Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Florida International University Board of Trustees

9 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 42 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
1
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 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%)
7
Medium (78%)
1
Easy (11%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (78%)
§112 only1 (11%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
56% of docket
1
Information Tech
11% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
22% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SANCHEZ, JUSTIN CHRISTOPHER 1 86.5% +11.5%
VU, JAKE MINH 1 40.5% +27.6%
MENGISTU, TEWODROS E 1 49.6% +29.0%
ARIETI, RUTH SOPHIA 1 45.2% +73.6%
HO, TU TU V 1 93.6% +5.1%
KOVACH, KARA NICOLE 1 100.0% +0.0%
KOLKIN, ADAM D. 1 48.3% +7.3%
O'SHEA, BRENDAN S 1 30.6% +37.0%
CHEN, CATHERYNE 1 37.4% +18.4%

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
18512439 NOVEL METHOD OF EMI SHIELDING HO, TU TU V 22d
18340240 MULTI-SPECIES REFERENCE LADDER AND MULTI-PLEX PCR KIT AND USES THEREOF KOVACH, KARA NICOLE 26d

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
18088198 MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR BLOCKING MALARIA INFECTION AND TRANSMISSION CHEN, CATHERYNE 73d overdue
18781474 NOISE-ROBUST FEDERATED LEARNING VIA OPTIMAL TRANSPORT MENGISTU, TEWODROS E 17d overdue
19323352 TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF INFECTIONS USING VEGETABLE OIL-DERIVED POLYOLS SANCHEZ, JUSTIN CHRISTOPHER 2d overdue
19175507 POLYOLS AND POLYOL-BASED HYDROGELS WITH ANTI-CANCER ACTIVITY VU, JAKE MINH 13d
18296568 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING HISTORICAL REAL ESTATE PRICE TRENDS O'SHEA, BRENDAN S 16d
18414857 TUMOR-INTRINSIC GALECTIN-3 SUPPRESSES MELANOMA METASTASIS ARIETI, RUTH SOPHIA 23d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1622 1
1618 1
2127 1
1635 1
2818 1
1681 1
3798 1
3626 1
1655 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19323352 TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF INFECTIONS USING VEGETABLE OIL-DERIVED POLYOLS SANCHEZ, JUSTIN CHRISTOPHER 1622 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2025
19175507 POLYOLS AND POLYOL-BASED HYDROGELS WITH ANTI-CANCER ACTIVITY VU, JAKE MINH 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Apr 10, 2025
18781474 NOISE-ROBUST FEDERATED LEARNING VIA OPTIMAL TRANSPORT MENGISTU, TEWODROS E 2127 §112 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jul 23, 2024
18414857 TUMOR-INTRINSIC GALECTIN-3 SUPPRESSES MELANOMA METASTASIS ARIETI, RUTH SOPHIA 1635 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jan 17, 2024
18512439 NOVEL METHOD OF EMI SHIELDING HO, TU TU V 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 17, 2023
18340240 MULTI-SPECIES REFERENCE LADDER AND MULTI-PLEX PCR KIT AND USES THEREOF KOVACH, KARA NICOLE 1681 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jun 23, 2023
18306012 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING PERIPHERAL VASCULAR IMAGING KOLKIN, ADAM D. 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Apr 24, 2023
18296568 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING HISTORICAL REAL ESTATE PRICE TRENDS O'SHEA, BRENDAN S 3626 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Apr 06, 2023
18088198 MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR BLOCKING MALARIA INFECTION AND TRANSMISSION CHEN, CATHERYNE 1655 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2022

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