Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% 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
HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J 1 50.8% +44.5%
SELWANES, JOHN PAUL 1 44.1% +56.8%
HOBSON, STEPHEN 1 65.3% +20.8%
FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON GIONTA 1 47.6% +16.0%
NIEBAUER, RONALD T 1 41.4% +33.8%

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
17122446 AERATED BIOFILM REACTOR HOLLOW FIBRE MEMBRANE FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON GIONTA 45d overdue
15694592 MOLECULAR SENSORS NIEBAUER, RONALD T 17d overdue
18221512 Apparatus for Directing Power Flow between Multiple Devices HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J 22d
17769105 A SYSTEM, METHOD AND GENERATOR FOR GENERATING NANOBUBBLES OR NANODROPLETS AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS HOBSON, STEPHEN 34d
17916414 A METHOD OF DIAGNOSING AND/OR PROGNOSING PREECLAMPSIA SELWANES, JOHN PAUL 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2859 1
1651 1
1776 1
1773 1
1658 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18221512 Apparatus for Directing Power Flow between Multiple Devices HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 13, 2023
17916414 A METHOD OF DIAGNOSING AND/OR PROGNOSING PREECLAMPSIA SELWANES, JOHN PAUL 1651 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Sep 30, 2022
17769105 A SYSTEM, METHOD AND GENERATOR FOR GENERATING NANOBUBBLES OR NANODROPLETS AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS HOBSON, STEPHEN 1776 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Apr 14, 2022
17122446 AERATED BIOFILM REACTOR HOLLOW FIBRE MEMBRANE FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON GIONTA 1773 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2020
15694592 MOLECULAR SENSORS NIEBAUER, RONALD T 1658 Other Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2017

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