'IPG 517' | International Peanut Group LLC | COLLINS, CYNTHIA E | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 | |
| 19087437 | MACHINE LEARNING BASED CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | Merit Network, Inc. | BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 | |
| 19111261 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERVENTIONAL PLANNING FOR THE TREATMENT OF BRAIN DISORDERS | Turing Medical Technologies, Inc. | RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19109980 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATTENUATING ACOUSTIC WAVES | The General Hospital Corporation | BARBOZA, MARCUS ALEXANDER | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 | |
| 19073293 | WALL MOUNTED EQUIPMENT SUPPORT | Erico International Corporation | MORRIS, TAYLOR L | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 | |
| 19108505 | VACUUM LIFTING ARRANGEMENT AND LIFTING TUBE FOR USE THEREIN | Tawi Aktiebolag | AN, IG TAI | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 | |
| 19067139 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE FOR DIRECTED HYPOTHESIS GENERATION AND RANKING | Tempus AI, Inc. | MOSER, BRUCE M | 2154 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19055401 | CANNULA AND STYLET REVERSER | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 3797 | §102 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 19052904 | Methods and Systems for Operating Physical Random Number Generators | Evolution Malta Limited | GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 | |
| 19052065 | Systems and Methods for Projections from a Material Handling Vehicle | The Raymond Corporation | MA, KAM WAN | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19103487 | HEAT EXCHANGER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREFOR | Conflux Technology Pty Ltd. | LING, FOR K. | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 | |
| 19040967 | Articulated boom, machine, method for manufacturing a connecting piece for an articulated boom and use of an articulated boom | Sennebogen Maschinenfabrik GmbH | CAMPOS JR, JUAN J | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 | |
| 19036969 | SUPERCONTINUUM INTRINSIC FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | The Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Illinois | ARTMAN, THOMAS R | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 | |
| 19035560 | AORTIC ARCH SEGMENTATION AND ANALYSIS | The Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Illinois | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 | |
| 19032819 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TIME-RESOLVED FORWARD MODEL FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMAGING (MR-ARFI) | Case Western Reserve University | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 3797 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19031685 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PORTABLE, SAFETY LIGHTING | Archangel Device LLC | HARRIS, WILLIAM N | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19025556 | Motion Control Systems and Methods for a Material Handling Vehicle | The Raymond Corporation | BROWN, DREW J | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 | |
| 19015206 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCALIZING ARTICLES IN AN INTRALOGISTICS ENVIRONMENT | Captron Electronic GmbH | DESIRE, GREGORY M | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 | |
| 18881081 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY BREATHING AMPLITUDES FOR IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION | The Regents of the University of California | DHOOGE, DEVIN J | 2677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18881222 | SYSTEMS FOR ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPY AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURE OF THE SAME | The General Hospital Corporation | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18880219 | REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES RESPONSIVE CLEAVABLE HIERARCHIAL METALLIC SUPRANANOSTRUCTURES | Northwestern University | SCHLEIS, DANIEL J | 1784 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19000508 | ANTIBODIES FOR TREATMENT OF CORONAVIRUS DISEASE | The Texas A&M University System | CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 | |
| 18876808 | DIVERTING DEVICE FOR DIVERTING ELECTRICAL CURRENTS, AND MACHINE COMPRISING A DIVERTING DEVICE OF THIS TYPE | Schunk Carbon Technology GmbH | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial85.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Quarles and Brady, LLP were allowed, across 14,242 applications in USPTO records.
3.23 office actions per allowed application on average.
428 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 148 clients, before 396 examiners in 181 art units.