Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.

22 pending office actions • 19 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 54 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
2
Due this week
3
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (4)

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%)
20
Medium (91%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (9%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only16 (73%)
§102 only4 (18%)
No statute on record2 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

11
Life Sciences
50% of docket
2
Information Tech
9% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
3
Semiconductors
14% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
23% 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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN 1 11.8% -17.4%
KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K 1 72.9% +18.2%
NGUYEN, TRI V 1 67.6% +57.8%
SAHLE, MAHIDERE S 1 79.4% +12.9%
YAZBACK, MAHER 1 74.5% +24.3%
YIP, JACK 1 33.0% +37.8%
SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 1 64.1% +11.9%
LEE, PAUL CHANG 1 74.8% +14.0%
IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU 1 58.7% +17.4%
BAEK, BONG-SOOK 1 41.3% +69.3%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19230607 ADSORBENT AND METHOD FOR REMOVING PER- AND/OR POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS) IN WATER MATRICES GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN 5d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18417074 POSITION LOCATOR SYSTEMS YIP, JACK 85d overdue
18412083 STRESS-CONTROLLED DEFECT ENGINEERING IN CERIA NANOSTRUCTURES SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 16d overdue
18372646 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AMMONIA AS A FUEL SOURCE FOR ENGINES IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU 5d overdue
18647305 ZWITTERION-PROMOTED HYBRID 2D SILICATE-BASED MEMBRANES FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS NGUYEN, TRI V 2d overdue
18276929 CORONAL PROTEIN-COATED NANOPARTICLES AND USES THEREOF BAEK, BONG-SOOK 6d
18615915 SERIAL ARRAY OF MODULATORS AND DETECTORS SAHLE, MAHIDERE S 19d
19173866 SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING WATER FROM LUNAR REGOLITH AND ASSOCIATED METHOD KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K 26d
18441765 WAVELENGTH-RESOLVED PHOTONIC LANTERN WAVEFRONT SENSOR YAZBACK, MAHER 42d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1764 2
3741 2
1637 2
1777 1
3653 1
2872 1
2877 1
3715 1
1795 1
2871 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19230607 ADSORBENT AND METHOD FOR REMOVING PER- AND/OR POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS) IN WATER MATRICES GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN 1777 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jun 06, 2025
19173866 SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING WATER FROM LUNAR REGOLITH AND ASSOCIATED METHOD KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K 3653 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Apr 09, 2025
18647305 ZWITTERION-PROMOTED HYBRID 2D SILICATE-BASED MEMBRANES FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS NGUYEN, TRI V 1764 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2024
18615915 SERIAL ARRAY OF MODULATORS AND DETECTORS SAHLE, MAHIDERE S 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18441765 WAVELENGTH-RESOLVED PHOTONIC LANTERN WAVEFRONT SENSOR YAZBACK, MAHER 2877 §103 Final Rejection 42d Pending Feb 14, 2024
18417074 POSITION LOCATOR SYSTEMS YIP, JACK 3715 §103 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2024
18412083 STRESS-CONTROLLED DEFECT ENGINEERING IN CERIA NANOSTRUCTURES SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2024
18532629 BEAM COMBINING USING ROTATED VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS LEE, PAUL CHANG 2871 §103 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Dec 07, 2023
18372646 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AMMONIA AS A FUEL SOURCE FOR ENGINES IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2023
18276929 CORONAL PROTEIN-COATED NANOPARTICLES AND USES THEREOF BAEK, BONG-SOOK 1611 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Aug 11, 2023
18219983 HIGH-ENTROPY ALLOY FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE DIRECT ETHANOL FUEL CELLS CHU, YONG LIANG 1731 §102 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Jul 10, 2023
18268255 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING OPERATION OF LEG PROSTHESIS PATEL, NITIN 2628 §102 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jun 19, 2023
18328381 REGULATION OF METABOLISM AND OBESITY BY MITOCHONDRIAL MUL1 E3 UBIQUITIN LIGASE ALLEN, SARAH ELIZABETH 1637 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18121401 INTERMOLECULARLY-FABRICATED COMPOSITION FOR ENCAPSULATING PLANT MATERIALS, AGROCHEMICALS AND PHARMACEUTICALS BOYLE, ROBERT C 1764 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Mar 14, 2023
18111778 ROTATING DETONATION ENGINE INJECTOR AND METHOD OF DESIGNING MEADE, LORNE EDWARD 3741 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Feb 20, 2023
18168002 COMBINATION THERAPY WITH SEMAPHORIN-4D BLOCKADE AND HTT-LOWERING AGENT FOR TREATMENT OF HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE WANG, CHANG YU 1675 Other Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2023
18069228 AGENT ENABLED ARCHITECTURE FOR PREDICTION USING BI-DIRECTIONAL LONG SHORT-TERM MEMORY FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION GRUSZKA, DANIEL PATRICK 2121 §103 Final Rejection 62d Pending Dec 20, 2022
17920942 CD25-TARGETED IL-2 FOR INCREASING CD4 T CELL FORMATION AND TREATMENT OF INFECTIONS CARTER, SANDRA DILLAHUNT 1674 §102 Final Rejection 70d Pending Oct 24, 2022
17734827 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED URBAN PLANNING JOHANSEN, JOHN E 2187 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending May 02, 2022
17462402 GUIDE HOLE STRUCTURES DANG, ANH TIEU 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 31, 2021
17281049 METHODS FOR PREVENTING AND TREATING PULMONARY INFLAMMATION AND FIBROSIS VYAS, KEYUR ANILKUMAR 1637 Other Non-Final OA 131d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2021
16981800 Detection of Interaction Between an Assay Substance and Blood or Blood Components for Immune Status Evaluation and Immune-Related Disease Detection and Diagnosis GONZALES, JOSEPHINE MARIA 1631 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 17, 2020

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