Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Mississippi State University

8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due later (1)

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.

4
Hard (50%)
3
Medium (38%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (25%)
§102 only1 (12%)
§112 only1 (12%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
62% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
1
Business / Other
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HA, NGUYEN Q 1 80.3% +4.2%
BAUER, BRIANNA LEE 1
CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 1 62.8% +18.2%
VILLALUNA, ERIKA J 1 84.8% +3.2%
WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H 1 82.5% +12.7%
BOYER, RANDY 1 70.4% +8.2%
SAEED, KAMAL A 1 83.8% +9.6%
BUTTNER, DAVID J 1 63.9% +4.0%

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
18364726 COMPACT STRESS WAVEGUIDE VILLALUNA, ERIKA J

Hard Cases (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18198817 ARTICLES AND METHODS FOR OSTEOMETRIC MEASUREMENT WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H 28d overdue
18383853 PROCESSING CONVENTIONAL PAPERS AND PULPS INTO HYDROPHOBIC AND WATER-RESISTANT PACKAGING MATERIALS AND TABLEWARE CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 8d overdue
17923559 Synthesis of Optically Active Indoline Derivatives Via Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed Enantioselective C-H Functionalization SAEED, KAMAL A 77d
18791898 STRESS WAVE PROPAGATION THROUGH A 180 DEGREE BEND JUNCTION HA, NGUYEN Q

Interview Candidates (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18198817 ARTICLES AND METHODS FOR OSTEOMETRIC MEASUREMENT WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H 28d overdue
18383853 PROCESSING CONVENTIONAL PAPERS AND PULPS INTO HYDROPHOBIC AND WATER-RESISTANT PACKAGING MATERIALS AND TABLEWARE CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 8d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1623 1
1748 1
2852 1
3642 1
1771 1
1626 1
1765 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18791898 STRESS WAVE PROPAGATION THROUGH A 180 DEGREE BEND JUNCTION HA, NGUYEN Q §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 01, 2024
18524289 THIENYL-DIBENZOAZEPINES AND THEIR DERIVATIVES AS DONORS FOR XANTHENE-BASED SHORT-WAVE INFRARED (SWIR) DYES BAUER, BRIANNA LEE 1623 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 30, 2023
18383853 PROCESSING CONVENTIONAL PAPERS AND PULPS INTO HYDROPHOBIC AND WATER-RESISTANT PACKAGING MATERIALS AND TABLEWARE CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 1748 §102§103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18364726 COMPACT STRESS WAVEGUIDE VILLALUNA, ERIKA J 2852 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 03, 2023
18198817 ARTICLES AND METHODS FOR OSTEOMETRIC MEASUREMENT WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H 3642 §103§112 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending May 17, 2023
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 BUTTNER, DAVID J 1765 §102 Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2022

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