Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH

9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (6)

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 (11%)
5
Medium (56%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (33%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (11%)
§103 only5 (56%)
No statute on record3 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
78% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
22% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN 1 63.6% +9.3%
KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 1 33.3% +30.0%
BEANE, RANDALL L 1 32.5% +37.8%
MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN 1 11.5% +60.0%
THUESON, HANNA MARIE 1 71.4% +30.8%
ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM 1 46.3% +21.8%
MCLEOD, AFRICA MHAIRIE 1 44.7% +68.6%
COUNTS, GARY W 1 58.9% +29.3%
PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER 1 58.6% +56.4%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18005622 BREATH-BASED THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING METHOD MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN 12d
17602757 A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE LIKELIHOOD OF A PATIENT BEING RESPONSIVE TO CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY COUNTS, GARY W 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
17926757 NOVEL TRANSDUCTION ENHANCERS AND USES THEREOF THUESON, HANNA MARIE 32d overdue
17639113 Minimal Messenger RNAs and uses thereof MCLEOD, AFRICA MHAIRIE 19d overdue
18019382 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDOMIMETICS KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 8d overdue
18005622 BREATH-BASED THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING METHOD MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN 12d
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
17781731 CONTRAST AGENT FOR 3D EX VIVO IMAGING OF VASCULAR AND TUBULAR STRUCTURES IN THE KIDNEY ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM 15d
17602757 A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE LIKELIHOOD OF A PATIENT BEING RESPONSIVE TO CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY COUNTS, GARY W 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 2
1658 1
1654 1
1638 1
1618 1
1635 1
1678 1
1675 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18558745 MEDICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALS (VEP) OF A PERSON ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 03, 2023
18019382 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDOMIMETICS KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 1658 Other Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Feb 02, 2023
18019388 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDOMIMETICS BEANE, RANDALL L 1654 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 02, 2023
18005622 BREATH-BASED THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING METHOD MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN 3791 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jan 16, 2023
17926757 NOVEL TRANSDUCTION ENHANCERS AND USES THEREOF THUESON, HANNA MARIE 1638 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2022
17781731 CONTRAST AGENT FOR 3D EX VIVO IMAGING OF VASCULAR AND TUBULAR STRUCTURES IN THE KIDNEY ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM 1618 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jun 02, 2022
17639113 Minimal Messenger RNAs and uses thereof MCLEOD, AFRICA MHAIRIE 1635 Other Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2022
17602757 A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE LIKELIHOOD OF A PATIENT BEING RESPONSIVE TO CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY COUNTS, GARY W 1678 §101 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 10, 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

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