Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION

16 pending office actions • 16 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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.

1
Hard (6%)
12
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (6%)
2
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (6%)
§103 only11 (69%)
§102 only1 (6%)
§112 only1 (6%)
No statute on record2 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
62% of docket
1
Information Tech
6% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
12% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
19% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AGUDELO, PAOLA 1 77.0% +16.9%
TENTONI, LEO B 1 81.9% +10.0%
MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H 1 73.5% +14.5%
ULLAH, ELIAS 1 84.6% +8.0%
FERNANDES, PATRICK M 1 59.9% +32.2%
COLLINS, GARY 1 83.1% +15.5%
DAVIS, SHENG HAN 1 65.9% +35.2%
COCHRAN, KARI LEE 1
MILLER, DALE R 1 62.3% +16.5%
VAN BUREN, LAUREN K 1 38.9% +57.3%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18652194 METHOD FOR NON-CONTACT HOMOGENEOUS MIXING OF FIBERS FEEDSTOCK FOR A CARDING PROCESS TENTONI, LEO B 43d overdue
18391031 WIDE BAND GAP (WBG) DEVICES BASED THREE-LEVEL ACTIVE NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED (ANPC) POWER MODULE DESIGNS ULLAH, ELIAS 29d
18367112 METHOD OF COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL (CNC) MACHINING AND HYBRID MANUFACTURING COLLINS, GARY 77d

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
18113469 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SINUSOIDAL SIGNAL DISTORTION MONITORING AND VISUALIZATION DALBO, MICHAEL J 21d

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
18652194 METHOD FOR NON-CONTACT HOMOGENEOUS MIXING OF FIBERS FEEDSTOCK FOR A CARDING PROCESS TENTONI, LEO B 43d overdue
18573797 BINDER JETTING PROCESS USING LIGHT CURING TECHNOLOGY MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H 24d overdue
18793307 Method of Retrofitting Building Exteriors With Insulation And Cladding Construction AGUDELO, PAOLA 22d overdue
18385490 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING GASTROINTESTINAL IMPAIRMENT FERNANDES, PATRICK M 4d overdue
18243215 SELECTIVE CARBON BINDING ON CARBON QUANTUM DOTS DAVIS, SHENG HAN 4d overdue
18194374 METHOD FOR TREATING OBESITY AND/OR HYPERTENSION MILLER, DALE R 56d
18124110 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INHIBITING ICE RECRYSTALLIZATION VAN BUREN, LAUREN K 76d
18367112 METHOD OF COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL (CNC) MACHINING AND HYBRID MANUFACTURING COLLINS, GARY 77d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3633 1
1742 1
1743 1
2893 1
3791 1
2115 1
1732 1
3774 1
1693 1
1638 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18793307 Method of Retrofitting Building Exteriors With Insulation And Cladding Construction AGUDELO, PAOLA 3633 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2024
18652194 METHOD FOR NON-CONTACT HOMOGENEOUS MIXING OF FIBERS FEEDSTOCK FOR A CARDING PROCESS TENTONI, LEO B 1742 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending May 01, 2024
18573797 BINDER JETTING PROCESS USING LIGHT CURING TECHNOLOGY MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H 1743 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2023
18391031 WIDE BAND GAP (WBG) DEVICES BASED THREE-LEVEL ACTIVE NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED (ANPC) POWER MODULE DESIGNS ULLAH, ELIAS 2893 §102 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18385490 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING GASTROINTESTINAL IMPAIRMENT FERNANDES, PATRICK M 3791 Other Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2023
18367112 METHOD OF COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL (CNC) MACHINING AND HYBRID MANUFACTURING COLLINS, GARY 2115 §103 Non-Final OA 77d Pending Sep 12, 2023
18243215 SELECTIVE CARBON BINDING ON CARBON QUANTUM DOTS DAVIS, SHENG HAN 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2023
18197849 MUSCLE-DRIVEN ENDOPROSTHESIS SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SAME COCHRAN, KARI LEE 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending May 16, 2023
18194374 METHOD FOR TREATING OBESITY AND/OR HYPERTENSION MILLER, DALE R 1693 §112 Final Rejection 56d Pending Mar 31, 2023
18124110 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INHIBITING ICE RECRYSTALLIZATION VAN BUREN, LAUREN K 1638 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending Mar 21, 2023
18113469 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SINUSOIDAL SIGNAL DISTORTION MONITORING AND VISUALIZATION DALBO, MICHAEL J 2857 §101 Final Rejection 21d Pending Feb 23, 2023
18109021 CORONAVIRUS TREATMENT COMPOSITION AND METHOD CREWS, JARET JAMES 1691 §103 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2023
18009579 METHODS AND MATCHA GREEN TEA CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS FOR PREVENTING AND TREATING TOOTH EROSION ROBERTS, LEZAH 1612 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2022
17821952 SELECTIVE ANDROGEN RECEPTOR COVALENT ANTAGONISTS (SARCAs) AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF JACKSON, SHAWQUIA 1626 Other Non-Final OA 100d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2022
17717899 ELECTRODES COMPRISING LIQUID/GAS DIFFUSION LAYERS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME CONTRERAS, CIEL P 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2022
17717821 NOVEL-ARCHITECTURE ELECTRODES WITH ENHANCED MASS TRANSPORT FOR HIGH-EFFICIENCY AND LOW-COST HYDROGEN ENERGY CONLEY, OI K 1752 §103 Final Rejection 120d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2022

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