Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Duquesne University Of The Holy Spirit

10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)

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.

6
Hard (60%)
4
Medium (40%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (30%)
§103 only4 (40%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (30%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
40% of docket
3
Information Tech
30% of docket
1
Communications
10% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
10% of docket
1
Business / Other
10% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JHAVERI, JAYESH M 1 82.8% +31.1%
PACKARD, BENJAMIN J 1 66.5% +15.6%
PONTIUS, JAMES M 1 78.6% +9.8%
JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 1 53.8% +21.6%
HOWELL, THEODORE R 1 66.7% +25.5%
UTAMA, ROBERT J 1 60.4% +29.6%
LU, TOM Y 1 87.6% +3.5%
RONEY, CELESTE A 1 62.7% +17.7%
PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN 1 52.0% +25.9%
VYAS, KEYUR ANILKUMAR 1 52.1% +64.0%

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18964281 Coral Reef Monitoring Device and Method PONTIUS, JAMES M 87d overdue
18613589 Electromechanical System and Method to Proctor Online Examinations UTAMA, ROBERT J 28d overdue
19190955 Automatic Extraction of Log-In Security Questions and Answers from Personal Devices JHAVERI, JAYESH M
18971892 Ionic Liquid-Incorporated Lipid Nanoparticles PACKARD, BENJAMIN J
18638213 Design, Synthesis, and Structure-Activity Relationships of Substituted Pyrido[3,2-d]Pyrimidines as Microtubule Targeting Agents and Anti-Cancer Agents HOWELL, THEODORE R
18289194 RAPID ENUMERATION OF MICROORGANISMS LU, TOM Y

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
17451521 MICRO RNA INTERACTIONS AS THERAPEUTIC TARGETS FOR COVID-19 AND OTHER VIRAL INFECTIONS VYAS, KEYUR ANILKUMAR 113d overdue
17605846 Implantable Device Coated by a Self-Assembled Monolayer and Therapeutic Agent PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN 91d overdue
18899703 Personal Security Method to Establish and Preserve Pseudonymity of a Writer JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 79d overdue
18613589 Electromechanical System and Method to Proctor Online Examinations UTAMA, ROBERT J 28d overdue
19190955 Automatic Extraction of Log-In Security Questions and Answers from Personal Devices JHAVERI, JAYESH M
18971892 Ionic Liquid-Incorporated Lipid Nanoparticles PACKARD, BENJAMIN J
18638213 Design, Synthesis, and Structure-Activity Relationships of Substituted Pyrido[3,2-d]Pyrimidines as Microtubule Targeting Agents and Anti-Cancer Agents HOWELL, THEODORE R
18227026 Mitochondria-Enriched Extracellular Vesicles RONEY, CELESTE A

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2433 1
2488 1
2434 1
1628 1
3715 1
2667 1
1612 1
1618 1
1637 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19190955 Automatic Extraction of Log-In Security Questions and Answers from Personal Devices JHAVERI, JAYESH M 2433 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 28, 2025
18971892 Ionic Liquid-Incorporated Lipid Nanoparticles PACKARD, BENJAMIN J §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2024
18964281 Coral Reef Monitoring Device and Method PONTIUS, JAMES M 2488 §103§112 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2024
18899703 Personal Security Method to Establish and Preserve Pseudonymity of a Writer JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 2434 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2024
18638213 Design, Synthesis, and Structure-Activity Relationships of Substituted Pyrido[3,2-d]Pyrimidines as Microtubule Targeting Agents and Anti-Cancer Agents HOWELL, THEODORE R 1628 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 17, 2024
18613589 Electromechanical System and Method to Proctor Online Examinations UTAMA, ROBERT J 3715 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2024
18289194 RAPID ENUMERATION OF MICROORGANISMS LU, TOM Y 2667 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 01, 2023
18227026 Mitochondria-Enriched Extracellular Vesicles RONEY, CELESTE A 1612 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 27, 2023
17605846 Implantable Device Coated by a Self-Assembled Monolayer and Therapeutic Agent PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2021
17451521 MICRO RNA INTERACTIONS AS THERAPEUTIC TARGETS FOR COVID-19 AND OTHER VIRAL INFECTIONS VYAS, KEYUR ANILKUMAR 1637 §103 Final Rejection 113d overdue Pending Oct 20, 2021

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