Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

2
Hard (29%)
4
Medium (57%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (57%)
§112 only1 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
71% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MERCIER, MELISSA S 1 72.1% +6.1%
NGUYEN, CAM N 1 84.8% +12.3%
RONEY, CELESTE A 1 62.7% +17.7%
SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 1 66.1% +50.7%
MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN 1 33.8% +50.0%
TOICH, SARA KATHERINE 1 50.0% +46.3%
PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 1 78.9% +11.0%

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
18261934 PROCESS FOR PREPARING METAL OXIDE NANOSHEETS NGUYEN, CAM N

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18858619 COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE AGENTS MERCIER, MELISSA S
17757700 SENSOR FOR DETECTING A BIOANALYTE AND A METHOD FOR THE DETECTION THEREOF MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17766446 ACOUSTIC NEBULISER FOR DELIVERY OF ACTIVE AGENTS TOICH, SARA KATHERINE 88d overdue
17501742 METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS AND METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 30d overdue
18250942 LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE PHASE PARTICLE RONEY, CELESTE A 20d
18261934 PROCESS FOR PREPARING METAL OXIDE NANOSHEETS NGUYEN, CAM N
18041238 STIMULATING CELLULAR PRODUCTION OF EXOSOMES SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE
17757700 SENSOR FOR DETECTING A BIOANALYTE AND A METHOD FOR THE DETECTION THEREOF MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1736 1
1612 1
1633 1
1677 1
3785 1
1692 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18858619 COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE AGENTS MERCIER, MELISSA S §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 21, 2024
18261934 PROCESS FOR PREPARING METAL OXIDE NANOSHEETS NGUYEN, CAM N 1736 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 18, 2023
18250942 LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE PHASE PARTICLE RONEY, CELESTE A 1612 §103Other Final Rejection 20d Pending Apr 27, 2023
18041238 STIMULATING CELLULAR PRODUCTION OF EXOSOMES SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 1633 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 10, 2023
17757700 SENSOR FOR DETECTING A BIOANALYTE AND A METHOD FOR THE DETECTION THEREOF MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN 1677 §102§103Other Final Rejection Pending Jun 17, 2022
17766446 ACOUSTIC NEBULISER FOR DELIVERY OF ACTIVE AGENTS TOICH, SARA KATHERINE 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 88d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2022
17501742 METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS AND METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 1692 §112Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 14, 2021

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