Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mississippi State University has 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across distinct art units and distinct examiners. Gordon J Stock Jr is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because each of the 4 pending office actions is assigned to a different examiner, there is no overlap in the current prosecution workload.
Practitioners must navigate the distinct art units without the benefit of shared examiner interactions. The presence of 1 pending office action under Gordon J Stock Jr represents the current assignment for this portfolio. Successful prosecution will require specific arguments for each of the examiners involved in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOCK JR, GORDON J | 1 | 81.6% | +17.4% |
| PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 1 | 59.8% | +49.7% |
| SAEED, KAMAL A | 1 | 83.8% | +9.8% |
| KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE | 1 | 16.1% | +21.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17701583 | POLYMERS AND CO-POLYMERS FOR POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES AND HIGH YIELD CARBON-CARBON COMPOSITE STRUCTURES THEREFROM | KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE | 67d overdue |
| 17923559 | Synthesis of Optically Active Indoline Derivatives Via Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed Enantioselective C-H Functionalization | SAEED, KAMAL A | 77d |
| 18998097 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTEGRATING-SPHERE-ASSISTED RESONANCE SYNCHRONOUS (ISARS) SPECTROSCOPY | STOCK JR, GORDON J | — |
| 19013724 | MODULAR EXTRACORPOREAL AMBULATORY LUNG ASSIST DEVICE | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17701583 | POLYMERS AND CO-POLYMERS FOR POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES AND HIGH YIELD CARBON-CARBON COMPOSITE STRUCTURES THEREFROM | KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE | 67d overdue |
| 18998097 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTEGRATING-SPHERE-ASSISTED RESONANCE SYNCHRONOUS (ISARS) SPECTROSCOPY | STOCK JR, GORDON J | — |
| 19013724 | MODULAR EXTRACORPOREAL AMBULATORY LUNG ASSIST DEVICE | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 1626 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18998097 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTEGRATING-SPHERE-ASSISTED RESONANCE SYNCHRONOUS (ISARS) SPECTROSCOPY | STOCK JR, GORDON J | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19013724 | MODULAR EXTRACORPOREAL AMBULATORY LUNG ASSIST DEVICE | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 17923559 | Synthesis of Optically Active Indoline Derivatives Via Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed Enantioselective C-H Functionalization | SAEED, KAMAL A | 1626 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
| 17701583 | POLYMERS AND CO-POLYMERS FOR POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES AND HIGH YIELD CARBON-CARBON COMPOSITE STRUCTURES THEREFROM | KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE | 1765 | §102 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Mar 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMississippi State University has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Gordon J Stock Jr. has the most, with 1 of Mississippi State University's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
