Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

The University of Chicago

45 pending office actions • 32 art units • 43 examiners • 0 of 45 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 47 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

45
Total Pending OAs
29
Non-Final OAs
14
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

23
Hard (51%)
19
Medium (42%)
3
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other6 (13%)
§103 only13 (29%)
§102 only3 (7%)
§112 only3 (7%)
Double-patenting + other3 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)17 (38%)

Industry Mix

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

30
Life Sciences
67% of docket
2
Information Tech
4% of docket
1
Communications
2% of docket
1
Semiconductors
2% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
11% of docket
6
Business / Other
13% 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.

450 h
Manual time on pending OAs
90 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
158 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BLEVINS, JERRY M 2 87.5% +4.9%
HINES, JANA A 2 53.0% +39.6%
SITTA, GRANT 1 72.2% +13.7%
HADDAD, MAHER M 1 50.5% +53.9%
RACHEDINE, MOHAMMED 1 86.9% +11.4%
EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN 1 100.0% +0.0%
MILO, MICHAEL 1 50.0% +54.9%
JACKSON-TONGUE, LAKIA J 1 68.8% +20.8%
CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA 1 53.4% +17.5%
PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE 1 24.1% +13.9%

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
18852333 OPTICAL CAVITY WITH ONE OR MORE INTRACAVITY LENSES, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN

Hard Cases (23)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17765176 LAMELLAR IRON SULFIDES WITH EMBEDDED CATIONS FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN 73d overdue
17987649 Mechanism and Methods for Quantifying the Tactile Acuity of the Human Breast MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN 19d overdue
18019972 Pharmaceuticals for Treating or Preventing Nidoviruses and Picornaviruses RAO, SAVITHA M 18d overdue
17597793 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS COMPRISING PROTEASE-ACTIVATED THERAPEUTIC AGENTS PETERS, ALEC JON 16d
18578190 MULTI-FUNCTION CATHETER AND METHODS FOR DIAGNOSIS AND/OR TREATMENT OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLIC DISEASE NGUYEN, ANDREW H 49d
18291887 CONTINUOUS MONITORING WITH NANO-DIAMOND HYDROGEL IN MICRONEEDLES PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE 83d
18971607 LOW-DOSE TOCILIZUMAB FOR THE TREATMENT OR PREVENTION OF SICKLE CELL CRISIS HADDAD, MAHER M
18900073 INDIVIDUALIZED GENERATIVE MODELS FOR IMAGE GENERATION AND MANIPULATION RACHEDINE, MOHAMMED

