Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Clemson University Research Foundation

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 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%)
6
Medium (86%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only1 (14%)
§112 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
57% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
29% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% 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
SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 1 65.5% +23.4%
FEGGINS, KRISTAL J 1 90.1% +8.2%
BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 1 79.5% +13.5%
HAQ, SHAFIQUL 1 64.8% +55.5%
KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA 1 70.0% +22.9%
CRUICKSHANK, DESTINY JOI 1 23.8% +22.1%
PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 1 45.0% +37.2%

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
18110548 DROP-ON-DEMAND ELECTROPRINTER WITH A PLUNGING WIRE-IN-A-NOZZLE FEGGINS, KRISTAL J 44d 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
17517919 Development of a Simple, Low-Cost Method of Measuring Ammonia Concentration in Exhaled Breath for Routine Monitoring of Chronic Kidney Disease CRUICKSHANK, DESTINY JOI 79d overdue

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
17517919 Development of a Simple, Low-Cost Method of Measuring Ammonia Concentration in Exhaled Breath for Routine Monitoring of Chronic Kidney Disease CRUICKSHANK, DESTINY JOI 79d overdue
18108828 CHANNELED FIBERS IN SEPARATION OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE NANOPARTICLES HAQ, SHAFIQUL 45d overdue
18110552 SINGLE PHASE ORGANIC-INORGANIC SOL-GEL BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 43d overdue
17512136 Methods of Isolating Plant Protein and Related Compositions PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 4d overdue
18318345 ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM GENERATION SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 28d
17895567 IN VITRO MYOCARDIAL TISSUE SCREENING DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA 30d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2872 1
2853 1
1736 1
1678 1
1799 1
3791 1
1793 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18318345 ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM GENERATION SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 16, 2023
18110548 DROP-ON-DEMAND ELECTROPRINTER WITH A PLUNGING WIRE-IN-A-NOZZLE FEGGINS, KRISTAL J 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2023
18110552 SINGLE PHASE ORGANIC-INORGANIC SOL-GEL BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 1736 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2023
18108828 CHANNELED FIBERS IN SEPARATION OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE NANOPARTICLES HAQ, SHAFIQUL 1678 §112 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2023
17895567 IN VITRO MYOCARDIAL TISSUE SCREENING DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA 1799 §102 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Aug 25, 2022
17517919 Development of a Simple, Low-Cost Method of Measuring Ammonia Concentration in Exhaled Breath for Routine Monitoring of Chronic Kidney Disease CRUICKSHANK, DESTINY JOI 3791 §103 Final Rejection 79d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2021
17512136 Methods of Isolating Plant Protein and Related Compositions PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 1793 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2021

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