Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE

12 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
2
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (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%)
12
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (83%)
§102 only2 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI 1 51.2% +11.3%
EWALD, MARIA VERONICA 1 58.6% +6.8%
SINES, BRIAN J 1 80.4% +4.6%
PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA 1 37.5% +83.3%
CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES 1 59.1% +38.3%
STUART, CAREY ALEXANDER MC 1 61.3% +38.3%
COX, THADDEUS B 1 77.3% +18.2%
PETTITT, JOHN F 1 25.6% +21.4%
MCKENZIE, THOMAS B 1 57.5% +22.7%
WHITEMAN, BRIAN A 1 68.2% +17.0%

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
18273542 THERMALLY DRAWN SENSOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF FABRICATION THEREOF SINES, BRIAN J 3d 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
18023309 COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS (CNG) POWER SYSTEM WITH C02 EMISSIONS CAPTURE AND STORAGE PETTITT, JOHN F 26d

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
18726255 DEVICE AND SYSTEM AS HUMAN INTERACTIVE SURFACE NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI 118d overdue
17967888 FMRP AND CANCER TREATMENT WHITEMAN, BRIAN A 84d overdue
18193532 TUMESCENSE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSING ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION AND METHODS OF USE COX, THADDEUS B 35d overdue
18032920 Cell-Free Method For The Quantitative Measurement Of Virus Neutralizing Antibodies STUART, CAREY ALEXANDER MC 31d overdue
18271503 PRODUCTS AND METHODS FOR PROMOTING MYOGENESIS PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA 4d overdue
17925960 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A CARBONATE-CONTAINING SPECIES-RICH, NITROGEN-CONTAINING SPECIES-FREE SOLUTION MCKENZIE, THOMAS B 19d
18023309 COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS (CNG) POWER SYSTEM WITH C02 EMISSIONS CAPTURE AND STORAGE PETTITT, JOHN F 26d
18253884 MEMBRANE-LESS ELECTROLYZER WITH POROUS WALLS FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT AND PURE HYDROGEN PRODUCTION CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES 82d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 2
3656 1
1783 1
1796 1
1631 1
1794 1
1671 1
3763 1
1776 1
1636 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18726255 DEVICE AND SYSTEM AS HUMAN INTERACTIVE SURFACE NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI 3656 §102 Non-Final OA 118d overdue Pending Jul 02, 2024
18566563 DIAMOND DEVICE OR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A DIAMOND DEVICE OR STRUCTURE EWALD, MARIA VERONICA 1783 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Dec 01, 2023
18273542 THERMALLY DRAWN SENSOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF FABRICATION THEREOF SINES, BRIAN J 1796 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 20, 2023
18271503 PRODUCTS AND METHODS FOR PROMOTING MYOGENESIS PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2023
18253884 MEMBRANE-LESS ELECTROLYZER WITH POROUS WALLS FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT AND PURE HYDROGEN PRODUCTION CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 82d Pending May 22, 2023
18032920 Cell-Free Method For The Quantitative Measurement Of Virus Neutralizing Antibodies STUART, CAREY ALEXANDER MC 1671 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Apr 20, 2023
18193532 TUMESCENSE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSING ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION AND METHODS OF USE COX, THADDEUS B 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023
18023309 COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS (CNG) POWER SYSTEM WITH C02 EMISSIONS CAPTURE AND STORAGE PETTITT, JOHN F 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Feb 24, 2023
17925960 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A CARBONATE-CONTAINING SPECIES-RICH, NITROGEN-CONTAINING SPECIES-FREE SOLUTION MCKENZIE, THOMAS B 1776 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Nov 17, 2022
17967888 FMRP AND CANCER TREATMENT WHITEMAN, BRIAN A 1636 §103 Final Rejection 84d overdue Pending Oct 17, 2022
17762325 TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF AGING RELATED-DISEASE AND/OR AGING BY THE INHIBITION OF SPHINGOLIPIDS RAHMANI, NILOOFAR 1691 §102 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Mar 21, 2022
17642274 Device and Method for Pre-Term Birth Risk Assessment PATEL, OM 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2022

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