Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITAT HEIDELBERG

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§112 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DENT, ALANA HARRIS 1 44.6% +32.4%
REDDIG, PETER J 1 58.0% +40.0%
BORI, IBRAHIM D 1 43.1% +38.0%
KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 1 33.3% +30.0%
HENSEL, BRENDAN A 1 66.9% +29.7%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17775791 COBICISTAT FOR PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT OF CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS REDDIG, PETER J 147d overdue
17107099 COMBINATION THERAPY OF LYMPHOMA BORI, IBRAHIM D 99d overdue
18578142 Xenon Gas for Use in the Treatment of Gliomas DENT, ALANA HARRIS 52d overdue
16959516 PHOTOBIOMODULATION DEVICE HENSEL, BRENDAN A 26d overdue
17051123 MODIFIED AAV CAPSID POLYPEPTIDES FOR TREATMENT OF MUSCULAR DISEASES KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 35d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1643 1
1646 1
1629 1
1658 1
1758 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18578142 Xenon Gas for Use in the Treatment of Gliomas DENT, ALANA HARRIS 1643 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2024
17775791 COBICISTAT FOR PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT OF CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS REDDIG, PETER J 1646 §103 Final Rejection 147d overdue Pending May 10, 2022
17107099 COMBINATION THERAPY OF LYMPHOMA BORI, IBRAHIM D 1629 §103 Final Rejection 99d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2020
17051123 MODIFIED AAV CAPSID POLYPEPTIDES FOR TREATMENT OF MUSCULAR DISEASES KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 1658 §112 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Oct 27, 2020
16959516 PHOTOBIOMODULATION DEVICE HENSEL, BRENDAN A 1758 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Jul 01, 2020

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