Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 12, 2026

North Carolina State University

37 pending office actions • 27 art units • 37 examiners • 0 of 37 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 63 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

37
Total Pending OAs
23
Non-Final OAs
12
Final Rejections
2
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.

10
Overdue
2
Due this week
2
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

22
Hard (59%)
12
Medium (32%)
2
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (3%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (3%)
§101 + other2 (5%)
§103 only9 (24%)
§102 only1 (3%)
Double-patenting only2 (5%)
Double-patenting + other2 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)19 (51%)
No statute on record1 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

23
Life Sciences
62% of docket
2
Information Tech
5% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
16% of docket
6
Business / Other
16% 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.

370 h
Manual time on pending OAs
74 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
130 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FAN, WEIHUA 1 83.0% +12.3%
DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON 1 80.1% +16.4%
MURATA, AUSTIN 1 60.6% +20.8%
THOMPSON, CAMIE S 1 73.6% +10.3%
CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 1 62.8% +18.3%
NGUYEN, HOAI AN D 1 86.0% +11.8%
DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M 1 52.5% +34.9%
LUK, EMMANUEL S 1 71.3% +26.4%
COLLINS, GARY 1 83.1% +15.7%
VAN SELL, NATHAN L 1 54.0% +24.8%

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
19201192 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MINIMIZING NORNICOTINE SYNTHESIS IN TOBACCO FAN, WEIHUA
19071964 TARGETED MUTAGENESIS OF TOBACCO BERBERINE BRIDGE ENZYME-LIKE NUCLEIC ACIDS DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON

Hard Cases (22)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18503854 BIOREMEDIATION USING CO-METABOLISM SUBSTRATES XU, QING 128d overdue
17728182 GAS PERMEABLE, ULTRATHIN, STRETCHABLE EPIDERMAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC 72d overdue
18529669 CryptoMMU for Enabling Scalable and Secure Access Control of Third-Party Accelerators TALUKDAR, ARVIND 44d overdue
18549789 THERAPEUTIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS RELATED TO EXOSOME ELUTING STENTS LABRANCHE, BROOKE N 24d overdue
18313860 METHODOLOGY AND TOOL FOR PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT BAINS, SARJIT S 8d overdue
18060215 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PURIFYING ALPHA-1 ANTITRYPSIN USING PEPTIDE LIGANDS SZPERKA, MICHAEL EDWARD 3d overdue
17293980 DEEP NEURAL NETWORK WITH COMPOSITIONAL GRAMMATICAL ARCHITECTURES TRAN, AMY NMN 3d overdue
17907076 COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS RELATED TO PLANT BIOPRINTING CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 5d

