Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

65 pending office actions • 43 art units • 65 examiners • 0 of 65 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 90 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

65
Total Pending OAs
42
Non-Final OAs
21
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
1
Due this week
9
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (9)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (2)

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.

32
Hard (49%)
23
Medium (35%)
8
Easy (12%)
2
Unknown (3%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (5%)
§103 only16 (25%)
§102 only6 (9%)
§112 only6 (9%)
Double-patenting only2 (3%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)29 (45%)
No statute on record2 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

37
Life Sciences
57% of docket
5
Information Tech
8% of docket
2
Communications
3% of docket
2
Semiconductors
3% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
11
Business / Other
17% 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.

650 h
Manual time on pending OAs
130 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
227 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TIEU, JANICE N 1 90.2% +10.6%
HWU, JUNE 1 91.3% -2.1%
DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA 1 38.6% +35.9%
FERNANDES, PATRICK M 1 59.8% +31.7%
HINES, LATOSHA D 1 51.0% +21.9%
CAMPANELL, FRANCIS C 1 72.8% +9.3%
FRAZIER, BRADY W 1 78.4% +27.3%
HYDER, G.M. ALI 1 90.6% +7.3%
HASKE, WOJCIECH 1 73.0% +17.8%
HSIEH, PING Y 1 79.1% +15.5%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19114047 INTEGRATED SENSING AND COMMUNICATION WITH MILLIMETER WAVE FULL DUPLEX HYBRID BEAMFORMING TIEU, JANICE N
19065181 STEM CELL-SPECIFIC PROMOTER FROM SACCHARUM AND METHODS FOR INCREASING FATTY ACID AND/OR OIL ACCUMULATION HWU, JUNE

Hard Cases (32)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18308522 REGENERATING LEAD ACID BATTERIES RUFO, LOUIS J 126d overdue
18169041 Electrically Controlled Nanofluidic DNA Sluice for Data Storage Applications SINES, BRIAN J 112d overdue
17750712 HIGH EFFICIENCY ELECTRODIALYSIS FLUID PURIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD BRAZIN, JACQUELINE 35d overdue
19033792 METHODS TO ESTIMATE FIELD-LEVEL CARBON, WATER AND NUTRIENT IMPLICATIONS FOR AGRICULTURE DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA 1d overdue
18877391 NON-CONTACT CLINICAL RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY GUIDED PROBE AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME FERNANDES, PATRICK M 12d
18261373 ANTIBIOTICS WITH IMPROVED DRUG RESISTANCE PROFILE KIM, SEONG JONG 21d
18260987 MULTIPHASE OPTICAL COHERENCE MICROSCOPY IMAGING COOK, JONATHON 26d
18343137 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNZIPPING POLYMERS FOR ENHANCED ENERGY RELEASE FELTON, AILEEN BAKER 28d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19033792 METHODS TO ESTIMATE FIELD-LEVEL CARBON, WATER AND NUTRIENT IMPLICATIONS FOR AGRICULTURE DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA 1d overdue
18877391 NON-CONTACT CLINICAL RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY GUIDED PROBE AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME FERNANDES, PATRICK M 12d
19114047 INTEGRATED SENSING AND COMMUNICATION WITH MILLIMETER WAVE FULL DUPLEX HYBRID BEAMFORMING TIEU, JANICE N
18875506 PROCESSES FOR CONVERTING UNSATURATED POLYETHYLENE TO ALKENE PRODUCTS HINES, LATOSHA D
18970528 RADAR INTERFEROMETRIC TOMOGRAPHY FOR OPAQUE PARTICLE-LADEN FLOWS FRAZIER, BRADY W
18853432 INTEGRATED SYSTEM(S) AND METHODS FOR CONTINUOUS ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPTURE AND REDUCTION OF CO2 FROM DILUTE SOURCES HASKE, WOJCIECH
18824519 Conformance Testing of Manufactured Parts via Neural Networks HSIEH, PING Y

