Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Colorado School Of Mines

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

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 (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
67% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FLETCHER III, WILLIAM P 1 76.2% +16.6%
HAILEY, PATRICIA L 1 88.2% +10.0%
SHEIKH, HAROON S 1 70.0% +18.9%
HEINCER, LIAM J 1 55.5% +25.9%
SARKER-NAG, AKHEE 1 82.3% +8.2%
JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY 1 31.3% +58.3%

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
18479419 HYDROTHERMAL ALKALINE TREATMENT OF PFAS-CONTAMINATED ADSORBENTS FOR CONTAMINANT MINERALIZATION AND ADSORBENT REGENERATION HAILEY, PATRICIA L 19d
17809841 CONTROL OF SURFACE MORPHOLOGY OF SPALLED (110) III-V SUBSTRATE SURFACES SARKER-NAG, AKHEE 29d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17564802 METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING ERROR-DIVISIBLE QUANTUM GATES JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY 58d overdue
18524589 CORE-SHELL NANOWIRE ELECTRODES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME FLETCHER III, WILLIAM P 31d overdue
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
18086379 POLYVINYL TOLUENE SCINTILLATORS PRODUCED USING CATIONIC PHOTOINITIATORS FOR ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED RADIATION DETECTORS HEINCER, LIAM J 30d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1759 1
1732 1
1751 1
1767 1
2893 1
2122 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18524589 CORE-SHELL NANOWIRE ELECTRODES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME FLETCHER III, WILLIAM P 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18479419 HYDROTHERMAL ALKALINE TREATMENT OF PFAS-CONTAMINATED ADSORBENTS FOR CONTAMINANT MINERALIZATION AND ADSORBENT REGENERATION HAILEY, PATRICIA L 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Oct 02, 2023
18329930 Protonic ceramic fuel cell system SHEIKH, HAROON S 1751 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 06, 2023
18086379 POLYVINYL TOLUENE SCINTILLATORS PRODUCED USING CATIONIC PHOTOINITIATORS FOR ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED RADIATION DETECTORS HEINCER, LIAM J 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Dec 21, 2022
17809841 CONTROL OF SURFACE MORPHOLOGY OF SPALLED (110) III-V SUBSTRATE SURFACES SARKER-NAG, AKHEE 2893 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jun 29, 2022
17564802 METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING ERROR-DIVISIBLE QUANTUM GATES JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY 2122 §103 Final Rejection 58d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2021

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