Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.

21 pending office actions • 17 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
11
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
1
Due this week
8
Due this month
2
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. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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%)
17
Medium (81%)
0
Easy (0%)
4
Unknown (19%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only15 (71%)
§102 only2 (10%)
No statute on record4 (19%)

Industry Mix

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

17
Life Sciences
81% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
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.

210 h
Manual time on pending OAs
42 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
74 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KIM, TAEYOON 2 51.5% +51.4%
TOOMER, CEPHIA D 1 74.1% +2.4%
SELLERS, DANIEL R 1 67.6% +17.3%
AGAHI, PUYA 1 48.8% +23.6%
MACHNESS, ARIELLA 1 59.7% +28.4%
SCHUBERG, LAURA J 1 23.7% +36.7%
BANERJEE, KOYELI 1
HINES, JANA A 1 53.2% +39.3%
DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R 1 55.8% +69.0%
WEBB, WALTER E 1 46.4% +18.6%

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
18230278 METHOD OF TREATMENT FOR HEART FAILURE USING STEM CELLS SCHUBERG, LAURA J 34d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18555308 METHODS FOR QUANTIFYING BLOOD PRESSURE STABILITY AGAHI, PUYA 91d overdue
18692741 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE VIRTUAL ACCOUSTIC RENDERING SELLERS, DANIEL R 58d overdue
18020235 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING PERIODONTAL DISEASE WEBB, WALTER E 6d
17862892 3-D BIOPRINTING COMPRISING BIOLOGICALLY-RELEVANT MATERIALS AND RELATED METHODS KIM, TAEYOON 12d
18030174 GRIFFITHSIN FOR RHABDOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R 14d
18233416 IN-PROCESS ULTRASONIC POLLING OF 3D PRINTED CRYSTALLINE/SEMICRYSTALLINE ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS MACHNESS, ARIELLA 29d
18248491 PROBIOTIC DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING HINES, JANA A 29d
18124656 HUMAN FACILITATING CELLS KIM, TAEYOON 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1631 3
3791 2
1672 2
1771 1
2694 1
1743 1
1658 1
1645 1
1654 1
1612 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18615726 TORREFIED BIOMASS BRIQUETTES AND RELATED METHODS TOOMER, CEPHIA D 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 104d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2024
18692741 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE VIRTUAL ACCOUSTIC RENDERING SELLERS, DANIEL R 2694 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2024
18555308 METHODS FOR QUANTIFYING BLOOD PRESSURE STABILITY AGAHI, PUYA 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2023
18233416 IN-PROCESS ULTRASONIC POLLING OF 3D PRINTED CRYSTALLINE/SEMICRYSTALLINE ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS MACHNESS, ARIELLA 1743 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Aug 14, 2023
18230278 METHOD OF TREATMENT FOR HEART FAILURE USING STEM CELLS SCHUBERG, LAURA J 1631 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Aug 04, 2023
18274412 INHIBITION OF DEGRANULATION OF NEUTROPHIL CELLS IN COVID-19 PATIENTS BANERJEE, KOYELI 1658 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jul 26, 2023
18248491 PROBIOTIC DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING HINES, JANA A 1645 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Apr 10, 2023
18030174 GRIFFITHSIN FOR RHABDOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R 1654 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 04, 2023
18124656 HUMAN FACILITATING CELLS KIM, TAEYOON 1631 Other Final Rejection 29d Pending Mar 22, 2023
18020235 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING PERIODONTAL DISEASE WEBB, WALTER E 1612 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Feb 07, 2023
18014919 SULFIDE COMPOSITE ELECTROLYTES FOR SOLID-STATE LITHIUM BATTERIES ORLANDO, MICHAEL N 1746 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jan 06, 2023
18008391 IDENTIFICATION OF LOW-DENSITY INFLAMMATORY NEUTROPHILS IN SEVERE COVID-19 PATIENTS WANG, RUIXUE 1672 §102 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Dec 05, 2022
17927111 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING AND/OR TREATING MICROBIAL INFECTIONS PURDY, KYLE A 1611 §102 Non-Final OA 99d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2022
17799795 SMALL MOLECULE REGULATORS OF NOTCH1 AND USES THEREOF ELENISTE, PIERRE PAUL 1622 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Aug 15, 2022
17862892 3-D BIOPRINTING COMPRISING BIOLOGICALLY-RELEVANT MATERIALS AND RELATED METHODS KIM, TAEYOON 1631 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jul 12, 2022
17757599 VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLE BINDING AGENTS, RELATED COMPOSITIONS, AND RELATED METHODS JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 17, 2022
17780961 BIOMASS-BASED SOLID COMPOSITE ELECTROLYTES FOR BATTERIES NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN 1752 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending May 27, 2022
17641787 ANTI-NUCLEOLIN AGENT-PEG-CONJUGATED NANOPARTICLES MEJIAS, SAMANTHA LEE 1618 Other Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2022
17544279 ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES COMPRISING HALIDE-CONTAINING LITHIUM ARGYRODITE SOLID ELECTROLYTES ORTIZ, ARYANA YASMINE 1751 §103 Non-Final OA 117d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2021
17230280 METHODS FOR PROVIDING OPTIMIZED NEUROSTIMULATION FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN 3792 Other Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2021
17284582 COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION OF CANCER CRUICKSHANK, DESTINY JOI 3791 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2021

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