Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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.

4
Hard (50%)
4
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (12%)
§103 only3 (38%)
Double-patenting + other1 (12%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (38%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOWMAN, ANDREW J 1 65.7% +13.1%
SHIAO, REI TSANG 1 79.9% -33.9%
HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 1 2.7% +0.7%
TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK 1 5.3% -5.9%
SHIN, MONICA A 1 50.1% +47.4%
SINGER, DAVID L 1 68.7% +42.4%
SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA 1 52.9% +48.2%
WESTON, ALYSSA G 1 60.6% +50.7%

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17176422 APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING THE CELLULAR AND LIQUID PORTIONS OF A WHOLE BLOOD SAMPLE WESTON, ALYSSA G 18d overdue
18247474 RAPID DIAGNOSTIC ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSING TARGETED WITH ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK 19d
18583009 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR ANALYZING OBJECTIVE HEALTH DATA AND SUBJECT-CONVEYED HEALTH INFORMATION FOR HEALTH INFORMATION REPORTING, TREATMENT PLANNING, DIAGNOSES, AND TREATMENT HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 40d
17325839 RAPID DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM USING TARGETED ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE CAPPED PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA

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
17176422 APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING THE CELLULAR AND LIQUID PORTIONS OF A WHOLE BLOOD SAMPLE WESTON, ALYSSA G 18d overdue
18040439 ENGINEERING DIVERSE ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS TO CONTROL ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC RESPONSES SHIN, MONICA A 41d
18678505 FLEXIBLE THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR FABRICATION USING ENERGY EFFICIENT METHOD BOWMAN, ANDREW J
18055333 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AIRBORNE PATHOGEN DETECTION USING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL PLATFORM SINGER, DAVID L
17325839 RAPID DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM USING TARGETED ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE CAPPED PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1682 2
1717 1
1629 1
3686 1
1616 1
2855 1
1633 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18678505 FLEXIBLE THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR FABRICATION USING ENERGY EFFICIENT METHOD BOWMAN, ANDREW J 1717 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 30, 2024
18661922 FLEX-NUCLEOSIDE ANALOGUES, NOVEL THERAPEUTICS AGAINST FILOVIRUSES AND FLAVIVIRUSES SHIAO, REI TSANG 1629 §112DP Non-Final OA Pending May 13, 2024
18583009 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR ANALYZING OBJECTIVE HEALTH DATA AND SUBJECT-CONVEYED HEALTH INFORMATION FOR HEALTH INFORMATION REPORTING, TREATMENT PLANNING, DIAGNOSES, AND TREATMENT HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 3686 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Feb 21, 2024
18247474 RAPID DIAGNOSTIC ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSING TARGETED WITH ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK 1682 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Mar 31, 2023
18040439 ENGINEERING DIVERSE ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS TO CONTROL ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC RESPONSES SHIN, MONICA A 1616 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Feb 03, 2023
18055333 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AIRBORNE PATHOGEN DETECTION USING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL PLATFORM SINGER, DAVID L 2855 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 14, 2022
17325839 RAPID DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM USING TARGETED ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE CAPPED PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA 1682 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 20, 2021
17176422 APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING THE CELLULAR AND LIQUID PORTIONS OF A WHOLE BLOOD SAMPLE WESTON, ALYSSA G 1633 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2021

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