Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Scully Scott Murphy & Presser Pc

9 pending office actions • 1 client • 8 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (6)

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%)
9
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (56%)
§102 only4 (44%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
89% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L 2 75.0% +25.0%
ORDAZ, CHRISTIAN JOSE 1 64.3% +100.0%
PAPCIAK, SHARON M 1 49.6% +22.3%
CONTRERAS, CIEL P 1 54.2% +33.6%
FIORITO, JAMES A 1 70.8% +29.1%
NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA 1 54.8% +25.7%
NGUYEN, LAM S 1 78.7% +0.8%
BERRESFORD, JORDAN ELIZABETH 1 68.8% +8.5%

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18323672 PAN DOMAIN ACTIVATES UBIQUITINATION PAPCIAK, SHARON M 66d overdue
17725902 SELECTIVE EXTRACTION OF LITHIUM FROM LITHIUM SULFATE AQUEOUS SOLUTION FIORITO, JAMES A 31d overdue
18891003 SYSTEM FOR PLANT CO-TRANSFORMATION AND METHODS OF USE MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L 15d
18899199 NOVEL TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN 33 REGULATES PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES IN PLANT CELLS MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L 21d
18107715 METHOD FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL GRAPHITIZATION OF CARBON FIBER CONTRERAS, CIEL P 22d
18899066 NOVEL TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR 30S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN REGULATES PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES IN PLANT CELLS ORDAZ, CHRISTIAN JOSE 28d
17690432 PASSIVE SENSING FIBER COMPOSITIONS AND COMPOSITES THEREOF NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA 30d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
UT-BATTELLE, LLC 9

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16633
16571
17941
17311
17341
28531
17271

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18899199 NOVEL TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN 33 REGULATES PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES IN PLANT CELLS UT-BATTELLE, LLC MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L 1663 §102 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Sep 27, 2024
18899066 NOVEL TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR 30S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN REGULATES PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES IN PLANT CELLS UT-BATTELLE, LLC ORDAZ, CHRISTIAN JOSE 1663 §102 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 27, 2024
18891003 SYSTEM FOR PLANT CO-TRANSFORMATION AND METHODS OF USE UT-BATTELLE, LLC MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L 1663 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Sep 20, 2024
18323672 PAN DOMAIN ACTIVATES UBIQUITINATION UT-BATTELLE, LLC PAPCIAK, SHARON M 1657 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending May 25, 2023
18107715 METHOD FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL GRAPHITIZATION OF CARBON FIBER UT-BATTELLE, LLC CONTRERAS, CIEL P 1794 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Feb 09, 2023
17725902 SELECTIVE EXTRACTION OF LITHIUM FROM LITHIUM SULFATE AQUEOUS SOLUTION UT-BATTELLE, LLC FIORITO, JAMES A 1731 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Apr 21, 2022
17690432 PASSIVE SENSING FIBER COMPOSITIONS AND COMPOSITES THEREOF UT-BATTELLE, LLC NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA 1734 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Mar 09, 2022
17483226 MULTIMODAL DYNAMIC CHARACTERIZATION OF MATERIALS UNDER PROGRAMMABLE ENVIRONMENTS AND ENVIRONMENT PREDICTION UT-BATTELLE, LLC NGUYEN, LAM S 2853 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2021
17414149 NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE CONTAINING LIFSI SALT FOR FAST CHARGING/DISCHARGING OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERY UT-BATTELLE, LLC BERRESFORD, JORDAN ELIZABETH 1727 §102 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 15, 2021

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