Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

University of Virginia Patent Foundation

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

67 pending office actions • 40 art units • 61 examiners • 0 of 67 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

67
Total Pending OAs
40
Non-Final OAs
23
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

16
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
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. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (16)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

40
Hard (60%)
20
Medium (30%)
5
Easy (7%)
2
Unknown (3%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (3%)
§101 + other10 (15%)
§103 only18 (27%)
§102 only1 (1%)
§112 only5 (7%)
Double-patenting + other1 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)28 (42%)
No statute on record2 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

38
Life Sciences
57% of docket
3
Information Tech
4% of docket
2
Communications
3% of docket
1
Semiconductors
1% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
15
Business / Other
22% 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.

670 h
Manual time on pending OAs
134 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
234 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WEARE, MEREDITH H 2 50.4% +31.7%
LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM 2 58.2% +40.0%
NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT 2 55.9% +34.2%
LUO, JAMMY NMN 2 — —
HUDSON, AMY ROSE 2 74.9% +11.5%
SHUPE, ELIZABETH A 2 66.2% +44.2%
DUDEK JR, EDWARD J 1 89.2% +5.4%
DALLO, JOSEPH J 1 89.7% +7.1%
STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA 1 67.3% +29.3%
SHARMA, SANTOSH 1 73.5% +28.9%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19233680 MEMBRANE: ACCELERATING DATABASE ANALYTICS WITH DRAM-PIM FILTERING DUDEK JR, EDWARD J —

Hard Cases (40)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17637557 DDX17 AND NLRC4 TARGETING FOR INFLAMMATORY DISEASES GOMEZ RODRIGUEZ, JULIO WASHINGTON 162d overdue
18316981 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION AND GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY HUDSON, AMY ROSE 127d overdue
18277676 GUEST-HOST SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLY OF INJECTABLE HYDROGEL NANOFIBERS FOR CELL ENCAPSULATION BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W 118d overdue
17407604 Cardiac Muscle-Cell-Based Coupled Oscillator Network for Collective Computing and Related Methods CORDAS, EMILY ANN 36d overdue
17398097 System, Method and Computer Readable Medium for Modeling Biobehavioral Rhythms from Mobile and Wearable Data Streams GEDRA, OLIVIA ROSE 28d overdue
17629303 CYSTEINE BINDING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF JARRELL, NOBLE E 8d overdue
18011412 TYPE 2 CYTOKINES AS PREDICTORS OF DISEASE SEVERITY AND/OR AS THERAPEUTIC TARGETS FOR COVID-19 KIM, YUNSOO 1d overdue
17909170 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING RISK OF DIAGNOSIS FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER USING NEONATAL ANALYTICS ROBINSON, GRETA LEE 20d

