Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
17 pending office actions • 12 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Oregon State University has 17 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 12 distinct art units, showing a degree of technical variety for a relatively small number of actions. The prosecution involves 17 distinct examiners, which means that every single pending action is being reviewed by a different person. This ratio of 17 distinct examiners for 17 pending office actions indicates that there is no concentration of work under any single official.
BAREFORD, KATHERINE A is the busiest examiner, though they only have 1 pending office action, which is the same as every other examiner in the portfolio. The 12 distinct art units suggest that the university 17 pending office actions are technically diverse, requiring a broad understanding of different chemistry and materials classifications. Managing 17 pending office actions with 17 distinct examiners across 12 art units requires the university to be prepared for a range of individual perspectives. Practitioners should ensure that the prosecution of these 17 actions remains consistent despite the lack of examiner overlap.
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.
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.
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 | 7 (41%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (59%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1 | 13.8% | +28.4% |
| ROY, DEBJANI | 1 | 75.8% | +15.1% |
| SUN, JIANGENG | 1 | 82.3% | +13.4% |
| SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | 1 | 87.6% | +21.4% |
| SOROWAR, GOLAM | 1 | 81.4% | +17.9% |
| REILLY, SOPHIA JANE | 1 | 60.8% | +49.2% |
| TORRES, ALICIA M | 1 | 73.5% | +17.5% |
| CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER | 1 | 40.4% | +65.0% |
| WANG, HAOPENG | 1 | — | — |
| CHEN, PO-CHIH | 1 | 74.2% | +14.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18676435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASED RESILIENCY OF MOBILE WIRELESS NETWORKS VIA DISTRIBUTED PUBLIC-KEY INFRASTRUCTURE (PKI) ALLIANCES | SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | 28d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18334237 | ELECTROCATALYTIC POLYMER DEVICE FOR BIOLOGICAL DETECTION | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 62d |
| 19354637 | METHOD OF FORMING A PATTERN FOR MICROELECTRONIC DEVICES | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | — |
| 18905107 | SENSORY ESTIMATES AND/OR PREDICTIONS OF MORPHOMETRY | SUN, JIANGENG | — |
| 18636140 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MATERIAL CONTENT | SOROWAR, GOLAM | — |
| 18617043 | THIOPHENE-BASED LIPIDS | REILLY, SOPHIA JANE | — |
| 18686249 | AUTONOMOUS ORGANISMS FOR SYNTHESIS OF PERMANENTLY PHOSPHORYLATED PROTEINS | CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER | — |
| 18575686 | METHODS OF TREATING OR PREVENTING CORONAVIRUS INFECTION WITH CANNABINOID ACIDS | CHEN, PO-CHIH | — |
| 18510483 | METAL SALT COMPOSITE CATHODES FOR METAL AND METAL ION BATTERIES | BAGILEO, MAXIMILIAN DOMINIC | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18676435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASED RESILIENCY OF MOBILE WIRELESS NETWORKS VIA DISTRIBUTED PUBLIC-KEY INFRASTRUCTURE (PKI) ALLIANCES | SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | 28d |
| 19354637 | METHOD OF FORMING A PATTERN FOR MICROELECTRONIC DEVICES | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | — |
| 19060433 | APPARATUS FOR NANOMATERIAL GENERATION AND PRINTING | ROY, DEBJANI | — |
| 18905107 | SENSORY ESTIMATES AND/OR PREDICTIONS OF MORPHOMETRY | SUN, JIANGENG | — |
| 18636140 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MATERIAL CONTENT | SOROWAR, GOLAM | — |
| 18617043 | THIOPHENE-BASED LIPIDS | REILLY, SOPHIA JANE | — |
| 18600546 | ERGONOMIC DIBBLE GARDENING TOOL | TORRES, ALICIA M | — |
| 18686249 | AUTONOMOUS ORGANISMS FOR SYNTHESIS OF PERMANENTLY PHOSPHORYLATED PROTEINS | CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 1 |
| 2433 | 1 |
| 2641 | 1 |
| 1627 | 1 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| 1621 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19354637 | METHOD OF FORMING A PATTERN FOR MICROELECTRONIC DEVICES | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1718 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19060433 | APPARATUS FOR NANOMATERIAL GENERATION AND PRINTING | ROY, DEBJANI | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18905107 | SENSORY ESTIMATES AND/OR PREDICTIONS OF MORPHOMETRY | SUN, JIANGENG | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18676435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASED RESILIENCY OF MOBILE WIRELESS NETWORKS VIA DISTRIBUTED PUBLIC-KEY INFRASTRUCTURE (PKI) ALLIANCES | SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | 2433 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18636140 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MATERIAL CONTENT | SOROWAR, GOLAM | 2641 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18617043 | THIOPHENE-BASED LIPIDS | REILLY, SOPHIA JANE | 1627 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18600546 | ERGONOMIC DIBBLE GARDENING TOOL | TORRES, ALICIA M | 3671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18686249 | AUTONOMOUS ORGANISMS FOR SYNTHESIS OF PERMANENTLY PHOSPHORYLATED PROTEINS | CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER | 1657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18442689 | USE OF MODIFIED CELLULOSE NANOMATERIALS IN CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITIONS | WANG, HAOPENG | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18575686 | METHODS OF TREATING OR PREVENTING CORONAVIRUS INFECTION WITH CANNABINOID ACIDS | CHEN, PO-CHIH | 1621 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18510483 | METAL SALT COMPOSITE CATHODES FOR METAL AND METAL ION BATTERIES | BAGILEO, MAXIMILIAN DOMINIC | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18493255 | MICROBIAL ELECTROSYNTHESIS OF SINGLE CELL PROTEIN | WILKINS III, HARRY D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18475182 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | MAZUMDER, DIDARUL A | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18448091 | DEVICE FOR MODULAR CONTROL OF MICROENVIROMENT FOR CELL MIGRATION AND CULTURE ASSAY AND METHOD FOR ITS USE | BRIDGES, DONAVAN LEE | 1758 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18228557 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL RESTORATION AND/OR CRYOPRESERVATION | YOH, JULIUS FRANCIS | 1799 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18334237 | ELECTROCATALYTIC POLYMER DEVICE FOR BIOLOGICAL DETECTION | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 17802083 | TIN-BASED PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF MAKING | CHU, JOHN S Y | 1737 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2022 |
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