Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a fragmented oversight structure where each examiner handles exactly one pending action. Such a ratio suggests that prosecution strategies must be tailored individually for every active matter rather than relying on bulk negotiations or examiner-specific trends across multiple cases.
GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. While this represents the highest concentration of work for a single individual in this set, it still only accounts for a fraction of the total workload. Practitioners should note that the distinct art units involved may present varying procedural hurdles, even within the broader Chemistry & Materials field. The lack of overlap between the distinct examiners means that institutional knowledge gained from one case is unlikely to apply directly to another pending matter in this specific portfolio.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1 | 54.8% | +13.6% |
| LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K | 1 | 82.4% | +14.2% |
| BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716904 | FLEXIBLE CONDUCTIVE HEARING AIDS | LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19470953 | BILAYER ELECTRODES FOR PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | — |
| 18712000 | PEROVSKITES | BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19470953 | BILAYER ELECTRODES FOR PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | — |
| 18716904 | FLEXIBLE CONDUCTIVE HEARING AIDS | LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19470953 | BILAYER ELECTRODES FOR PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1721 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2025 |
| 18716904 | FLEXIBLE CONDUCTIVE HEARING AIDS | LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K | 2691 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18712000 | PEROVSKITES | BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS | 1692 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Mayla Gonzalez Ramos has the most, with 1 of BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
