Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITÄT DES SAARLANDES

3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (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%)
3
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
33% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHENG, KAREN 1 76.3% +28.1%
ROSENAU, DEREK JOHN 1 77.4% +8.3%
COSGROVE, JAYSON D 1 50.4% +35.2%

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18042907 INHIBITORS OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA VIRULENCE FACTOR LasB CHENG, KAREN 30d overdue
17762126 MICRO AND NANO STRUCTURING OF A DIAMOND SUBSTRATE COSGROVE, JAYSON D 13d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1623 1
2837 1
1737 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18042907 INHIBITORS OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA VIRULENCE FACTOR LasB CHENG, KAREN 1623 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
17767438 Dielectric Transducer, Method for the Production Thereof and Actuator, Sensor or Generator ROSENAU, DEREK JOHN 2837 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Apr 08, 2022
17762126 MICRO AND NANO STRUCTURING OF A DIAMOND SUBSTRATE COSGROVE, JAYSON D 1737 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Mar 21, 2022

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