Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA

6 pending office actions • 4 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. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

4
Hard (67%)
2
Medium (33%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§102 only1 (17%)
Double-patenting + other1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (67%)

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
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
33% 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
BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER 1 60.5% +32.3%
EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD 1 42.8% +32.6%
SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J 1 80.3% +28.2%
HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH 1 49.4% +63.9%
KWAK, DEAN P 1 58.8% +37.2%
LI, AIQUN 1 64.0% +22.3%

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18255458 SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD KWAK, DEAN P 16d
18880121 METHOD TO OBTAIN A SKIN ELECTRODE PATCH AND RESPECTIVE SKIN ELECTRODE PATCH BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER
18869875 BIDIRECTIONAL FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND RESPECTIVE METHOD EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD
18765079 Physical Layer Security SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J

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
18026275 WATER-SOLUBLE TRYPTHANTRIN DERIVATIVES FOR REDOX FLOW BATTERIES LI, AIQUN 56d overdue
18255458 SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD KWAK, DEAN P 16d
18880121 METHOD TO OBTAIN A SKIN ELECTRODE PATCH AND RESPECTIVE SKIN ELECTRODE PATCH BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER
18869875 BIDIRECTIONAL FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND RESPECTIVE METHOD EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD
18765079 Physical Layer Security SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J
18690528 POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLE FORMULATIONS FOR TARGETED MRNA DELIVERY HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2493 1
1611 1
1798 1
1766 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18880121 METHOD TO OBTAIN A SKIN ELECTRODE PATCH AND RESPECTIVE SKIN ELECTRODE PATCH BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 30, 2024
18869875 BIDIRECTIONAL FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND RESPECTIVE METHOD EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 27, 2024
18765079 Physical Layer Security SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J 2493 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 05, 2024
18690528 POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLE FORMULATIONS FOR TARGETED MRNA DELIVERY HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH 1611 §102§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 08, 2024
18255458 SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD KWAK, DEAN P 1798 §102§112Other Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jun 01, 2023
18026275 WATER-SOLUBLE TRYPTHANTRIN DERIVATIVES FOR REDOX FLOW BATTERIES LI, AIQUN 1766 §102 Final Rejection 56d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2023

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