Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES

10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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%)
8
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (70%)
§102 only1 (10%)
No statute on record2 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
40% of docket
1
Information Tech
10% of docket
2
Communications
20% of docket
1
Semiconductors
10% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DAVIS, DAVID DONALD 2 70.1% +9.9%
GILLESPIE, KAMRYN JORDAN 1 72.7% +50.0%
YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI 1 81.1% -2.9%
FADHEL, ALI Z 1 76.2% +9.1%
BARROW, AMANDA J 1 54.7% +19.0%
SHARMA, YASHITA 1 82.2% +26.2%
LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER 1 70.7% +10.0%
PORTILLO, JAIRO H 1 53.7% +30.8%
RAMIREZ, DELIA M 1 65.0% +56.5%

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
18560988 METHOD FOR PREPARING A MICROELECTRONIC COMPONENT COMPRISING A LAYER WITH A BASIS OF A III-V MATERIAL YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI 51d overdue
18246166 IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE FOR BONE REPAIR SHARMA, YASHITA 28d overdue

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
16771794 USE OF A COMBINATION OF TET EXOPROTEASES OBTAINED FROM EXTREMOPHILIC MICROORGANISMS FOR HYDROLYZING POLYPEPTIDES RAMIREZ, DELIA M 50d overdue
18246166 IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE FOR BONE REPAIR SHARMA, YASHITA 28d overdue
18534970 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING RISKS OF CYBERATTACKS GILLESPIE, KAMRYN JORDAN 23d overdue
17776842 ENERGY PRODUCTION AND/OR STORAGE DEVICE COMPRISING A RESERVOIR LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER 16d overdue
18255919 BIOFUNCTIONAL ELECTRODE FOR STORING AND RELEASING COMPOUNDS BY SLOW DIFFUSION BARROW, AMANDA J 8d overdue
17441540 INDUCTIVE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY VEST FOR A SMALL MAMMAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A VEST PORTILLO, JAIRO H 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2627 2
2408 1
2899 1
1772 1
1729 1
3774 1
1724 1
3791 1
1652 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19249221 SENSOR DEVICE FORMED FROM CONDUCTIVE GRAPHENE FILM DAVIS, DAVID DONALD 2627 Other Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jun 25, 2025
19249262 SENSOR DEVICE FORMED FROM CONDUCTIVE GRAPHENE FILM DAVIS, DAVID DONALD 2627 Other Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jun 25, 2025
18534970 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING RISKS OF CYBERATTACKS GILLESPIE, KAMRYN JORDAN 2408 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Dec 11, 2023
18560988 METHOD FOR PREPARING A MICROELECTRONIC COMPONENT COMPRISING A LAYER WITH A BASIS OF A III-V MATERIAL YEUNG LOPEZ, FEIFEI 2899 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2023
18264097 METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS FADHEL, ALI Z 1772 §102 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Aug 03, 2023
18255919 BIOFUNCTIONAL ELECTRODE FOR STORING AND RELEASING COMPOUNDS BY SLOW DIFFUSION BARROW, AMANDA J 1729 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2023
18246166 IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE FOR BONE REPAIR SHARMA, YASHITA 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023
17776842 ENERGY PRODUCTION AND/OR STORAGE DEVICE COMPRISING A RESERVOIR LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER 1724 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending May 13, 2022
17441540 INDUCTIVE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY VEST FOR A SMALL MAMMAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A VEST PORTILLO, JAIRO H 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 21, 2021
16771794 USE OF A COMBINATION OF TET EXOPROTEASES OBTAINED FROM EXTREMOPHILIC MICROORGANISMS FOR HYDROLYZING POLYPEPTIDES RAMIREZ, DELIA M 1652 §103 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2021

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