Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

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. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
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 (80%)
1
Medium (20%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (80%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
60% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
40% 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
GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ 1 68.7% +44.2%
JACOB, OOMMEN 1 79.0% +17.4%
MURPHY, VICTORIA 1 62.3% +45.8%
CHIU, MAY LEUNG 1 42.9% +19.0%
MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE 1 59.9% +15.6%

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
18272993 HANDHELD LASER-BASED PERFUSION IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING SAID APPARATUS JACOB, OOMMEN 75d
18553313 METHOD FOR FORMING A BOND BETWEEN TWO SUBSTRATES OF A DEVICE; DEVICE OBTAINABLE BY THE METHOD; A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE; AND USE OF THE DEVICE GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ
18028947 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A NASAL HIGH-FLOW THERAPY SYSTEM MURPHY, VICTORIA
17796892 ON-CHIP STRUCTURED SILICON-ON-INSULATOR VORTEX INDUCER CHIU, MAY LEUNG

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18272993 HANDHELD LASER-BASED PERFUSION IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING SAID APPARATUS JACOB, OOMMEN 75d
17776604 Porous membranes comprising sorbent particles for improved urea capture MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE 78d
18553313 METHOD FOR FORMING A BOND BETWEEN TWO SUBSTRATES OF A DEVICE; DEVICE OBTAINABLE BY THE METHOD; A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE; AND USE OF THE DEVICE GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ
18028947 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A NASAL HIGH-FLOW THERAPY SYSTEM MURPHY, VICTORIA
17796892 ON-CHIP STRUCTURED SILICON-ON-INSULATOR VORTEX INDUCER CHIU, MAY LEUNG

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1799 1
3797 1
3785 1
1758 1
1777 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18553313 METHOD FOR FORMING A BOND BETWEEN TWO SUBSTRATES OF A DEVICE; DEVICE OBTAINABLE BY THE METHOD; A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE; AND USE OF THE DEVICE GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ 1799 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 29, 2023
18272993 HANDHELD LASER-BASED PERFUSION IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING SAID APPARATUS JACOB, OOMMEN 3797 §103§112 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Jul 18, 2023
18028947 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A NASAL HIGH-FLOW THERAPY SYSTEM MURPHY, VICTORIA 3785 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2023
17796892 ON-CHIP STRUCTURED SILICON-ON-INSULATOR VORTEX INDUCER CHIU, MAY LEUNG 1758 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 02, 2022
17776604 Porous membranes comprising sorbent particles for improved urea capture MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE 1777 §103 Non-Final OA 78d Pending May 13, 2022

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