Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The University of Tokyo

52 pending office actions • 45 art units • 49 examiners • 0 of 52 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 66 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

52
Total Pending OAs
24
Non-Final OAs
25
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 51 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

33
Overdue
2
Due this week
10
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 51 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (33)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (10)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (4)

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 (2%)
42
Medium (81%)
4
Easy (8%)
5
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (2%)
§103 only38 (73%)
§102 only4 (8%)
§112 only4 (8%)
No statute on record5 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

28
Life Sciences
54% of docket
5
Information Tech
10% of docket
5
Communications
10% of docket
5
Semiconductors
10% of docket
9
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.

520 h
Manual time on pending OAs
104 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
182 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZARA, JANE J 2 70.8% +15.9%
SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 2 65.5% +23.4%
MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY 2 64.1% +34.4%
ALIZADA, OMEED 1 77.5% +32.9%
VETERE, ROBERT A 1 60.8% +13.3%
GOLDEN, ANDREW J 1 42.1% +39.0%
FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE 1 88.6% -3.6%
BEG, SAMAH A 1 78.7% +29.6%
STEELE, JENNIFER A 1 48.4% +33.5%
KOPEC, MARK T 1 84.5% +12.7%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18686985 COMPOUND, COMPOSITION, ELECTROCONDUCTIVE AID, ELECTRODE, AND LAMINATE KOPEC, MARK T 273d overdue
18737094 CHARGING DEVICE FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE 4d overdue

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
18557135 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE BARKER, MATTHEW M 61d

