Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Illinois

55 pending office actions • 46 art units • 53 examiners • 0 of 55 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 92 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

55
Total Pending OAs
33
Non-Final OAs
19
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 54 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

25
Overdue
1
Due this week
16
Due this month
8
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 54 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (25)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (16)Due ≤ 60 days (8)Due later (4)

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%)
42
Medium (76%)
5
Easy (9%)
8
Unknown (15%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only37 (67%)
§102 only4 (7%)
§112 only5 (9%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
No statute on record8 (15%)

Industry Mix

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

32
Life Sciences
58% of docket
5
Information Tech
9% of docket
5
Communications
9% of docket
5
Semiconductors
9% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
15% 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.

550 h
Manual time on pending OAs
110 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
192 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DANG, DUY M 2 91.4% +6.0%
OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL 2 62.2% -12.5%
DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA 1 39.2% +36.8%
FERNANDES, PATRICK M 1 59.9% +32.2%
BIBBEE, CHAYCE R 1 62.5% +3.7%
RUSHING, MARK S 1 76.6% +24.4%
VU, TAYLOR P 1 75.9% +13.3%
BOWMAN, ANDREW J 1 65.7% +12.9%
LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA 1 92.7% +8.1%
TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA 1 63.5% +31.0%

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
18623392 COMMUNITY DIGITAL LIBRARY SYSTEM LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA 16d

