Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Colorado State University Research Foundation

18 pending office actions • 16 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
2
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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%)
13
Medium (72%)
4
Easy (22%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (61%)
§102 only2 (11%)
§112 only4 (22%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

16
Life Sciences
89% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
11% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HOLT, ANDRIAE M 2 48.7% +21.6%
SHEN, YANXIN NMN 1 100.0% +0.0%
DOUNIS, LAERT 1 67.9% +21.3%
COUGHLIN, DANIEL F 1 39.2% +20.0%
STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 1 44.2% +31.4%
STOCKDALE, JESSICA NICOLE 1 43.3% +44.0%
DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 1 48.2% +22.6%
MUI, CHRISTINE T 1 78.3% +20.0%
KRECK, JANINE MUIR 1 78.1% +13.4%
SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL 1 30.8% +46.7%

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
18621953 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR REDUCING POLYPHENOL OXIDASE ACTIVITY IN PLANTS SHEN, YANXIN NMN 71d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
17795281 HERBICIDE COMBINATIONS COMPRISING GLUFOSINATE AND TIAFENACIL HOLT, ANDRIAE M 127d overdue
18020335 ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROFLUIDIC ASSAY DEVICES MUI, CHRISTINE T 70d overdue
18052353 METHANOTROPHIC BIO-BARRIERS FOR REDUCING METHANE EMISSIONS KRECK, JANINE MUIR 52d overdue
17913528 PHOTO REACTOR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL 42d overdue
18029640 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING INACTIVATED MICROBES, AND METHODS FOR USE AND PRODUCTION THEREOF DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 18d overdue
18283587 3D PRINTING BONE-REGENERATION SCAFFOLDS COMPOSED OF BIOLOGICALLY-DERIVED BONE POWDER COUGHLIN, DANIEL F 6d
18220689 CELLULAR-ANTIMICROBIAL COMBINATION COMPOSITION AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF BACTERIAL INFECTIONS OF JOINTS AND SOFT TISSUES STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 8d
18691113 Modular High-Performance Turbo-Compression Cooling DOUNIS, LAERT 15d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1663 2
1614 2
3746 1
1619 1
1632 1
1645 1
1797 1
3672 1
1758 1
1671 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18621953 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR REDUCING POLYPHENOL OXIDASE ACTIVITY IN PLANTS SHEN, YANXIN NMN 1663 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Mar 29, 2024
18691113 Modular High-Performance Turbo-Compression Cooling DOUNIS, LAERT 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Mar 12, 2024
18283587 3D PRINTING BONE-REGENERATION SCAFFOLDS COMPOSED OF BIOLOGICALLY-DERIVED BONE POWDER COUGHLIN, DANIEL F 1619 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Sep 22, 2023
18220689 CELLULAR-ANTIMICROBIAL COMBINATION COMPOSITION AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF BACTERIAL INFECTIONS OF JOINTS AND SOFT TISSUES STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 1632 §102 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jul 11, 2023
18256396 PROTEASE INHIBITORS AND THEIR USE TO PROVIDE DISEASE RESISTANCE IN PLANTS AND AS ANTIMICROBIALS STOCKDALE, JESSICA NICOLE 1663 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Jun 07, 2023
18031176 HERBICIDE COMBINATION COMPRISING GLUFOSINATE, SAFLUFENACIL AND TRIFLUDIMOXAZIN HOLT, ANDRIAE M 1614 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 11, 2023
18029640 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING INACTIVATED MICROBES, AND METHODS FOR USE AND PRODUCTION THEREOF DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 1645 §112 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023
18020335 ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROFLUIDIC ASSAY DEVICES MUI, CHRISTINE T 1797 §102 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Feb 08, 2023
18052353 METHANOTROPHIC BIO-BARRIERS FOR REDUCING METHANE EMISSIONS KRECK, JANINE MUIR 3672 §112 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2022
17913528 PHOTO REACTOR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL 1758 §103 Final Rejection 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 Final Rejection 22d Pending Sep 14, 2022
17929574 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ANALYTE DETECTION BURKHART, MICHAEL D 1638 §112 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Sep 02, 2022
17795648 HERBICIDE COMBINATIONS COMPRISING GLUFOSINATE AND SELECTED PPO INHIBITORS LOVE, TREVOR M 1611 §103 Final Rejection 125d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2022
17795338 Herbicide combinations comprising glufosinate and trifludimoxazin HAGOPIAN, CASEY SHEA 1617 Other Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2022
17795281 HERBICIDE COMBINATIONS COMPRISING GLUFOSINATE AND TIAFENACIL HOLT, ANDRIAE M 1614 §103 Final Rejection 127d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2022
17729940 METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS FOR p-Cresyl SULFATE ADSORPTION GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Apr 26, 2022
17405289 MICROBIAL EFFICIENCY-MATRIX STABILIZATION (MEMS) ECOSYSTEM MODEL AND METHODS SKOWRONEK, KARLHEINZ R 1687 §103 Non-Final OA 124d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2021
17386820 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RAPID MANUFACTURING OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES DANIELS, MATTHEW J 1742 §112 Final Rejection 79d Pending Jul 28, 2021

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