Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Brigham Young University

9 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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%)
9
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (89%)
§102 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
33% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
2
Semiconductors
22% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MAI, THIEN T 1 58.9% +20.8%
STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 1 37.6% +32.2%
KIM, MICHELLE JINJU 1 100.0% +0.0%
YI, STELLA KIM 1 70.6% +29.1%
SPLIT, JAMES GERALD 1 61.8% +39.0%
CHANG, OLIVIA C 1 84.3% +13.3%
CASS, JEAN PAUL 1 73.3% +25.5%
BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI 1 25.9% +74.7%
MELENDEZ, ARMAND 1 46.7% +42.7%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18567708 RESORBABLE MATERIAL ACTIVATED MECHANISMS CHANG, OLIVIA C 7d
18955592 HUMAN-READABLE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE KIM, MICHELLE JINJU 30d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17457594 METHOD FOR DETECTION OF VIRAL INFECTIONS USING SPLIT ENZYMES BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI 27d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18012124 DEVICE AND METHOD TO INDUCE VIBRATIONAL WAVEFORMS THAT HETERODYNE IN THE BODY TO IMPROVE SLEEP ONSET AND SLEEP QUALITY CASS, JEAN PAUL 91d overdue
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
18567708 RESORBABLE MATERIAL ACTIVATED MECHANISMS CHANG, OLIVIA C 7d
18576639 STIFFNESS AND STRENGTH ASSESSMENT OF GROWING PLANT MATERIAL SPLIT, JAMES GERALD 9d
17457594 METHOD FOR DETECTION OF VIRAL INFECTIONS USING SPLIT ENZYMES BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI 27d
19053875 WRITER FOR HUMAN-READABLE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE MAI, THIEN T 76d
17601771 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRINTING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT MELENDEZ, ARMAND 79d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2876 1
3623 1
2688 1
1742 1
2858 1
3775 1
3666 1
1672 1
1759 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19053875 WRITER FOR HUMAN-READABLE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE MAI, THIEN T 2876 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending Feb 14, 2025
18957286 COLLABORATIVE HUMAN-MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 3623 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2024
18955592 HUMAN-READABLE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE KIM, MICHELLE JINJU 2688 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Nov 21, 2024
18818559 METHOD FOR IMPROVING ABSORPTION OF DROPLETS ON POWDER YI, STELLA KIM 1742 §102 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2024
18576639 STIFFNESS AND STRENGTH ASSESSMENT OF GROWING PLANT MATERIAL SPLIT, JAMES GERALD 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jan 04, 2024
18567708 RESORBABLE MATERIAL ACTIVATED MECHANISMS CHANG, OLIVIA C 3775 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Dec 06, 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 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
17457594 METHOD FOR DETECTION OF VIRAL INFECTIONS USING SPLIT ENZYMES BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 03, 2021
17601771 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRINTING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT MELENDEZ, ARMAND 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Oct 06, 2021

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