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
18671037 CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF DIBORIDE ALLOY COATINGS BOWMAN, ANDREW J 26d overdue
18919813 Passive In-Vehicle Sensing of Pavement Signage Coded on Roadways RUSHING, MARK S 2d 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
18690239 REAL-TIME SUPER-RESOLUTION ULTRASOUND MICROVESSEL IMAGING AND VELOCIMETRY TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA 15d
18754368 PREDICTED CHANGE REQUEST OUTCOMES FOR RISK ASSESSMENT VU, TAYLOR P 40d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 3
1693 3
2662 2
1672 2
1795 2
1764 2
1621 2
3623 1
2624 1
2689 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19033792 METHODS TO ESTIMATE FIELD-LEVEL CARBON, WATER AND NUTRIENT IMPLICATIONS FOR AGRICULTURE DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA 3623 §102 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2025
18877391 NON-CONTACT CLINICAL RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY GUIDED PROBE AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME FERNANDES, PATRICK M 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Dec 20, 2024
18929086 Gaze-depth Interaction in Virtual, Augmented, or Mixed Reality BIBBEE, CHAYCE R 2624 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 28, 2024
18919813 Passive In-Vehicle Sensing of Pavement Signage Coded on Roadways RUSHING, MARK S 2689 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2024
18754368 PREDICTED CHANGE REQUEST OUTCOMES FOR RISK ASSESSMENT VU, TAYLOR P 2437 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Jun 26, 2024
18671037 CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF DIBORIDE ALLOY COATINGS BOWMAN, ANDREW J 1717 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending May 22, 2024
18629302 Remote Identification of Manufactured Parts via Neural Networks DANG, DUY M 2662 Other Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Apr 08, 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
18690239 REAL-TIME SUPER-RESOLUTION ULTRASOUND MICROVESSEL IMAGING AND VELOCIMETRY TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA 3797 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Mar 07, 2024
18686104 CONTACTLESS STRESS MONITORING USING WIRELESS SIGNALS OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Feb 23, 2024
18685853 COMPOSITE NANOPARTICULATE MINERALIZED COLLAGEN GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN MATERIALS WITH TIME RELEASE ANTI-RESORPTIVE FACTORS BASQUILL, SEAN M 1614 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Feb 22, 2024
18405347 RESTORING PHYSIOLOGY WITH SMALL MOLECULE MIMICS OF MISSING PROTEINS OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL 1693 Other Non-Final OA 113d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2024
18404084 METHODS FOR IMPROVING AGRONOMIC TRAITS OF A PLANT BUI, PHUONG T 1663 Non-Final OA 175d overdue Pending Jan 04, 2024
18574482 UNIVERSAL VACCINE FOR INFLUENZA VIRUS BASED ON TETRAMERIC M2 PROTEIN INCORPORATED INTO NANODISCS JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18377589 WORKING ELECTRODE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE ELECTROCHEMICAL REMEDIATION OF A METAL SPECIES KOLTONOW, ANDREW ROBERT 1795 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Oct 06, 2023
18554423 MULTIVALENT CHOLERA MULTIEPITOPE FUSION ANTIGEN (MEFA) AND METHODS OF USE GRASER, JENNIFER E 1645 §112 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Oct 06, 2023
18469530 EXPANDING THE CHEMICAL SUBSTRATES FOR GENETIC CODE REPROGRAMMING SHIAO, YIH-HORNG 1691 Other Final Rejection 33d Pending Sep 18, 2023
18368866 METHOD OF MAINTAINING LATERAL POSITION OF A VEHICLE ON A ROADWAY, METHOD OF CONFIGURING A ROADWAY FOR LATERAL POSITION SENSING, AND PAVING MATERIAL PRODUCT ANDA, JENNIFER MARIE 3662 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2023
18227575 SOLUTION-PHASE PROCESSED VERTICAL SCHOTTKY DIODE AND METHOD OF MAKING A VERTICAL SCHOTTKY DIODE ADROVEL, WILLIAM 2898 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2023
18224662 OSMOTICALLY-ACTIVE CLOSED-CELL COMPOSITE, OSMOTICALLY-ACTIVATED ACTUATOR AND ACTUATION METHOD BUTCHER, ROBERT T 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Jul 21, 2023
18261373 ANTIBIOTICS WITH IMPROVED DRUG RESISTANCE PROFILE KIM, SEONG JONG 1621 §102 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jul 13, 2023
18260987 MULTIPHASE OPTICAL COHERENCE MICROSCOPY IMAGING COOK, JONATHON 2877 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Jul 11, 2023
18345309 ENHANCED EXTRACTION OF NATURAL PRODUCTS FROM BIOMASS ELHILO, EISA B 1761 §112 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18260029 SPECIFIC DETECTION OF NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES USING ACTIVATE CLEAVE & COUNT (ACC) TECHNOLOGY BOESEN, AGNIESZKA 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2023
18343137 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNZIPPING POLYMERS FOR ENHANCED ENERGY RELEASE FELTON, AILEEN BAKER 1734 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 28, 2023
18265141 METHOD OF SPONTANEOUSLY PATTERNING A POLYMER DURING FRONTAL POLYMERIZATION HUHN, RICHARD A 1764 §102 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18035865 PLASMA-ACTIVATED LIQUIDS DEO, DUY VU NGUYEN 1713 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending May 08, 2023
18251505 SPLIT PRIME EDITING PLATFORMS HUTSON, RICHARD G 1652 §112 Non-Final OA 127d overdue Pending May 02, 2023
18308522 REGENERATING LEAD ACID BATTERIES RUFO, LOUIS J 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 126d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2023
18030139 METHODS OF TREATING HERPES VIRAL INFECTION WITH 4-PHENYLBUTYRATE (PBA) OR A PHARMACEUTICALLY ACCEPTABLE SALT THEREOF WILSON, JERICA KATLYNN 1621 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Apr 04, 2023
18129409 POROUS STRUCTURE WITH MICROCHANNELS PHAM, THANHHA S 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 31, 2023
18193711 DURABLE POROUS STRUCTURES AND ELECTRONICS DEVICES INCORPORATING THE SAME COHEN, BRIAN W 1759 §103 Final Rejection 54d Pending Mar 31, 2023
18178736 METHODS AND MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR PRODUCING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Mar 06, 2023
18043136 IN SITU CELL BIOREACTOR AND DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R 1798 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Feb 27, 2023
18169041 Electrically Controlled Nanofluidic DNA Sluice for Data Storage Applications SINES, BRIAN J 1796 §103 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 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2023
18065068 HIGH-RESOLUTION IC NET ROUTING SYSTEM, COMPONENTS AND METHODS WITH DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 2124 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Dec 13, 2022
17928443 APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC (EHD) MATERIAL DEPOSITION LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2022
17980017 FLOW CHANNELS FOR OPTIMAL OR IMPROVED DELIVERY OF FLUID TO POROUS ELECTROCHEMICAL / CHEMICAL MEDIA LEE, JAMES 1725 Other Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2022
17939057 RECONFIGURABLE MEMTRANSISTORS ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M 2893 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Sep 07, 2022
17904211 LONG CHAIN CARBON AND CYCLIC AMINO ACIDS SUBSTRATES FOR GENETIC CODE REPROGRAMMING OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL 1693 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Aug 12, 2022
17871567 METASURFACES FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEMS BOWERS, BRANDON 2851 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jul 22, 2022
17786865 CATALYTIC NUCLEIC ACID-BASED GENETIC ENGINEERING METHOD PERSONS, JENNA L 1637 Other Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jun 17, 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
17778138 PENTAPEPTIDE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF COFFA, SERGIO 1658 §102 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 19, 2022
17777528 Catheter System for Surgical Access and Therapeutics Delivery BOUCHELLE, LAURA A 3783 §103 Final Rejection 118d overdue Pending May 17, 2022
17633254 HYBRID AMIDE DERIVATIVES OF AMPHOTERICIN B GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD 1693 DPOther Final Rejection 61d Pending Feb 07, 2022
17615402 PROCASPASE-3 ACTIVATION AND IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR TREATMENT OF CANCER HASTINGS, ALISON AZAR 1627 Other Non-Final OA 138d overdue Pending Nov 30, 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
17494110 COMPOUNDS THAT INDUCE FERROPTIC CELL DEATH MAHLUM, JONATHAN DAVIS 1625 §103 Non-Final OA 126d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2021
17445928 ACCESSING AGRICULTURE PRODUCTIVITY AND SUSTAINABILITY SIMS, JASON M 3791 §112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 25, 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
17261168 Engineered Exosomes for Medical Applications BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 1655 §103 Final Rejection 52d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2021
16920108 Epidermal Photonic Systems and Methods TOMBERS, JOSEPH A 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 02, 2020

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