Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC.

25 pending office actions • 24 art units • 25 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

25
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
1
Due this week
9
Due this month
6
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (9)Due ≤ 60 days (6)Due later (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%)
22
Medium (88%)
2
Easy (8%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only22 (88%)
§112 only2 (8%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

13
Life Sciences
52% of docket
2
Information Tech
8% of docket
1
Communications
4% of docket
6
Semiconductors
24% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
8% of docket
1
Business / Other
4% 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.

250 h
Manual time on pending OAs
50 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
88 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI 1 64.3% +68.9%
SEABE, JUSTIN D 1 71.5% +24.6%
STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK 1 88.3% +8.7%
JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE 1 100.0% +0.0%
SAJOUS, WESNER 1 92.0% +7.6%
CHAN, DANNY 1 79.9% +25.8%
LIU, KENDRICK X 1 77.8% +15.1%
HAWKINS, IHSAN TAIWO 1
SCHMITT, MICHAEL J 1 56.6% +21.7%
PHILIPOSE, HANNAH SARAH 1 0.0% +0.0%

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
18730449 NUDIX OVEREXPRESSING ENGINEERED PLANTS AND USES THEREOF JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE 8d
18763083 VIRTUAL REALITY CLINICAL IMMERSION SAJOUS, WESNER 15d
18854362 ULTRA-HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION STRUCTURED LIGHT SCANNER AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK 56d

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
18482521 GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SWINE FOR PRECLINICAL VALIDATION PHILIPOSE, HANNAH SARAH 19d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19086230 HELMET SYSTEM AND KIT KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI 6d
19100420 MULTI-ROW PROPELLER (MRP) WITH CO-ROTATING BLADES SEABE, JUSTIN D 8d
18289409 CONJUGATED LINOLEIC ACID SUPPLEMENTATION FOR DISEASE TREATMENT SCHMITT, MICHAEL J 29d
18726264 MULTI-DEVICE POWER CONSUMPTION OPTIMIZATION CHAN, DANNY 35d
18672703 HIGH-BANDWIDTH CURRENT SENSOR WITH ADAPTIVE COMPENSATION FOR PARASITIC RESISTANCE LIU, KENDRICK X 36d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2877 2
3797 1
3745 1
1662 1
2612 1
2175 1
2853 1
2899 1
1629 1
1631 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19086230 HELMET SYSTEM AND KIT KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Mar 21, 2025
19100420 MULTI-ROW PROPELLER (MRP) WITH CO-ROTATING BLADES SEABE, JUSTIN D 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jan 31, 2025
18854362 ULTRA-HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION STRUCTURED LIGHT SCANNER AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Oct 04, 2024
18730449 NUDIX OVEREXPRESSING ENGINEERED PLANTS AND USES THEREOF JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE 1662 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jul 19, 2024
18763083 VIRTUAL REALITY CLINICAL IMMERSION SAJOUS, WESNER 2612 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 03, 2024
18726264 MULTI-DEVICE POWER CONSUMPTION OPTIMIZATION CHAN, DANNY 2175 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Jul 02, 2024
18672703 HIGH-BANDWIDTH CURRENT SENSOR WITH ADAPTIVE COMPENSATION FOR PARASITIC RESISTANCE LIU, KENDRICK X 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending May 23, 2024
18538792 HETEROGENEOUS TERMINATION STRUCTURES FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES HAWKINS, IHSAN TAIWO 2899 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Dec 13, 2023
18289409 CONJUGATED LINOLEIC ACID SUPPLEMENTATION FOR DISEASE TREATMENT SCHMITT, MICHAEL J 1629 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Nov 03, 2023
18482521 GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SWINE FOR PRECLINICAL VALIDATION PHILIPOSE, HANNAH SARAH 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Oct 06, 2023
18549447 DOUBLE-SIDE COOLED POWER MODULES VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 07, 2023
18280452 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CALIBRATED LABEL-FREE SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY FABIAN JR, ROBERTO 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Sep 05, 2023
18364088 TRAPEZOIDAL CURRENT CONTROL IN ELECTRONIC TRANSFORMERS LAXTON, GARY L 2838 §112 Final Rejection 28d Pending Aug 02, 2023
18255665 METHODS FOR EXTRACTING RARE EARTH ELEMENTS FROM RARE EARTH ELEMENT SOURCES MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18313523 METHODS FOR REMOVING DEICING SALT IONS FROM WATER RUNOFF PATEL, PRANAV N 1777 Final Rejection 171d overdue Pending May 08, 2023
18298082 SOYBEANS HAVING LOW TRYPSIN INHIBITOR EXPRESSION OR ACTIVITY SPEED, DEQUANTARIUS JAVON 1663 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Apr 10, 2023
18030250 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING A PI3K MEDIATED DISEASE D' AMBROSIO, THEA 1654 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2023
18044688 INHIBITORS OF SPINSTER HOMOLOG 2 (SPNS2) FOR USE IN THERAPY CHEN, PO-CHIH 1621 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Mar 09, 2023
18021637 INJECTABLE HYDROGELS AND METHODS OF CAPTURING CELLS USING THE SAME DAVIS, BRIAN J 1614 §112 Final Rejection 42d Pending Feb 16, 2023
17928337 ANTIMICROBIAL FILMS PETRITSCH, AMANDA MICHELLE 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 29, 2022
17925436 WORKFLOW FOR LAYER-LESS MULTI-AXIS MATERIAL EXTRUSION TRAN, VI N 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 15, 2022
17623578 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR HIGH-ENERGY BATTERY CATHODES AMPONSAH, OSEI K 1752 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2021
17382640 BACK EXOSKELETON TO ASSIST LIFTING KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN 3993 §103 Non-Final OA 383d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2021
17347508 Fabricating Porous Metallic Coatings Via Electrodeposition and Compositions Thereof USELDING, JOHN E 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 138d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2021
17188737 PEAK-PRESERVING AND ENHANCING BASELINE CORRECTION METHODS FOR RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L 1685 §103 Final Rejection 119d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2021

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