Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER

27 pending office actions • 22 art units • 27 examiners • 0 of 27 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

27
Total Pending OAs
19
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
2
Due this week
7
Due this month
2
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. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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%)
19
Medium (70%)
4
Easy (15%)
4
Unknown (15%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only15 (56%)
§102 only4 (15%)
§112 only4 (15%)
No statute on record4 (15%)

Industry Mix

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

17
Life Sciences
63% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
7% of docket
5
Semiconductors
19% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
11% 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.

270 h
Manual time on pending OAs
54 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
94 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KIM, KIHO 1 85.5% +4.2%
NGUYEN, VAN THU T 1 82.7% +6.6%
PENG, BO JOSEPH 1 69.6% +13.1%
KU, SI MING 1 72.4% +33.2%
LE, MICHAEL 1 65.9% +22.1%
JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO 1 68.5% +25.0%
HUNTSINGER, PETER K 1 28.5% +16.1%
MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER 1 71.2% +37.8%
SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 1 42.2% +38.8%
DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER 1 78.6% +17.1%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18814421 SWITCHING OF PERPENDICULARLY MAGNETIZED NANOMAGNETS WITH SPIN-ORBIT TORQUES IN THE ABSENCE OF EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELDS NGUYEN, VAN THU T 15d
18817175 Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy Imaging Markers Using Maximum A Posteriori Probability (MAP) Estimation KIM, KIHO 23d

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
18599398 FIRST-PERSON AUDIO-VISUAL OBJECT LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS HUNTSINGER, PETER K 44d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18241277 SURGICAL VISUALIZATION AND MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICES AND METHODS USING NEAR INFRARED FLUORESCENT POLYMERS SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 140d overdue
18760074 METHOD OF USING MULTIPARAMETRIC IMAGING DATA TO DIAGNOSE DISEASE STATES AND TO MONITOR THEIR PROGRESSION PENG, BO JOSEPH 70d overdue
18607405 DEVICES, METHODS, AND KITS FOR ISOLATION AND DETECTION OF ANALYTES USING MICROSLIT FILTERS JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO 67d overdue
18224404 INTERFERENCE COATINGS FOR FLEXIBLE OPTICS USING MULTILAYERED POLYMER THIN FILMS DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER 52d overdue
18599398 FIRST-PERSON AUDIO-VISUAL OBJECT LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS HUNTSINGER, PETER K 44d overdue
18633750 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING VIDEOS DEPICTING VIRTUAL CHARACTERS LE, MICHAEL 19d overdue
18467442 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR REJUVENATING CNS GLIAL POPULATIONS BY SUPPRESION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER 21d
18646987 DRILL GUIDE FOR IMPLANTABLE HEARING DEVICES KU, SI MING 76d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1797 2
1635 2
2872 2
1658 2
1638 2
2884 1
2824 1
3797 1
3775 1
2614 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18817175 Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy Imaging Markers Using Maximum A Posteriori Probability (MAP) Estimation KIM, KIHO 2884 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Aug 27, 2024
18814421 SWITCHING OF PERPENDICULARLY MAGNETIZED NANOMAGNETS WITH SPIN-ORBIT TORQUES IN THE ABSENCE OF EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELDS NGUYEN, VAN THU T 2824 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 23, 2024
18760074 METHOD OF USING MULTIPARAMETRIC IMAGING DATA TO DIAGNOSE DISEASE STATES AND TO MONITOR THEIR PROGRESSION PENG, BO JOSEPH 3797 §112 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Jul 01, 2024
18646987 DRILL GUIDE FOR IMPLANTABLE HEARING DEVICES KU, SI MING 3775 §102 Final Rejection 76d Pending Apr 26, 2024
18633750 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING VIDEOS DEPICTING VIRTUAL CHARACTERS LE, MICHAEL 2614 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2024
18607405 DEVICES, METHODS, AND KITS FOR ISOLATION AND DETECTION OF ANALYTES USING MICROSLIT FILTERS JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO 1797 Other Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2024
18599398 FIRST-PERSON AUDIO-VISUAL OBJECT LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS HUNTSINGER, PETER K 2682 §102 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18467442 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR REJUVENATING CNS GLIAL POPULATIONS BY SUPPRESION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER 1635 §112 Final Rejection 21d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18241277 SURGICAL VISUALIZATION AND MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICES AND METHODS USING NEAR INFRARED FLUORESCENT POLYMERS SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H 1618 §103 Final Rejection 140d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2023
18224404 INTERFERENCE COATINGS FOR FLEXIBLE OPTICS USING MULTILAYERED POLYMER THIN FILMS DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Jul 20, 2023
18261568 Staphylococcus aureus Antigen-Based Nucleic Acid Vaccines GRASER, JENNIFER E 1645 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jul 14, 2023
18270035 Optically Clear, Stretchable, Crosslinked Thin Film Polymeric Barrier Layers Protecting Optical Devices VAN SELL, NATHAN L 1783 §102 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2023
18259092 METHODS OF TREATING, DIAGNOSING AND PREDICTING PROGNOSIS OF SEPSIS REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 §103 Non-Final OA 85d Pending Jun 23, 2023
18034693 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MONITORING CELLS, TISSUES, OR ORGANS-ON-A-CHIP GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE 1797 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Apr 29, 2023
18249858 FUSION PROTEIN TARGETING MITOCHONDRIA, METHOD OF MAKING AND USE THEREOF FISHER, MELISSA L 1658 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 20, 2023
18030837 CURVED LIGHTGUIDE AND APPARATUS AND METHODS EMPLOYING A CURVED LIGHTGUIDE PATEL, PREET BAKUL 2874 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Apr 07, 2023
18160535 Compositions and Methods for Tendon Regeneration BUTTICE, AUDREY L 1647 Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 27, 2023
18158768 Biomarkers for identifying e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury COUNTS, GARY W 1678 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jan 24, 2023
18005311 Targeted RNA cleavage with dCas13-RNase Fusion Proteins RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES 1635 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jan 12, 2023
18004120 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS AND METHODS TRAN, TIFFANY T 3761 §112 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Jan 03, 2023
18000706 ENCODING AND EXPRESSION OF ACE-tRNAs CORDAS, EMILY ANN 1632 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2022
18047744 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING MYELIN DEFICIENCY BY REJUVENATING GLIAL PROGENITOR CELLS THUESON, HANNA MARIE 1638 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2022
17907121 Targeted Destruction of Viral RNA by CRISPR-Cas13 HILL, KEVIN KAI 1638 §103 Non-Final OA 145d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2022
17628913 Targeted RNA cleavage with CRISPR-Cas SPENCER, ANDREA LYNNE MORRIS 1631 §102 Final Rejection 20d Pending Jan 21, 2022
17504841 Mesomorphic Ceramics Films via Blade Coating of Nanorod Suspensions for High-Power Laser Applications JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Oct 19, 2021
17287184 Genome Editing by Directed Non-Homologous DNA Insertion Using a Retroviral Integrase-Cas9 Fusion Protein HASAN, KHALEDA B 1636 Other Non-Final OA 42d Pending Apr 21, 2021
16959869 SAMPLE PREPARATION AND FLOW-THROUGH SENSORS USING FUNCTIONALIZED SILICON NANOMEMBRANES CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA 1681 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jul 02, 2020

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