Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY

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

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
4
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
2
Due this month
1
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 (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (67%)
§102 only1 (17%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
83% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% 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
COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R 1 83.0% +19.7%
DINH, ANH-KHOA N 1 86.9% +14.5%
JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING 1 50.0% +45.2%
MARTIN, ALEA NATASHA 1 52.5% +10.5%
HILL, KEVIN KAI 1 36.2% +33.4%
CORNET, JEAN P 1 42.0% +47.8%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18005406 AN OCULAR ACOUSTIC DEVICE AND A METHOD THEREOF DINH, ANH-KHOA N 22d
18369360 ACTIVE COATING BASED ON PICKERING EMULSIONS COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R 28d

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
17309796 ANTI-HEPATITIS C VIRUS ANTIBODIES JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING 38d overdue
17321142 MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE AND USES THEREOF MARTIN, ALEA NATASHA 22d overdue
16631861 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING ADDICTIONS HILL, KEVIN KAI 3d overdue
18005406 AN OCULAR ACOUSTIC DEVICE AND A METHOD THEREOF DINH, ANH-KHOA N 22d
18369360 ACTIVE COATING BASED ON PICKERING EMULSIONS COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R 28d
16478552 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING NATURAL KILLER CELL ACTIVATION AND FUNCTION CORNET, JEAN P 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1781 1
3796 1
1672 1
1758 1
1638 1
1628 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18369360 ACTIVE COATING BASED ON PICKERING EMULSIONS COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 18, 2023
18005406 AN OCULAR ACOUSTIC DEVICE AND A METHOD THEREOF DINH, ANH-KHOA N 3796 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Jan 13, 2023
17309796 ANTI-HEPATITIS C VIRUS ANTIBODIES JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2021
17321142 MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE AND USES THEREOF MARTIN, ALEA NATASHA 1758 §103 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending May 14, 2021
16631861 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING ADDICTIONS HILL, KEVIN KAI 1638 §112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2020
16478552 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING NATURAL KILLER CELL ACTIVATION AND FUNCTION CORNET, JEAN P 1628 §102 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jul 17, 2019

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