Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Rivkin Radler LLP

6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 2 42.2% +38.8%
SEVERSON, RYAN J 1 83.0% +13.4%
DALE, ABIGAYLE ANN 1 30.8% +81.8%
MEJIAS, SAMANTHA LEE 1 47.4% +62.5%
MOORE, SUSANNA 1 68.1% +31.8%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18268555 Side Port For Addition Of Multiple Drugs To A Nebulizer DALE, ABIGAYLE ANN 44d overdue
17792369 PURIFICATION METHOD OF PROGESTERONE MOORE, SUSANNA 24d overdue
19070153 NATURAL FIBERS HAVING ABSORBABLE AND HYDROPHOBIC PROPERTIES FOR MAKING SURGICAL SUTURES AND SURGICAL MESHES SEVERSON, RYAN J 4d overdue
17998712 NUCLIDE LABELLED H-TETRAZINES AND USE THEREOF FOR PET AND SPECT PRETARGETED IMAGING AND RADIONUCLIDE THERAPY SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 26d
18041827 EXTRACORPOREAL CLEARING TRAPS BASED ON INVERSE ELECTRON DEMAND DIELS-ALDER CYCLOADDITION FOR (PRE)-TARGETED THERAPY AND DIAGNOSTICS SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 39d
18000679 PSMA TARGETING UREA-BASED LIGANDS FOR PROSTATE CANCER RADIOTHERAPY AND IMAGING MEJIAS, SAMANTHA LEE 57d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16183
37711
37851
16241

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19070153 NATURAL FIBERS HAVING ABSORBABLE AND HYDROPHOBIC PROPERTIES FOR MAKING SURGICAL SUTURES AND SURGICAL MESHES BALLAST MEDICAL INC. SEVERSON, RYAN J 3771 Other Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2025
18268555 Side Port For Addition Of Multiple Drugs To A Nebulizer Inspirx, Inc. DALE, ABIGAYLE ANN 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2023
18041827 EXTRACORPOREAL CLEARING TRAPS BASED ON INVERSE ELECTRON DEMAND DIELS-ALDER CYCLOADDITION FOR (PRE)-TARGETED THERAPY AND DIAGNOSTICS UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Feb 16, 2023
18000679 PSMA TARGETING UREA-BASED LIGANDS FOR PROSTATE CANCER RADIOTHERAPY AND IMAGING Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg MEJIAS, SAMANTHA LEE 1618 §103 Final Rejection 57d Pending Dec 04, 2022
17998712 NUCLIDE LABELLED H-TETRAZINES AND USE THEREOF FOR PET AND SPECT PRETARGETED IMAGING AND RADIONUCLIDE THERAPY UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 1618 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Nov 14, 2022
17792369 PURIFICATION METHOD OF PROGESTERONE Zhejiang Shenzhou Pharmaceutical Company Limited MOORE, SUSANNA 1624 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2022

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