Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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%)
8
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
62% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
STICE, PAULA J 1 81.8% +22.0%
COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 1 75.9% +15.2%
HA, NGUYEN Q 1 80.1% +4.2%
OH, TAYLOR V 1 81.1% +15.4%
ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS 1 56.3% +70.0%
LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE 1 55.3% +56.3%
PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH 1 27.3% +60.6%
SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA 1 52.9% +47.9%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18575159 DEVICE FOR MEASURING DEFORMATIONS IN A BOREHOLE HA, NGUYEN Q 53d overdue
18563284 NOVEL AZAINDOLE DERIVATIVES AS ANTIVIRAL AGENTS OH, TAYLOR V 23d overdue
18716360 BUS DISTRIBUTED STIMULATION AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM STICE, PAULA J 4d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17756456 MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS WITH ENHANCED THERAPEUTIC PROPERTIES PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH 15d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18697907 METHOD FOR ANALYSING A NOISY SOUND SIGNAL FOR THE RECOGNITION OF CONTROL KEYWORDS AND OF A SPEAKER OF THE ANALYSED NOISY SOUND SIGNAL COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 87d overdue
18275331 BILE SALTS BACTOSENSOR AND USE THEREOF FOR DIAGNOSITC AND THERAPEUTIC PURPOSES ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS 30d overdue
18563284 NOVEL AZAINDOLE DERIVATIVES AS ANTIVIRAL AGENTS OH, TAYLOR V 23d overdue
18716360 BUS DISTRIBUTED STIMULATION AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM STICE, PAULA J 4d overdue
18041902 EUKARYOTIC DNA REPLICATION ORIGINS, AND VECTOR CONTAINING THE SAME LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE 6d
17756456 MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS WITH ENHANCED THERAPEUTIC PROPERTIES PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH 15d
17416988 BIOMARKERS, AND USES IN TREATMENT OF VIRAL INFECTIONS, INFLAMMATIONS, OR CANCER SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3796 1
2655 1
2853 1
1625 1
1651 1
1684 1
1634 1
1682 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18716360 BUS DISTRIBUTED STIMULATION AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM STICE, PAULA J 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 04, 2024
18697907 METHOD FOR ANALYSING A NOISY SOUND SIGNAL FOR THE RECOGNITION OF CONTROL KEYWORDS AND OF A SPEAKER OF THE ANALYSED NOISY SOUND SIGNAL COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 2655 §103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending May 02, 2024
18575159 DEVICE FOR MEASURING DEFORMATIONS IN A BOREHOLE HA, NGUYEN Q 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2023
18563284 NOVEL AZAINDOLE DERIVATIVES AS ANTIVIRAL AGENTS OH, TAYLOR V 1625 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2023
18275331 BILE SALTS BACTOSENSOR AND USE THEREOF FOR DIAGNOSITC AND THERAPEUTIC PURPOSES ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS 1651 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2023
18041902 EUKARYOTIC DNA REPLICATION ORIGINS, AND VECTOR CONTAINING THE SAME LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE 1684 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Feb 16, 2023
17756456 MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS WITH ENHANCED THERAPEUTIC PROPERTIES PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH 1634 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending May 25, 2022
17416988 BIOMARKERS, AND USES IN TREATMENT OF VIRAL INFECTIONS, INFLAMMATIONS, OR CANCER SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA 1682 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Jun 21, 2021

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