Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Université Laval

9 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (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.

7
Hard (78%)
2
Medium (22%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (11%)
§102 only1 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (78%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
11% 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
FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 1 61.3% +25.3%
DIGUGLIELMO, DANIELLA MARIE 1 80.9% +26.1%
SHIAO, REI TSANG 1 79.9% -33.9%
GONZALEZ, LUISALBERTO 1 60.7% +45.5%
IQBAL, SYED TAHA 1 80.0% +21.7%
HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA 1 65.2% +40.0%
CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 1 32.8% +26.5%
KATAKAM, SUDHAKAR 1 74.7% +23.5%
SMITH, CHAD 1 79.0% +20.4%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18702607 AUTOMATED MICROBLEED SEGMENTATION USING TRANSFER LEARNING DIGUGLIELMO, DANIELLA MARIE 17d overdue
18572676 DERIVATIVES OF THE PROTECTIN 10S,17S-DIHDA (PDX) AND USE THEREOF AS ANTIVIRAL, ANTI-INFLAMMATORY, AND ANTI-DIABETIC AGENTS SHIAO, REI TSANG 22d
18276598 A Facial Mask Assembly Dispensing a Protective Laminar Airflow HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA 62d
18018866 TOTAL SYNTHESES OF SPECIALIZED PRO-RESOLVING MEDIATORS (SPMS), STRUCTURAL ISOMERS AND STRUCTURAL ANALOGS CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 70d
18571101 COMBINATION COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE SEROTONIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR AND AT LEAST ONE STIMULATOR OF POTASSIUM-CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER TYPE 2 AND ITS MEDICAL USE GONZALEZ, LUISALBERTO
18382191 BISMUTH-DOPED GERMANOSILICATE FIBER FOR E AND S BAND AMPLIFICATION IQBAL, SYED TAHA
18087433 PROCESS FOR THE LINEAR SYNTHESIS OF GRAM-POSITIVE CLASS II BACTERIOCINS AND COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF KATAKAM, SUDHAKAR

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
18702607 AUTOMATED MICROBLEED SEGMENTATION USING TRANSFER LEARNING DIGUGLIELMO, DANIELLA MARIE 17d overdue
18276598 A Facial Mask Assembly Dispensing a Protective Laminar Airflow HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA 62d
18018866 TOTAL SYNTHESES OF SPECIALIZED PRO-RESOLVING MEDIATORS (SPMS), STRUCTURAL ISOMERS AND STRUCTURAL ANALOGS CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 70d
18838855 METHOD FOR TREATING THE SURFACE OF AN IONIC AMORPHOUS MATERIAL TO CONTROL THE ORIENTATION OF LIQUID CRYSTALS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MULTI-DOMAIN ALIGNMENT LIQUID CRYSTAL CELLS FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN
18571101 COMBINATION COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE SEROTONIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR AND AT LEAST ONE STIMULATOR OF POTASSIUM-CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER TYPE 2 AND ITS MEDICAL USE GONZALEZ, LUISALBERTO
18382191 BISMUTH-DOPED GERMANOSILICATE FIBER FOR E AND S BAND AMPLIFICATION IQBAL, SYED TAHA
18087433 PROCESS FOR THE LINEAR SYNTHESIS OF GRAM-POSITIVE CLASS II BACTERIOCINS AND COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF KATAKAM, SUDHAKAR
18591364 OPTICAL MODULATOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE SMITH, CHAD

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1741 1
2666 1
1691 1
1624 1
1736 1
3785 1
1618 1
1658 1
2874 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18838855 METHOD FOR TREATING THE SURFACE OF AN IONIC AMORPHOUS MATERIAL TO CONTROL THE ORIENTATION OF LIQUID CRYSTALS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MULTI-DOMAIN ALIGNMENT LIQUID CRYSTAL CELLS FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 1741 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 15, 2024
18702607 AUTOMATED MICROBLEED SEGMENTATION USING TRANSFER LEARNING DIGUGLIELMO, DANIELLA MARIE 2666 §103§112 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2024
18572676 DERIVATIVES OF THE PROTECTIN 10S,17S-DIHDA (PDX) AND USE THEREOF AS ANTIVIRAL, ANTI-INFLAMMATORY, AND ANTI-DIABETIC AGENTS SHIAO, REI TSANG 1691 §103§112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18571101 COMBINATION COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE SEROTONIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR AND AT LEAST ONE STIMULATOR OF POTASSIUM-CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER TYPE 2 AND ITS MEDICAL USE GONZALEZ, LUISALBERTO 1624 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 15, 2023
18382191 BISMUTH-DOPED GERMANOSILICATE FIBER FOR E AND S BAND AMPLIFICATION IQBAL, SYED TAHA 1736 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 20, 2023
18276598 A Facial Mask Assembly Dispensing a Protective Laminar Airflow HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA 3785 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Aug 09, 2023
18018866 TOTAL SYNTHESES OF SPECIALIZED PRO-RESOLVING MEDIATORS (SPMS), STRUCTURAL ISOMERS AND STRUCTURAL ANALOGS CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 1618 §103§112 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jan 30, 2023
18087433 PROCESS FOR THE LINEAR SYNTHESIS OF GRAM-POSITIVE CLASS II BACTERIOCINS AND COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF KATAKAM, SUDHAKAR 1658 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 22, 2022
18591364 OPTICAL MODULATOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE SMITH, CHAD 2874 §102 Final Rejection Pending Feb 29, 2024

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