Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Khalifa University Of Science And Technology

12 pending office actions • 10 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
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.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
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 (6)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 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.

1
Hard (8%)
10
Medium (83%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§103 only8 (67%)
§102 only2 (17%)
§112 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
50% of docket
2
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
17% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
17% 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
FONSECA, JESSIE T 1 68.2% +18.4%
SPIES, BRADLEY R 1 73.8% +20.9%
PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 1 78.8% +11.5%
NGUYEN, HA S 1 57.6% -21.9%
KOUSAR, SADIA 1 64.7% +10.3%
HUANG, RYAN 1 51.8% +32.2%
GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN 1 11.8% -17.4%
ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE 1 48.6% +43.6%
MAPAR, BIJAN 1 67.6% +28.9%
MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL 1 34.3% +0.0%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17798455 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING THE EFFICIENCY OF SEPARATION PROCESSES GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN 23d overdue
17633575 EFFECT OF BIO-POLYMER VISCOSITY ON RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION IN CARBONATE RESERVOIRS MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL 23d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17736916 METHOD AND SOFTWARE TO GENERATE HEART RATE VARIABILITY POLAR MAP IMAGES WITH FILLED-IN PATIENT INFORMATION MAPAR, BIJAN 16d overdue
17846609 LOW-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE/ELEMENTAL SULFUR HYBRID COMPOSITE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR SUPERCAPACITORS ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE 2d overdue
18381753 MEMBRANE-BASED-SELF-ASSEMBLED, CHARGED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE/GRAPHENE OXIDE NANOHYBRIDS SPIES, BRADLEY R 20d
18403039 GEOMETRICALLY TAILORED PYRAMIDAL LATTICE STRUCTURES WITH I-SHAPED STRUTS FONSECA, JESSIE T 28d
18195124 3D HIERARCHICAL NANOPOROUS GRAPHENE MEMBRANE FOR OIL/WATER SEPARATION HUANG, RYAN 42d
18243310 Green Synthesis of Salicylaldehydate-Metal-Organic Frameworks and Applications Thereof PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 53d
18038557 EV CHARGERS AND EV CHARGING KOUSAR, SADIA 65d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1777 3
3633 1
1692 1
1766 1
2859 1
1767 1
2189 1
2187 1
2858 1
3762 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18403039 GEOMETRICALLY TAILORED PYRAMIDAL LATTICE STRUCTURES WITH I-SHAPED STRUTS FONSECA, JESSIE T 3633 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jan 03, 2024
18381753 MEMBRANE-BASED-SELF-ASSEMBLED, CHARGED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE/GRAPHENE OXIDE NANOHYBRIDS SPIES, BRADLEY R 1777 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Oct 19, 2023
18243310 Green Synthesis of Salicylaldehydate-Metal-Organic Frameworks and Applications Thereof PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 1692 §102 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Sep 07, 2023
18269414 ELEMENTAL SULFUR-ACRYLIC EMULSION NGUYEN, HA S 1766 §102 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2023
18038557 EV CHARGERS AND EV CHARGING KOUSAR, SADIA 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 65d Pending May 24, 2023
18195124 3D HIERARCHICAL NANOPOROUS GRAPHENE MEMBRANE FOR OIL/WATER SEPARATION HUANG, RYAN 1777 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending May 09, 2023
17798455 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING THE EFFICIENCY OF SEPARATION PROCESSES GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN 1777 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2022
17846609 LOW-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE/ELEMENTAL SULFUR HYBRID COMPOSITE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR SUPERCAPACITORS ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jun 22, 2022
17736916 METHOD AND SOFTWARE TO GENERATE HEART RATE VARIABILITY POLAR MAP IMAGES WITH FILLED-IN PATIENT INFORMATION MAPAR, BIJAN 2189 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending May 04, 2022
17633575 EFFECT OF BIO-POLYMER VISCOSITY ON RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION IN CARBONATE RESERVOIRS MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL 2187 §101 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2022
17632051 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A FAST AND ACCURATE ESTIMATION OF PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCK SAMPLES LEE, BYUNG RO 2858 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Feb 01, 2022
17433473 Top-Surface-Cooled, Directly Irradiated Liquid Receiver For Concentrated Solar Power JONES, LOGAN P 3762 §103 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2021

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