Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

23 pending office actions • 22 art units • 23 examiners • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

23
Total Pending OAs
17
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (2)

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.

3
Hard (13%)
18
Medium (78%)
1
Easy (4%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (13%)
§103 only14 (61%)
§102 only4 (17%)
§112 only1 (4%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

12
Life Sciences
52% of docket
2
Information Tech
9% of docket
1
Communications
4% of docket
8
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.

230 h
Manual time on pending OAs
46 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
80 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 1 45.0% +37.2%
SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W 1 41.1% -20.2%
KIM, RICHARD H 1 81.7% +5.0%
ERDEM, FAZLI 1 85.4% +15.8%
AMARA, MOHAMED K 1 75.7% +30.0%
GONZALEZ, LUISALBERTO 1 61.4% +47.4%
DWYER, MATTHEW JAMES 1
CHANG, HANWAY 1 85.8% +8.5%
JEAN-LOUIS, SAMIRA JM 1 61.4% +45.4%
KIM, SEONG JONG 1

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18711969 RE-SCAN OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR A CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE KIM, RICHARD H 14d
18545760 Stacked SRAM Cell with a Dual-Side Interconnect Structure ERDEM, FAZLI 83d

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17904432 MONITORING OF A PLANT CONDITION MANG, LAL C 97d overdue
18526286 DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR SPATIAL SUBTRACTION OF ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTION PATTERNS CHANG, HANWAY 8d overdue
18481520 State Transition Temperature of Resist Structures CORDERO, LINA M 34d

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
18558423 TREATMENT OF PHARMACORESISTANT EPILEPSY JEAN-LOUIS, SAMIRA JM 44d overdue
18567504 ISOQUINOLINE AND PYRIDINE BASED CXCR4 ANTAGONISTS GONZALEZ, LUISALBERTO 19d overdue
18544947 DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR POLARIZATION DEPENDENT IMAGING AMARA, MOHAMED K 9d overdue
19291231 PROCESSING OF STARCH-PROTEIN PULSES PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 4d overdue
18545760 Stacked SRAM Cell with a Dual-Side Interconnect Structure ERDEM, FAZLI 83d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2857 2
1793 1
1616 1
2871 1
2812 1
2877 1
1624 1
2649 1
2878 1
1642 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19291231 PROCESSING OF STARCH-PROTEIN PULSES PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 1793 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2025
19096361 PLANT DEFENSE INDUCER SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W 1616 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2025
18711969 RE-SCAN OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR A CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE KIM, RICHARD H 2871 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 21, 2024
18545760 Stacked SRAM Cell with a Dual-Side Interconnect Structure ERDEM, FAZLI 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18544947 DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR POLARIZATION DEPENDENT IMAGING AMARA, MOHAMED K 2877 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18567504 ISOQUINOLINE AND PYRIDINE BASED CXCR4 ANTAGONISTS GONZALEZ, LUISALBERTO 1624 Other Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2023
18531186 System and Method for Joint Communication and Radar Sensing DWYER, MATTHEW JAMES 2649 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2023
18526286 DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR SPATIAL SUBTRACTION OF ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTION PATTERNS CHANG, HANWAY 2878 §101 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2023
18558423 TREATMENT OF PHARMACORESISTANT EPILEPSY JEAN-LOUIS, SAMIRA JM 1642 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2023
18499941 ANTI-VIRAL COMPOUNDS KIM, SEONG JONG 1621 §102 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Nov 01, 2023
18481520 State Transition Temperature of Resist Structures CORDERO, LINA M 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Oct 05, 2023
18282138 PREECLAMPSIA DIAGNOSIS WILDER, CYNTHIA B 1681 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
18462172 Reinforcement Learning (RL) Based Federated Automated Defect Classification and Detection LU, HUA 2118 §103 Non-Final OA 117d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2023
18228153 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR TRANSFORMING A PRE TRAINED NEURAL NETWORK AND A DEVICE THEREFOR MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S 2123 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jul 31, 2023
18351308 MAGNETIC DEVICE HAVING PLURALITY OF COUPLED MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION PILLARS AHMAD, KHAJA 2813 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jul 12, 2023
18335310 Bit Cell for Static Random Access Memory RAHMAN, MOIN M 2898 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jun 15, 2023
18245994 HIGH MELT STRENGTH POLYLACTIC ACID POLYMERS LISTVOYB, GREGORY 1765 §102 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 20, 2023
18007498 A DEVICE, A SURFACE, AND A BIOSENSOR HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH 1798 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jan 31, 2023
18018120 ENGINEERED COMPOSITION OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS HEINCER, LIAM J 1767 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Jan 26, 2023
18012798 PROGNOSIS OF CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLY-NEUROPATHY IVICH, FERNANDO NMN 1678 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2022
17906138 TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1626 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 12, 2022
17904432 MONITORING OF A PLANT CONDITION MANG, LAL C 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 97d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2022
17293982 COPPER, GOLD, OR SILVER POWDER FOR POWDER BED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH POWDER SMITH, CATHERINE P 1735 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending May 14, 2021

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