Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Colorado School of Mines

9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

5
Hard (56%)
3
Medium (33%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (11%)
§103 only3 (33%)
§112 only1 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (44%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
44% of docket
1
Information Tech
11% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
11% of docket
3
Business / Other
33% 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
IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA 1 82.4% +21.4%
ORME, PATRICK JAMES 1 59.5% +14.5%
TRINH, THANH TRUC 1 22.0% +11.3%
KORANG-BEHESHTI, YOSSEF 1 74.1% +12.4%
HAILEY, PATRICIA L 1 88.1% +10.1%
LIN, JASON 1 72.8% +23.7%
SHEIKH, HAROON S 1 70.5% +18.9%
MOON, MATTHEW RYAN 1 57.6% +60.8%
MCKENZIE, THOMAS B 1 57.4% +22.5%

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
18479419 HYDROTHERMAL ALKALINE TREATMENT OF PFAS-CONTAMINATED ADSORBENTS FOR CONTAMINANT MINERALIZATION AND ADSORBENT REGENERATION HAILEY, PATRICIA L 19d

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18329930 Protonic ceramic fuel cell system SHEIKH, HAROON S 28d
18754435 PLANARIZATION OF ROUGH SURFACES IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA
18650511 Reverse Osmosis Systems and Methods ORME, PATRICK JAMES
18614390 TUNABLE POLYMER TRANSPORT MATERIALS FOR APPLICATION IN PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS TRINH, THANH TRUC
18584766 RAPID MAPPING OF ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESSES IN ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES KORANG-BEHESHTI, YOSSEF
17852747 CHANNELIZED METAL SUBSTRATE TO ENHANCE INACTIVATION OF MICROBES MCKENZIE, THOMAS B

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18479419 HYDROTHERMAL ALKALINE TREATMENT OF PFAS-CONTAMINATED ADSORBENTS FOR CONTAMINANT MINERALIZATION AND ADSORBENT REGENERATION HAILEY, PATRICIA L 19d
18329930 Protonic ceramic fuel cell system SHEIKH, HAROON S 28d
18754435 PLANARIZATION OF ROUGH SURFACES IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA
18650511 Reverse Osmosis Systems and Methods ORME, PATRICK JAMES
18614390 TUNABLE POLYMER TRANSPORT MATERIALS FOR APPLICATION IN PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS TRINH, THANH TRUC
18584766 RAPID MAPPING OF ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESSES IN ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES KORANG-BEHESHTI, YOSSEF
18479363 THERMOELECTRIC IRRIGATION MODULE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF LIN, JASON
17983933 AIRBORNE DELIVERY OF MICROROBOTS MOON, MATTHEW RYAN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1726 1
1732 1
2117 1
1751 1
3785 1
1776 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18754435 PLANARIZATION OF ROUGH SURFACES IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 26, 2024
18650511 Reverse Osmosis Systems and Methods ORME, PATRICK JAMES §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 2024
18614390 TUNABLE POLYMER TRANSPORT MATERIALS FOR APPLICATION IN PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS TRINH, THANH TRUC 1726 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 22, 2024
18584766 RAPID MAPPING OF ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESSES IN ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES KORANG-BEHESHTI, YOSSEF §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 22, 2024
18479419 HYDROTHERMAL ALKALINE TREATMENT OF PFAS-CONTAMINATED ADSORBENTS FOR CONTAMINANT MINERALIZATION AND ADSORBENT REGENERATION HAILEY, PATRICIA L 1732 §112 Final Rejection 19d Pending Oct 02, 2023
18479363 THERMOELECTRIC IRRIGATION MODULE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF LIN, JASON 2117 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 02, 2023
18329930 Protonic ceramic fuel cell system SHEIKH, HAROON S 1751 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 06, 2023
17983933 AIRBORNE DELIVERY OF MICROROBOTS MOON, MATTHEW RYAN 3785 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 09, 2022
17852747 CHANNELIZED METAL SUBSTRATE TO ENHANCE INACTIVATION OF MICROBES MCKENZIE, THOMAS B 1776 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 29, 2022

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