Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Governing Council of the University of Toronto

14 pending office actions • 14 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
8
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.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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.

0
Hard (0%)
9
Medium (64%)
3
Easy (21%)
2
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (50%)
§102 only2 (14%)
§112 only3 (21%)
No statute on record2 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

13
Life Sciences
93% of docket
1
Information Tech
7% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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.

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
PILLAY, DEVINA 1 44.1% +26.7%
COOK, LISA V 1 67.2% +9.8%
PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE 1 58.9% +16.7%
CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S 1 72.6% +18.2%
STARKS, WILBERT L 1 75.5% +4.1%
MCCOLLUM, ANDREA K 1 60.7% +32.1%
WEINER, LAURA S 1 85.3% +13.6%
EVANS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 1 58.8% +70.0%
PARK, HAEJIN S 1 55.3% +37.9%
CHONG, KIMBERLY 1 72.4% +12.7%

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
17801763 ALUMINUM-ION BATTERY USING ALUMINUM CHLORIDE/TRIMETHYLAMINE IONIC LIQUID AS ELECTROLYTE WEINER, LAURA S 15d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18627775 METHODS FOR PASSIVATING PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS AND RELATED DEVICES PILLAY, DEVINA 80d overdue
18271561 SELF-CLEANING CO2 REDUCTION SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE 71d overdue
17871339 CROSSLINKED PARTICLES PARK, HAEJIN S 31d overdue
18025665 PIPERAZINYL COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR TREATING NEMATODE INFECTIONS CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S 5d overdue
17997616 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING, DETECTING, AND TREATING INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE MCCOLLUM, ANDREA K 2d overdue
17801763 ALUMINUM-ION BATTERY USING ALUMINUM CHLORIDE/TRIMETHYLAMINE IONIC LIQUID AS ELECTROLYTE WEINER, LAURA S 15d
17700066 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND TREATING INSULIN RESISTANCE CHONG, KIMBERLY 15d
17904846 REAGENTLESS ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSOR EVANS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1726 1
1642 1
1795 1
1625 1
2122 1
1674 1
1723 1
1677 1
1614 1
1636 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18627775 METHODS FOR PASSIVATING PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS AND RELATED DEVICES PILLAY, DEVINA 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 80d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2024
18473207 PROTEIN SEQUENCING METHOD AND REAGENTS COOK, LISA V 1642 Other Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18271561 SELF-CLEANING CO2 REDUCTION SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2023
18025665 PIPERAZINYL COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR TREATING NEMATODE INFECTIONS CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S 1625 §112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 10, 2023
18087897 METHODS AND MODULES FOR ACCELERATING INFERENCE VIA DISTRIBUTED DEVICES STARKS, WILBERT L 2122 §102 Final Rejection 29d Pending Dec 23, 2022
17997616 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING, DETECTING, AND TREATING INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE MCCOLLUM, ANDREA K 1674 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2022
17801763 ALUMINUM-ION BATTERY USING ALUMINUM CHLORIDE/TRIMETHYLAMINE IONIC LIQUID AS ELECTROLYTE WEINER, LAURA S 1723 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Aug 23, 2022
17904846 REAGENTLESS ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSOR EVANS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 1677 §102 Final Rejection 29d Pending Aug 23, 2022
17871339 CROSSLINKED PARTICLES PARK, HAEJIN S 1614 §112 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2022
17700066 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND TREATING INSULIN RESISTANCE CHONG, KIMBERLY 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Mar 21, 2022
17632438 ADDITIONAL MASS TAG POLYMERS FOR MASS CYTOMETRY SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 1618 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending Feb 02, 2022
17631588 MULTI-VALENT AND MULTI-SPECIFIC NANOPARTICLE PLATFORMS AND METHODS HOPKINS, SAMANTHA LAKE 1641 Other Final Rejection 34d Pending Jan 31, 2022
17605175 DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC AGGLUTINATION ASSAYS JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO 1797 §103 Final Rejection 79d Pending Oct 20, 2021
16936490 COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, AND PLANT GENES FOR THE IMPROVED PRODUCTION OF FERMENTABLE SUGARS FOR BIOFUEL PRODUCTION STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA 1663 §112 Final Rejection 104d overdue Pending Jul 23, 2020

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