Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning/mcgill University

11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 30 days (3)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.

5
Hard (45%)
5
Medium (45%)
1
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (9%)
§103 only4 (36%)
§112 only1 (9%)
Double-patenting + other1 (9%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (36%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
64% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
18% of docket
2
Business / Other
18% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V 1 55.3% +22.4%
LIN, KO-WEI 1 75.8% +20.4%
DWIVEDI, MAHESH H 1 69.6% +4.3%
JEONG, YOUNGSUL 1 71.6% +21.2%
GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE 1 58.8% +46.8%
SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN 1 61.1% +47.4%
HUI, SAN MING R 1 59.3% +20.0%
HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN 1 55.7% +39.6%
THUESON, HANNA MARIE 1 77.3% +26.5%
OGUNTADE, ELIZABETH BISOLA 1 0.0% +0.0%

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17730337 AUTOMATED FLUIDIC ASSAY BASED ON MOLECULARLY IMPRINTED POLYMER FOR DETECTION OF ANTIBODIES AND PROTEINS IN BODY FLUIDS OGUNTADE, ELIZABETH BISOLA 16d
18085700 VENTRAL STRIATUM ACTIVITY HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN 72d
18685334 METHOD OF PRODUCING GARNET-TYPE SOLID ELECTROLYTES NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V
18294356 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING ACTIONS FROM A SET OF ACTIONS TO BE PERFORMED IN AN ENVIRONMENT AFFECTED BY DELAYS DWIVEDI, MAHESH H
17581320 LOW PRESSURE CARBONATION CURING OF CONCRETE ELEMENTS AND PRODUCTS IN AN EXPANDABLE ENCLOSURE ABU ALI, SHUANGYI

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
18102296 ADMINISTRATION OF MODULATORS OF 5-HT AND / OR AMPA RECEPTORS FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS HUI, SAN MING R 21d
18054292 POROUS DOUBLE-NETWORK HYDROGEL THUESON, HANNA MARIE 22d
18085700 VENTRAL STRIATUM ACTIVITY HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN 72d
18685334 METHOD OF PRODUCING GARNET-TYPE SOLID ELECTROLYTES NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V
18683611 SYSTEM FOR SELF-SUSTAINING COMBUSTION OF IRON PARTICLES AND METHOD THEREOF LIN, KO-WEI
18264668 FIBER-BASED MATERIALS FOR WATER TREATMENT JEONG, YOUNGSUL
18344507 OLIGONUCLEOTIDES CONTAINING 2'-DEOXY-2'FLUORO-BETA-D-ARABINOSE NUCLEIC ACID (2'-FANA) FOR TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF RETROVIRAL DISEASES GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE
18255682 THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF TYPE 1 INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR (IGF-1) RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3762 1
1772 1
1637 1
1642 1
1627 1
3791 1
1600 1
1677 1
1731 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18685334 METHOD OF PRODUCING GARNET-TYPE SOLID ELECTROLYTES NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 21, 2024
18683611 SYSTEM FOR SELF-SUSTAINING COMBUSTION OF IRON PARTICLES AND METHOD THEREOF LIN, KO-WEI 3762 §112 Final Rejection Pending Feb 14, 2024
18294356 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING ACTIONS FROM A SET OF ACTIONS TO BE PERFORMED IN AN ENVIRONMENT AFFECTED BY DELAYS DWIVEDI, MAHESH H §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 01, 2024
18264668 FIBER-BASED MATERIALS FOR WATER TREATMENT JEONG, YOUNGSUL 1772 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 08, 2023
18344507 OLIGONUCLEOTIDES CONTAINING 2'-DEOXY-2'FLUORO-BETA-D-ARABINOSE NUCLEIC ACID (2'-FANA) FOR TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF RETROVIRAL DISEASES GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE 1637 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 29, 2023
18255682 THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF TYPE 1 INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR (IGF-1) RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN 1642 §103§112DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Jun 02, 2023
18102296 ADMINISTRATION OF MODULATORS OF 5-HT AND / OR AMPA RECEPTORS FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS HUI, SAN MING R 1627 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Jan 27, 2023
18085700 VENTRAL STRIATUM ACTIVITY HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN 3791 §102§112 Final Rejection 72d Pending Dec 21, 2022
18054292 POROUS DOUBLE-NETWORK HYDROGEL THUESON, HANNA MARIE 1600 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 10, 2022
17730337 AUTOMATED FLUIDIC ASSAY BASED ON MOLECULARLY IMPRINTED POLYMER FOR DETECTION OF ANTIBODIES AND PROTEINS IN BODY FLUIDS OGUNTADE, ELIZABETH BISOLA 1677 §103§112 Final Rejection 16d Pending Apr 27, 2022
17581320 LOW PRESSURE CARBONATION CURING OF CONCRETE ELEMENTS AND PRODUCTS IN AN EXPANDABLE ENCLOSURE ABU ALI, SHUANGYI 1731 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 21, 2022

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