Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (43%)
§102 only3 (43%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
43% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
57% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA 1 88.9% +10.6%
BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W 1 66.5% +32.1%
ABEL, LENORA A 1 69.2% +33.4%
CHANDRASIRI, UPUL PRIYADARSHAN 1 12.5% -16.7%
SASAN, ARADHANA 1 64.4% +26.4%
SCHERBEL, TODD J 1 76.2% +51.6%
WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN 1 71.2% +27.1%

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
18661492 INTERBODY FUSION DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA 15d

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
18331466 ENABLING MOBILE ROBOTS FOR AUTONOMOUS MISSIONS CHANDRASIRI, UPUL PRIYADARSHAN 6d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18486770 TREATMENT FOR METHAMPHETAMINE CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W 103d overdue
17901847 TISSUE EXPANDER SLEEVE AND TREATMENT FOR SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME, VAGINAL STENOSIS, VAGINAL AGENESIS / ATRESIA, AND NEOVAGINAL DILATION SCHERBEL, TODD J 35d overdue
18230206 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THIOL-ACRYLATE BASED MATERIALS FOR 3D CELL CULTURING IN A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE ABEL, LENORA A 15d overdue
18661492 INTERBODY FUSION DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA 15d
18016189 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING UPS-ASSOCIATED DISEASES SASAN, ARADHANA 19d
17451582 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR LYMPHEDEMA TREATMENT WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3773 1
1651 1
1799 1
3665 1
1615 1
3771 1
3785 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18661492 INTERBODY FUSION DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA 3773 §102 Final Rejection 15d Pending May 10, 2024
18486770 TREATMENT FOR METHAMPHETAMINE CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W 1651 Other Non-Final OA 103d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2023
18230206 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THIOL-ACRYLATE BASED MATERIALS FOR 3D CELL CULTURING IN A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE ABEL, LENORA A 1799 §102 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2023
18331466 ENABLING MOBILE ROBOTS FOR AUTONOMOUS MISSIONS CHANDRASIRI, UPUL PRIYADARSHAN 3665 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jun 08, 2023
18016189 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING UPS-ASSOCIATED DISEASES SASAN, ARADHANA 1615 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Jan 13, 2023
17901847 TISSUE EXPANDER SLEEVE AND TREATMENT FOR SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME, VAGINAL STENOSIS, VAGINAL AGENESIS / ATRESIA, AND NEOVAGINAL DILATION SCHERBEL, TODD J 3771 §102 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2022
17451582 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR LYMPHEDEMA TREATMENT WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Oct 20, 2021

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