Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL - UFRGS

1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul (Ufrgs) has a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, TERRELL HOWARD MATTHEWS, and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific technical focus for the company's current pending application. The alignment of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly specialized filing strategy.

TERRELL HOWARD MATTHEWS is the busiest examiner for the company, managing the 1 pending office action currently active. With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's prosecution activity is highly concentrated. This allows for a singular focus on the feedback and requirements of the 1 distinct examiner involved. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner means that all current patent office feedback for the company originates from a single source.

The portfolio's current activity is limited to this 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests a specialized technical classification. The company's immediate prosecution goals are tied to the active office action under the review of 1 distinct examiner. This structure provides a direct and uncomplicated path for addressing patent office feedback within its primary technology area.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

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

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%)
1
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
100% 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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SANGHERA, JAS A 1 94.5% +5.0%

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
19052659 SET OF INDUCTOR COILS FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE MEASUREMENT OF DEFORMATION IN PAVEMENT STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME SANGHERA, JAS A —

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19052659 SET OF INDUCTOR COILS FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE MEASUREMENT OF DEFORMATION IN PAVEMENT STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME SANGHERA, JAS A — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 13, 2025

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