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18686985 COMPOUND, COMPOSITION, ELECTROCONDUCTIVE AID, ELECTRODE, AND LAMINATE KOPEC, MARK T 273d overdue
18271833 METHOD FOR DESIGNING MIRROR AND ASTIGMATISM CONTROL MIRROR HAVING REFLECTING SURFACE SATISFYING DESIGN FORMULA IN SAID DESIGNING METHOD SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 112d overdue
18008903 RNA MOLECULE, CHIMERIC NA MOLECULE, DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA MOLECULE, AND DOUBLE-STRANDED CHIMERIC NA MOLECULE ZARA, JANE J 49d overdue
18688528 THIN FILM STEELE, JENNIFER A 36d overdue
17436251 ELECTRONIC FUNCTIONAL MEMBER, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND BIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT SENSOR MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY 22d overdue
18234690 RNA-TRIGGERED PROTEIN CLEAVAGE AND APPLICATIONS BY THE CRISPR CAS7-11-CSX29 COMPLEX ZARA, JANE J 9d overdue
17995835 ELECTRIC SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND ELECTRIC SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE OPERATION METHOD MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY 9d
18995421 SYSTEM INCLUDING WORK MACHINE, CONTROL METHOD, AND WORK MACHINE ALIZADA, OMEED 12d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1637 3
3646 2
2872 2
3794 2
1633 2
1786 2
2686 1
1712 1
1726 1
2838 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18995421 SYSTEM INCLUDING WORK MACHINE, CONTROL METHOD, AND WORK MACHINE ALIZADA, OMEED 2686 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jan 16, 2025
18817465 METHOD FOR COVERING FIBER BODY VETERE, ROBERT A 1712 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Aug 28, 2024
18719749 PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT GOLDEN, ANDREW J 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jun 13, 2024
18737094 CHARGING DEVICE FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2024
18680333 ESTIMATION APPARATUS, ESTIMATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY MEDIUM STORING ESTIMATION PROGRAM BEG, SAMAH A 2676 §112 Non-Final OA 76d Pending May 31, 2024
18688528 THIN FILM STEELE, JENNIFER A 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2024
18686985 COMPOUND, COMPOSITION, ELECTROCONDUCTIVE AID, ELECTRODE, AND LAMINATE KOPEC, MARK T 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 273d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2024
18683786 SPEECH SYNTHESIS APPARATUS, SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI 2656 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2024
18566933 VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M 3665 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2023
18562285 IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM EVALUATING APPARATUS VANCHY JR, MICHAEL J 2666 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Nov 17, 2023
18290051 NANOSTRUCTURE OR MICROSTRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME AZPURU, CARLOS A 1617 Other Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2023
18557135 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE BARKER, MATTHEW M 3646 §101 Final Rejection 61d Pending Oct 25, 2023
18283027 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM PAN, YUHUI R 2116 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2023
18280420 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM MCGRATH, ERIN E 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Sep 05, 2023
18234690 RNA-TRIGGERED PROTEIN CLEAVAGE AND APPLICATIONS BY THE CRISPR CAS7-11-CSX29 COMPLEX ZARA, JANE J 1637 §112 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2023
18274689 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD HWANG, JINSU 2667 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2023
18272978 METHOD FOR EDITING PLANT GENOME STOCKDALE, JESSICA NICOLE 1663 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2023
18271833 METHOD FOR DESIGNING MIRROR AND ASTIGMATISM CONTROL MIRROR HAVING REFLECTING SURFACE SATISFYING DESIGN FORMULA IN SAID DESIGNING METHOD SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 2872 §102 Final Rejection 112d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2023
18271838 METHOD FOR DESIGNING MIRROR AND ASTIGMATISM CONTROL MIRROR HAVING REFLECTING SURFACE SATISFYING DESIGN FORMULA IN SAID DESIGNING METHOD SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 2872 §112 Final Rejection Pending Jul 11, 2023
18215025 REFRIGERATION CYCLE APPARATUS ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R 3799 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Jun 27, 2023
18257101 ESTIMATION DEVICE, ESTIMATION METHOD, ESTIMATION PROGRAM, AND LEARNING MODEL GENERATION DEVICE YI, HYUNGJUN B 2146 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2023
18322675 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPOSITIONS FOR RNA-GUIDED RNA-TARGETING CRISPR EFFECTORS GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE 1637 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending May 24, 2023
18042955 HUMAN ANTIBODY OR ANTIGEN-BINDING FRAGMENT THEREOF AGAINST CORONAVIRUS SPIKE PROTEIN BARRERA, IMMACULADA 1671 §112 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
18022593 Modulatory Substance of Tumor Immune Microenvironment, and Preventive, Diagnostic and/or Therapeutic Utilization of the Same GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 Other Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2023
18022097 QUANTUM CIRCUIT GENERATION DEVICE, QUANTUM CIRCUIT GENERATION METHOD, AND QUANTUM CIRCUIT GENERATION PROGRAM GARBOWSKI, LEIGH M 2851 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Feb 17, 2023
18017583 COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING ADHESION BECKHARDT, LYNDSEY MARIE 1613 Other Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Jan 23, 2023
18015263 ADSORBENT AND GRANULATED SUBSTANCE CHU, YONG LIANG 1731 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Jan 09, 2023
17793815 NOVEL ADSORBENT PEO, KARA M 1777 §102 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2023
18002239 NOVEL TRANSGLUTAMINASE ROBINSON, HOPE A 1652 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Dec 16, 2022
18008903 RNA MOLECULE, CHIMERIC NA MOLECULE, DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA MOLECULE, AND DOUBLE-STRANDED CHIMERIC NA MOLECULE ZARA, JANE J 1637 Other Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2022
18060606 POSITION INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND POSITION INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS NGUYEN, CHUONG P 3646 §103 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2022
17925662 Agent for Increasing Content of IgA Antibody in Milk KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Nov 16, 2022
17925455 Methods and Compositions for Treatment of Age-Related Dysfunction DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R 1654 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Nov 15, 2022
17995835 ELECTRIC SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND ELECTRIC SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE OPERATION METHOD MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY 3794 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Oct 07, 2022
17793807 NOVEL ADSORBENT RAMDHANIE, BOBBY 1779 §103 Final Rejection 74d overdue Pending Aug 31, 2022
17787161 3D TISSUE COMPOSITE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING 3D TISSUE COMPOSITE VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN 1633 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending Aug 10, 2022
17760245 CYTOTOXIC T CELLS DERIVED FROM HUMAN T CELL-DERIVED IPS CELLS WESTON, ALYSSA G 1633 §102 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Aug 05, 2022
17786559 ESTIMATION DEVICE, ESTIMATION METHOD, PROGRAM AND LEARNED MODEL GENERATION DEVICE DEVORE, CHRISTOPHER DILLON 2129 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jun 17, 2022
17784045 INDUCTION OF PROLIFEROUS PANCREATIC ISLET PRECURSOR CELL-LIKE CELLS BY TRANSIENT EXPRESSION OF MYCL AND INDUCTION OF DIFFERENTIATION INTO INSULIN-POSITIVE CELLS SHIN, DANA H 1635 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2022
17824648 METHOD OF FORMING CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE AND CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE THOMPSON, CAMIE S 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 25, 2022
17776404 LIBRARY OF BARCODED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE 1684 §102 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending May 12, 2022
17436251 ELECTRONIC FUNCTIONAL MEMBER, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND BIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT SENSOR MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY 3794 §103 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2022
17605287 THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE SUN, MICHAEL Y 1728 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Jan 12, 2022
17623952 SLEEP-WAKEFULNESS DETERMINATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM ROBERTS, ANNA L 3791 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Dec 30, 2021
17595731 SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM, LEARNING PROCESSING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM VAUGHN, RYAN C 2125 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Nov 23, 2021
17430115 SPINTRONICS ELEMENT AND MAGNETIC MEMORY DEVICE PUNCHBEDDELL, SEYON ALI-SIMAH 2893 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Nov 05, 2021
17600931 DUAL ANTIGEN-RECOGNIZING iPS CELL-DERIVED CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR-T-CELL THERAPY LANKFORD JR, LEON B 1657 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Oct 01, 2021
17440068 NEURAL NETWORK DEVICE, NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM, PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM BASOM, BLAINE T 2141 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Sep 16, 2021
17433232 ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR SINGLE CRYSTAL FILM, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WATSON, BRAELYN 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Aug 23, 2021
17407013 SPECIFICALLY-SHAPED CRYSTAL OF COMPOUND AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA 1687 Other Non-Final OA 6d Pending Aug 19, 2021
17418419 METHOD FOR ASSESSING DEPENDENCE OF LASER MACHINING ON LASER LIGHT INTENSITY, AND LASER MACHINING DEVICE WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J 3761 §103 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Jun 25, 2021
16966263 ANALGESIC AGENT AND SEDATIVE AGENT RAO, PADMAJA S 1627 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Apr 06, 2021

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