Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Trustees of Princeton University

30 pending office actions • 26 art units • 29 examiners • 0 of 30 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 47 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

30
Total Pending OAs
19
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 29 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

18
Overdue
1
Due this week
6
Due this month
3
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. 29 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (18)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 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.

1
Hard (3%)
25
Medium (83%)
2
Easy (7%)
2
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (3%)
§103 only23 (77%)
§102 only2 (7%)
§112 only1 (3%)
Double-patenting only1 (3%)
No statute on record2 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

24
Life Sciences
80% of docket
3
Information Tech
10% of docket
1
Communications
3% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
7% 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.

300 h
Manual time on pending OAs
60 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
105 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CONTRERAS, CIEL P 2 54.2% +33.6%
ROBINSON, MICHAEL 1 61.6% +21.3%
TSAY, MARSHA M 1 45.6% +52.3%
PALLAY, MICHAEL B 1 55.8% +34.8%
NGUYEN, CHUONG M 1 72.5% +19.8%
BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A 1 56.3% +16.3%
ALMANI, MOHSEN 1 50.1% +22.1%
SU-TOBON, QIWEN NMN 1
MA, MICHELLE HAU 1 74.1% +41.2%
HOBBS, MICHAEL L 1 68.6% +28.4%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18167711 Methods and Materials for Producing Polyols and Electron Rich Compounds SAIDHA, TEKCHAND 11d overdue