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18316981 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION AND GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY HUDSON, AMY ROSE 127d overdue
18037684 MULTICOMPARTMENT CONDUCTIVE COLLAGEN SCAFFOLD AND RELATED METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM 89d overdue
17050231 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM SHUPE, ELIZABETH A 89d overdue
19225122 TISSUE-SPECIFIC PROMOTERS IN PLANTS STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA —
19199865 INCREASING TRICHOME DENSITY AND IMPROVING TRANSPORT OF METABOLITES IN PLANT TRICHOMES SHARMA, SANTOSH —
18931879 SYSTEM COORDINATOR AND MODULAR ARCHITECTURE FOR OPEN-LOOP AND CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF DIABETES WEARE, MEREDITH H —
18852262 SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING THERANOSTIC AGENTS FOR BPCT AND BNCT FOR TARGETED CANCER TREATMENT LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM —
18476954 Efficient High-Entropy Alloys Design Method Including Demonstration and Software NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1632 4
1699 3
3798 2
1645 2
3791 2
1636 2
1643 2
1677 2
1637 2
2139 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19233680 MEMBRANE: ACCELERATING DATABASE ANALYTICS WITH DRAM-PIM FILTERING DUDEK JR, EDWARD J 2139 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 10, 2025
19230408 VEHICLES AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE IMPACT MITIGATION DALLO, JOSEPH J 3661 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 06, 2025
19225122 TISSUE-SPECIFIC PROMOTERS IN PLANTS STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA — §102§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 02, 2025
19199865 INCREASING TRICHOME DENSITY AND IMPROVING TRANSPORT OF METABOLITES IN PLANT TRICHOMES SHARMA, SANTOSH — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 06, 2025
19109729 VIBRATION BASED INTERACTION SYSTEM FOR ON BODY DEVICE AND METHOD TRAN, THANG DUC — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 07, 2025
19108271 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BODY MOTOR FUNCTION ASSESSMENT ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A 3798 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 03, 2025
18874464 MIXED LINKAGE GLUCAN BIOSYNTHESIS BY CELLULOSE SYNTHASE-LIKE CSLF6 (1,3;1,4)-B-GLUCAN SYNTHASE DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON 1662 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 12, 2024
18870862 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR CGM-BASED OGTT REPLACEMENT DIAGNOSIS TEST TIEDEMAN, JASON S 3683 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 02, 2024
18862887 MEASUREMENT OF PERMEATION OF SMALL MOLECULES INTO GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIA GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 04, 2024
18931879 SYSTEM COORDINATOR AND MODULAR ARCHITECTURE FOR OPEN-LOOP AND CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF DIABETES WEARE, MEREDITH H — §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 30, 2024
18854483 AUTOMATION OF THE BLOOD INPUT FUNCTION COMPUTATION PIPELINE FOR DYNAMIC FDG PET FOR HUMAN BRAIN USING MACHINE LEARNING DANG, RACHEL YEN VI 2668 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 04, 2024
18902235 SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND METHOD OF A ONE-HANDED ASPIRATOR MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 30, 2024
18852262 SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING THERANOSTIC AGENTS FOR BPCT AND BNCT FOR TARGETED CANCER TREATMENT LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2024
18844280 INHIBITORS OF FLI1 AND ERG CHAO, ALLEN — §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 05, 2024
18811413 STEADY-STATE THERMO-REFLECTANCE METHOD & SYSTEM TO MEASURE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY JAGAN, MIRELLYS 2855 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 21, 2024
18642539 NANOFIBERS AND THEIR USE IN ENHANCING PARTICLE-BASED HYDROGEL SCAFFOLDS FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE AND TISSUE ENGINEERING BROWE, DAVID 1632 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 22, 2024
18701104 A MICROFLUIDIC STRUCURE FOR DIFFERENTIAL EXTRACTION SINES, BRIAN J — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 12, 2024
18692937 METHODS FOR TREATING NEUROINFLAMMATION CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL 1645 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 18, 2024
18604185 ANNEXIN TO INHIBIT BACTERIA NIEBAUER, RONALD T — §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 13, 2024
18685194 SULFONYL-TRIAZOLES USEFUL AS COVALENT KINASE LIGANDS MOORE, SUSANNA 1624 §102§112 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 20, 2024
