Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§102 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DEO, DUY VU NGUYEN 1 82.3% +7.0%
FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH 1 51.8% -6.7%
JAYAN, AKHIL ADAI 1 66.7% +0.0%
RUFO, LOUIS J 1 54.4% +24.0%
SHAHNAN SHAH, KHATOL S 1 62.6% +53.8%

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
18574352 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN EMITTER FOR ELECTROSPRAY GENERATORS DEO, DUY VU NGUYEN 63d

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17912331 Attenuated Mycoplasma Bacteria SHAHNAN SHAH, KHATOL S 17d overdue
17996322 METHOD OF PREPARATION OF ELECTRODE FOR ELECTROCATALYSIS RUFO, LOUIS J 4d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1713 1
1617 1
3785 1
1795 1
1645 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18574352 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN EMITTER FOR ELECTROSPRAY GENERATORS DEO, DUY VU NGUYEN 1713 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18555323 OPHTHALMIC TOPICAL COMPOSITION WITH CERIA NANOPARTICLES FOR TREATING DISEASES OF POSTERIOR SEGMENT OF THE EYE FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH 1617 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Oct 13, 2023
18261205 A BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION SYSTEM, A METHOD FOR PERFORMING BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION EXERCISE, AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM JAYAN, AKHIL ADAI 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023
17996322 METHOD OF PREPARATION OF ELECTRODE FOR ELECTROCATALYSIS RUFO, LOUIS J 1795 §102 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Oct 14, 2022
17912331 Attenuated Mycoplasma Bacteria SHAHNAN SHAH, KHATOL S 1645 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Sep 16, 2022

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