Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITE LAVAL

8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (88%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (88%)
§112 only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
2
Semiconductors
25% 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
DIGUGLIELMO, DANIELLA MARIE 1 81.0% +25.9%
SHIAO, REI TSANG 1 80.0% -34.5%
QURESHI, MARIAM 1 74.8% +23.7%
HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA 1 68.3% +36.1%
MAYY, MOHAMMAD 1 47.8% +23.6%
CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 1 32.8% +26.7%
LYONS, MARY M 1 65.5% +41.5%
NGUYEN, LAUREN 1 54.4% +35.1%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 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

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
18005204 DUAL FUNCTION SURFACE FOR CELL CAPTURE AND SPREADING LYONS, MARY M 18d overdue
18702607 AUTOMATED MICROBLEED SEGMENTATION USING TRANSFER LEARNING DIGUGLIELMO, DANIELLA MARIE 17d overdue
18137538 Method of Selective Deposition of Small Molecules on Metal Surfaces MAYY, MOHAMMAD 15d
17783539 ELECTRODE STRUCTURE FOR CREATING ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL GRADIENT NGUYEN, LAUREN 29d
18539419 ELECTRODE STRUCTURE FOR FOVEAL LENS DEVICE QURESHI, MARIAM 60d
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2871 2
2666 1
1691 1
3785 1
1718 1
1618 1
1645 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18702607 AUTOMATED MICROBLEED SEGMENTATION USING TRANSFER LEARNING DIGUGLIELMO, DANIELLA MARIE 2666 §103 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 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18539419 ELECTRODE STRUCTURE FOR FOVEAL LENS DEVICE QURESHI, MARIAM 2871 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18276598 A Facial Mask Assembly Dispensing a Protective Laminar Airflow HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Aug 09, 2023
18137538 Method of Selective Deposition of Small Molecules on Metal Surfaces MAYY, MOHAMMAD 1718 §112 Final Rejection 15d Pending Apr 21, 2023
18018866 TOTAL SYNTHESES OF SPECIALIZED PRO-RESOLVING MEDIATORS (SPMS), STRUCTURAL ISOMERS AND STRUCTURAL ANALOGS CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jan 30, 2023
18005204 DUAL FUNCTION SURFACE FOR CELL CAPTURE AND SPREADING LYONS, MARY M 1645 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2023
17783539 ELECTRODE STRUCTURE FOR CREATING ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL GRADIENT NGUYEN, LAUREN 2871 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jun 08, 2022

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