18684813 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR PARAMETRIC FDG PET QUANTIFICATION, SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF ABNORMALITIES FANG, MICHAEL YIMING 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 92d overdue Pending Feb 19, 2024
18684122 SINTERED MANGANESE SPINEL BATTERY ELECTRODES HORNSBY, BARTHOLOMEW ANDREW — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 15, 2024
18428746 METHODS OF TREATING VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS BARHAM, BETHANY P 1611 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 31, 2024
18542104 COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR A MICROTEXTURE HYDROPHOBIC OR SUPERHYDROPHOBIC COATING MANGOHIG, THOMAS A 1788 §103 Final Rejection 120d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2023
18566497 MINICELLS FROM HIGHLY GENOME REDUCED ESCHERICHIA COLI: CYTOPLASMIC AND SURFACE EXPRESSION OF RECOMBINANT PROTEINS AND INCORPORATION IN THE MINICELLS GANGLE, BRIAN J 1645 §112 Final Rejection 15d Pending Dec 01, 2023
18500403 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SENSOR COMPRESSION OF CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING (CGM) SENSORS SHAH, JAY B 3791 §101 Final Rejection 29d Pending Nov 02, 2023
18495324 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GAUSSIAN PROCESS AND DEEP LEARNING ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION ROZ, MARK 2675 — Final Rejection — Pending Oct 26, 2023
18284962 STABILIZED BORON ANIONS CARR, DEBORAH D 1691 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 29, 2023
18476954 Efficient High-Entropy Alloys Design Method Including Demonstration and Software NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT 2121 §101§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 28, 2023
18472215 Methods and Systems for Intramyocardial Tissue Displacement and Motion Measurement THOMAS, SOUMYA — §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 21, 2023
18281528 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING AND/OR PREVENTING THERAPY-RELATED CARDIOMYOPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH NEUTROPHIL INFILTRATION KIM, SEONG JONG 1621 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 11, 2023
18278485 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAPPING INDIVIDUALIZED METABOLIC PHENOTYPE TO A DATABASE IMAGE FOR OPTIMIZING CONTROL OF CHRONIC METABOLIC CONDITIONS LUO, JAMMY NMN — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 23, 2023
18278549 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE PHYSIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT AND PREDICTION OF CLINICAL SUBTYPES OF GLUCOSE METABOLISM DISORDERS LUO, JAMMY NMN — §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 23, 2023
18277752 THE COMBINED INFLUENCE OF VISCOELASTIC AND ADHESIVE CUES ON FIBROBLAST SPREADING AND FOCAL ADHESION FORMATION LEE, DORIS L 1699 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 17, 2023
18277676 GUEST-HOST SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLY OF INJECTABLE HYDROGEL NANOFIBERS FOR CELL ENCAPSULATION BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W 1651 §103§112 Final Rejection 118d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2023
18358437 ENHANCED DETECTION OF BIOFILM-EMBEDDED AND ADHERED PATHOGENS ON CONTAMINATED FOODS OR SURFACES USING ENZYMES UNDERDAHL, THANE E 1699 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 25, 2023
18273658 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCING DISPERSED GRAPHENE FROM SPENT LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES IQBAL, SYED TAHA 1736 §103 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Jul 21, 2023
18271911 ADRENERGIC MECHANISMS OF AUDIOGENIC SEIZURE-INDUCED DEATH IN MOUSE MODEL OF SCN8A ENCEPHALOPATHY SHIBUYA, MARK LANCE 1631 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 12, 2023
18333955 SYSTEM COORDINATOR AND MODULAR ARCHITECTURE FOR OPEN-LOOP AND CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF DIABETES WEARE, MEREDITH H 3791 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 13, 2023
18037684 MULTICOMPARTMENT CONDUCTIVE COLLAGEN SCAFFOLD AND RELATED METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM 1615 §103 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending May 18, 2023
18316981 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION AND GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY HUDSON, AMY ROSE 1636 §103§112 Final Rejection 127d overdue Pending May 12, 2023
18306680 THERAPEUTIC TARGETING OF ACTIVATED AVIL-INDUCED SARCOMAS HUDSON, AMY ROSE 1636 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 25, 2023
18031969 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR OVERCOMING DR5-INDUCED IMMUNE EVASION BY SOLID TUMORS SHUPE, ELIZABETH A 1643 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 14, 2023
