Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 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.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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 (5)

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%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
1
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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
KIM, EUI H 1 48.8% +53.2%
MCNEIL, JENNIFER C 1 23.5% +13.2%
MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T 1 53.3% +30.8%
LACHICA, ERICSON M 1 30.5% +35.3%
ARON, KIMBERLY A 1 54.1% +35.0%

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
18296286 Plant-Based Cheese Product Comprising Low Solubility Protein MCNEIL, JENNIFER C 85d overdue

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
17839307 PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT LACHICA, ERICSON M 182d overdue
18296286 Plant-Based Cheese Product Comprising Low Solubility Protein MCNEIL, JENNIFER C 85d overdue
18354784 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADVERSARIAL MALWARE THREAT PREVENTION AND ADVERSARIAL SAMPLE GENERATION KIM, EUI H 50d overdue
17244079 FOWL ADENOVIRUS 9 (FADV-9) VECTOR SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS ARON, KIMBERLY A 10d overdue
17925549 COMPOSTABLE OXYGEN BARRIER COMPRISING A BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER MATRIX AND BIOCARBON MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T 2d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2453 1
1793 1
1789 1
1792 1
1633 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18354784 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADVERSARIAL MALWARE THREAT PREVENTION AND ADVERSARIAL SAMPLE GENERATION KIM, EUI H 2453 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18296286 Plant-Based Cheese Product Comprising Low Solubility Protein MCNEIL, JENNIFER C 1793 §103 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2023
17925549 COMPOSTABLE OXYGEN BARRIER COMPRISING A BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER MATRIX AND BIOCARBON MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2022
17839307 PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT LACHICA, ERICSON M 1792 §103 Final Rejection 182d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2022
17244079 FOWL ADENOVIRUS 9 (FADV-9) VECTOR SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS ARON, KIMBERLY A 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2021

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