Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cantor Colburn LLP - Uconn

13 pending office actions • 3 clients • 13 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
3
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
12
Medium (92%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (77%)
§102 only2 (15%)
§112 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
62% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
38% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE 1 56.7% +23.2%
NOGUEROLA, ALEXANDER STEPHAN 1 82.5% +3.0%
SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA 1 55.0% +50.0%
AHVAZI, BIJAN 1 63.5% +46.7%
SULTANA, NAHIDA 1 78.2% +8.5%
DROUIN, STEVE HOANG 1
WECKER, JENNIFER 1 71.1% +35.2%
HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL 1 70.3% +40.7%
HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES 1 64.8% +22.1%
JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING 1 50.0% +45.2%

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
18662392 CRISPR MEDIATED FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME NOGUEROLA, ALEXANDER STEPHAN 46d overdue

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
18125394 CONDUCTIVE POLYMER ELECTRODES, WIRING ELEMENTS, AND USE THEREOF IN HEALTH AND SPORTS MONITORING HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES 77d overdue
18658442 DERIVATION OF ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY RESPONSE FROM AN ELECTROCARDIOGRAM SIGNAL SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA 23d overdue
18012143 FLAVIVIRUS SIGNAL PEPTIDES, VACCINE CONSTRUCTS, AND METHODS THEREFOR JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING 23d overdue
19072068 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PEST CONTROL MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE 9d
18313734 APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR ARTIFACT REDUCTION IN ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL 13d
18262667 Multiplexed, CRISPR-based Diagnostics of SARS-CoV-2 in Autonomous Microfluidic Device WECKER, JENNIFER 19d
18627866 POLYCANNABINOIDS FOR COMMODITY POLYMERS AND COMMODITY ELECTRONICS AHVAZI, BIJAN 55d

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37912
36421
17951
37921
17631
17431
16271
17971
37941
16721

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19072068 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PEST CONTROL UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE 3642 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Mar 06, 2025
18662392 CRISPR MEDIATED FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME William Marsh Rice University NOGUEROLA, ALEXANDER STEPHAN 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending May 13, 2024
18658442 DERIVATION OF ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY RESPONSE FROM AN ELECTROCARDIOGRAM SIGNAL UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending May 08, 2024
18627866 POLYCANNABINOIDS FOR COMMODITY POLYMERS AND COMMODITY ELECTRONICS UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT AHVAZI, BIJAN 1763 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Apr 05, 2024
18283251 MULTI-MATERIAL BIOPRINTING UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SULTANA, NAHIDA 1743 §102 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Sep 21, 2023
18362485 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INHIBITION OF NEUTROPHIL RECRUITMENT IN MYCOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA-REPERFUSION INJURY UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT DROUIN, STEVE HOANG 1627 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jul 31, 2023
18262667 Multiplexed, CRISPR-based Diagnostics of SARS-CoV-2 in Autonomous Microfluidic Device UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT WECKER, JENNIFER 1797 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jul 24, 2023
18313734 APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR ARTIFACT REDUCTION IN ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL 3791 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending May 08, 2023
18125394 CONDUCTIVE POLYMER ELECTRODES, WIRING ELEMENTS, AND USE THEREOF IN HEALTH AND SPORTS MONITORING UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES 3794 §102 Final Rejection 77d overdue Pending Mar 23, 2023
18012143 FLAVIVIRUS SIGNAL PEPTIDES, VACCINE CONSTRUCTS, AND METHODS THEREFOR UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
17865105 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR THE DETECTION OF OXYGEN TOXICITY RELATED SYMPTOMS UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT EPPERT, LUCY CLARE 3791 §112 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2022
17834387 GRAPHENE-POLYAMIDE COMPOSITE MEMBRANES AND MICROPARTICLES, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE, AND METHODS OF USE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT ELLINGTON, MARRIAH C G 1773 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jun 07, 2022
17689329 ROOM TEMPERATURE PHOSPHORESCENT METAL-FREE CARBON DOTS IN A CONTINUOUS SILICA NETWORK AND METHODS OF MAKING South China Agricultural University HOBAN, MATTHEW E 1734 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Mar 08, 2022

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