Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (60%)
§102 only2 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
1
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ALSHACK, OSMAN M 1 86.2% +14.5%
LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN 1 57.4% +56.8%
IVANOVA, SVETLANA M 1 50.5% +51.9%
WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL 1 57.4% +48.8%
PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA 1 52.3% +9.5%

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
18863823 QUASI-CYCLIC LDPC CODES BASED ON GENERALISED QUADRANGLES ALSHACK, OSMAN M 25d overdue

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18330418 DEVICE, A METHOD, AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, FOR DETECTING AIRBORNE PARTICULATE MATTER IN AEROSOLS LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN 26d overdue
18863823 QUASI-CYCLIC LDPC CODES BASED ON GENERALISED QUADRANGLES ALSHACK, OSMAN M 25d overdue
18009043 MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF METABOLITES AND/OR PROPERTIES OF BIOFLUIDS WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL 69d
18038309 Combined Therapy Against Cancer IVANOVA, SVETLANA M 75d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2112 1
1796 1
1626 1
1758 1
1733 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18863823 QUASI-CYCLIC LDPC CODES BASED ON GENERALISED QUADRANGLES ALSHACK, OSMAN M 2112 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2024
18330418 DEVICE, A METHOD, AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, FOR DETECTING AIRBORNE PARTICULATE MATTER IN AEROSOLS LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN 1796 §102 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2023
18038309 Combined Therapy Against Cancer IVANOVA, SVETLANA M 1626 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending May 23, 2023
18009043 MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF METABOLITES AND/OR PROPERTIES OF BIOFLUIDS WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Dec 08, 2022
17620447 ATOMIZATION DEVICE PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA 1733 §102 Non-Final OA 96d overdue Pending Dec 17, 2021

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