Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
15 pending office actions • 15 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
University of Notre Dame Du Lac has 17 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The docket spans 17 distinct examiners and 16 distinct art units. Every recorded matter has a distinct examiner, while the art-unit figure shows that at least some matters share an art-unit assignment.
KEFAYATI, SOORENA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. This distribution places the practical emphasis on portfolio-level consistency rather than repeated interaction with a particular examiner. Counsel may benefit from tracking claim construction, cited technical references, and amendment positions by art unit, while preparing each response for its assigned examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (47%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 1 | 83.9% | +7.3% |
| LI, YONGHONG | 1 | 75.7% | +23.2% |
| HAMADYK, ANNA N | 1 | 85.3% | +12.7% |
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1 | 63.7% | +11.8% |
| KASSA, TIGABU | 1 | 36.7% | +27.9% |
| COTEY, PHILIP L | 1 | 83.9% | +21.2% |
| LUONG, PETER | 1 | 69.4% | +26.2% |
| FLYNN, RANDY A | 1 | 65.3% | +16.8% |
| CHAN, CAROL WANG | 1 | 84.2% | +33.6% |
| MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1 | 78.4% | +19.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18389049 | NON-CONTRASTIVE UNSUPERVISED LEARNING OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS FROM VIDEO | CHAN, CAROL WANG | 121d overdue |
| 18862753 | Integration-Friendly Low-Profile Planar Grin Lens Antennas for Millimeter Wave Handheld Devices | HAMADYK, ANNA N | 31d overdue |
| 18224842 | METHODS OF ALTERING PROTEIN DEPOSITION ON URINARY CATHETERS AND DEVICES | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 26d |
| 19033129 | PHOTOTHERMAL IMAGING DEVICE AND SYSTEM | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | — |
| 18914910 | TUNABLE ELECTROOSMOTIC FLOW POLYMER COATED CAPILLARY | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | — |
| 18839353 | INFRARED SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSOR BASED ON CAVITY-COUPLED NANOANTENNAS | COTEY, PHILIP L | — |
| 17909067 | COMPOSITION FOR EXTENDING VIABLE PRESERVATION AND SHELF-LIFE OF ORGANS AND TISSUES | MARTIN, PAUL C | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18389049 | NON-CONTRASTIVE UNSUPERVISED LEARNING OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS FROM VIDEO | CHAN, CAROL WANG | 121d overdue |
| 18625685 | LIVENESS DETECTION | FLYNN, RANDY A | 99d overdue |
| 18862753 | Integration-Friendly Low-Profile Planar Grin Lens Antennas for Millimeter Wave Handheld Devices | HAMADYK, ANNA N | 31d overdue |
| 18744824 | PROMOTING GENERALIZATION IN CROSS-DATASET REMOTE PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY | LUONG, PETER | 30d |
| 19000956 | DUAL-POLARIZED GROUND PENETRATING RADAR FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC PARAMETER CHARACTERIZATION FROM SUBSURFACE RADAR RETURNS | LI, YONGHONG | — |
| 18914910 | TUNABLE ELECTROOSMOTIC FLOW POLYMER COATED CAPILLARY | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | — |
| 18849978 | MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES AND METHODS OF DRUG RELEASE | KASSA, TIGABU | — |
| 18839353 | INFRARED SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSOR BASED ON CAVITY-COUPLED NANOANTENNAS | COTEY, PHILIP L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2424 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19033129 | PHOTOTHERMAL IMAGING DEVICE AND SYSTEM | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 2884 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19000956 | DUAL-POLARIZED GROUND PENETRATING RADAR FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC PARAMETER CHARACTERIZATION FROM SUBSURFACE RADAR RETURNS | LI, YONGHONG | 3648 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18862753 | Integration-Friendly Low-Profile Planar Grin Lens Antennas for Millimeter Wave Handheld Devices | HAMADYK, ANNA N | 2845 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18914910 | TUNABLE ELECTROOSMOTIC FLOW POLYMER COATED CAPILLARY | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18849978 | MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES AND METHODS OF DRUG RELEASE | KASSA, TIGABU | 1619 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18839353 | INFRARED SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSOR BASED ON CAVITY-COUPLED NANOANTENNAS | COTEY, PHILIP L | 2855 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18744824 | PROMOTING GENERALIZATION IN CROSS-DATASET REMOTE PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY | LUONG, PETER | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18625685 | LIVENESS DETECTION | FLYNN, RANDY A | 2424 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 99d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18389049 | NON-CONTRASTIVE UNSUPERVISED LEARNING OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS FROM VIDEO | CHAN, CAROL WANG | 2672 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 121d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18556228 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTION OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND REPERFUSION INJURY | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18453116 | AIR GAP PAPER ANALYTICAL DEVICE AND FABRICATION | HUANG, MICKEY NMN | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18224842 | METHODS OF ALTERING PROTEIN DEPOSITION ON URINARY CATHETERS AND DEVICES | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18334732 | MACROCYCLIC PEPTIDES | HA, JULIE | 1654 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 17909067 | COMPOSITION FOR EXTENDING VIABLE PRESERVATION AND SHELF-LIFE OF ORGANS AND TISSUES | MARTIN, PAUL C | 1653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
| 17312107 | PREDICTING AFFINITY USING STRUCTURAL AND PHYSICAL MODELING | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1687 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jun 09, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialUniversity of Notre Dame Du Lac has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 15 art units and 15 examiners.
Soorena Kefayati has the most, with 1 of University of Notre Dame Du Lac's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
