Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 12 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Colorado State University Research Foundation has 12 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed across 12 distinct examiners and 12 distinct art units, showing a one-to-one separation between pending matters, examiners, and art units in the supplied data.
ARANT, HARRY E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. There is no concentrated examiner or art-unit cluster for counsel to treat as a common prosecution channel. Each response should therefore be managed as an individual matter, with portfolio coordination focused on consistent technical positions and docket control.
The broad distribution limits the usefulness of a single examiner-specific strategy. Counsel should instead preserve a common record of claim scope, disclosure support, and recurring issues while adapting the response to each examination assignment.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (8%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARANT, HARRY E | 1 | 50.0% | +21.4% |
| AGAHI, PUYA | 1 | 49.2% | +23.8% |
| NASHER, AHMED ABDULLALIM-M | 1 | 78.8% | +29.6% |
| DOUNIS, LAERT | 1 | 67.9% | +20.8% |
| VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN | 1 | 83.8% | +11.1% |
| KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1 | 64.8% | +9.7% |
| KWAK, DEAN P | 1 | 58.8% | +37.1% |
| MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1 | 78.4% | +19.8% |
| SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 1 | 28.6% | +51.3% |
| BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI | 1 | 28.1% | +74.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17913528 | PHOTO REACTOR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 42d overdue |
| 17729940 | METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS FOR p-Cresyl SULFATE ADSORPTION | GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | 6d |
| 18691113 | Modular High-Performance Turbo-Compression Cooling | DOUNIS, LAERT | 15d |
| 17906310 | PADLOCK PROBE-BASED ROLLING CIRCLE AMPLIFICATION PAIRED WITH NUCLEASE PROTECTION FOR POINT-OF-NEED NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION | BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI | 22d |
| 18843243 | JET IMPINGEMENT COOLING SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS OF COOLING HIGH HEAT FLUX DEVICES | ARANT, HARRY E | — |
| 18781632 | RESPIRABLE AND THORACIC SAMPLING INLET ASSEMBLIES | AGAHI, PUYA | — |
| 18568615 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING NON-TUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIAL INFECTIONS | VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN | — |
| 18529459 | BIODEGRADABLE ELASTOMERIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18020335 | ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROFLUIDIC ASSAY DEVICES | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 70d overdue |
| 17913528 | PHOTO REACTOR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 42d overdue |
| 18691113 | Modular High-Performance Turbo-Compression Cooling | DOUNIS, LAERT | 15d |
| 17906310 | PADLOCK PROBE-BASED ROLLING CIRCLE AMPLIFICATION PAIRED WITH NUCLEASE PROTECTION FOR POINT-OF-NEED NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION | BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI | 22d |
| 18843243 | JET IMPINGEMENT COOLING SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS OF COOLING HIGH HEAT FLUX DEVICES | ARANT, HARRY E | — |
| 18781632 | RESPIRABLE AND THORACIC SAMPLING INLET ASSEMBLIES | AGAHI, PUYA | — |
| 18666744 | PLUME IDENTIFICATION ALGORITHM FOR OPTICAL NATURAL GAS EMISSIONS IMAGING | NASHER, AHMED ABDULLALIM-M | — |
| 18568615 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING NON-TUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIAL INFECTIONS | VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2675 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 1622 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18843243 | JET IMPINGEMENT COOLING SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS OF COOLING HIGH HEAT FLUX DEVICES | ARANT, HARRY E | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2024 |
| 18781632 | RESPIRABLE AND THORACIC SAMPLING INLET ASSEMBLIES | AGAHI, PUYA | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18666744 | PLUME IDENTIFICATION ALGORITHM FOR OPTICAL NATURAL GAS EMISSIONS IMAGING | NASHER, AHMED ABDULLALIM-M | 2675 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18691113 | Modular High-Performance Turbo-Compression Cooling | DOUNIS, LAERT | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18568615 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING NON-TUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIAL INFECTIONS | VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN | 1622 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18529459 | BIODEGRADABLE ELASTOMERIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1767 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18186597 | DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS CARTRIDGE DEVICE AND SYSTEM | KWAK, DEAN P | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
| 18020335 | ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROFLUIDIC ASSAY DEVICES | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1797 | §102 | Final Rejection | 70d overdue | Pending | Feb 08, 2023 |
| 17913528 | PHOTO REACTOR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 1758 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
| 17906310 | PADLOCK PROBE-BASED ROLLING CIRCLE AMPLIFICATION PAIRED WITH NUCLEASE PROTECTION FOR POINT-OF-NEED NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION | BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI | 1671 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Sep 14, 2022 |
| 17794318 | Herbicide Combinations Comprising Glufosinate and Saflufenacil | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 1617 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
| 17729940 | METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS FOR p-Cresyl SULFATE ADSORPTION | GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | 1779 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialColorado State University Research Foundation has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 12 examiners.
Harry E Arant has the most, with 1 of Colorado State University Research Foundation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