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18281710 TEXT MINING METHOD FOR TREND IDENTIFICATION AND RESEARCH CONNECTION ALMANI, MOHSEN 73d overdue
18037931 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PNEUMATIC-FREE ELECTRONICALLY DRIVEN MICROFLUIDICS TO ALLOW MASSIVE SCALABILITY WITH INTEGRATED CELLULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR DETECTION HOBBS, MICHAEL L 70d overdue
18771469 JET ASSISTED WET SPINNING OF PHOTOPOLYMERIZABLE MATERIAL ROBINSON, MICHAEL 31d overdue
18649154 METAL ENHANCED TRANSITION METAL OXIDE ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR REDUCTION OF CO2 CONTRERAS, CIEL P 16d overdue
18228068 VIRTUAL REALITY DISPLAY ADAPTERS MA, MICHELLE HAU 15d overdue
18684968 Capacity Monitor For Cross-Layer Cellular Protocol NGUYEN, CHUONG M 5d
18641369 DIHYDROMYRICETIN NANOEMULSION FORMULATIONS AND METHODS FOR FORMING THEM PALLAY, MICHAEL B 14d
17898420 MICROBIAL ELECTROCHEMICAL LIGNIN AND ALKALINE HYDROXIDE RECOVERY FROM DEACETYLATION AND MECHANICAL REFINING OF BLACK LIQUOR CONTRERAS, CIEL P 21d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1656 2
1794 2
1617 2
1626 2
1744 1
2411 1
1714 1
2159 1
1636 1
2617 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18771469 JET ASSISTED WET SPINNING OF PHOTOPOLYMERIZABLE MATERIAL ROBINSON, MICHAEL 1744 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2024
18707400 3D-PRINTING ENGINEERED LIVING MATERIALS TSAY, MARSHA M 1656 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending May 03, 2024
18649154 METAL ENHANCED TRANSITION METAL OXIDE ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR REDUCTION OF CO2 CONTRERAS, CIEL P 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2024
18641369 DIHYDROMYRICETIN NANOEMULSION FORMULATIONS AND METHODS FOR FORMING THEM PALLAY, MICHAEL B 1617 §112 Final Rejection 14d Pending Apr 20, 2024
18684968 Capacity Monitor For Cross-Layer Cellular Protocol NGUYEN, CHUONG M 2411 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Feb 20, 2024
18374765 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GROWING A LATTICE MATCHED, MULTILAYER, ORGANIC CRYSTAL HETEROSTRUCTURE BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A 1714 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18281710 TEXT MINING METHOD FOR TREND IDENTIFICATION AND RESEARCH CONNECTION ALMANI, MOHSEN 2159 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2023
17928028 MODULAR PLATFORM FOR PROGRAMMABLE SPATIOTEMPORAL BIOMOLECULE CLUSTERING WITH APPLICATIONS INCLUDING ENHANCED METABOLIC YIELD SU-TOBON, QIWEN NMN 1636 DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 10, 2023
18228068 VIRTUAL REALITY DISPLAY ADAPTERS MA, MICHELLE HAU 2617 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18037931 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PNEUMATIC-FREE ELECTRONICALLY DRIVEN MICROFLUIDICS TO ALLOW MASSIVE SCALABILITY WITH INTEGRATED CELLULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR DETECTION HOBBS, MICHAEL L 1799 §103 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending May 19, 2023
18143556 PEROVSKITES FOR REDUCTION-RE-OXIDATION THERMOCHEMICAL WATER AND CARBON DIOXIDE SPLITTING CORALLO, CATRIONA MARY 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending May 04, 2023
18031405 UV-ABSORBING TRANSPARENT PEROVSKITE MOWLA, GOLAM 1721 §102 Final Rejection 42d Pending Apr 12, 2023
18124252 SYNTHETIC PEPTIDES FOR DISSOLVING TAU INCLUSIONS KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 1658 §103 Final Rejection 92d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023
18167711 Methods and Materials for Producing Polyols and Electron Rich Compounds SAIDHA, TEKCHAND 1652 §101 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2023
18013610 UV-ABSORBING DONOR SPECIES FOR HIGH VISIBLE TRANSMITTANCE PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES GOLDEN, ANDREW J 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 29, 2022
18072800 CRYPTIC METABOLITES AND METHOD FOR ACTIVATING SILENT BIOSYNTHETIC GENE CLUSTERS IN DIVERSE MICROORGANISMS CHOWDHURY, IQBAL HOSSAIN 1656 §103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2022
17917598 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AEROSOL PARTICLE PRODUCTION OF SUBMICRON AND NANO STRUCTURED MATERIALS PHILIPS, BRADLEY H 3799 Other Non-Final OA 88d overdue Pending Oct 07, 2022
17905875 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MODULATING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN SS18-SSX FUSION ONCOPROTEIN AND NUCLEOSOMES CLARKE, TRENT R 1651 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Sep 08, 2022
17898420 MICROBIAL ELECTROCHEMICAL LIGNIN AND ALKALINE HYDROXIDE RECOVERY FROM DEACETYLATION AND MECHANICAL REFINING OF BLACK LIQUOR CONTRERAS, CIEL P 1794 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Aug 29, 2022
17802823 INTERCELLULAR AND INTRACELLULAR PROXIMITY-BASED LABELING COMPOSITIONS AND SYSTEMS STOCKTON, LAURA LYNNE 1626 §102 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Aug 26, 2022
17758847 Inhibitors of Glucose-6-phosphate Dehydrogenase and Uses Thereof ANDERSON, REBECCA L 1626 §103 Non-Final OA 107d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2022
17745322 SHARED COLUMN ADCS FOR IN-MEMORY-COMPUTING MACROS VILLANUEVA, MARKUS ANTHONY 2151 §103 Non-Final OA 107d overdue Pending May 16, 2022
17696069 VARIATION POLYGENIC INDEX/SCORE AUGER, NOAH ANDREW 1687 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2022
17607245 Patterned Hydrogel Devices and Methods for Neural Regeneration MCEVOY, THOMAS M 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2021
17502665 Dietary Supplements and Composition for Treating Cancer LEE, HOI YAN NMN 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Oct 15, 2021
17432145 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIGHT-REGULATED OLIGOMERIZATION AND PHASE SEPARATION OF FOLDED DOMAINS AND RNA GRANULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN DOMAINS FOR DRUG- BASED SCREENING APPLICATIONS SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN 1635 Other Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Aug 19, 2021
17233078 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZED SAMPLE ANALYSIS KESSEL, MARIS R 1758 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Apr 16, 2021
17277518 HIGH THROUGHPUT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAPPING INTRACELLULAR PHASE DIAGRAMS SABOUR, GHAZAL 1686 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Mar 18, 2021
17044195 Compositions Comprising Immune System Activators and Method of Using Same TRAN, CHRISTINA L 1637 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2020
16768009 ADHESION LAYER BONDED TO AN ACTIVATED SURFACE HAGOPIAN, CASEY SHEA 1617 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending May 28, 2020

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