Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each matter is being reviewed by a unique individual. This distribution ensures that the current filings are subject to different perspectives within the patent office. Such a decentralized approach is common for academic institutions with diverse research outputs.
CONOR AIDAN O'MALLEY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. The pending office actions are also distributed across distinct art units. This requires the university to manage separate prosecution tracks, as there is no concentration of the 3 pending office actions under a single examiner or department. For a practitioner, this means that the university's success in the Communications sector depends on navigating the specific requirements of multiple examiners independently.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'MALLEY, CONOR AIDAN | 1 | 70.5% | -9.4% |
| HINES, LATOSHA D | 1 | 51.4% | +21.6% |
| HERRING, BRENT W | 1 | 69.0% | +16.5% |
| PIERCE, JEREMY R | 1 | 56.8% | +42.8% |
| HOLBROOK, MIA KEILANI | 1 | 50.0% | +100.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18738123 | Low-slope Roofing System | HERRING, BRENT W | 42d overdue |
| 18205059 | INCREASING ION CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIALS THROUGH STRUCTURAL DISORDER | HOLBROOK, MIA KEILANI | 11d overdue |
| 18594736 | Natural Binders for High-Strength Non-woven and Textile Fabrics | PIERCE, JEREMY R | 12d |
| 18934582 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF ALKALI-SILICA REACTIVITY ON CONCRETE STRUCTURES | O'MALLEY, CONOR AIDAN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18794690 | Biomass-based Biocharcoals | HINES, LATOSHA D | 70d overdue |
| 18738123 | Low-slope Roofing System | HERRING, BRENT W | 42d overdue |
| 18205059 | INCREASING ION CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIALS THROUGH STRUCTURAL DISORDER | HOLBROOK, MIA KEILANI | 11d overdue |
| 18594736 | Natural Binders for High-Strength Non-woven and Textile Fabrics | PIERCE, JEREMY R | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2675 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18934582 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF ALKALI-SILICA REACTIVITY ON CONCRETE STRUCTURES | O'MALLEY, CONOR AIDAN | 2675 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18794690 | Biomass-based Biocharcoals | HINES, LATOSHA D | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d overdue | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18738123 | Low-slope Roofing System | HERRING, BRENT W | 3633 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18594736 | Natural Binders for High-Strength Non-woven and Textile Fabrics | PIERCE, JEREMY R | 1789 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18205059 | INCREASING ION CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIALS THROUGH STRUCTURAL DISORDER | HOLBROOK, MIA KEILANI | 1724 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBoard Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Conor Aidan O'Malley has the most, with 1 of Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
