Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

25 pending office actions • 20 art units • 25 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

25
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
Due this month
3
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. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (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%)
22
Medium (88%)
1
Easy (4%)
2
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only19 (76%)
§102 only3 (12%)
§112 only1 (4%)
No statute on record2 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

15
Life Sciences
60% of docket
1
Information Tech
4% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
36% 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.

250 h
Manual time on pending OAs
50 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
88 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRUONG, CAM Y T 1 82.4% +60.7%
MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE 1 56.7% +23.2%
RODDEN, JOANNE M 1 64.4% +47.8%
SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA 1 55.0% +50.0%
AHVAZI, BIJAN 1 63.5% +46.7%
PERRIN, CLARE M 1 67.7% +42.3%
SULTANA, NAHIDA 1 78.2% +8.5%
MEDWAY, SCOTT J 1 67.1% +23.2%
DROUIN, STEVE HOANG 1
CREWS, JARET JAMES 1 44.3% +71.9%

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
19196295 Record Linkage and Entity Resolution TRUONG, CAM Y T 70d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18888959 BIODEGRADABLE PIEZOELECTRIC NANOFIBERS RODDEN, JOANNE M 155d overdue
18566217 PARTICLE FILTRATION PERRIN, CLARE M 26d overdue
18658442 DERIVATION OF ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY RESPONSE FROM AN ELECTROCARDIOGRAM SIGNAL SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA 23d overdue
18226071 Methods and Compositions for Treating Leucine Rich Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2)-Associated Disorder or Condition CREWS, JARET JAMES 23d overdue
19072068 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PEST CONTROL MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE 9d
18449499 DEVICES FOR FORMING IN SITU MICRONEEDLES AND METHODS THEREOF MEDWAY, SCOTT J 27d
18627866 POLYCANNABINOIDS FOR COMMODITY POLYMERS AND COMMODITY ELECTRONICS AHVAZI, BIJAN 55d
19196295 Record Linkage and Entity Resolution TRUONG, CAM Y T 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3794 2
3783 2
1613 2
3791 2
1773 2
2169 1
3642 1
3792 1
1763 1
1779 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19196295 Record Linkage and Entity Resolution TRUONG, CAM Y T 2169 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending May 01, 2025
19072068 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PEST CONTROL MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE 3642 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Mar 06, 2025
18888959 BIODEGRADABLE PIEZOELECTRIC NANOFIBERS RODDEN, JOANNE M 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 155d overdue Pending Sep 18, 2024
18658442 DERIVATION OF ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY RESPONSE FROM AN ELECTROCARDIOGRAM SIGNAL SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending May 08, 2024
18627866 POLYCANNABINOIDS FOR COMMODITY POLYMERS AND COMMODITY ELECTRONICS AHVAZI, BIJAN 1763 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Apr 05, 2024
18566217 PARTICLE FILTRATION PERRIN, CLARE M 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2023
18283251 MULTI-MATERIAL BIOPRINTING SULTANA, NAHIDA 1743 §102 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Sep 21, 2023
18449499 DEVICES FOR FORMING IN SITU MICRONEEDLES AND METHODS THEREOF MEDWAY, SCOTT J 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 14, 2023
18362485 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INHIBITION OF NEUTROPHIL RECRUITMENT IN MYCOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA-REPERFUSION INJURY DROUIN, STEVE HOANG 1627 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jul 31, 2023
18226071 Methods and Compositions for Treating Leucine Rich Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2)-Associated Disorder or Condition CREWS, JARET JAMES 1691 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
18262667 Multiplexed, CRISPR-based Diagnostics of SARS-CoV-2 in Autonomous Microfluidic Device WECKER, JENNIFER 1797 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jul 24, 2023
18262443 SYNTHETIC ARTIFICIAL STEM CELLS (SASC) KIM, DANIELLE A 1613 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending Jul 21, 2023
18352185 THERAPEUTIC BANDAGE KASHYAP, ESHA PRAKASH 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
18037361 SENSITIVE QUANTITATIVE DETECTION OF SARS-CoV-2 USING DIGITAL WARM-START CRISPR ASSAY SWITZER, JULIET CAROLINE 1682 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending May 17, 2023
18313734 APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR ARTIFACT REDUCTION IN ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL 3791 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending May 08, 2023
18251984 A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OSTEOARTHRITIS TREATMENT SHARMA, YASHITA 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending May 05, 2023
18248021 NANOMATERIAL AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF BECKHARDT, LYNDSEY MARIE 1613 Other Final Rejection 56d Pending Apr 05, 2023
18125394 CONDUCTIVE POLYMER ELECTRODES, WIRING ELEMENTS, AND USE THEREOF IN HEALTH AND SPORTS MONITORING HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES 3794 §102 Final Rejection 77d overdue Pending Mar 23, 2023
18041811 NANODRUGS FOR TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY AND USE THEREOF RONEY, CELESTE A 1612 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Feb 16, 2023
18109557 Permeation Apparatus, System and Method SHUMATE, ANTHONY R 1773 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2023
18012288 METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR REDUCING OR PREVENTING BONE RESORPTION HA, JULIE 1654 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Dec 22, 2022
18012143 FLAVIVIRUS SIGNAL PEPTIDES, VACCINE CONSTRUCTS, AND METHODS THEREFOR JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
17865105 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR THE DETECTION OF OXYGEN TOXICITY RELATED SYMPTOMS EPPERT, LUCY CLARE 3791 §112 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2022
17834387 GRAPHENE-POLYAMIDE COMPOSITE MEMBRANES AND MICROPARTICLES, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE, AND METHODS OF USE ELLINGTON, MARRIAH C G 1773 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jun 07, 2022
17487661 BIODEGRADABLE MICRONEEDLE SYSTEM WITH SUSTAINED RELEASE KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 1658 Other Non-Final OA 29d Pending Sep 28, 2021

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