Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

North Carolina State University

30 pending office actions • 28 art units • 30 examiners • 0 of 30 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 58 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

30
Total Pending OAs
20
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 30 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

21
Overdue
2
Due this week
5
Due this month
1
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. 30 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (21)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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.

0
Hard (0%)
20
Medium (67%)
7
Easy (23%)
3
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only18 (60%)
§102 only2 (7%)
§112 only7 (23%)
No statute on record3 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

22
Life Sciences
73% of docket
2
Information Tech
7% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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.

300 h
Manual time on pending OAs
60 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
105 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HUANG, GRACE 1 55.8% +58.3%
KUJUNDZIC, DINO 1 73.4% +28.1%
SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE 1 72.2% +18.9%
VAN SELL, NATHAN L 1 53.8% +24.3%
TALUKDAR, ARVIND 1 80.4% +3.9%
XU, QING 1 50.5% +54.6%
PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH 1 27.3% +60.6%
BABIC, CHRISTOPHER M 1 60.7% +22.5%
LABRANCHE, BROOKE N 1 72.9% +14.6%
WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION 1 63.2% +26.4%

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
18529669 CryptoMMU for Enabling Scalable and Secure Access Control of Third-Party Accelerators TALUKDAR, ARVIND 44d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18551789 ARSB VECTORS FOR TREATMENT OF MPS VI-ASSOCIATED BLINDNESS AND OTHER OCULAR MANIFESTATIONS PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH 61d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18503854 BIOREMEDIATION USING CO-METABOLISM SUBSTRATES XU, QING 128d overdue
18551562 RECOMBINANT VIRAL EXPRESSION VECTORS AND METHODS OF USE BABIC, CHRISTOPHER M 46d overdue
18813835 CARGO CONTAINER SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USING SAME KUJUNDZIC, DINO 43d overdue
18549789 THERAPEUTIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS RELATED TO EXOSOME ELUTING STENTS LABRANCHE, BROOKE N 24d overdue
18636894 IMPLANTABLE DEVICE SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE 3d overdue
19284885 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING YARN STRENGTH AND HAIRINESS IN SINGLES RING YARNS HUANG, GRACE 2d overdue
18444129 NONWOVEN MATERIAL ADAPTED FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY AIR FILTRATION VAN SELL, NATHAN L 19d
18236256 Smart Automated Spin Coater WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3794 2
1637 2
3732 1
3667 1
1783 1
2132 1
1656 1
1634 1
1633 1
3771 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19284885 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING YARN STRENGTH AND HAIRINESS IN SINGLES RING YARNS HUANG, GRACE 3732 §112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 30, 2025
18813835 CARGO CONTAINER SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USING SAME KUJUNDZIC, DINO 3667 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Aug 23, 2024
18636894 IMPLANTABLE DEVICE SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Apr 16, 2024
18444129 NONWOVEN MATERIAL ADAPTED FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY AIR FILTRATION VAN SELL, NATHAN L 1783 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18529669 CryptoMMU for Enabling Scalable and Secure Access Control of Third-Party Accelerators TALUKDAR, ARVIND 2132 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2023
18503854 BIOREMEDIATION USING CO-METABOLISM SUBSTRATES XU, QING 1656 §103 Final Rejection 128d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2023
18551789 ARSB VECTORS FOR TREATMENT OF MPS VI-ASSOCIATED BLINDNESS AND OTHER OCULAR MANIFESTATIONS PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH 1634 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Sep 21, 2023
18551562 RECOMBINANT VIRAL EXPRESSION VECTORS AND METHODS OF USE BABIC, CHRISTOPHER M 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2023
18549789 THERAPEUTIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS RELATED TO EXOSOME ELUTING STENTS LABRANCHE, BROOKE N 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Sep 08, 2023
18236256 Smart Automated Spin Coater WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION 1712 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 21, 2023
18106287 PLATFORM FOR ROBOTIC MICRO-EXPERIMENTATION OF SOLUTION-PROCESSED MATERIALS AND DEVICES HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Feb 06, 2023
18015709 THERAPEUTIC HYDROGEL FOR THE DELIVERY OF CAR-T CELLS BELYAVSKYI, MICHAIL A 1644 Non-Final OA 170d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2023
18000834 NOVEL TYPE I-C CRISPR-CAS SYSTEM FROM CLOSTRIDIA ALLEN, SARAH ELIZABETH 1637 §112 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2022
18060215 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PURIFYING ALPHA-1 ANTITRYPSIN USING PEPTIDE LIGANDS SZPERKA, MICHAEL EDWARD 1641 §102 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2022
17922766 NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS COMPRISING DIETARY METAL COMPLEXES IN A MATRIX OF CELLULOSIC MATERIALS NGUYEN, THANH H 1792 §112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2022
17907076 COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS RELATED TO PLANT BIOPRINTING CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA 1662 §112 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Sep 22, 2022
17728182 GAS PERMEABLE, ULTRATHIN, STRETCHABLE EPIDERMAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC 3794 §103 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2022
17637022 AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS INCLUDING POLYMER PARTICLES COUGHLIN, DANIEL F 1619 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Feb 21, 2022
17372113 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS RELATED TO DIFFERENTIALLY METHYLATED DNA SEQUENCES ASSOCIATED WITH MONOALLELIC GENE EXPRESSION AND DISEASE KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 1683 §112 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jul 09, 2021
17342327 MICRONEEDLE-BASED RAPID ANALYTE EXTRACTION FROM PLANT AND ANIMAL TISSUES AND RELATED METHODS AND SYSTEMS GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA 1681 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jun 08, 2021
17296795 PEPTIDE LIGANDS FOR CAPTURE OF HOST CELL PROTEINS STEELE, AMBER D 1658 Other Non-Final OA 16d Pending May 25, 2021
17293980 DEEP NEURAL NETWORK WITH COMPOSITIONAL GRAMMATICAL ARCHITECTURES TRAN, AMY NMN 2126 §103 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 Final Rejection 5d Pending May 05, 2021
17281025 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DRUG DELIVERY STONEBRAKER, ALYSSA RAE 1642 Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 29, 2021
17280936 POLYMERIC CHROMOPHORES, COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THE SAME, AND METHODS OF PREPARING AND USING THE SAME ADAMS, MICHELLE 1797 §112 Final Rejection 41d Pending Mar 29, 2021
17272190 TARGETING KIT WITH SPLICE SWITCHING OLIGONUCLEOTIDES TO INDUCE APOPTOSIS OF MAST CELLS VYAS, KEYUR ANILKUMAR 1637 §102 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2021
17047195 ROS-RESPONSIVE MICRONEEDLE PATCH FOR ACNE VULGARIS TREATMENT JOSEPH, JANET 1611 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2020
17047186 USE OF MICRONEEDLE PATCH TO PROMOTE HAIR GROWTH DIOP, FATIMATA SAHRA 3783 §103 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2020
16970442 COMPOUNDS AND METHODS USEFUL IN BRACHYTHERAPY CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2020
16616655 ALTERED GUIDE RNAS FOR MODULATING CAS9 ACTIVITY AND METHODS OF USE REGA, KYLE THOMAS 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Nov 25, 2019

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