Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Michigan Technological University has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, so each action has a separate examiner and examination-group context. Counsel should maintain consistent treatment of related research concepts while tailoring claim and evidence analysis to each individual prosecution record.
WONG, EDNA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The reported docket contains no examiner concentration beyond that assignment. A distributed review process is appropriate, with separate responses addressing the chemical or materials issues raised in each action and centralized oversight of terminology and amendment strategy.
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.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WONG, EDNA | 1 | 58.4% | -19.7% |
| LEE, CRYSTAL J | 1 | 82.2% | +21.4% |
| EVANS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 1 | 60.9% | +64.3% |
| FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1 | 45.6% | +35.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842106 | CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE AND UTILIZATION AS A CLEAN FEEDSTOCK | WONG, EDNA | 85d overdue |
| 18715978 | SIMULTANEOUS REMOVAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE, NOx and SOx USING SINGLE STAGE ABSORPTION COLUMN AND RELATED METHODS | LEE, CRYSTAL J | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17637018 | HIGH-BRIGHTNESS FLUOROPHORES FOR QUANTIFICATION AND PHENOTYPING OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES | EVANS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 8d overdue |
| 18715978 | SIMULTANEOUS REMOVAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE, NOx and SOx USING SINGLE STAGE ABSORPTION COLUMN AND RELATED METHODS | LEE, CRYSTAL J | — |
| 17615425 | HIGH-BRIGHTNESS NANODOT FLUOROPHORES BY COVALENT FUNCTIONALIZATION | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1677 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18842106 | CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE AND UTILIZATION AS A CLEAN FEEDSTOCK | WONG, EDNA | 1795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 85d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18715978 | SIMULTANEOUS REMOVAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE, NOx and SOx USING SINGLE STAGE ABSORPTION COLUMN AND RELATED METHODS | LEE, CRYSTAL J | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 17637018 | HIGH-BRIGHTNESS FLUOROPHORES FOR QUANTIFICATION AND PHENOTYPING OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES | EVANS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 1677 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2022 |
| 17615425 | HIGH-BRIGHTNESS NANODOT FLUOROPHORES BY COVALENT FUNCTIONALIZATION | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialMichigan Technological University has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Edna Wong has the most, with 1 of Michigan Technological University's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
