Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (83%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (67%)
§102 only1 (17%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
17% of docket
2
Semiconductors
33% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LE, THIEN MINH 1 88.5% +7.6%
WONG, TINA MEI SENG 1 84.3% +14.1%
DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH 1 91.3% +11.2%
DICKINSON, PAUL W 1 63.0% +9.5%
CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY 1 12.5% -15.4%
WEI, ZHONGQING 1 58.4% +16.4%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18350538 UNIVERSAL LINEAR OPTICAL DEVICE WONG, TINA MEI SENG 43d overdue
18256975 DEEP PERCEPTUAL IMAGE ENHANCEMENT DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH 31d overdue
18833120 DISPERSION ENGINEERED LOAD TO EXTEND THE BANDWIDTH OF ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS LE, THIEN MINH 8d 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
17772577 MITIGATING THE ZINCATE EFFECT IN ENERGY DENSE MANGANESE DIOXIDE ELECTRODES CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY 8d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18350538 UNIVERSAL LINEAR OPTICAL DEVICE WONG, TINA MEI SENG 43d overdue
18256975 DEEP PERCEPTUAL IMAGE ENHANCEMENT DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH 31d overdue
16958596 METHOD OF FORMING CHARGED MANGANESE OXIDES FROM DISCHARGED ACTIVE MATERIALS WEI, ZHONGQING

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2876 1
2874 1
2675 1
1618 1
1751 1
1727 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18833120 DISPERSION ENGINEERED LOAD TO EXTEND THE BANDWIDTH OF ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS LE, THIEN MINH 2876 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2024
18350538 UNIVERSAL LINEAR OPTICAL DEVICE WONG, TINA MEI SENG 2874 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2023
18256975 DEEP PERCEPTUAL IMAGE ENHANCEMENT DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH 2675 §102 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jun 12, 2023
17749902 MESOSCALE NANOPARTICLES FOR SELECTIVE TARGETING TO THE KIDNEY AND METHODS OF THEIR THERAPEUTIC USE DICKINSON, PAUL W 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending May 20, 2022
17772577 MITIGATING THE ZINCATE EFFECT IN ENERGY DENSE MANGANESE DIOXIDE ELECTRODES CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY 1751 §112 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Apr 28, 2022
16958596 METHOD OF FORMING CHARGED MANGANESE OXIDES FROM DISCHARGED ACTIVE MATERIALS WEI, ZHONGQING 1727 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 26, 2020

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