Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC

11 pending office actions • 10 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

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%)
11
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
27% of docket
2
Information Tech
18% of docket
2
Communications
18% of docket
2
Semiconductors
18% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
18% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HAMADYK, ANNA N 1 85.4% +9.5%
LUONG, PETER 1 69.0% +26.9%
FLYNN, RANDY A 1 65.2% +16.5%
HO, DAO Q 1 83.3% +32.3%
PAN, YUWEN 1 49.6% +22.8%
CHAN, CAROL WANG 1 83.5% +35.4%
WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P 1 54.8% +17.5%
CHU, KATHERINE J 1 46.6% +20.4%
HIRAKIS, SOPHIA P 1 41.2% +74.1%
KIM, YONCHAN J 1 80.2% +21.9%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18389049 NON-CONTRASTIVE UNSUPERVISED LEARNING OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS FROM VIDEO CHAN, CAROL WANG 121d overdue
17725547 Sparse Phased-Array-Fed Focusing Aperture Antennas With Reduced Grating Lobes KIM, YONCHAN J 73d overdue
18862753 Integration-Friendly Low-Profile Planar Grin Lens Antennas for Millimeter Wave Handheld Devices HAMADYK, ANNA N 31d overdue
18605280 SPECTRUM SHAPING VIA CODING SCHEMES TO ADDRESS EMISSION CONSTRAINTS HO, DAO Q 4d 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
18389049 NON-CONTRASTIVE UNSUPERVISED LEARNING OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS FROM VIDEO CHAN, CAROL WANG 121d overdue
18625685 LIVENESS DETECTION FLYNN, RANDY A 99d overdue
17725547 Sparse Phased-Array-Fed Focusing Aperture Antennas With Reduced Grating Lobes KIM, YONCHAN J 73d overdue
18335090 ADJUSTABLE CROSS-FRAME ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF CHU, KATHERINE J 58d overdue
17771896 COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR POTENTIATING COLISTIN ACTIVITY HIRAKIS, SOPHIA P 44d overdue
18438130 APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING MULTI-PORT RADIO DEVICES PAN, YUWEN 9d overdue
18605280 SPECTRUM SHAPING VIA CODING SCHEMES TO ADDRESS EMISSION CONSTRAINTS HO, DAO Q 4d overdue
18224842 METHODS OF ALTERING PROTEIN DEPOSITION ON URINARY CATHETERS AND DEVICES WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2845 2
3797 1
2424 1
2432 1
2649 1
2672 1
1712 1
3671 1
1623 1
1687 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18862753 Integration-Friendly Low-Profile Planar Grin Lens Antennas for Millimeter Wave Handheld Devices HAMADYK, ANNA N 2845 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Nov 04, 2024
18744824 PROMOTING GENERALIZATION IN CROSS-DATASET REMOTE PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY LUONG, PETER 3797 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Jun 17, 2024
18625685 LIVENESS DETECTION FLYNN, RANDY A 2424 §103 Final Rejection 99d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2024
18605280 SPECTRUM SHAPING VIA CODING SCHEMES TO ADDRESS EMISSION CONSTRAINTS HO, DAO Q 2432 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2024
18438130 APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING MULTI-PORT RADIO DEVICES PAN, YUWEN 2649 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Feb 09, 2024
18389049 NON-CONTRASTIVE UNSUPERVISED LEARNING OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS FROM VIDEO CHAN, CAROL WANG 2672 §103 Non-Final OA 121d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2023
18224842 METHODS OF ALTERING PROTEIN DEPOSITION ON URINARY CATHETERS AND DEVICES WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P 1712 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jul 21, 2023
18335090 ADJUSTABLE CROSS-FRAME ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF CHU, KATHERINE J 3671 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2023
17771896 COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR POTENTIATING COLISTIN ACTIVITY HIRAKIS, SOPHIA P 1623 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2022
17725547 Sparse Phased-Array-Fed Focusing Aperture Antennas With Reduced Grating Lobes KIM, YONCHAN J 2845 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Apr 21, 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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