Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)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%)
2
Medium (50%)
2
Easy (50%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (50%)
§112 only2 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
25% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PARSLEY, DAVID J 1 53.8% +28.5%
NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL 1 88.3% +8.5%
SUE-AKO, ANDREW B. 1 71.5% +27.4%
GUDAS, JAKOB OSCAR 1 54.5% +60.6%

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
18742239 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ADAPTABLE LOW-COST VOLT-VAR CONTROL FOR SMART INVERTER NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL 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
18680511 CLAY SWELLING INHIBITOR COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING SAME SUE-AKO, ANDREW B. 278d overdue
17723793 EXACT STOCHASTIC COMPUTING MULTIPLICATION IN MEMORY GUDAS, JAKOB OSCAR 86d overdue
19207263 AUTOMATED CRAWFISH PEELING DEVICE PARSLEY, DAVID J 80d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3643 1
2838 1
3674 1
2151 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19207263 AUTOMATED CRAWFISH PEELING DEVICE PARSLEY, DAVID J 3643 §103 Non-Final OA 80d overdue Pending May 13, 2025
18742239 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ADAPTABLE LOW-COST VOLT-VAR CONTROL FOR SMART INVERTER NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL 2838 §112 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Jun 13, 2024
18680511 CLAY SWELLING INHIBITOR COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING SAME SUE-AKO, ANDREW B. 3674 §112 Non-Final OA 278d overdue Pending May 31, 2024
17723793 EXACT STOCHASTIC COMPUTING MULTIPLICATION IN MEMORY GUDAS, JAKOB OSCAR 2151 §103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2022

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