Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Arkansas

6 pending office actions • 5 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
2
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.

3
Overdue
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)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.

1
Hard (17%)
4
Medium (67%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

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

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
83% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% 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
IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED 1 87.6% +11.8%
KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V 1 69.5% +25.5%
NGUYEN, SOPHIA T 1 45.3% +13.0%
BRAZIN, JACQUELINE 1 66.3% +53.5%
NIEBAUER, RONALD T 1 41.4% +33.8%
HIRT, ERIN E 1 39.2% +23.3%

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
18652391 PSEUDOMONAS PROTEGENS AND PRODUCTS THEREOF TO CONTROL BACTERIAL PANICLE BLIGHT OF RICE IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED 15d overdue

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
17034430 Safening Rice Against Group 15 Herbicides HIRT, ERIN E 146d overdue
18131280 PEPTIDIC OLIGOMERS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME NIEBAUER, RONALD T 30d overdue
18652391 PSEUDOMONAS PROTEGENS AND PRODUCTS THEREOF TO CONTROL BACTERIAL PANICLE BLIGHT OF RICE IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED 15d overdue
18540629 RICE CULTIVAR 'PVL04' KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V 7d
18505567 VISIBLE TO LONGWAVE INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR ON SILICON NGUYEN, SOPHIA T 57d
18202075 LAB-ON-CHIP DEVICES FOR SIMULATING FUNCTION AND DISEASE OF A COMBINED NASAL AND LUNG AIRWAY SYSTEM BRAZIN, JACQUELINE 62d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1662 2
2893 1
1798 1
1658 1
1616 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18652391 PSEUDOMONAS PROTEGENS AND PRODUCTS THEREOF TO CONTROL BACTERIAL PANICLE BLIGHT OF RICE IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED 1662 §101 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 01, 2024
18540629 RICE CULTIVAR 'PVL04' KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V 1662 §112 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18505567 VISIBLE TO LONGWAVE INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR ON SILICON NGUYEN, SOPHIA T 2893 §103 Final Rejection 57d Pending Nov 09, 2023
18202075 LAB-ON-CHIP DEVICES FOR SIMULATING FUNCTION AND DISEASE OF A COMBINED NASAL AND LUNG AIRWAY SYSTEM BRAZIN, JACQUELINE 1798 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending May 25, 2023
18131280 PEPTIDIC OLIGOMERS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME NIEBAUER, RONALD T 1658 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2023
17034430 Safening Rice Against Group 15 Herbicides HIRT, ERIN E 1616 §103 Final Rejection 146d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2020

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