Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS

18 pending office actions • 16 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
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. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)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%)
17
Medium (94%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only16 (89%)
§102 only1 (6%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
56% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
4
Communications
22% of docket
2
Semiconductors
11% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
11% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ALGHAILANI, SHADA MOHAMED 1 34.8% +45.4%
CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD 1 100.0% +0.0%
LU, TOM Y 1 87.8% +3.1%
JONES, ANDREW B 1 70.5% +21.4%
HON, MING Y 1 82.3% +12.9%
BARTLETT, VICTORIA 1 51.1% +30.7%
RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W 1 72.6% +24.9%
SHAHNAN SHAH, KHATOL S 1 62.6% +53.8%
CRAIGO, WILLIAM A 1 49.3% +38.7%
KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE 1 11.1% +94.1%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18689373 SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR DETECTION, SEGMENTATION, AND CLASSIFICATION OF POULTRY CARCASS PARTS AND DEFECTS CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD 44d overdue
18685805 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND VISION-BASED BROILER BODY WEIGHT MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND PROCESS LU, TOM Y 3d overdue
18438089 SELF-SUPERVISED DOMAIN ADAPTATION IN CROWD COUNTING HON, MING Y 27d

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
18132523 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING TOXIC GAS OF STERILIZATION PROCESSES TO BENIGN SUBSTANCES KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE 46d

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
18732588 SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR LOW FLOW WATER MONITORING IN AGRICULTURE ALGHAILANI, SHADA MOHAMED 97d overdue
18298348 Biocampatible and Biodegradable Anionic Hydrogel System CRAIGO, WILLIAM A 31d overdue
18380573 COATINGS FOR MATERIALS TO REDUCE FRICTION AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W 10d overdue
18471276 New Core/Shell Materials of Nanowire/Graphene on Low-Cost RFID Tags for Rapidly Sensing Live Cell Metabolites at Single-Cell Sensitivity SHAHNAN SHAH, KHATOL S 5d
18386956 STRETCHING DEVICES AND METHODS TO ALIGN EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX FIBERS BARTLETT, VICTORIA 8d
18438449 MULTIPLE CAMERA AND MULTIPLE THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT TRACKING ON THE MOVE FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES JONES, ANDREW B 21d
18438089 SELF-SUPERVISED DOMAIN ADAPTATION IN CROWD COUNTING HON, MING Y 27d
18132523 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING TOXIC GAS OF STERILIZATION PROCESSES TO BENIGN SUBSTANCES KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE 46d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2667 3
3643 1
2666 1
1744 1
1746 1
1645 1
1615 1
1774 1
1612 1
2817 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18732588 SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR LOW FLOW WATER MONITORING IN AGRICULTURE ALGHAILANI, SHADA MOHAMED 3643 §103 Final Rejection 97d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2024
18689373 SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR DETECTION, SEGMENTATION, AND CLASSIFICATION OF POULTRY CARCASS PARTS AND DEFECTS CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD 2667 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2024
18685805 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND VISION-BASED BROILER BODY WEIGHT MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND PROCESS LU, TOM Y 2667 §102 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2024
18438449 MULTIPLE CAMERA AND MULTIPLE THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT TRACKING ON THE MOVE FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES JONES, ANDREW B 2667 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Feb 10, 2024
18438089 SELF-SUPERVISED DOMAIN ADAPTATION IN CROWD COUNTING HON, MING Y 2666 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Feb 09, 2024
18386956 STRETCHING DEVICES AND METHODS TO ALIGN EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX FIBERS BARTLETT, VICTORIA 1744 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Nov 03, 2023
18380573 COATINGS FOR MATERIALS TO REDUCE FRICTION AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W 1746 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Oct 16, 2023
18471276 New Core/Shell Materials of Nanowire/Graphene on Low-Cost RFID Tags for Rapidly Sensing Live Cell Metabolites at Single-Cell Sensitivity SHAHNAN SHAH, KHATOL S 1645 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Sep 20, 2023
18298348 Biocampatible and Biodegradable Anionic Hydrogel System CRAIGO, WILLIAM A 1615 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Apr 10, 2023
18132523 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING TOXIC GAS OF STERILIZATION PROCESSES TO BENIGN SUBSTANCES KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE 1774 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Apr 10, 2023
18109436 INFLUENCE OF THE MORPHOLOGICAL AND THE STRUCTURAL CHANGES ON THE ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITIES OF TITANATE NANOWIRES WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 1612 Other Non-Final OA 100d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2023
18155612 Apparatus And Method To Reduce The Thermal Resistance Of Semiconductor Substrates CRITE, ANTONIO B 2817 §103 Final Rejection 59d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2023
17910782 INCREASING TRANSISTOR GAIN USING METAMATERIAL ELECTRODES PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN 2849 §103 Final Rejection 52d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2022
17812687 Surgical Spoons for Veterinary Use NGUYEN, PHONG H 3724 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2022
17584316 Superior Lithium Metal Anodes by Atomic and Molecular Layer Deposition DIGNAN, MICHAEL L 1723 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Jan 25, 2022
17629881 CELL-SENSORY BIOSCAFFOLDS, FABRICATION METHODS AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME LE, AUSTIN Q 1796 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Jan 25, 2022
17015227 METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF SALT STRESS SYMPTOMS DURING PLANT CULTIVATION IN SALINE CONDITIONS BY APPLICATION OF CARBON-BASED NANOMATERIALS (CBN) TO GROWTH MEDIUM AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME BUI, PHUONG T 1663 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Sep 09, 2020
16847619 Inhibiting Sulfur Shuttle Behaviors In High-Energy Lithium-Sulfur Batteries NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V 1724 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Apr 13, 2020

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