Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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%)
4
Medium (67%)
1
Easy (17%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
§102 only1 (17%)
§112 only1 (17%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
83% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
REDDIG, PETER J 1 58.0% +40.0%
CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE 1
WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A 1 86.1% -20.4%
GRAHAM, ANDREW D 1 59.7% +21.9%
YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S 1 85.8% -8.6%
BENAVIDES, JENNIFER ANN 1 50.0% +44.9%

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
17836487 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHODS THEREOF YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S 93d overdue
18210862 TRANS-CYCLOOCTENES WITH HIGH REACTIVITY AND FAVORABLE PHYSIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A 63d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18274118 PREVENTION OF POSTERIOR CAPSULAR OPACIFICATION (PCO) WITH INTEGRIN AVB8 BLOCKING ANTIBODY REDDIG, PETER J 12d
18131669 POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT PUMP MATERIAL DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURE GRAHAM, ANDREW D 28d
16624422 CAPTURE OF CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS USING CARBON NANOTUBE SPONGES BENAVIDES, JENNIFER ANN 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1646 1
1672 1
1692 1
1742 1
2893 1
1675 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18274118 PREVENTION OF POSTERIOR CAPSULAR OPACIFICATION (PCO) WITH INTEGRIN AVB8 BLOCKING ANTIBODY REDDIG, PETER J 1646 Other Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jul 25, 2023
18350357 FOAM VACCINATION OF AVIANS CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2023
18210862 TRANS-CYCLOOCTENES WITH HIGH REACTIVITY AND FAVORABLE PHYSIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A 1692 §102 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Jun 16, 2023
18131669 POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT PUMP MATERIAL DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURE GRAHAM, ANDREW D 1742 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 06, 2023
17836487 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHODS THEREOF YECHURI, SITARAMARAO S 2893 §103 Final Rejection 93d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2022
16624422 CAPTURE OF CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS USING CARBON NANOTUBE SPONGES BENAVIDES, JENNIFER ANN 1675 §112 Final Rejection 70d Pending Dec 19, 2019

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