Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Uti Limited Partnership

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

11 pending office actions • 10 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Uti Limited Partnership has 11 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters span 10 distinct examiners and 10 distinct art units, indicating a widely distributed prosecution docket with only limited overlap among examiner and art-unit assignments. This structure calls for disciplined matter tracking, deadline control, and response preparation tailored to individual examination settings.

DIBRINO, MARIANNE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. That assignment is the only identified examiner concentration above a single matter in the supplied data. The two matters before that examiner may support coordinated review, while the remaining docket requires separately managed prosecution strategies.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)

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.

8
Hard (73%)
2
Medium (18%)
1
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (18%)
§103 only2 (18%)
§112 only1 (9%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (55%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
82% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
18% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DIBRINO, MARIANNE 2 42.8% +42.2%
MOORE, WHITNEY 1 88.2% +10.1%
VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG 1 68.6% +27.3%
HAILEY, PATRICIA L 1 88.2% +10.0%
GONZALEZ, LUISALBERTO 1 59.7% +46.3%
WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A 1 86.3% -20.1%
JONES, KOLTON ED 1 — —
JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER LINDSAY 1 48.6% +78.3%
WOITACH, JOSEPH T 1 49.5% +27.4%
SABILA, MERCY HELLEN 1 57.5% +45.3%

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
18290692 METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK FILM AND METHOD OF MAKING WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A —

Hard Cases (8)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18026397 METHODS OF TREATING AND/OR PREVENTING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE WITH R-CARVEDILOL JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER LINDSAY 66d overdue
18744298 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GLOBAL REAL-TIME KINEMATIC PRECISE POSITIONING MOORE, WHITNEY —
18701047 MICRONEEDLE AND ARRAY AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG —
18691764 SORBENTS AND METHODS FOR CARBON CAPTURE VIA CALCIUM LOOPING HAILEY, PATRICIA L —
18288239 ULTRA-STRONG HYDROGEL FIBERS JONES, KOLTON ED —
18048339 METHODS FOR TREATING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE USING BIOCOMPATIBLE BIOABSORBABLE NANOSPHERES DIBRINO, MARIANNE —
17661873 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR SUSTAINED IMMUNOTHERAPY DIBRINO, MARIANNE —
17715796 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING CARDIOTOXICITY OF MOLECULAR PARAMETERS OF A COMPOUND BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS WOITACH, JOSEPH T —

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18026397 METHODS OF TREATING AND/OR PREVENTING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE WITH R-CARVEDILOL JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER LINDSAY 66d overdue
18581095 Halogenated Xanthenes as Vaccine Adjuvants GONZALEZ, LUISALBERTO 19d overdue
17532578 NANOPARTICLES COMPRISING NON-CLASSICAL MHC AND USES THEREOF SABILA, MERCY HELLEN 19d overdue
18744298 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GLOBAL REAL-TIME KINEMATIC PRECISE POSITIONING MOORE, WHITNEY —
18701047 MICRONEEDLE AND ARRAY AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG —
18691764 SORBENTS AND METHODS FOR CARBON CAPTURE VIA CALCIUM LOOPING HAILEY, PATRICIA L —
18048339 METHODS FOR TREATING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE USING BIOCOMPATIBLE BIOABSORBABLE NANOSPHERES DIBRINO, MARIANNE —
17661873 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR SUSTAINED IMMUNOTHERAPY DIBRINO, MARIANNE —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1641 2
3646 1
3783 1
1732 1
1624 1
1692 1
1763 1
1691 1
1687 1
1654 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18744298 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GLOBAL REAL-TIME KINEMATIC PRECISE POSITIONING MOORE, WHITNEY 3646 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 14, 2024
18701047 MICRONEEDLE AND ARRAY AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG 3783 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 12, 2024
18691764 SORBENTS AND METHODS FOR CARBON CAPTURE VIA CALCIUM LOOPING HAILEY, PATRICIA L 1732 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 13, 2024
18581095 Halogenated Xanthenes as Vaccine Adjuvants GONZALEZ, LUISALBERTO 1624 §112 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Feb 19, 2024
18290692 METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK FILM AND METHOD OF MAKING WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A 1692 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 19, 2024
18288239 ULTRA-STRONG HYDROGEL FIBERS JONES, KOLTON ED 1763 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2023
18026397 METHODS OF TREATING AND/OR PREVENTING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE WITH R-CARVEDILOL JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER LINDSAY 1691 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2023
18048339 METHODS FOR TREATING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE USING BIOCOMPATIBLE BIOABSORBABLE NANOSPHERES DIBRINO, MARIANNE 1641 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 20, 2022
17661873 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR SUSTAINED IMMUNOTHERAPY DIBRINO, MARIANNE 1641 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending May 03, 2022
17715796 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING CARDIOTOXICITY OF MOLECULAR PARAMETERS OF A COMPOUND BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS WOITACH, JOSEPH T 1687 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 07, 2022
17532578 NANOPARTICLES COMPRISING NON-CLASSICAL MHC AND USES THEREOF SABILA, MERCY HELLEN 1654 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2021

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Uti Limited Partnership have?

Uti Limited Partnership has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 10 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Uti Limited Partnership applications?

Marianne Dibrino has the most, with 2 of Uti Limited Partnership's pending office actions.

What technology area are Uti Limited Partnership's patent applications in?

Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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