Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
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.

4
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)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.

0
Hard (0%)
2
Medium (40%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (60%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
No statute on record3 (60%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
QIAN, SHIZHI 1 61.7% +48.4%
WORSHAM, JESSICA N 1 56.6% +57.0%
RONEY, CELESTE A 1 62.3% +18.0%
TOICH, SARA KATHERINE 1 46.4% +44.1%
PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 1 78.8% +11.5%

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
17766446 ACOUSTIC NEBULISER FOR DELIVERY OF ACTIVE AGENTS TOICH, SARA KATHERINE 88d overdue
18572702 CONDUCTOMETRIC SENSOR FOR DETECTING A BIOANALYTE AND A METHOD FOR THE DETECTION THEREOF QIAN, SHIZHI 58d overdue
18254983 ORAL THERAPEUTIC DELIVERY WORSHAM, JESSICA N 43d 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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1795 1
1615 1
1612 1
3785 1
1692 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18572702 CONDUCTOMETRIC SENSOR FOR DETECTING A BIOANALYTE AND A METHOD FOR THE DETECTION THEREOF QIAN, SHIZHI 1795 Other Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2023
18254983 ORAL THERAPEUTIC DELIVERY WORSHAM, JESSICA N 1615 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending May 30, 2023
18250942 LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE PHASE PARTICLE RONEY, CELESTE A 1612 Other Final Rejection 20d Pending Apr 27, 2023
17766446 ACOUSTIC NEBULISER FOR DELIVERY OF ACTIVE AGENTS TOICH, SARA KATHERINE 3785 §103 Final Rejection 88d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2022
17501742 METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS AND METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 1692 Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 14, 2021

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