Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Maine System Board of Trustees has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Those matters are distributed across 3 examiners and 3 art units, indicating that the current prosecution workload spans multiple examination assignments rather than a single concentrated docket.
HIJAZ, OMAR F is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because the busiest examiner accounts for only 1 of the pending office actions, counsel should track each assigned matter independently and tailor responses to the relevant art-unit context.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIJAZ, OMAR F | 1 | 55.5% | +35.4% |
| ORME, PATRICK JAMES | 1 | 59.8% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841541 | FOLDABLE PHYSICAL STRUCTURES | HIJAZ, OMAR F | — |
| 18294825 | CELLULOSE NANOFIBER (CNF) STABILIZED MEMBRANES AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841541 | FOLDABLE PHYSICAL STRUCTURES | HIJAZ, OMAR F | — |
| 18294825 | CELLULOSE NANOFIBER (CNF) STABILIZED MEMBRANES AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841541 | FOLDABLE PHYSICAL STRUCTURES | HIJAZ, OMAR F | 3635 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18294825 | CELLULOSE NANOFIBER (CNF) STABILIZED MEMBRANES AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | 1779 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialUniversity of Maine System Board of Trustees has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Omar F Hijaz has the most, with 1 of University of Maine System Board of Trustees's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