18246372 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EARLY EFFICIENT DETECTION OF CO-EVOLUTIONARY SITES IN EVOLVING BIO-NETWORKS LI, SUN M — §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 23, 2023
18027202 3D-PRINTED MODULAR MICROCHIP WITH AN INTEGRATED IMPELLER PUMP TO MODEL INTER-ORGAN COMMUNICATION GIERE, REBECCA M 1677 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 20, 2023
18018848 ULTRASOFT, STRETCHABLE, REVERSIBLE ELASTOMERS FOR DIRECT-WRITE PRINTING DEFORMABLE STRUCTURES RODD, CHRISTOPHER M 1766 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 30, 2023
18014726 HERMETICALLY OR ASEPTICALLY SEALED BIOREACTOR SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD THEREOF KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA 1799 §103 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2023
18011412 TYPE 2 CYTOKINES AS PREDICTORS OF DISEASE SEVERITY AND/OR AS THERAPEUTIC TARGETS FOR COVID-19 KIM, YUNSOO 1641 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2022
17910613 METABOLITES RELEASED FROM APOPTOTIC CELLS ACT AS NOVEL TISSUE MESSENGERS BARSKY, JARED 1628 §103 Final Rejection 78d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2022
17909170 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING RISK OF DIAGNOSIS FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER USING NEONATAL ANALYTICS ROBINSON, GRETA LEE 2163 §103§112 Final Rejection 20d Pending Sep 02, 2022
17800371 AAV-Mediated Targeting of MIRNA in the Treatment of X-Linked Disorders TRAN, CHRISTINA L 1637 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 17, 2022
17800387 CAR T CELLS TARGETING THE INTEGRIN ALPHAV BETA3 EXHIBIT ROBUST ANTI-TUMOR RESPONSES AGAINST GLIOMAS AND OTHER SOLID TUMOR MALIGNANCIES BELYAVSKYI, MICHAIL A 1644 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 17, 2022
17796203 MITIGATING CONCENTRATION EFFECTS OF ANTIBODY DIGESTION FOR COMPLETE SEQUENCE COVERAGE COOK, LISA V 1642 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 28, 2022
17776524 TREATMENT OF CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTIONS PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER 1675 Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 12, 2022
17775213 CERAMIDE ANALOG SACLAC MODULATES SPHINGOLIPID LEVELS AND MCL-1 SPLICING TO INDUCE APOPTOSIS IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA SCHACHERMEYER, SAMANTHA LYNN 1693 §103 Final Rejection 84d overdue Pending May 06, 2022
17679265 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF FULLY-AUTOMATED ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS CONTROL FOR COUNTERACTING POSTPRANDIAL HYPERGLYCEMIA GOLLAMUDI, NEERAJA 3783 §102§112 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Feb 24, 2022
17637557 DDX17 AND NLRC4 TARGETING FOR INFLAMMATORY DISEASES GOMEZ RODRIGUEZ, JULIO WASHINGTON 1637 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 162d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2022
17590659 System, Method and Computer Simulation Environment For In Silico Trials in Pre-Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L 1685 §101DP Final Rejection — Pending Feb 01, 2022
17629303 CYSTEINE BINDING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF JARRELL, NOBLE E 1699 §102§112 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jan 21, 2022
17407604 Cardiac Muscle-Cell-Based Coupled Oscillator Network for Collective Computing and Related Methods CORDAS, EMILY ANN 1632 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Aug 20, 2021
17429745 SELECTION AND BLOCKADE OF FERTILIZATION COMPETENT MALE AND FEMALE GAMETES KIRWIN, STEFANIE JOHANNA 1677 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 10, 2021
17398097 System, Method and Computer Readable Medium for Modeling Biobehavioral Rhythms from Mobile and Wearable Data Streams GEDRA, OLIVIA ROSE 3681 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Aug 10, 2021
17396381 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING STYRENE TO BIODEGRADABLE ALTERNATIVES RAMIREZ, DELIA M 1652 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 06, 2021
17380549 Efficient High-Entropy Alloys Design Method Including Demonstration and Software NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT 1686 §101§103DP Final Rejection — Pending Jul 20, 2021
17282117 MODULAR BIOFABRICATION PLATFORM FOR DIVERSE TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS AND RELATED METHOD THEREOF STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 1632 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 01, 2021
17050231 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM SHUPE, ELIZABETH A 1643 §112 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2020
17045459 3D SPATIALLY PATTERNED LYMPH NODE ON A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE JOHNSON, KARA D 1632 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 05, 2020

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