Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The University of Nottingham

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
3
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
50% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HOPKINS, BRANDI N 1 85.5% +11.9%
FANG, MICHAEL YIMING 1 62.7% +41.1%
BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 1 59.2% +32.0%
JOHANSEN, JOHN E 1 76.7% +26.1%
VAN BUREN, LAUREN K 1 38.9% +57.3%
CHICKS, ASHLI ARIANA 1 64.1% +44.9%

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
18684535 Sample Property Determination HOPKINS, BRANDI N 28d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17045083 SOCE FACILITATORS FOR USE IN TREATING OR PREVENTING VIRAL INFECTIONS CHICKS, ASHLI ARIANA 100d overdue
17799910 MICROTOPOGRAPHIES AND USES THEREOF BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 22d
18684535 Sample Property Determination HOPKINS, BRANDI N 28d
17753926 MAGNETIC SHIELD JOHANSEN, JOHN E 33d
17440991 Enhanced Transfection VAN BUREN, LAUREN K 33d
18247313 MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY METHOD AND SYSTEM FANG, MICHAEL YIMING 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2855 1
3798 1
1799 1
2187 1
1638 1
1626 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18684535 Sample Property Determination HOPKINS, BRANDI N 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18247313 MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY METHOD AND SYSTEM FANG, MICHAEL YIMING 3798 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Mar 30, 2023
17799910 MICROTOPOGRAPHIES AND USES THEREOF BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 1799 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Aug 15, 2022
17753926 MAGNETIC SHIELD JOHANSEN, JOHN E 2187 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Mar 18, 2022
17440991 Enhanced Transfection VAN BUREN, LAUREN K 1638 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Sep 20, 2021
17045083 SOCE FACILITATORS FOR USE IN TREATING OR PREVENTING VIRAL INFECTIONS CHICKS, ASHLI ARIANA 1626 §103 Non-Final OA 100d overdue Pending Oct 02, 2020

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