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1777 3
1621 3
1794 2
1663 2
1645 2
1623 2
2124 2
3794 2
3763 2
1661 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19114047 INTEGRATED SENSING AND COMMUNICATION WITH MILLIMETER WAVE FULL DUPLEX HYBRID BEAMFORMING TIEU, JANICE N §112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 21, 2025
19065181 STEM CELL-SPECIFIC PROMOTER FROM SACCHARUM AND METHODS FOR INCREASING FATTY ACID AND/OR OIL ACCUMULATION HWU, JUNE 1661 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2025
19033792 METHODS TO ESTIMATE FIELD-LEVEL CARBON, WATER AND NUTRIENT IMPLICATIONS FOR AGRICULTURE DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA 3623 §101§102§112 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2025
18877391 NON-CONTACT CLINICAL RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY GUIDED PROBE AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME FERNANDES, PATRICK M 3791 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Dec 20, 2024
18875506 PROCESSES FOR CONVERTING UNSATURATED POLYETHYLENE TO ALKENE PRODUCTS HINES, LATOSHA D DP Non-Final OA Pending Dec 16, 2024
18875480 PROCESSES FOR CONVERTING SATURATED POLYETHYLENE TO ALKENE PRODUCTS CAMPANELL, FRANCIS C §112Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 16, 2024
18970528 RADAR INTERFEROMETRIC TOMOGRAPHY FOR OPAQUE PARTICLE-LADEN FLOWS FRAZIER, BRADY W §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 05, 2024
18856927 SINGLE-SHOT MULTI-B-VALUE AND TIME-DEPENDENT DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MRI USING SPIN ECHO AND STIMULATED ECHOES WITH VARIABLE FLIP ANGLES HYDER, G.M. ALI §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 15, 2024
18853432 INTEGRATED SYSTEM(S) AND METHODS FOR CONTINUOUS ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPTURE AND REDUCTION OF CO2 FROM DILUTE SOURCES HASKE, WOJCIECH 1794 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 02, 2024
18824519 Conformance Testing of Manufactured Parts via Neural Networks HSIEH, PING Y §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Sep 04, 2024
18834350 IMIDAZOTETRAZINE COMPOUNDS AND TREATMENT OF TMZ-RESISTANT CANCERS WHITE, DAWANNA SHAR-DAY §102§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 30, 2024
18832007 Suspended Phased Oscillators for Attitude Control PALL, CHARLES J 3663 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 22, 2024
18743523 ANKLE-FOOT ORTHOSIS MATTHEWS, MADISON ROSE §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 14, 2024
18654999 MODIFIED UPSTREAM OPEN READING FRAMES FOR MODULATING NPQ RELAXATION ORDAZ, CHRISTIAN JOSE 1663 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending May 03, 2024
18629373 Identification of Manufactured Parts via Neural Networks DANG, DUY M 2662 Other Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2024
18623392 COMMUNITY DIGITAL LIBRARY SYSTEM LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA 2166 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Apr 01, 2024
18622394 SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY APPROACHES TO TARGET RNA-CAPPING ENZYMES FROM VIRUSES OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1645 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 29, 2024
18692514 CHIMERIC SECRETORY COMPONENT POLYPEPTIDES AND USES THEREOF PUTTLITZ, KARL J §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 15, 2024
18685853 COMPOSITE NANOPARTICULATE MINERALIZED COLLAGEN GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN MATERIALS WITH TIME RELEASE ANTI-RESORPTIVE FACTORS BASQUILL, SEAN M 1614 §103§112 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Feb 22, 2024
18682855 Ultralow-Fouling Zwitterionic Polyurethane-Modified Membrane Methods and Devices for Rapid Separation of Plasma From Whole Blood GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN 1777 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 09, 2024
18294587 TREATMENT OR PREVENTION OF SARS-COV-2 INFECTION USING (S)-CRIZOTINIB PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT 1627 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 02, 2024
18580788 SUBSTITUTED HETERO-BICYCLOCOMPOUNDS AS SUBTYPE SELECTIVE NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR INHIBITORS CHENG, KAREN 1623 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 19, 2024
18570745 CRISPR CASCADE BAUSCH, SARAE L 1683 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 15, 2023
18568609 ELECTROCHEMICALLY-REGENERATED ION EXCHANGE USING REDOX-POLYMERS KEYWORTH, PETER 1777 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 08, 2023
18531019 DECELLULARIZED LIVER FIBERS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME SCHUBERG, LAURA J 1633 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2023
18566455 Airborne monitor to detect SARS-CoV-2 wild-type and mutations in airborne samples using Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques (NAT) TURK, NEIL N §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 01, 2023
18563824 C4 PLANTS WITH INCREASED PHOTOSYNTHETIC EFFICIENCY SPEED, DEQUANTARIUS JAVON 1663 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 22, 2023
18509697 THREE-DIMENSIONAL FILTRATION COMPOSITES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING KIM, SUN U 1777 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 15, 2023
18382796 REDOX-RESPONSIVE HALOGEN BONDING POLYMERS FOR SELECTIVE ELECTROCHEMICAL SEPARATION JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 23, 2023
18479242 Semantic Representations of Mathematical Expressions in a Continuous Vector Space and Generation of Different but Mathematicallly Equivalent Expressions and Applications Thereof GONZALES, VINCENT 2124 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 02, 2023
18469530 EXPANDING THE CHEMICAL SUBSTRATES FOR GENETIC CODE REPROGRAMMING SHIAO, YIH-HORNG 1691 §102Other Non-Final OA 33d Pending Sep 18, 2023
