Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Universität Zürich

13 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
5
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

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.

6
Hard (46%)
4
Medium (31%)
2
Easy (15%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (23%)
§103 only4 (31%)
§112 only1 (8%)
Double-patenting only1 (8%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (23%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

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
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
8% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
15% of docket
2
Business / Other
15% 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
PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER 2 58.3% +56.5%
DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M 1 52.5% +34.9%
NGUYEN, SANG H 1 88.6% +11.8%
RAHMAN, MASUDUR 1 71.8% +32.1%
CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER 1 40.9% +65.0%
ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN 1 61.0% +13.7%
ELENISTE, PIERRE PAUL 1 36.5% +32.1%
HADDAD, MAJD MAHER 1 100.0% +0.0%
KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 1 30.0% +38.8%
BEANE, RANDALL L 1 32.8% +36.6%

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
18865873 OPTICAL SENSOR AND ASSOCIATED METHODS NGUYEN, SANG H

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18558745 MEDICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALS (VEP) OF A PERSON ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN 14d
17781731 CONTRAST AGENT FOR 3D EX VIVO IMAGING OF VASCULAR AND TUBULAR STRUCTURES IN THE KIDNEY ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM 15d
18718620 ADENOVIRAL VECTORS RAHMAN, MASUDUR
18580742 Treatment and/or Prevention of Digestive Disorder by a Bacterial Composition of Propionibacterium Freudenreichii and Bifidobacterium Longum CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER
18491017 NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUIT WITH DELAY LINE HADDAD, MAJD MAHER
17789340 METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING CUTANEOUS T-CELL LYMPHOMA DISEASES MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18019382 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDOMIMETICS KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 8d overdue
18558745 MEDICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALS (VEP) OF A PERSON ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN 14d
18019388 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDOMIMETICS BEANE, RANDALL L 14d
17599921 Fc-MODIFIED BIOLOGICALS FOR LOCAL DELIVERY TO COMPARTMENT, IN PARTICULAR TO THE CNS PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER 14d
19138132 SCAR LIGHT MANIPULATOR DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M
18865873 OPTICAL SENSOR AND ASSOCIATED METHODS NGUYEN, SANG H
18718620 ADENOVIRAL VECTORS RAHMAN, MASUDUR
18580742 Treatment and/or Prevention of Digestive Disorder by a Bacterial Composition of Propionibacterium Freudenreichii and Bifidobacterium Longum CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1675 2
3798 1
2877 1
1657 1
3791 1
1622 1
4100 1
1658 1
1654 1
1618 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19138132 SCAR LIGHT MANIPULATOR DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M 3798 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 12, 2025
18865873 OPTICAL SENSOR AND ASSOCIATED METHODS NGUYEN, SANG H 2877 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 14, 2024
18718620 ADENOVIRAL VECTORS RAHMAN, MASUDUR §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 11, 2024
18580742 Treatment and/or Prevention of Digestive Disorder by a Bacterial Composition of Propionibacterium Freudenreichii and Bifidobacterium Longum CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER 1657 §101§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 19, 2024
18558745 MEDICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALS (VEP) OF A PERSON ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN 3791 §101§103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 03, 2023
18556701 A hydroxycarboxylic acid for the treatment of cancer ELENISTE, PIERRE PAUL 1622 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 23, 2023
18491017 NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUIT WITH DELAY LINE HADDAD, MAJD MAHER 4100 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 20, 2023
18019382 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDOMIMETICS KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 1658 §112Other Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Feb 02, 2023
18019388 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDOMIMETICS BEANE, RANDALL L 1654 DP Final Rejection 14d Pending Feb 02, 2023
17781731 CONTRAST AGENT FOR 3D EX VIVO IMAGING OF VASCULAR AND TUBULAR STRUCTURES IN THE KIDNEY ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM 1618 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jun 02, 2022
17599856 FC-MODIFIED BIOLOGICALS FOR LOCAL DELIVERY TO COMPARTMENTS, IN PARTICULAR TO THE CNS PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER 1675 Other Final Rejection Pending Sep 29, 2021
17599921 Fc-MODIFIED BIOLOGICALS FOR LOCAL DELIVERY TO COMPARTMENT, IN PARTICULAR TO THE CNS PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER 1675 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 29, 2021
17789340 METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING CUTANEOUS T-CELL LYMPHOMA DISEASES MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN 1677 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jun 27, 2022

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