Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (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 (75%)
1
Easy (12%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
§112 only1 (12%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
38% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ADNAN, MUHAMMAD 1 67.9% +29.9%
DUKE, EMMANUEL E 1 68.5% +27.7%
HINES, LATOSHA D 1 50.7% +22.6%
HERRING, BRENT W 1 68.9% +16.8%
PIERCE, JEREMY R 1 56.5% +43.5%
VOORHEES, CATHERINE M 1 83.3% +14.4%
BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1 42.5% +47.2%
HOLBROOK, MIA KEILANI 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
18509207 WEARABLE INSOLE FOR ENHANCED DIABETIC FOOT ULCER WOUND HEALING VOORHEES, CATHERINE M 15d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18794690 Biomass-based Biocharcoals HINES, LATOSHA D 70d overdue
18929581 Chip Enabled Raised Pavement Markers (CERPMs) for Enhanced Perception and Sensing in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) ADNAN, MUHAMMAD 52d overdue
18738123 Low-slope Roofing System HERRING, BRENT W 42d overdue
18222709 BIODEGRADABLE BIOPLASTIC BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 26d overdue
18594736 Natural Binders for High-Strength Non-woven and Textile Fabrics PIERCE, JEREMY R 12d
18509207 WEARABLE INSOLE FOR ENHANCED DIABETIC FOOT ULCER WOUND HEALING VOORHEES, CATHERINE M 15d
18800692 Expandable and/or Disposable Ice Pack DUKE, EMMANUEL E 39d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2688 1
3763 1
1771 1
3633 1
1789 1
3792 1
1762 1
1724 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18929581 Chip Enabled Raised Pavement Markers (CERPMs) for Enhanced Perception and Sensing in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) ADNAN, MUHAMMAD 2688 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2024
18800692 Expandable and/or Disposable Ice Pack DUKE, EMMANUEL E 3763 §112 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Aug 12, 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 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jun 10, 2024
18594736 Natural Binders for High-Strength Non-woven and Textile Fabrics PIERCE, JEREMY R 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Mar 04, 2024
18509207 WEARABLE INSOLE FOR ENHANCED DIABETIC FOOT ULCER WOUND HEALING VOORHEES, CATHERINE M 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Nov 14, 2023
18222709 BIODEGRADABLE BIOPLASTIC BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1762 Other Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2023
18205059 INCREASING ION CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIALS THROUGH STRUCTURAL DISORDER HOLBROOK, MIA KEILANI 1724 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023

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