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11 pending office actions • 6 clients • 11 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 7 (64%) |
| §102 only | 2 (18%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (9%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLARK, RYAN T | 1 | 50.2% | +19.3% |
| XU, JUSTIN | 1 | 59.3% | +38.1% |
| CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | 1 | 54.5% | +53.1% |
| KIELIN, ERIK J | 1 | 66.7% | +4.8% |
| FARDANESH, MARJAN | 1 | 72.7% | +18.4% |
| WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1 | 76.4% | +26.6% |
| LI, AIQUN | 1 | 63.9% | +22.4% |
| YOON, KEVIN E | 1 | 59.3% | +43.1% |
| PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 1 | 54.2% | +45.8% |
| ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 64.8% | +21.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009384 | HYDRATION SENSOR FOR MONITORING AND DIAGNOSIS OF SKIN DISEASES IN ANY ENVIRONMENT AND APPLICATION OF SAME | PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 26d overdue |
| 18021429 | GRAPHENE-FUNCTIONALIZED COMPOSITES FOR BATTERY ANODES, FORMING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME | YOON, KEVIN E | 17d overdue |
| 18246197 | HETEROSTRUCTURE IONOGEL ELECTROLYTES, FABRICATING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME | LI, AIQUN | 8d overdue |
| 18633768 | WIRELESS AND NONINVASIVE EPIDERMAL ELECTRONICS | XU, JUSTIN | 3d overdue |
| 18287684 | HYBRID BIOELECTRONIC/ENGINEERED CELL WEARABLE SYSTEM FOR THERAPEUTIC AGENTS DELIVERY AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | 3d overdue |
| 18716989 | DEVICE FOR REVERSIBLY BLOCKING ACTIVITIES OF TARGET REGION AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME | CLARK, RYAN T | 5d |
| 18036189 | WIRELESS, IMPLANTABLE CATHETER-TYPE OPTOELECTRONIC SYSTEM AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME | FARDANESH, MARJAN | 13d |
| 17939057 | RECONFIGURABLE MEMTRANSISTORS | ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | 15d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Northwestern University | 6 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | 1 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | 1 |
| Lurie Children's Hospital | 1 |
| University of Illinois | 1 |
| REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 3 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 2814 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18716989 | DEVICE FOR REVERSIBLY BLOCKING ACTIVITIES OF TARGET REGION AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME | Washington University | CLARK, RYAN T | 3794 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18633768 | WIRELESS AND NONINVASIVE EPIDERMAL ELECTRONICS | Northwestern University | XU, JUSTIN | 3791 | Other | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18287684 | HYBRID BIOELECTRONIC/ENGINEERED CELL WEARABLE SYSTEM FOR THERAPEUTIC AGENTS DELIVERY AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | William Marsh Rice University | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18270891 | OHMIC-CONTACT-GATED CARBON NANOTUBE TRANSISTORS, FABRICATING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME | Northwestern University | KIELIN, ERIK J | 2814 | §112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 18036189 | WIRELESS, IMPLANTABLE CATHETER-TYPE OPTOELECTRONIC SYSTEM AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME | Ann And Robert H. Lurie Children’S Hospital Of Chicago | FARDANESH, MARJAN | 3791 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18029432 | COMPOSITES WITH SURFACE REFINING AND CONFORMAL GRAPHENE COATING, ELECTRODES, AND FABRICATING METHODS OF SAME | Northwestern University | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1721 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 18246197 | HETEROSTRUCTURE IONOGEL ELECTROLYTES, FABRICATING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME | Northwestern University | LI, AIQUN | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Mar 22, 2023 |
| 18021429 | GRAPHENE-FUNCTIONALIZED COMPOSITES FOR BATTERY ANODES, FORMING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME | Northwestern University | YOON, KEVIN E | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Feb 15, 2023 |
| 18009384 | HYDRATION SENSOR FOR MONITORING AND DIAGNOSIS OF SKIN DISEASES IN ANY ENVIRONMENT AND APPLICATION OF SAME | Northwestern University | PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
| 17939057 | RECONFIGURABLE MEMTRANSISTORS | The Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Illinois | ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 07, 2022 |
| 16970023 | WIRELESS MEDICAL SENSORS AND METHODS | Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Aug 14, 2020 |
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