Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION

20 pending office actions • 15 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
3
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. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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%)
15
Medium (75%)
2
Easy (10%)
3
Unknown (15%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only13 (65%)
§102 only2 (10%)
§112 only2 (10%)
No statute on record3 (15%)

Industry Mix

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

14
Life Sciences
70% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
30% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PORTILLO, JAIRO H 1 53.7% +30.8%
BAEK, BONG-SOOK 1 41.3% +69.3%
ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF 1 60.1% +25.4%
CROW, ROBERT THOMAS 1 41.3% +31.8%
WESTERBERG, NISSA M 1 23.4% +36.9%
PAK, JOHN D 1 51.9% +37.7%
RAVINDRA, KRISHNA NUGGEHALLI 1 72.7% +3.6%
ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE 1 35.3% +68.8%
BOICE, JAMES EDWARD 1 77.0% +8.6%
FIORITO, JAMES A 1 70.8% +29.1%

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
18031760 PROCESSES FOR SYNTHESIS OF ALPHA-EMITTING RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS WESTERBERG, NISSA M 53d

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
18110094 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS TO TREAT INFLAMMATION ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE 38d overdue
18279380 METHODS OF ENHANCING ANTIBODY THERAPIES ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF 23d overdue
18434313 SIMULTANEOUS AND CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT OF OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS ACROSS LEVEL AND FREQUENCY PORTILLO, JAIRO H 17d overdue
18223765 OPTOELECTRONIC CARTRIDGE FOR CANCER BIOMARKER DETECTION UTILIZING SILICON NANOWIRE ARRAYS CROW, ROBERT THOMAS 16d overdue
18085880 MECHANOCHEMICAL OXIDATION METHOD FIORITO, JAMES A 12d
18572054 SUSTAINED RELEASE FORMULATIONS COMPRISING A SELECTIVE ANDROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR BAEK, BONG-SOOK 22d
18031760 PROCESSES FOR SYNTHESIS OF ALPHA-EMITTING RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS WESTERBERG, NISSA M 53d
18024034 DITHIOPHOSPHATE DERIVATIVES AS HYDROGEN SULFIDE RELEASE CHEMICALS FOR IMPROVING PLANT GROWTH AND CROP YIELD PAK, JOHN D 53d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 4
1611 2
1636 2
1646 1
1683 1
1618 1
1699 1
3795 1
1731 1
1625 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18434313 SIMULTANEOUS AND CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT OF OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS ACROSS LEVEL AND FREQUENCY PORTILLO, JAIRO H 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Feb 06, 2024
18572054 SUSTAINED RELEASE FORMULATIONS COMPRISING A SELECTIVE ANDROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR BAEK, BONG-SOOK 1611 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18279380 METHODS OF ENHANCING ANTIBODY THERAPIES ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF 1646 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2023
18223765 OPTOELECTRONIC CARTRIDGE FOR CANCER BIOMARKER DETECTION UTILIZING SILICON NANOWIRE ARRAYS CROW, ROBERT THOMAS 1683 Other Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18031760 PROCESSES FOR SYNTHESIS OF ALPHA-EMITTING RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS WESTERBERG, NISSA M 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Apr 13, 2023
18024034 DITHIOPHOSPHATE DERIVATIVES AS HYDROGEN SULFIDE RELEASE CHEMICALS FOR IMPROVING PLANT GROWTH AND CROP YIELD PAK, JOHN D 1699 §102 Final Rejection 53d Pending Feb 28, 2023
18023259 GENE KNOCK-OUT FOR TREATMENT OF GLAUCOMA RAVINDRA, KRISHNA NUGGEHALLI 1636 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Feb 24, 2023
18110094 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS TO TREAT INFLAMMATION ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE 1611 §103 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2023
18014067 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNIFIED ENDOSCOPIC PROCEDURE PERFORMANCE AND VISUALIZATION BOICE, JAMES EDWARD 3795 §103 Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2022
18085880 MECHANOCHEMICAL OXIDATION METHOD FIORITO, JAMES A 1731 §112 Final Rejection 12d Pending Dec 21, 2022
17920645 GPER PROTEOLYTIC TARGETING CHIMERAS BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 1625 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Oct 21, 2022
17796311 Modular Remote Afterloader For Brachytherapy Delivery And Cartridge For Same KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2022
17580129 METHODS TO PREVENT, INHIBIT OR TREAT INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION LEE, HOI YAN NMN 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2022
17563929 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ERGONOMIC MEDICAL PROCEDURES GEIGER, RACHAEL L 3771 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Dec 28, 2021
17616599 EPH2A APTAMER AND USES THEREOF HUDSON, AMY ROSE 1636 Other Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Dec 03, 2021
17518301 MULTIMODAL SENSORY STIMULATION TRAN, JULIE THI 3791 §103 Final Rejection 52d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2021
17503082 MONITORING EFFICACY OF MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC FIELDS USING BIOMARKERS REDDY, SUNITA 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Oct 15, 2021
17311088 HEPARANASE INHIBITORS AND THEIR USE AS ANTI-CANCER COMPOUNDS SABILA, MERCY HELLEN 1654 Other Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Jun 04, 2021
17020432 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIAGNOSING PARKINSONS DISEASE FROM ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY DATA HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD 1685 §102 Final Rejection 112d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2020
16980268 INDUCTIVE REGENERATION OF THE AIRWAY BY TRANSCRIPTIONAL FACTOR MODULATION OF GLANDULAR MYOEPITHELIAL STEM CELLS SCHUBERG, LAURA J 1631 §112 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Sep 11, 2020

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