Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Research Triangle Institute

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 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%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
§102 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
67% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% 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
UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C 1 78.9% +22.9%
SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 1 69.3% +25.9%
CHU, YONG LIANG 1 74.8% +3.4%
GOTFREDSON, GAREN 1 40.0% +29.1%
NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA 1 54.8% +25.7%
RICCI, CRAIG D 1 53.5% +52.6%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17621002 UREA DERIVATIVES AS CB1 ALLOSTERIC MODULATORS RICCI, CRAIG D 299d overdue
18631969 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF PARTICLES USING A LINE LASER UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C 50d overdue
17995542 MULTI-DRUG FORMULATIONS FOR SUBCUTANEOUS BIODEGRADABLE RESERVOIR DEVICE GOTFREDSON, GAREN 18d overdue
18433523 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR AUTOMATED PERSONALIZED CONTROL OF BUILDING SYSTEMS SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 12d
17798188 Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Nanoplastics and Microplastics NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA 61d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2877 1
2117 1
1731 1
1619 1
1734 1
1611 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18631969 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF PARTICLES USING A LINE LASER UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C 2877 §103 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Apr 10, 2024
18433523 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR AUTOMATED PERSONALIZED CONTROL OF BUILDING SYSTEMS SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Feb 06, 2024
18271277 METHOD TO CONTROL SYNGAS COMPOSITION FROM AN ENGINE-BASED SYNGAS GENERATOR CHU, YONG LIANG 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2023
17995542 MULTI-DRUG FORMULATIONS FOR SUBCUTANEOUS BIODEGRADABLE RESERVOIR DEVICE GOTFREDSON, GAREN 1619 §102 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2022
17798188 Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Nanoplastics and Microplastics NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA 1734 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending Aug 08, 2022
17621002 UREA DERIVATIVES AS CB1 ALLOSTERIC MODULATORS RICCI, CRAIG D 1611 §103 Final Rejection 299d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2021

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