Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brigham Young University has 12 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 12 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. PATRICK J MAESTRI is the busiest examiner for the university, with 1 pending action. With 12 distinct examiners for 12 pending office actions, no examiner is currently handling more than one pending matter for the university.
The 7 distinct art units show that the university's research in transportation and mechanical systems is spread across several different technical classifications. This variety requires the university to manage prosecution across multiple specialized groups within the USPTO. The presence of 12 pending office actions indicates a steady flow of intellectual property through the examination process. Because each action is assigned to a different examiner, the university's legal representatives must be prepared for a broad range of individual examiner behaviors. The distribution across 7 distinct art units highlights the interdisciplinary nature of the university's mechanical and transportation-related innovations.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 only | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 5 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (46%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAESTRI, PATRICK J | 1 | 73.4% | +14.9% |
| MAI, THIEN T | 1 | 59.2% | +19.8% |
| STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R | 1 | 37.1% | +28.3% |
| KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 1 | 70.0% | +50.0% |
| KIM, YUNJU | 1 | 55.2% | +35.3% |
| MANCINI, EVAN THOMAS | 1 | 57.8% | +33.6% |
| YI, STELLA KIM | 1 | 71.0% | +28.5% |
| MOORE, JOHN DAVID | 1 | 64.2% | +24.8% |
| DO, ANDREW V | 1 | 84.7% | +11.3% |
| KIM, TAEYOON | 1 | 51.5% | +52.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18957286 | COLLABORATIVE HUMAN-MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM | STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R | 4d overdue |
| 18567708 | RESORBABLE MATERIAL ACTIVATED MECHANISMS | CHANG, OLIVIA C | 7d |
| 18955592 | HUMAN-READABLE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 30d |
| 19060576 | LOW-COST SHEET-BASED INSULATION WITH SWITCHABLE THERMAL PROPERTIES FOR USE IN RADIATION DOMINATED ENVIRONMENTS | MAESTRI, PATRICK J | — |
| 18766425 | MAIZE RUNNERS | DO, ANDREW V | — |
| 18593658 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING PROGENY WITH SELECTIVE TRAITS | KIM, TAEYOON | — |
| 18281927 | GALECTIN-1 IMMUNOMODULATION AND MYOGENIC IMPROVEMENTS IN MUSCLE DISEASES AND AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS | LIEB, JEANETTE M | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18818559 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING ABSORPTION OF DROPLETS ON POWDER | YI, STELLA KIM | 11d overdue |
| 18957286 | COLLABORATIVE HUMAN-MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM | STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R | 4d overdue |
| 18955592 | HUMAN-READABLE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 30d |
| 19053875 | WRITER FOR HUMAN-READABLE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE | MAI, THIEN T | 76d |
| 19060576 | LOW-COST SHEET-BASED INSULATION WITH SWITCHABLE THERMAL PROPERTIES FOR USE IN RADIATION DOMINATED ENVIRONMENTS | MAESTRI, PATRICK J | — |
| 18945202 | OBSERVATION AND CONTROL OF POWDER BED FUSION PROCESSES VIA MELT DETECTION | KIM, YUNJU | — |
| 18860200 | HIGH THROUGHPUT, THERMO-REFLECTANCE MICROSCOPY TO MEASURE THERMAL TRANSPORT AT THE MICROSCOPIC SCALE | MANCINI, EVAN THOMAS | — |
| 18800933 | SUSPENSION-BASED 3D CULTURE METHOD FOR ORGANOIDS | MOORE, JOHN DAVID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 2 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| 2688 | 1 |
| 1631 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 1654 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19060576 | LOW-COST SHEET-BASED INSULATION WITH SWITCHABLE THERMAL PROPERTIES FOR USE IN RADIATION DOMINATED ENVIRONMENTS | MAESTRI, PATRICK J | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19053875 | WRITER FOR HUMAN-READABLE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE | MAI, THIEN T | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 18957286 | COLLABORATIVE HUMAN-MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM | STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R | 3623 | §101 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18955592 | HUMAN-READABLE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 2688 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18945202 | OBSERVATION AND CONTROL OF POWDER BED FUSION PROCESSES VIA MELT DETECTION | KIM, YUNJU | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18860200 | HIGH THROUGHPUT, THERMO-REFLECTANCE MICROSCOPY TO MEASURE THERMAL TRANSPORT AT THE MICROSCOPIC SCALE | MANCINI, EVAN THOMAS | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18818559 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING ABSORPTION OF DROPLETS ON POWDER | YI, STELLA KIM | 1742 | §102 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18800933 | SUSPENSION-BASED 3D CULTURE METHOD FOR ORGANOIDS | MOORE, JOHN DAVID | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18766425 | MAIZE RUNNERS | DO, ANDREW V | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18593658 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING PROGENY WITH SELECTIVE TRAITS | KIM, TAEYOON | 1631 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18567708 | RESORBABLE MATERIAL ACTIVATED MECHANISMS | CHANG, OLIVIA C | 3775 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18281927 | GALECTIN-1 IMMUNOMODULATION AND MYOGENIC IMPROVEMENTS IN MUSCLE DISEASES AND AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS | LIEB, JEANETTE M | 1654 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18012124 | DEVICE AND METHOD TO INDUCE VIBRATIONAL WAVEFORMS THAT HETERODYNE IN THE BODY TO IMPROVE SLEEP ONSET AND SLEEP QUALITY | CASS, JEAN PAUL | 3666 | §103 | Final Rejection | 91d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
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