Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

22 pending office actions • 22 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (2)

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%)
17
Medium (77%)
4
Easy (18%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (64%)
§102 only3 (14%)
§112 only4 (18%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

14
Life Sciences
64% of docket
2
Information Tech
9% of docket
2
Communications
9% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A 1 63.4% +19.7%
SRIRAM, ADITYA 1 70.7% +27.1%
WONG, EDNA 1 58.2% -18.9%
PREVIL, DANIEL 1 85.8% +12.6%
SPEED, DEQUANTARIUS JAVON 1 72.0% +77.8%
SYLVESTER, KEVIN 1 66.7% +50.0%
SUMMERS, KIERSTEN V 1 11.9% +14.4%
KOLKER, DANIEL E 1 49.8% +64.1%
HIGGINS, GERARD T 1 62.8% +39.3%
TRINH, THANH TRUC 1 22.0% +11.5%

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
18278441 SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING COGNITIVE DECLINE BASED UPON MONITORED DRIVING PERFORMANCE PREVIL, DANIEL 31d overdue

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18108861 ENHANCING THE LIFETIME OF MOLECULAR AND MOLECULAR SALT PHOTOVOLTAICS & LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS TRINH, THANH TRUC 67d overdue
18201006 Packaging Evaluation Using NLP For Customer Reviews SUMMERS, KIERSTEN V 33d

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
18108861 ENHANCING THE LIFETIME OF MOLECULAR AND MOLECULAR SALT PHOTOVOLTAICS & LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS TRINH, THANH TRUC 67d overdue
18357767 PRODUCTION OF DITERPENE ALKALOIDS SPEED, DEQUANTARIUS JAVON 43d overdue
18184496 Biocontrol of Fusarium by Endophytic Fungi KOLKER, DANIEL E 37d overdue
18278441 SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING COGNITIVE DECLINE BASED UPON MONITORED DRIVING PERFORMANCE PREVIL, DANIEL 31d overdue
18351624 SURFACE TREATMENT OF CARBON FIBER EPOXY COMPOSITES THROUGH DIAZONIUM ADMOLECULE MODIFICATION SYLVESTER, KEVIN 9d
18024568 BRUSH COMPOSITIONS FOR MAGNETIC FIELD-ASSISTED FINISHING AND RELATED METHODS AND USES THEREOF HIGGINS, GERARD T 26d
18201006 Packaging Evaluation Using NLP For Customer Reviews SUMMERS, KIERSTEN V 33d
18890897 Microwave Capillary Nanodiamond Reactor DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A 71d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1717 1
2491 1
1795 1
2685 1
1663 1
1794 1
3626 1
1645 1
1785 1
1726 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18890897 Microwave Capillary Nanodiamond Reactor DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A 1717 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Sep 20, 2024
18730004 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR METAMAKING AND METAVERSE RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SRIRAM, ADITYA 2491 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Jul 18, 2024
18394150 ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIVE CARBOXYLATION OF UNSATURATED ORGANIC SUBSTRATES IN IONICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEDIUMS WONG, EDNA 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2023
18278441 SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING COGNITIVE DECLINE BASED UPON MONITORED DRIVING PERFORMANCE PREVIL, DANIEL 2685 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Aug 23, 2023
18357767 PRODUCTION OF DITERPENE ALKALOIDS SPEED, DEQUANTARIUS JAVON 1663 §112 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jul 24, 2023
18351624 SURFACE TREATMENT OF CARBON FIBER EPOXY COMPOSITES THROUGH DIAZONIUM ADMOLECULE MODIFICATION SYLVESTER, KEVIN 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 13, 2023
18201006 Packaging Evaluation Using NLP For Customer Reviews SUMMERS, KIERSTEN V 3626 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending May 23, 2023
18184496 Biocontrol of Fusarium by Endophytic Fungi KOLKER, DANIEL E 1645 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2023
18024568 BRUSH COMPOSITIONS FOR MAGNETIC FIELD-ASSISTED FINISHING AND RELATED METHODS AND USES THEREOF HIGGINS, GERARD T 1785 §112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Mar 03, 2023
18108861 ENHANCING THE LIFETIME OF MOLECULAR AND MOLECULAR SALT PHOTOVOLTAICS & LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS TRINH, THANH TRUC 1726 §103 Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2023
18041184 PROTEASOME ENHANCERS AND USES THEREOF SEAMAN, D MARGARET M 1625 §102 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Feb 09, 2023
18041179 PROTEASOME ENHANCERS AND USES THEREOF SHIM, DAVID M. 1626 §112 Final Rejection 33d Pending Feb 09, 2023
18041193 PROTEASOME ENHANCERS AND USES THEREOF OTTON, ALICIA L 1699 §102 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Feb 09, 2023
17926916 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC AND NONINVASIVE LIVESTOCK HEALTH ANALYSIS HAILE, BENYAM 2688 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17998128 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING LEVODOPA DYSKINESIA, ENHANCING MOTOR BENEFIT, AND DELAYING DISEASE PROGRESSION ANGELL, JON E 1637 §102 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2022
17903156 Systems And Method For Optogenetically Controlling Insulin Secretion For Treating Type 1 Diabetes SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA 3792 §103 Final Rejection 80d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2022
17856652 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIBROACOUSTIC DIAGNOSTIC AND CONDITION MONITORING A SYSTEM USING NEURAL NETWORKS LEE, HANA 3662 §103 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Jul 01, 2022
17712600 VACCINE AND THERAPEUTIC COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING ANTIGEN-CONJUGATED VIRAL CAPSIDS KINSEY WHITE, NICOLE ERIN 1672 §112 Final Rejection 29d Pending Apr 04, 2022
17637440 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ELECTROSTATIC ANALYSIS WITH MACHINE LEARNING MODEL LUO, JAMMY NMN 2151 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2022
17383507 Multi-Modal Contrast Agent For Medical Imaging KELLOGG, MICHAEL S 3798 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Jul 23, 2021
17423289 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMMUNE MODULATION AND TREATMENT OF CANCER HEITMEIER, KENDALL NICOLE 1621 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2021
17266133 IMPROVED PRODUCTION OF TERPENOIDS USING ENZYMES ANCHORED TO LIPID DROPLET SURFACE PROTEINS DEVEAU ROSEN, JASON 1662 §103 Final Rejection 42d Pending Feb 05, 2021

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