Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven K U Leuven R&D

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
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.

4
Overdue
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)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%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

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

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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.

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
WORSHAM, JESSICA N 1 56.6% +57.0%
EDGINGTONGIORDANO, FRANCESCA 1 73.2% +31.1%
LYONS, MARY M 1 65.5% +41.5%
KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 1 46.6% +52.8%
BARRON, SEAN C 1 53.5% +30.9%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18246585 COMBINATION OF P2Y6 INHIBITORS AND IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITORS EDGINGTONGIORDANO, FRANCESCA 53d overdue
18010677 Means and Methods to Improve Yeast Fermentation Efficiency LYONS, MARY M 10d overdue
18667729 MEANS AND METHODS FOR WOUND HEALING WORSHAM, JESSICA N 3d overdue
17426827 Means and Methods to Overrule Glucose-Mediated Repression of Respiration in Yeast BARRON, SEAN C 3d overdue
17788476 Disease Detection in Liquid Biopsies KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1615 1
1643 1
1645 1
1683 1
1653 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18667729 MEANS AND METHODS FOR WOUND HEALING WORSHAM, JESSICA N 1615 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 17, 2024
18246585 COMBINATION OF P2Y6 INHIBITORS AND IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITORS EDGINGTONGIORDANO, FRANCESCA 1643 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2023
18010677 Means and Methods to Improve Yeast Fermentation Efficiency LYONS, MARY M 1645 §112 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2022
17788476 Disease Detection in Liquid Biopsies KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 1683 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Jun 23, 2022
17426827 Means and Methods to Overrule Glucose-Mediated Repression of Respiration in Yeast BARRON, SEAN C 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2021

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