Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Louisiana State University

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (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%)
3
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§112 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1 63.5% +41.8%
CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN 1 43.8% +66.3%
BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 1 36.2% +46.0%
BYRD, BRIGID K 1 70.9% +48.2%

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17280085 SURGICAL LINE FIXATION DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF BYRD, BRIGID K 124d overdue
18268146 NUTRACEUTICAL COMPOUNDS USEFUL IN THE TREATMENT OF CORONAVIRUS DISEASE CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN 82d
18368505 VACCINE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 84d
17782949 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS TO MODULATE GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS BOECKELMAN, JACOB A

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1655 2
1645 1
3771 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18368505 VACCINE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1645 §112 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18268146 NUTRACEUTICAL COMPOUNDS USEFUL IN THE TREATMENT OF CORONAVIRUS DISEASE CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN 1655 §103 Non-Final OA 82d Pending Jun 16, 2023
17782949 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS TO MODULATE GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 1655 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 06, 2022
17280085 SURGICAL LINE FIXATION DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF BYRD, BRIGID K 3771 §103 Final Rejection 124d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2021

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