Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA

13 pending office actions • 12 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
2
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

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 (8%)
9
Medium (69%)
3
Easy (23%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§103 only8 (62%)
§102 only1 (8%)
§112 only3 (23%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
62% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
3
Communications
23% of docket
1
Semiconductors
8% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 1 75.9% +15.2%
PARK, EDWARD 1 82.1% +18.1%
PARK, SOO JIN 1 81.9% +17.2%
YENINAS, STEVEN LEE 1 73.4% +3.7%
KUNEMUND, ROBERT M 1 82.0% +14.2%
ESSEX, STEPHAN J 1 65.5% -16.1%
MCCRACKEN, DANIEL 1 72.0% +16.2%
ROZOF, TIMOTHY R 1 72.6% +24.0%
PALENIK, JEFFREY T 1 54.1% +26.7%
FONTAINHAS, AURORA M 1 37.5% +48.0%

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
18702332 TARGET OUTER SHAPE ESTIMATION DEVICE AND THERAPEUTIC DEVICE PARK, EDWARD 9d overdue
18699428 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM PARK, SOO JIN 7d
18686143 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING CARBON NANOTUBE ASSEMBLED WIRE KUNEMUND, ROBERT M 29d

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
17764839 METHOD FOR INDUCING HIBERNATION-LIKE STATE AND DEVICE SAME MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 26d

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
18834798 ESTIMATION APPARATUS, LEARNING APPARATUS, ESTIMATION METHOD, LEARNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 19d overdue
18702332 TARGET OUTER SHAPE ESTIMATION DEVICE AND THERAPEUTIC DEVICE PARK, EDWARD 9d overdue
18699428 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM PARK, SOO JIN 7d
18250121 COPOLYMER CONTAINING POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) AND POLY(L-AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE), MICROPARTICLES THEREOF AND USE THEREOF IN PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION PALENIK, JEFFREY T 22d
17742050 Activity Modulator FONTAINHAS, AURORA M 27d
18686143 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING CARBON NANOTUBE ASSEMBLED WIRE KUNEMUND, ROBERT M 29d
18277855 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING CARBON NANOTUBE ASSEMBLED WIRE MCCRACKEN, DANIEL 39d
18276762 BODY TEMPERATURE LOWERING AGENT, BODY TEMPERATURE ELEVATION SUPPRESSOR, FOOD COMPOSITION FOR LOWERING BODY TEMPERATURE,AND FOOD COMPOSITION FOR SUPPRESSING BODY TEMPERATURE ELEVATION ROZOF, TIMOTHY R 56d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2675 2
2655 1
2858 1
1714 1
1727 1
1736 1
1625 1
1615 1
1675 1
1674 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18834798 ESTIMATION APPARATUS, LEARNING APPARATUS, ESTIMATION METHOD, LEARNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 2655 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2024
18702332 TARGET OUTER SHAPE ESTIMATION DEVICE AND THERAPEUTIC DEVICE PARK, EDWARD 2675 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2024
18699428 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM PARK, SOO JIN 2675 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Apr 08, 2024
18696741 ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DEVICE AND DETERIORATION EVALUATION METHOD YENINAS, STEVEN LEE 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18686143 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING CARBON NANOTUBE ASSEMBLED WIRE KUNEMUND, ROBERT M 1714 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Feb 23, 2024
18462063 SECONDARY BATTERY ESSEX, STEPHAN J 1727 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2023
18277855 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING CARBON NANOTUBE ASSEMBLED WIRE MCCRACKEN, DANIEL 1736 §102 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Aug 18, 2023
18276762 BODY TEMPERATURE LOWERING AGENT, BODY TEMPERATURE ELEVATION SUPPRESSOR, FOOD COMPOSITION FOR LOWERING BODY TEMPERATURE,AND FOOD COMPOSITION FOR SUPPRESSING BODY TEMPERATURE ELEVATION ROZOF, TIMOTHY R 1625 §112 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Aug 10, 2023
18250121 COPOLYMER CONTAINING POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) AND POLY(L-AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE), MICROPARTICLES THEREOF AND USE THEREOF IN PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION PALENIK, JEFFREY T 1615 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Apr 21, 2023
17742050 Activity Modulator FONTAINHAS, AURORA M 1675 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 11, 2022
17772042 Immune Response Suppressant XIE, XIAOZHEN 1674 §112 Final Rejection 9d Pending Apr 26, 2022
17764839 METHOD FOR INDUCING HIBERNATION-LIKE STATE AND DEVICE SAME MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 3791 §101 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Mar 29, 2022
17611007 NEURAL CELL POPULATION, NEURAL CELL-CONTAINING PREPARATION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAID POPULATION AND PREPARATION PARAS JR, PETER 1632 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Nov 12, 2021

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