Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Drexel University

17 pending office actions • 15 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

15
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (15)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 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%)
14
Medium (82%)
1
Easy (6%)
2
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (59%)
§102 only4 (24%)
§112 only1 (6%)
No statute on record2 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
53% of docket
1
Information Tech
6% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
6
Semiconductors
35% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LOTTER, DAVID E 1 84.7% +9.3%
KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA 1 70.0% +22.9%
QIAN, CELINE X 1 47.9% +16.8%
PLUMB, NIGEL H 1 90.6% +1.2%
ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K 1 83.2% +16.4%
CULLEN, SEAN P 1 68.9% +28.8%
SWITZER, JULIET CAROLINE 1 41.9% +54.1%
TAT, BINH C 1 87.3% +14.1%
MARTIN, TRAVIS LYNDEN 1 57.4% +50.8%
SUH, ANDREW 1 79.8% +39.0%

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
18613692 TOOL FOR ANALYZING SPEECH USING AI TECHNIQUES TO DIAGNOSE DEMENTIA ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K 66d overdue
18185042 VARIATION-AWARE ANALOG CIRCUIT SIZING WITH CLASSIFIER CHAINS TAT, BINH C 56d overdue
18857980 RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACES AND METHODS LOTTER, DAVID E 11d overdue

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
18504291 Dendrite-Free, Wide Temperature Range Lithium Metal Batteries Enabled by Hybrid Network Ionic Liquids CULLEN, SEAN P 121d overdue
18768359 Use of Plasma-Treated Liquids to Treat Herpes Keratitis KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA 110d overdue
18003512 SOLID POLYMER ELECTROLYTES FOR SOLID-STATE LITHIUM METAL BATTERIES MARTIN, TRAVIS LYNDEN 107d overdue
18613692 TOOL FOR ANALYZING SPEECH USING AI TECHNIQUES TO DIAGNOSE DEMENTIA ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K 66d overdue
18185042 VARIATION-AWARE ANALOG CIRCUIT SIZING WITH CLASSIFIER CHAINS TAT, BINH C 56d overdue
18467927 METHODS OF SPECIFICALLY LABELING NUCLEIC ACIDS USING CRISPR/CAS SWITZER, JULIET CAROLINE 49d overdue
18146145 Physical Layer Key based Interleaving for Secure Wireless Communication SUH, ANDREW 44d overdue
18659841 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR HIV QUASI-SPECIES EXCISION FROM HIV-1-INFECTED PATIENTS QIAN, CELINE X 37d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2845 2
2855 2
1799 1
1637 1
2653 1
1725 1
1682 1
2851 1
1721 1
2493 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18857980 RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACES AND METHODS LOTTER, DAVID E 2845 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2024
18768359 Use of Plasma-Treated Liquids to Treat Herpes Keratitis KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA 1799 §103 Non-Final OA 110d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2024
18659841 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR HIV QUASI-SPECIES EXCISION FROM HIV-1-INFECTED PATIENTS QIAN, CELINE X 1637 §112 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending May 09, 2024
18695147 BURIED PIPE ASSESSMENTS (CONDITION ASSESSMENT AND MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION) BASED ON STRESS WAVE PROPAGATION PLUMB, NIGEL H 2855 Other Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2024
18613692 TOOL FOR ANALYZING SPEECH USING AI TECHNIQUES TO DIAGNOSE DEMENTIA ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K 2653 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2024
18504291 Dendrite-Free, Wide Temperature Range Lithium Metal Batteries Enabled by Hybrid Network Ionic Liquids CULLEN, SEAN P 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 121d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2023
18467927 METHODS OF SPECIFICALLY LABELING NUCLEIC ACIDS USING CRISPR/CAS SWITZER, JULIET CAROLINE 1682 Other Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2023
18185042 VARIATION-AWARE ANALOG CIRCUIT SIZING WITH CLASSIFIER CHAINS TAT, BINH C 2851 §102 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2023
18003512 SOLID POLYMER ELECTROLYTES FOR SOLID-STATE LITHIUM METAL BATTERIES MARTIN, TRAVIS LYNDEN 1721 §103 Non-Final OA 107d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2022
18146145 Physical Layer Key based Interleaving for Secure Wireless Communication SUH, ANDREW 2493 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2022
17995184 MXENE TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING LAYERS FOR DIGITAL DISPLAY AND METHOD THEREOF GODENSCHWAGER, PETER F 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 30, 2022
17823976 PATTERN RECONFIGURABLE UHF RFID READER ANTENNA ARRAY HO, ANH N 2845 §102 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2022
17929059 MOISTURE SENSING USING RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) MAINI, RAHUL 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Sep 01, 2022
17880751 Optical Thermography System Using a Pumped Two-dye Fluorescence Technique CASTELLON JR, MANUEL SALVADOR 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 246d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2022
17637233 MXENES FOR SELECTIVE ADSORPTION OF DESIRED CHEMICAL ANALYTES AND METHOD THEREOF SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH 1735 §102 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2022
17628106 Modulators of Excitatory Amino Acid Transporters and Methods Using Same KUCHARCZK, JED A 1623 §102 Final Rejection 92d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2022
17140047 METHODS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA, AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING SAMPLES AND WOUNDS, PREDICTING WHETHER A WOUND WILL HEAL, AND MONITORING EFFECTIVENESS OF A TREATMENT AUGER, NOAH ANDREW 1687 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Jan 02, 2021

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