Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mississippi State University has 5 pending office actions currently active within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, ensuring that no two pending matters are being reviewed by the same person. This distribution suggests a decentralized prosecution process where each application is subject to the unique interpretation and requirements of a different examiner. The portfolio's activity is dispersed across 4 distinct art units, which is nearly as many as the total count of pending office actions.
STOCK JR, GORDON J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, yet he is responsible for only 1 busiest examiner pending action. This confirms that the workload is evenly spread, with each of the 5 distinct examiners managing exactly one action. This indicates that the 5 pending office actions are likely situated in several different technical niches within the broader Chemistry & Materials field. For the practitioner, this means that prosecution strategies must be individually tailored for each application, as there is no examiner-level concentration to allow for a unified approach across the 4 distinct art units involved.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 | 81.5% | +17.5% |
| HA, NGUYEN Q | 1 | 80.4% | +4.1% |
| BOYER, RANDY | 1 | 70.4% | +8.2% |
| SAEED, KAMAL A | 1 | 83.9% | +9.8% |
| KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE | 1 | 16.2% | +21.4% |
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 | — |
| 18791898 | STRESS WAVE PROPAGATION THROUGH A 180 DEGREE BEND JUNCTION | HA, NGUYEN Q | — |
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 2 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 1771 | 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 |
| 18791898 | STRESS WAVE PROPAGATION THROUGH A 180 DEGREE BEND JUNCTION | HA, NGUYEN Q | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18303556 | Catalysts and process for liquid hydrocarbon fuel production | BOYER, RANDY | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
| 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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