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18425731 PROBIOTICS TO RESCUE MATERNAL IMMUNE ACTIVATION-INDUCED NEURODEVELOPMENT DEFICITS HINES, JANA A 119d overdue
19060948 Lip-based user interface system SITTA, GRANT 56d overdue
18847129 TRANSRADIAL APPROACH/ANGIOGRAPHY BOARD MILO, MICHAEL 17d overdue
18291887 CONTINUOUS MONITORING WITH NANO-DIAMOND HYDROGEL IN MICRONEEDLES PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE 83d
18971607 LOW-DOSE TOCILIZUMAB FOR THE TREATMENT OR PREVENTION OF SICKLE CELL CRISIS HADDAD, MAHER M
18900073 INDIVIDUALIZED GENERATIVE MODELS FOR IMAGE GENERATION AND MANIPULATION RACHEDINE, MOHAMMED
18708530 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PKC-DELTA INHIBITION AND CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY JACKSON-TONGUE, LAKIA J
18694220 UNIVERSAL HAIRPIN PRIMER SYSTEM FOR QUANTIFICATION OF MICRORNA CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1645 3
1641 3
3791 2
1651 2
1643 2
2622 1
3786 1
2897 1
3741 1
1629 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19060948 Lip-based user interface system SITTA, GRANT 2622 §103 Final Rejection 56d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2025
18971607 LOW-DOSE TOCILIZUMAB FOR THE TREATMENT OR PREVENTION OF SICKLE CELL CRISIS HADDAD, MAHER M §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2024
18900073 INDIVIDUALIZED GENERATIVE MODELS FOR IMAGE GENERATION AND MANIPULATION RACHEDINE, MOHAMMED §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2024
18852333 OPTICAL CAVITY WITH ONE OR MORE INTRACAVITY LENSES, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS EINHORN, MICA JILLIAN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2024
18847129 TRANSRADIAL APPROACH/ANGIOGRAPHY BOARD MILO, MICHAEL 3786 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2024
18799797 WAFER-SCALE WAVEGUIDES FOR INTEGRATED TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONICS BLEVINS, JERRY M §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 09, 2024
18798493 WAFER-SCALE WAVEGUIDES FOR INTEGRATED TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONICS BLEVINS, JERRY M §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2024
18708530 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PKC-DELTA INHIBITION AND CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY JACKSON-TONGUE, LAKIA J 1645 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 08, 2024
18694220 UNIVERSAL HAIRPIN PRIMER SYSTEM FOR QUANTIFICATION OF MICRORNA CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA §102 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 21, 2024
18425731 PROBIOTICS TO RESCUE MATERNAL IMMUNE ACTIVATION-INDUCED NEURODEVELOPMENT DEFICITS HINES, JANA A 1645 §102 Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending Jan 29, 2024
18291887 CONTINUOUS MONITORING WITH NANO-DIAMOND HYDROGEL IN MICRONEEDLES PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE 3791 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Jan 24, 2024
18416403 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME MANN, WILLIAM ROBERT 2897 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 18, 2024
18578190 MULTI-FUNCTION CATHETER AND METHODS FOR DIAGNOSIS AND/OR TREATMENT OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLIC DISEASE NGUYEN, ANDREW H 3741 §103§112 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Jan 10, 2024
18558527 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TARGETING OF ANTIGENS AND OTHER POLYPEPTIDES TO FIRST RESPONDER DENDRITIC CELLS CESARE, JOSEPH DAVID 1641 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 01, 2023
18556006 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING DISORDERS WITH ORAL SYSTEMICALLY BIOAVAILABLE BUTYRATE CONJUGATES NEAGU, IRINA 1629 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 18, 2023
18448454 METHODS FOR DETERMINING RISK OF MORTALITY FROM COVID-19 ARIANI, KADE 1651 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 11, 2023
18274444 FUNCTIONALIZED NANOPARTICLES FOR THE CONTAINMENT AND CLEARANCE OF PATHOGENS CHANDRA, GYAN 1674 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 26, 2023
18206235 METHODS FOR FABRICATING GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS HENDRICKSON, STUART L 1736 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 06, 2023
18329289 ALL-TRANS RETINOIC ACID ENHANCES RADIOTHERAPY AND OVERCOMES IMMUNE SUPPRESSION FOR CANCER THERAPY SIMMONS, CHRIS E 1622 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 05, 2023
18254301 POROUS AND MONOLITHIC CARBON MEMBRANES AND THEIR USE HUANG, RYAN 1777 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending May 24, 2023
18035678 HAIRPIN OLIGONUCLEOTIDES AND USES THEREOF BUNKER, AMY M 1684 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 05, 2023
18191495 SLIDE-LEVEL UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION FOR DEEP LEARNING PREDICTIONS IN DIGITAL HISTOPATHOLOGY AUGER, NOAH ANDREW 2122 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2023
18042958 Nucleic Acid-Derivatized Therapeutics VAN DRUFF, SYDNEY 1643 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Feb 24, 2023
18022004 MODIFIED SERINE PROTEASE PROPROTEINS ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS 1651 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Feb 17, 2023
18019972 Pharmaceuticals for Treating or Preventing Nidoviruses and Picornaviruses RAO, SAVITHA M 1691 §102§112 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Feb 06, 2023
18006482 Inhibitors of the Artemin Pathway for Treatment of Cancer WEBB, WALTER E 1612 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Jan 23, 2023
18156254 Classical Algorithm for Generating Multi-Mode Bosonic Transition Spectra by Phase Space Sampling FUELLING, MICHAEL 2199 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 18, 2023
18067192 Methods of Using Multi-Tissue Organoids DAUNER, JOSEPH G 1682 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 16, 2022
17927168 METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS DELIVER SMALL MOLECULES AND BIOMACROMOLECULES FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY WORSHAM, JESSICA N 1615 §102§103DP Final Rejection Pending Nov 22, 2022
17987649 Mechanism and Methods for Quantifying the Tactile Acuity of the Human Breast MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN 3791 §103§112 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2022
18052449 PRODRUG COPOLYMERS AND POLYMERIC MICELLES THEREOF FOR THE DELIVERY OF SHORT-CHAIN FATTY ACIDS, THE PROMOTION OF GUT HEALTH, AND THE TREATMENT OF IMMUNE AND/OR INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS AND FOOD ALLERGY PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT 1627 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 03, 2022
17995225 TOCILIZUMAB FOR THE TREATMENT OF VIRAL INFECTIONS NICKOL, GARY B 1643 §102 Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17754797 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING MODIFIED FAB SCAFFOLDS AND PROTEIN G FAB BINDING DOMAINS YU, MISOOK 1641 DPOther Final Rejection Pending Apr 12, 2022
17765176 LAMELLAR IRON SULFIDES WITH EMBEDDED CATIONS FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN 1752 §102§103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2022
17763445 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING SICKLE CELL DISEASE AND THALASSEMIA MAHLUM, JONATHAN DAVIS 1625 §103 Non-Final OA 88d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2022
17763089 METHOD OF CREATING ZERO-BURDEN DIGITAL BIOMARKERS FOR AUTISM, AND EXPLOITING CO-MORBIDITY PATTERNS TO DRIVE EARLY INTERVENTION SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA 1687 §101§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 23, 2022
17597793 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS COMPRISING PROTEASE-ACTIVATED THERAPEUTIC AGENTS PETERS, ALEC JON 1641 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jan 24, 2022
17596118 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING CANCER WITH COLLAGEN BINDING DRUG CARRIERS ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF 1646 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Dec 03, 2021
17595477 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS RELATED TO TETHERED KETHOXAL DERIVATIVES OTTON, ALICIA L 1699 §102§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 17, 2021
17517084 TREATMENT OF CANCER BY MANIPULATION OF COMMENSAL MICROFLORA HINES, JANA A 1645 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 02, 2021
17426583 Bionic Breast SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 3796 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 28, 2021
17309936 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODULATING RNA RAVINDRA, KRISHNA NUGGEHALLI 1636 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 01, 2021
17311448 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS RELATED TO SITE-SPECIFIC IDENTIFICATION OF RNA MODIFICATIONS VALLE, ERNESTO 1623 §103 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Jun 07, 2021
17337610 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING AN NFKB INHIBITOR AND AN ADJUVANT BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE 1619 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 03, 2021
18236022 BIOMARKERS OF RISK FOR INFECTION GREENE, CAROLYN LEE 1681 §112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Aug 21, 2023

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