18464374 CRISPR/CAS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENOME EDITING AND MODULATING TRANSCRIPTION WHITEMAN, BRIAN A 1636 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 11, 2023
18239460 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING DECITABINE AND TETRAHYDROURIDINE AND USES THEREOF BAKSHI, PANCHAM 1623 DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 29, 2023
18453098 FCRN BINDING POLYPEPTIDES GUSTILO, ESTELLA M 1646 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Aug 21, 2023
18264109 COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY 1624 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 03, 2023
18223653 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDOX POLYMER ELECTRODIALYSIS SABATOSE, ASHLEY CHARLES 1791 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 19, 2023
18261373 ANTIBIOTICS WITH IMPROVED DRUG RESISTANCE PROFILE KIM, SEONG JONG 1621 §102§103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Jul 13, 2023
18260987 MULTIPHASE OPTICAL COHERENCE MICROSCOPY IMAGING COOK, JONATHON 2877 §102§103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Jul 11, 2023
18343137 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNZIPPING POLYMERS FOR ENHANCED ENERGY RELEASE FELTON, AILEEN BAKER 1734 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 28, 2023
18339891 NOVEL VISIBLY TRANSPARENT AND INFRARED REFLECTIVE (VTIR) COATINGS LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE 1784 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jun 22, 2023
18209979 POWER APPARATUS, CONTROL AND INVERTERS FOR ELECTROSURGERY CLARK, RYAN T 3794 §102 Final Rejection Pending Jun 14, 2023
18035865 PLASMA-ACTIVATED LIQUIDS DEO, DUY VU NGUYEN 1713 §102Other Non-Final OA 29d Pending May 08, 2023
18308522 REGENERATING LEAD ACID BATTERIES RUFO, LOUIS J 1795 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 126d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2023
18131140 INCIDENTAL DUROTOMY CLOSURE SYSTEM AND METHOD OU, JING RUI 3771 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 05, 2023
18030139 METHODS OF TREATING HERPES VIRAL INFECTION WITH 4-PHENYLBUTYRATE (PBA) OR A PHARMACEUTICALLY ACCEPTABLE SALT THEREOF WILSON, JERICA KATLYNN 1621 §102§103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Apr 04, 2023
18027852 VAPOR CHAMBERS FEATURING WETTABILITY-PATTERNED SURFACES DUONG, THO V 3763 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 22, 2023
18026611 DEVICE AND METHODS FOR PRODUCTION OF AMMONIA AND NITRATES UNDER AMBIENT CONDITIONS MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM 1794 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 16, 2023
18043095 ALGINATE-COATED MESENCHYMAL STROMAL AND PROGENITOR CELLS AND METHODS FOR USING THE SAME CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F 1634 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 27, 2023
18169041 Electrically Controlled Nanofluidic DNA Sluice for Data Storage Applications SINES, BRIAN J 1796 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 112d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2023
18161830 COMPUTE-IN-MEMORY SRAM USING MEMORY-IMMERSED DATA CONVERSION AND MULTIPLICATION-FREE OPERATORS METZGER, MICHAEL J 2183 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2023
18065068 HIGH-RESOLUTION IC NET ROUTING SYSTEM, COMPONENTS AND METHODS WITH DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 2124 §101§103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Dec 13, 2022
18051545 IMAGE COMPRESSION AUGMENTED WITH A LEARNING-BASED SUPER RESOLUTION MODEL ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL 2483 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 01, 2022
17952057 MONOLITHIC MICROFLUIDIC ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 3794 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 23, 2022
17939057 RECONFIGURABLE MEMTRANSISTORS ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M 2893 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Sep 07, 2022
17903550 OPTICAL ANALYTE DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L 1677 Other Non-Final OA Pending Sep 06, 2022
17904211 LONG CHAIN CARBON AND CYCLIC AMINO ACIDS SUBSTRATES FOR GENETIC CODE REPROGRAMMING OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Aug 12, 2022
17826392 Complex System for Contextual Spectrum Mask Generation Based on Quantitative Imaging SHIMELES, BEZAWIT NOLAWI 2673 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending May 27, 2022
17750712 HIGH EFFICIENCY ELECTRODIALYSIS FLUID PURIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD BRAZIN, JACQUELINE 1798 §102§103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending May 23, 2022
17778138 PENTAPEPTIDE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF COFFA, SERGIO 1658 §102 Final Rejection 28d Pending May 19, 2022
17730502 SURFACE-MODIFIED COMPONENT AND METHOD OF ACHIEVING HIGH HEAT TRANSFER DURING COOLING ARANT, HARRY E 3763 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 27, 2022
17768766 SHIGELLA MULTI-EPITOPE FUSION ANTIGEN PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE ZEMAN, ROBERT A 1645 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 13, 2022
17511635 MEK INHIBITORS FOR CORNEAL SCARRING AND NEOVASCULARIZATION RAMOS LEWIS, JOSMALEN MILAGROS 1621 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Oct 27, 2021
17606567 Digital Resolution Detection of miRNA with Single Base Selectivity by Photonic Resonator Absorption Microscopy KENNEDY, SARAH JANE 1682 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 26, 2021
17331565 IRRIGATION SOLUTION TO REDUCE/ELIMINATE AEROSOL GENERATION DURING DENTAL AND SURGICAL PROCEDURES PETRITSCH, AMANDA MICHELLE 1612 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending May 26, 2021
17292094 TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF AUTOANTIBODY-MEDIATED EYE DISEASES CHEN, CATHERYNE 1655 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending May 07, 2021

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