Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Auburn University

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
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.

2
Overdue
1
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 (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)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%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only2 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
86% of docket
1
Information Tech
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW 1 84.8% +27.8%
ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN 1 72.2% +22.2%
HOU, FRANK S 1 71.5% +34.5%
MARTIN, KEVIN STEPHEN 1 75.9% +23.6%
CROW, ROBERT THOMAS 1 41.3% +31.8%
JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA 1 35.2% +42.9%
OSMAN, SOMMER YOUSEF 1 42.4% +53.3%

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
18641741 TECHNOLOGIES FOR AUTOMATED TEST PATTERN GENERATION FOR LOGIC CIRCUITS WITH BOOLEAN SATISFIABILITY ANALYSIS YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW 15d

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
17424636 MXene Nanopore Sequencer of Biopolymers OSMAN, SOMMER YOUSEF 74d overdue
18207797 METHOD TO DELIVER CHEMICALS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS TO PLANT CELLS USING CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTALS AS A CARRIER ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN 42d overdue
18324555 HIGH ENTROPY OXIDES AND METHODS OF SYNTHESIS AND USE THEREOF HOU, FRANK S 7d
18641741 TECHNOLOGIES FOR AUTOMATED TEST PATTERN GENERATION FOR LOGIC CIRCUITS WITH BOOLEAN SATISFIABILITY ANALYSIS YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW 15d
17388991 NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING AND USING NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA 34d
18320470 REPOSITIONING THE ANTI-LEPROSY DRUG CLOFAZIMINE AGAINST DRUG-RESISTANT MYELOMA AND PUTATIVE STEM-CELL SUBCLONES MARTIN, KEVIN STEPHEN 46d
17789161 ELECTROCHEMICAL PROXIMITY ASSAY CROW, ROBERT THOMAS

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2111 1
1662 1
1692 1
1624 1
1683 1
1795 1
1794 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18641741 TECHNOLOGIES FOR AUTOMATED TEST PATTERN GENERATION FOR LOGIC CIRCUITS WITH BOOLEAN SATISFIABILITY ANALYSIS YANG, JEFFREY ANDREW 2111 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Apr 22, 2024
18207797 METHOD TO DELIVER CHEMICALS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS TO PLANT CELLS USING CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTALS AS A CARRIER ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN 1662 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2023
18324555 HIGH ENTROPY OXIDES AND METHODS OF SYNTHESIS AND USE THEREOF HOU, FRANK S 1692 §102 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 26, 2023
18320470 REPOSITIONING THE ANTI-LEPROSY DRUG CLOFAZIMINE AGAINST DRUG-RESISTANT MYELOMA AND PUTATIVE STEM-CELL SUBCLONES MARTIN, KEVIN STEPHEN 1624 §103 Final Rejection 46d Pending May 19, 2023
17789161 ELECTROCHEMICAL PROXIMITY ASSAY CROW, ROBERT THOMAS 1683 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 24, 2022
17388991 NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING AND USING NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA 1795 §102 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jul 29, 2021
17424636 MXene Nanopore Sequencer of Biopolymers OSMAN, SOMMER YOUSEF 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Jul 21, 2021

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