Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM

25 pending office actions • 22 art units • 24 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

25
Total Pending OAs
17
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

15
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
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. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (15)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

1
Hard (4%)
21
Medium (84%)
1
Easy (4%)
2
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (4%)
§103 only21 (84%)
§112 only1 (4%)
No statute on record2 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

13
Life Sciences
52% of docket
1
Information Tech
4% of docket
1
Communications
4% of docket
2
Semiconductors
8% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
32% 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
WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A 2 64.0% +18.4%
LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN 1 69.8% +13.2%
GIERE, REBECCA M 1 73.5% +32.9%
TIGHE, BRENDAN P 1 75.9% +19.5%
JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING 1 50.0% +45.2%
BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 1 79.5% +13.5%
SLADE, BRIANNA KESHARA 1
LEONARD, ARTHUR S 1 50.5% +50.7%
BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 1 84.3% +11.2%
POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN 1 47.4% +81.8%

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
18180667 Method and System for Generating a Warp Field BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 85d overdue

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
17838758 DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MAPPING NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTIONS FOR BOTULINUM TOXIN INJECTIONS ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18283738 ROBOTICS ASSISTED OPENING SYSTEMS AND METHODS TIGHE, BRENDAN P 131d overdue
18180667 Method and System for Generating a Warp Field BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 85d overdue
18180277 METHOD FOR MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION USING BONE CONDUCTION AND AUDIO SIGNALS POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN 80d overdue
17883534 RETENTION OF HIGH-PRESSURE-INDUCED/ENHANCED HIGH TC SUPERCONDUCTING AND NON-SUPERCONDUCTING PHASES AT AMBIENT PRESSURE WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A 24d overdue
18965998 METHOD FOR REDUCING THE VISCOSITY OF HEAVY OIL FOR EXTRACTION, TRANSPORT IN PIPES, AND CLEANING THEREOF LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN 17d overdue
18372558 BIOSENSOR FOR DETECTING A SINGLE MAGNETIC LABEL GIERE, REBECCA M 16d overdue
17865763 Quality Control of High Performance Superconductor Tapes WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A 20d
18334678 SYNTHESIS OF NANO-SIZED ZEOLITES BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1672 2
3615 2
1735 2
3674 1
1677 1
3652 1
1736 1
1796 1
1631 1
2877 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18965998 METHOD FOR REDUCING THE VISCOSITY OF HEAVY OIL FOR EXTRACTION, TRANSPORT IN PIPES, AND CLEANING THEREOF LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN 3674 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Dec 02, 2024
18372558 BIOSENSOR FOR DETECTING A SINGLE MAGNETIC LABEL GIERE, REBECCA M 1677 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2023
18283738 ROBOTICS ASSISTED OPENING SYSTEMS AND METHODS TIGHE, BRENDAN P 3652 §103 Non-Final OA 131d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18264737 ONCOLYTIC VIRUS FOR SYSTEMIC DELIVERY AND ENHANCED ANTI-TUMOR ACTIVITIES JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING 1672 Other Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 08, 2023
18334678 SYNTHESIS OF NANO-SIZED ZEOLITES BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 1736 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jun 14, 2023
18324107 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RISK STRATIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT OF BLADDER CANCER SLADE, BRIANNA KESHARA 1796 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending May 25, 2023
18036488 SALICYLIC ACID-INDUCIBLE GENE EXPRESSION COMPOSITIONS AND SYSTEMS FOR CELLS LEONARD, ARTHUR S 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 11, 2023
18180667 Method and System for Generating a Warp Field BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 2877 §103 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2023
18180277 METHOD FOR MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION USING BONE CONDUCTION AND AUDIO SIGNALS POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 80d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2023
18180270 SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION USING BONE CONDUCTION AND AUDIO SIGNALS BOGGS JR., JAMES 2657 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2023
18118359 USE OF FERRITE MATERIALS FOR RF-INDUCED HEATING REDUCTION OF MEDICAL DEVICES LANE, HOLLY JOANNA 3773 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Mar 07, 2023
18117038 High Ionic Conductivity Rechargeable Solid State Batteries With An Organic Electrode WALLS-MURRAY, JESSIE LOGAN 1728 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Mar 03, 2023
18105563 ROBOTIC FISH ENABLED CARBON DIOXIDE LEAK DETECTION FOR OFFSHORE CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTRATION MONITORING OLSON, LARS A 3615 §103 Non-Final OA 191d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2023
18160803 SUPERLEV VEHICLE SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING ENERGY, PEOPLE, AND GOODS BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE 3615 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Jan 27, 2023
18158717 USE OF NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY COMPOUNDS FOR TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATION VALLE, ERNESTO 1623 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jan 24, 2023
18017659 TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH RESPIRATORY DISEASES SALVOZA, M FRANCO G 1672 Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jan 23, 2023
18015927 NOVEL PEPTOID COMPOUNDS THAT BIND TO CELL RECEPTOR ACE2 AND PREVENT VIRUS ENTRY INTO CELLS KATAKAM, SUDHAKAR 1658 §112 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2023
18080931 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF LASER-DRIVEN MICROFUILD PUMPS STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL 3783 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
17981322 QUDITS EMPLOYING NONLINEAR DIELECTRICS AHMED, SHAHED 2813 §103 Non-Final OA 88d overdue Pending Nov 04, 2022
17883534 RETENTION OF HIGH-PRESSURE-INDUCED/ENHANCED HIGH TC SUPERCONDUCTING AND NON-SUPERCONDUCTING PHASES AT AMBIENT PRESSURE WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Aug 08, 2022
17865763 Quality Control of High Performance Superconductor Tapes WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Jul 15, 2022
17838758 DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MAPPING NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTIONS FOR BOTULINUM TOXIN INJECTIONS ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG 3796 §101 Final Rejection Pending Jun 13, 2022
17514129 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING A NERVOUS SYSTEM STATE BASED ON MEASUREMENT OF A PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN 3792 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Oct 29, 2021
17604714 METHODS OF IMPROVING THE LONGEVITY OF IMMUNE CELLS HOLLAND, PAUL J 1656 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2021
17430541 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR STEM CELL THERAPY SMALL, KATHERINE R 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Aug 12, 2021

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