Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

19 pending office actions • 18 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
7
Due this month
3
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. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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.

1
Hard (5%)
15
Medium (79%)
1
Easy (5%)
2
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§103 only14 (74%)
§102 only1 (5%)
§112 only1 (5%)
No statute on record2 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

11
Life Sciences
58% of docket
2
Information Tech
11% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
32% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PENG, BO JOSEPH 1 69.6% +13.1%
MOORE, ZACHARY T 1 72.9% +35.4%
PACKARD, BENJAMIN J 1 66.2% +15.8%
ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S 1 60.1% +49.5%
SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R 1 75.9% +21.8%
SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 1 64.1% +11.9%
DIETRICH, JOSEPH M 1 80.9% +8.3%
SAEED, KAMAL A 1 84.1% +9.3%
VARGOT, MATHIEU D 1 61.8% +21.2%
OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH 1 42.1% +68.8%

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
18493925 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING AND INHIBITING WOUND INFECTIONS DIETRICH, JOSEPH M 112d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17883195 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR MORE EFFICIENT PERIDYNAMIC MODELING OF BOUNDED DOMAINS ALHIJA, SAIF A 9d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18015094 METHODS OF FABRICATING 3D HIERARCHICAL NANOFIBER SCAFFOLDS WITH STRUCTURAL AND/OR COMPOSITIONAL GRADIENTS OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH 28d overdue
18386798 MULTIFUNCTIONAL SOFT BIOELECTRONICS SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 24d overdue
18600263 NANOFIBER AND MICROFIBER HYBRID AEROGELS ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S 17d overdue
18699799 REFILLABLE TISSUE ENGINEERED SCAFFOLDS PACKARD, BENJAMIN J 10d overdue
18843165 PASSIVE EXOSUIT FOR ASYMMETRY REHABILITATION MOORE, ZACHARY T 12d
18579310 MEDICAL DEVICE BIO-FIREWALL SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R 12d
19030320 ON-BOARD TOOL TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHODS OF COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY PENG, BO JOSEPH 15d
18194664 NANOFIBER COLLECTION DEVICES VARGOT, MATHIEU D 43d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3783 2
3797 1
3784 1
1612 1
1617 1
2445 1
1795 1
3796 1
1626 1
1742 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19030320 ON-BOARD TOOL TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHODS OF COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY PENG, BO JOSEPH 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jan 17, 2025
18843165 PASSIVE EXOSUIT FOR ASYMMETRY REHABILITATION MOORE, ZACHARY T 3784 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Aug 30, 2024
18699799 REFILLABLE TISSUE ENGINEERED SCAFFOLDS PACKARD, BENJAMIN J 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Apr 09, 2024
18600263 NANOFIBER AND MICROFIBER HYBRID AEROGELS ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S 1617 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18579310 MEDICAL DEVICE BIO-FIREWALL SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R 2445 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jan 12, 2024
18386798 MULTIFUNCTIONAL SOFT BIOELECTRONICS SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2023
18493925 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING AND INHIBITING WOUND INFECTIONS DIETRICH, JOSEPH M 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18281125 QUINOXALINE UREA INHIBITORS OF IKK-BETA AND NF-KB SAEED, KAMAL A 1626 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 08, 2023
18194664 NANOFIBER COLLECTION DEVICES VARGOT, MATHIEU D 1742 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Apr 03, 2023
18015094 METHODS OF FABRICATING 3D HIERARCHICAL NANOFIBER SCAFFOLDS WITH STRUCTURAL AND/OR COMPOSITIONAL GRADIENTS OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH 1619 §102 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Jan 09, 2023
17905407 CRISPR/CAS9 SYSTEM FOR MULTISTRAIN HIV-1 TREATMENT HILL, KEVIN KAI 1638 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Aug 31, 2022
17883195 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR MORE EFFICIENT PERIDYNAMIC MODELING OF BOUNDED DOMAINS ALHIJA, SAIF A 2186 §101 Final Rejection 9d Pending Aug 08, 2022
17743178 PATIENT-SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION OF CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending May 12, 2022
17762994 HONEY BEE-SAFE ACARICIDAL COMPOUNDS ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA 1654 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Mar 23, 2022
17625689 DRUG DELIVERY USING MICRONEEDLE ARRAYS BOUCHELLE, LAURA A 3783 §103 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Jan 07, 2022
17496344 PRECISION SYRINGE PLUNGER WITH SEPARATELY MANUFACTURED AND IRREVERSIBLY COUPLED PLUNGER ARM AND PLUNGER ROD OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES 3783 Other Non-Final OA 55d Pending Oct 07, 2021
17310245 VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING 1672 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Jul 27, 2021
17309435 ANTIVIRAL PRODRUGS AND NANOFORMULATIONS THEREOF SIMMONS, CHRIS E 1622 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending May 27, 2021
16483548 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE LEE, ANDREW P 1691 §112 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2019

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