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
18444129 NONWOVEN MATERIAL ADAPTED FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY AIR FILTRATION VAN SELL, NATHAN L 19d
19201192 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MINIMIZING NORNICOTINE SYNTHESIS IN TOBACCO FAN, WEIHUA
19071964 TARGETED MUTAGENESIS OF TOBACCO BERBERINE BRIDGE ENZYME-LIKE NUCLEIC ACIDS DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON
19047338 METHODS FOR PREPARING AND USING AT LEAST ONE PROTECTIVE COATING ON INDUSTRIAL COMPONENTS AND STORAGE SYSTEMS MURATA, AUSTIN
18866217 MELT SPINNING LIGNIN/ACRYLIC FIBERS THOMPSON, CAMIE S
18864250 ALTERNATIVE FIBERS AND MICRO-FIBRILLATED CELLULOSE COATED PACKAGING PAPERS, AND FILMS AND SUBSTRATES CALANDRA, ANTHONY J
18858937 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HYPERPOLARIZING SUBSTRATE MOLECULES NGUYEN, HOAI AN D
18910226 WEARABLE AND BODY-CONFORMABLE ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER ARRAY FOR MUSCLE IMAGING AND MUSCLE-IN-THE-LOOP CONTROL DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1662 3
1656 2
1658 2
1712 1
1748 1
3798 1
1783 1
2132 1
3643 1
1633 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19201192 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MINIMIZING NORNICOTINE SYNTHESIS IN TOBACCO FAN, WEIHUA 1662 DP Non-Final OA Pending May 07, 2025
19071964 TARGETED MUTAGENESIS OF TOBACCO BERBERINE BRIDGE ENZYME-LIKE NUCLEIC ACIDS DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON 1662 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 06, 2025
19047338 METHODS FOR PREPARING AND USING AT LEAST ONE PROTECTIVE COATING ON INDUSTRIAL COMPONENTS AND STORAGE SYSTEMS MURATA, AUSTIN 1712 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 06, 2025
18866217 MELT SPINNING LIGNIN/ACRYLIC FIBERS THOMPSON, CAMIE S §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 15, 2024
18864250 ALTERNATIVE FIBERS AND MICRO-FIBRILLATED CELLULOSE COATED PACKAGING PAPERS, AND FILMS AND SUBSTRATES CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 1748 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 08, 2024
18858937 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HYPERPOLARIZING SUBSTRATE MOLECULES NGUYEN, HOAI AN D §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 22, 2024
18910226 WEARABLE AND BODY-CONFORMABLE ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER ARRAY FOR MUSCLE IMAGING AND MUSCLE-IN-THE-LOOP CONTROL DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M 3798 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 09, 2024
18823337 NON-SHEDDING HYBRID NONWOVENS AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME LUK, EMMANUEL S §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 03, 2024
18786017 MULTI-VARIANT CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN INDUSTRIAL FACILITY COLLINS, GARY Non-Final OA Pending Jul 26, 2024
18444129 NONWOVEN MATERIAL ADAPTED FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY AIR FILTRATION VAN SELL, NATHAN L 1783 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18578558 COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR ENHANCED DNA TRANSFORMATION IN BACTERIA FLINDERS, JEREMY C §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 11, 2024
18577060 HYDROFORMYLATION PROCESS FOR PREPARING LINEAR AND BRANCHED ALDEHYDES PAGANO, ALEXANDER R §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 05, 2024
18529669 CryptoMMU for Enabling Scalable and Secure Access Control of Third-Party Accelerators TALUKDAR, ARVIND 2132 §103§112 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2023
18509829 RETAINING NECK BAND NGUYEN, SON T 3643 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 15, 2023
18503854 BIOREMEDIATION USING CO-METABOLISM SUBSTRATES XU, QING 1656 §103§112Other Final Rejection 128d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2023
18287516 TEXTILE GAS-LIQUID-SOLID CONTACTORS AND BIOCATALYTIC MATERIALS AND METHODS COMPRISING SAME YOH, JULIUS FRANCIS 1656 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 19, 2023
18551562 RECOMBINANT VIRAL EXPRESSION VECTORS AND METHODS OF USE GU, QINHUA 1633 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2023
18467968 SELF-SENSING AND SELF-HEALING OF STRUCTURAL POLYMERS AND COMPOSITES VIA INTEGRATION OF MICROVASCULATURE AND OPTICAL FIBERS SASTRI, SATYA B 1763 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 15, 2023
18549789 THERAPEUTIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS RELATED TO EXOSOME ELUTING STENTS LABRANCHE, BROOKE N 3771 §102§103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Sep 08, 2023
18546378 SITE-SPECIFIC GENOME MODIFICATION TECHNOLOGY SU-TOBON, QIWEN NMN 1636 DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 14, 2023
18363046 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR EVALUATING TEST FORMULATIONS TO DETERMINE BIOLOGICAL AGENT LOG REDUCTION/REMOVAL ON A SURFACE FISHER, BRITTANY I 1796 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 01, 2023
18217392 FUNCTIONING OF INTERSTITIAL FLUID HARVESTING AND PROCESSING PATCH USING GEL OSMOSIS AND PAPER MICROFLUIDICS HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN 3791 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 30, 2023
17043526 FIBRIN-SPECIFIC MATERIALS AND METHODS OF USING THEREOF WORSHAM, JESSICA N 1615 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 09, 2023
18313860 METHODOLOGY AND TOOL FOR PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT BAINS, SARJIT S 3623 §101 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending May 08, 2023
18249111 SOLID PHASE MATRIX FOR CROP PROTECTION SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W 1616 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 14, 2023
18187055 ATOMIC LAYER ETCHING OF METAL OXIDES USING NOVEL CO-REACTANTS AS HALOGENATING AGENTS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION PHAM, THOMAS T 1713 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 21, 2023
18106287 PLATFORM FOR ROBOTIC MICRO-EXPERIMENTATION OF SOLUTION-PROCESSED MATERIALS AND DEVICES HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR 1758 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Feb 06, 2023
18060215 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PURIFYING ALPHA-1 ANTITRYPSIN USING PEPTIDE LIGANDS SZPERKA, MICHAEL EDWARD 1641 §102§112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2022
17907076 COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS RELATED TO PLANT BIOPRINTING CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 1662 §103§112 Final Rejection 5d Pending Sep 22, 2022
17780843 NEONATAL FIBRIN SCAFFOLDS FOR PROMOTING WOUND HEALING REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 §101§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending May 27, 2022
17728182 GAS PERMEABLE, ULTRATHIN, STRETCHABLE EPIDERMAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC 3794 §103§112 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2022
17762191 INTEGRIN RECEPTOR ALPHA V BETA 3 AND ITS LIGAND INVOLVED IN CHRONIC ITCH SABILA, MERCY HELLEN 1654 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 21, 2022
17442776 PROBIOTIC BACTERIA CAPABLE OF ADAPTIVE RESPONSE TO POMEGRANATE EXTRACT AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF REGLAS, GEORGIANA C 1651 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 24, 2021
17296795 PEPTIDE LIGANDS FOR CAPTURE OF HOST CELL PROTEINS STEELE, AMBER D 1658 §103§112DP Final Rejection 16d Pending May 25, 2021
17293980 DEEP NEURAL NETWORK WITH COMPOSITIONAL GRAMMATICAL ARCHITECTURES TRAN, AMY NMN 2126 §103§112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 14, 2021
17291517 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVELY STORING, ACCESSING, AND EDITING INFORMATION USING NUCLEIC ACIDS SKIBINSKY, ANNA 1635 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 5d Pending May 05, 2021
16970442 COMPOUNDS AND METHODS USEFUL IN BRACHYTHERAPY CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2020

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