Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Board Of Regents Of The University Of Oklahoma

14 pending office actions • 12 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)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%)
13
Medium (93%)
1
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (79%)
§102 only2 (14%)
§112 only1 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
64% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
14% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
21% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ELENISTE, PIERRE PAUL 2 38.5% +30.2%
MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. 1 31.2% +43.4%
TAN, DING Y 1 76.2% +16.9%
SCHINDLER, DAVID M 1 41.0% +23.2%
SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 1 68.8% +28.3%
WILSON, KAYLEE R 1 62.5% +52.7%
SCHACHERMEYER, SAMANTHA LYNN 1 36.7% +65.0%
FONTAINHAS, AURORA M 1 37.5% +48.0%
CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER 1 41.5% +65.0%
KUMAR, RAKESH 1 56.9% +28.1%

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18444665 System and Method for Locating Undocumented Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells with a Smartphone SCHINDLER, DAVID M 155d overdue
18181016 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HYPERGLYCEMIA IN TYPE-2 DIABETES SCHACHERMEYER, SAMANTHA LYNN 153d overdue
18383708 PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR-ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA (PPARy) LIGANDS AND METHODS OF USE AS TREATMENTS FOR INSULIN RESISTANCE, OBESITY, FATTY LIVER DISEASE, AND TYPE 2 DIABETES SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 132d overdue
17276032 COMBINATION CANCER THERAPIES ELENISTE, PIERRE PAUL 74d overdue
17802423 Medicine Dispenser with Patient Compliance Monitoring System KUMAR, RAKESH 53d overdue
18873924 ZINC IMIDAZOLE SALICYLALDOXIME-BASED ADSORPTIVE MEMBRANES FOR REMOVAL OF METAL IONS FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. 42d overdue
18004479 Biomarkers for Identifying Relapses in Multiple Sclerosis FONTAINHAS, AURORA M 17d overdue
18037706 Apparatus and Method for Capturing Aerosols WILSON, KAYLEE R 15d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1622 3
1773 1
3632 1
2858 1
1629 1
3700 1
1693 1
1675 1
1657 1
3651 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18873924 ZINC IMIDAZOLE SALICYLALDOXIME-BASED ADSORPTIVE MEMBRANES FOR REMOVAL OF METAL IONS FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. 1773 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Dec 11, 2024
18904698 SYSTEM FOR MOUNTING SOLAR PANELS TAN, DING Y 3632 §102 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Oct 02, 2024
18444665 System and Method for Locating Undocumented Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells with a Smartphone SCHINDLER, DAVID M 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 155d overdue Pending Feb 17, 2024
18383708 PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR-ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA (PPARy) LIGANDS AND METHODS OF USE AS TREATMENTS FOR INSULIN RESISTANCE, OBESITY, FATTY LIVER DISEASE, AND TYPE 2 DIABETES SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 1629 §103 Non-Final OA 132d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18037706 Apparatus and Method for Capturing Aerosols WILSON, KAYLEE R 3700 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 18, 2023
18181016 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HYPERGLYCEMIA IN TYPE-2 DIABETES SCHACHERMEYER, SAMANTHA LYNN 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 153d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2023
18101627 COMBINATION CANCER THERAPIES ELENISTE, PIERRE PAUL 1622 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2023
18004479 Biomarkers for Identifying Relapses in Multiple Sclerosis FONTAINHAS, AURORA M 1675 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jan 06, 2023
17971072 MICROBIOME TRANSPLANTATION FOR OSTEOARTHRITIS THERAPY CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER 1657 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Oct 21, 2022
17802423 Medicine Dispenser with Patient Compliance Monitoring System KUMAR, RAKESH 3651 §102 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2022
17750113 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS SEPARATION OF SOLID PARTICLES FROM SOLID-LIQUID SLURRIES GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN 1777 §112 Non-Final OA 111d overdue Pending May 20, 2022
17684202 Multi-Bandgap Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) BULLARD-CONNOR, GENEVIEVE GRACE 2899 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2022
17534888 SHIKIMATE ANALOGUES AND METHODS OF USE SOROUSH, LAYLA 1622 §103 Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Nov 24, 2021
17276032 COMBINATION CANCER THERAPIES ELENISTE, PIERRE PAUL 1622 §103 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Mar 12, 2021

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