Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (57%)
1
Easy (14%)
2
Unknown (29%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (29%)
§102 only2 (29%)
§112 only1 (14%)
No statute on record2 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
57% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
29% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PENG, BO JOSEPH 1 69.6% +13.1%
BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS 1 90.3% +10.7%
KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE 1 84.7% +10.7%
CARR, DEBORAH D 1 81.6% +2.6%
BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE 1
MURESAN, ANA Z 1 75.4% +30.7%
RAMADAN, OMAR 1 22.8% +64.1%

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
18565719 MAGNETIC SENSORS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEREOF KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE 85d overdue
18699376 HIGH ENERGY RADIATION DETECTORS BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS 23d

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
18054823 ANALYSIS, SCREENING, AND SELECTION FOR SOLUBLE PROTEIN FUNCTION IN SECRETED PROTEIN CELL LIBRARIES RAMADAN, OMAR 3d 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
18565719 MAGNETIC SENSORS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEREOF KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE 85d overdue
18042528 ALKANE MULTI-SULFONIC ACIDS, COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, AND RELATED METHODS MURESAN, ANA Z 15d overdue
18054823 ANALYSIS, SCREENING, AND SELECTION FOR SOLUBLE PROTEIN FUNCTION IN SECRETED PROTEIN CELL LIBRARIES RAMADAN, OMAR 3d overdue
18699376 HIGH ENERGY RADIATION DETECTORS BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS 23d
18927276 FUNCTIONAL TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER ULTRASOUND AND METHODS OF USE PENG, BO JOSEPH 75d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3797 1
2884 1
2855 1
1691 1
1683 1
1692 1
1678 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18927276 FUNCTIONAL TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER ULTRASOUND AND METHODS OF USE PENG, BO JOSEPH 3797 §103 Final Rejection 75d Pending Oct 25, 2024
18699376 HIGH ENERGY RADIATION DETECTORS BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS 2884 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Apr 08, 2024
18565719 MAGNETIC SENSORS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEREOF KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE 2855 §102 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18278329 HYDROXYLATION OF ALKANES USING OZONE CARR, DEBORAH D 1691 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2023
18356886 EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE PROTEOMIC BIOMARKER PANEL FOR OVARIAN CANCER SCREENING AND THE EARLY DETECTION OF DISEASE BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE 1683 §112 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 21, 2023
18042528 ALKANE MULTI-SULFONIC ACIDS, COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, AND RELATED METHODS MURESAN, ANA Z 1692 §102 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2023
18054823 ANALYSIS, SCREENING, AND SELECTION FOR SOLUBLE PROTEIN FUNCTION IN SECRETED PROTEIN CELL LIBRARIES RAMADAN, OMAR 1678 Other Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Nov 11, 2022

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