Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

19 pending office actions • 16 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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%)
14
Medium (74%)
1
Easy (5%)
4
Unknown (21%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only13 (68%)
§112 only1 (5%)
Double-patenting + other1 (5%)
No statute on record4 (21%)

Industry Mix

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

14
Life Sciences
74% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
5% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
21% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BRUTUS, JOEL F 1 72.5% +17.9%
LEE, ANDREW P 1 48.5% +23.4%
LUAN, SCOTT 1 64.6% +12.3%
HAUK TEODORO, PRICILA NMN 1 100.0% +0.0%
RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 1 51.8% +63.5%
SCHMITT, MICHAEL J 1 56.6% +21.7%
STEVENS, MARK V 1 65.4% +42.8%
HOLTZMAN, KATHERINE ANN 1 64.5% +57.9%
MI, QIUWEN 1 68.2% +49.9%
NEAGU, IRINA 1 46.6% +57.9%

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
18522521 PERIPLASMIC LIGAND TRAPPING SYSTEM HAUK TEODORO, PRICILA NMN 25d overdue

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
18720585 AUGMENTED AND MIXED REALITY INCORPORATING PATHOLOGY RESULTS IN SURGICAL SETTINGS BRUTUS, JOEL F 128d overdue
18039897 METHOD OF TREATING POLYAMINE IMBALANCE-RELATED DISORDERS SCHMITT, MICHAEL J 100d overdue
18135795 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE MI, QIUWEN 77d overdue
17909194 CANNABIDIOL NANODRUG FORMULATIONS AND METHODS FOR USE OF THE SAME STEVENS, MARK V 71d overdue
18628644 ROBOTIC SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR VASCULAR ACCESS LUAN, SCOTT 30d overdue
18306956 INNATE IMMUNE PROTEINS AS BIOMARKERS FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY IN ADULT AND PEDIATRIC PATIENTS HOLTZMAN, KATHERINE ANN 19d overdue
18028338 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND ALLEVIATING FATIGUE NEAGU, IRINA 3d overdue
18672929 METHODS FOR TREATING MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS LEE, ANDREW P 39d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1645 2
1629 2
1646 2
3797 1
1691 1
3792 1
1634 1
1613 1
1655 1
1647 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18720585 AUGMENTED AND MIXED REALITY INCORPORATING PATHOLOGY RESULTS IN SURGICAL SETTINGS BRUTUS, JOEL F 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 128d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2024
18672929 METHODS FOR TREATING MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS LEE, ANDREW P 1691 Other Non-Final OA 39d Pending May 23, 2024
18628644 ROBOTIC SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR VASCULAR ACCESS LUAN, SCOTT 3792 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2024
18522521 PERIPLASMIC LIGAND TRAPPING SYSTEM HAUK TEODORO, PRICILA NMN 1645 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2023
18556593 ENGINEERED MEGANUCLEASES THAT TARGET HUMAN MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMES RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 1634 DPOther Non-Final OA 69d Pending Oct 20, 2023
18039897 METHOD OF TREATING POLYAMINE IMBALANCE-RELATED DISORDERS SCHMITT, MICHAEL J 1629 §103 Non-Final OA 100d overdue Pending Jun 01, 2023
17909194 CANNABIDIOL NANODRUG FORMULATIONS AND METHODS FOR USE OF THE SAME STEVENS, MARK V 1613 §103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending May 15, 2023
18306956 INNATE IMMUNE PROTEINS AS BIOMARKERS FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY IN ADULT AND PEDIATRIC PATIENTS HOLTZMAN, KATHERINE ANN 1646 Other Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2023
18135795 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE MI, QIUWEN 1655 §103 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2023
18028338 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND ALLEVIATING FATIGUE NEAGU, IRINA 1629 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2023
18187960 CHEMERIN INHIBITORS AND USES THEREOF FOR TREATING KIDNEY CANCER METCALF, MATTHEW CURRAN 1647 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2023
18176396 STING-DEPENDENT ACTIVATORS FOR TREATMENT OF DISEASE CHONG, KIMBERLY 1636 Other Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2023
17915971 PHOTODYNAMIC ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY DEVICE SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN 3796 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Sep 29, 2022
17759139 VACCINATION AGAINST ANTIGENS INDUCED IN PATHOGEN-INFECTED CELLS PUTTLITZ, KARL J 1646 §112 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 20, 2022
17785524 Methods for Identifying Modulators of G Protein-Coupled Receptors GRASER, JENNIFER E 1645 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending Jun 15, 2022
17774892 TARGETED DELIVERY OF NANOCARRIER-CONJUGATED DOXORUBICIN BOWLES, DAVID PAUL 1654 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending May 06, 2022
17639510 QUANTIFICATION OF SYMMETRY AND REPEATABILITY IN LIMB MOTION FOR TREATMENT OF ABNORMAL MOTION PATTERNS LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P 3791 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2022
17470707 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RETROFITTING A MANUAL OPHTHALMIC DEVICE FOR REMOTE OPERATION DINH, JACK 2872 §103 Final Rejection 127d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2021
17396304 Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone Antagonists and Uses Thereof STEELE, AMBER D 1658 Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending Aug 06, 2021

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