Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

National University Corporation Kobe University

14 pending office actions • 11 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 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
1
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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.

0
Hard (0%)
9
Medium (64%)
3
Easy (21%)
2
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (50%)
§102 only2 (14%)
§112 only2 (14%)
Double-patenting only1 (7%)
No statute on record2 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

11
Life Sciences
79% of docket
1
Information Tech
7% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
14% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GRABER, MARIA EILEEN 1 60.7% +35.0%
NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE 1 73.1% +18.3%
FERRE, ALEXANDRE F 1 59.6% +19.9%
STEADMAN, DAVID J 1 57.7% +29.4%
DOMAN, SHAWN 1 65.8% +24.8%
PATEL, PRANAV N 1 68.2% +22.1%
ZAHORIK, AMANDA MARY 1 60.9% +52.6%
LYNCH, ROBERT A 1 80.0% +13.4%
HUANG, RYAN 1 51.8% +32.2%
BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C 1 75.4% +21.5%

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
18547115 AGENT FOR SUPPRESSING ADHESION OF CALCULI OR CALCIFICATION IN MEDICAL DEVICE, MEDICAL DEVICE LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO ADHESION OF CALCULI OR CALCIFICATION, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MEDICAL DEVICE LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO ADHESION OF CALCULI OR CALCIFICATION LYNCH, ROBERT A 30d overdue

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18519590 PROCESSOR WITH SELECTOR SELECTING HELD DATA OR OPERATION RESULT DATA DOMAN, SHAWN 74d overdue
18028866 POLYAMIDE POROUS MEMBRANE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME HUANG, RYAN 70d overdue
18189704 METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING CHIMERIC PLASMID LIBRARY BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C 51d overdue
18563071 REVERSE OSMOSIS COMPOSITE MEMBRANE PATEL, PRANAV N 42d overdue
18547115 AGENT FOR SUPPRESSING ADHESION OF CALCULI OR CALCIFICATION IN MEDICAL DEVICE, MEDICAL DEVICE LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO ADHESION OF CALCULI OR CALCIFICATION, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MEDICAL DEVICE LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO ADHESION OF CALCULI OR CALCIFICATION LYNCH, ROBERT A 30d overdue
18634640 COMPLEX FOR GENOME EDITING HAVING STABILITY AND FEW SIDE-EFFECTS, AND NUCLEIC ACID CODING SAME NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE 7d
18687023 CORE-SHELL TEMPLATE MOLECULE/PARTICLE FOR TECHNIQUE FOR HIGH-YIELD FORMATION OF PORES ON SUBSTRATE FERRE, ALEXANDRE F 7d
18278498 NUCLEIC ACID MEDICINE EXPRESSING SPLICING VARIANT OF MYOSTATIN ZAHORIK, AMANDA MARY 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1656 2
1777 2
1636 2
3644 1
1788 1
2183 1
3771 1
1684 1
1633 1
1764 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18882624 PLASMA FUNCTIONAL LIQUID PRODUCING DEVICE, A METHOD THEREOF, AND PLANT CULTIVATING FACTORY GRABER, MARIA EILEEN 3644 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Sep 11, 2024
18634640 COMPLEX FOR GENOME EDITING HAVING STABILITY AND FEW SIDE-EFFECTS, AND NUCLEIC ACID CODING SAME NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE 1656 Other Non-Final OA 7d Pending Apr 12, 2024
18687023 CORE-SHELL TEMPLATE MOLECULE/PARTICLE FOR TECHNIQUE FOR HIGH-YIELD FORMATION OF PORES ON SUBSTRATE FERRE, ALEXANDRE F 1788 §102 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18539833 METHOD FOR CONVERTING NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE OF CELL SPECIFICALLY CONVERTING NUCLEIC ACID BASE OF TARGETED DNA USING CELL ENDOGENOUS DNA MODIFYING ENZYME, AND MOLECULAR COMPLEX USED THEREIN STEADMAN, DAVID J 1656 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18519590 PROCESSOR WITH SELECTOR SELECTING HELD DATA OR OPERATION RESULT DATA DOMAN, SHAWN 2183 §103 Final Rejection 74d overdue Pending Nov 27, 2023
18563071 REVERSE OSMOSIS COMPOSITE MEMBRANE PATEL, PRANAV N 1777 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2023
18278498 NUCLEIC ACID MEDICINE EXPRESSING SPLICING VARIANT OF MYOSTATIN ZAHORIK, AMANDA MARY 1636 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 23, 2023
18547115 AGENT FOR SUPPRESSING ADHESION OF CALCULI OR CALCIFICATION IN MEDICAL DEVICE, MEDICAL DEVICE LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO ADHESION OF CALCULI OR CALCIFICATION, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MEDICAL DEVICE LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO ADHESION OF CALCULI OR CALCIFICATION LYNCH, ROBERT A 3771 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2023
18028866 POLYAMIDE POROUS MEMBRANE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME HUANG, RYAN 1777 §103 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2023
18189704 METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING CHIMERIC PLASMID LIBRARY BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C 1684 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2023
18044047 MINIATURIZED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE-CONTAINING COMPLEX FOR MODIFYING DOUBLE-STRANDED DNA VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN 1633 §112 Final Rejection 26d Pending Mar 03, 2023
18151212 MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR HOLLOW FINE PARTICLES, AND HOLLOW FINE PARTICLES KRYLOVA, IRINA 1764 DP Final Rejection 82d Pending Jan 06, 2023
17242073 BASE MATERIAL FOR PRODUCING SENSOR FOR ANALYSIS OF DETECTION TARGET, SENSOR FOR ANALYSIS OF DETECTION TARGET, AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING DETECTION TARGET TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH 1677 Other Non-Final OA 105d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2021
16838960 GENOMIC SEQUENCE MODIFICATION METHOD FOR SPECIFICALLY CONVERTING NUCLEIC ACID BASES OF TARGETED DNA SEQUENCE, AND MOLECULAR COMPLEX FOR USE IN SAME SU-TOBON, QIWEN NMN 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Apr 02, 2020

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