Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The UAB Research Foundation

8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)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.

1
Hard (12%)
5
Medium (62%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (12%)
§103 only5 (62%)
No statute on record2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
62% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LUK, EMMANUEL S 1 71.3% +26.3%
MATTHEWS, WILLIAM H 1 66.6% +21.5%
O'NEILL, MARISOL ANN 1 52.2% +64.7%
WILBURN, MOLLY K 1 90.1% +8.7%
SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 1 31.7% +40.3%
ALLEN, SARAH ELIZABETH 1 61.9% +44.4%
GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE 1 58.8% +45.3%
PARK, HAEJIN S 1 55.3% +37.9%

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
18345326 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CO-REGISTERING IMAGERY OF DIFFERENT MODALITIES WILBURN, MOLLY K 15d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17765926 MULTI-LAYERED NANOPARTICLE COATED SUBSTRATES FOR DRUG DELIVERY PARK, HAEJIN S 162d overdue
18351561 THREE-DIMENSIONAL CULTURE SYSTEM FOR GENERATING CARDIAC SPHEROIDS O'NEILL, MARISOL ANN 67d overdue
18337705 SELECTIVE STIMULATION OF GROUPS OF NEURAL ELEMENTS WITHIN A REGION OF THE BRAIN SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 60d overdue
18295387 CRISPR/CAS9 COMPLEX FOR GENOMIC EDITING GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE 51d overdue
18906524 ALTERNATING FIELD ELECTRODE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FIBER GENERATION LUK, EMMANUEL S 31d overdue
18315677 PRE-CLINICAL MODIFIED RNA APPROACHES USED IN LARGE ANIMALS FOR MUSCLE AND VASCULAR REGENERATION ALLEN, SARAH ELIZABETH 16d overdue
18726587 FLEXICOAT BLOOD-INTERFACE MATERIALS FOR BIO-COMPATABLE IMPLANTS AND DEVICES MATTHEWS, WILLIAM H 50d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1637 2
1744 1
3774 1
1633 1
2666 1
3796 1
1614 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18906524 ALTERNATING FIELD ELECTRODE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FIBER GENERATION LUK, EMMANUEL S 1744 Other Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Oct 04, 2024
18726587 FLEXICOAT BLOOD-INTERFACE MATERIALS FOR BIO-COMPATABLE IMPLANTS AND DEVICES MATTHEWS, WILLIAM H 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 50d Pending Jul 03, 2024
18351561 THREE-DIMENSIONAL CULTURE SYSTEM FOR GENERATING CARDIAC SPHEROIDS O'NEILL, MARISOL ANN 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
18345326 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CO-REGISTERING IMAGERY OF DIFFERENT MODALITIES WILBURN, MOLLY K 2666 §101 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18337705 SELECTIVE STIMULATION OF GROUPS OF NEURAL ELEMENTS WITHIN A REGION OF THE BRAIN SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2023
18315677 PRE-CLINICAL MODIFIED RNA APPROACHES USED IN LARGE ANIMALS FOR MUSCLE AND VASCULAR REGENERATION ALLEN, SARAH ELIZABETH 1637 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
18295387 CRISPR/CAS9 COMPLEX FOR GENOMIC EDITING GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE 1637 Other Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2023
17765926 MULTI-LAYERED NANOPARTICLE COATED SUBSTRATES FOR DRUG DELIVERY PARK, HAEJIN S 1614 §103 Final Rejection 162d overdue Pending Apr 01, 2022

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