Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The University of Mississippi has 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This prosecution activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The presence of only one pending matter indicates a concentrated current engagement with the USPTO, where the company's immediate patent goals are focused on a single application.
SAEED, KAMAL A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is the sole individual responsible for the 1 pending office action currently associated with the university. Because the entire portfolio's pending status rests with 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution outcome is dependent on the review of this specific individual. Practitioners should observe that the current workload is limited to this single point of contact within the patent office.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAEED, KAMAL A | 1 | 83.8% | +9.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18559887 | METHODS FOR REDUCING INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE | SAEED, KAMAL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18559887 | METHODS FOR REDUCING INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE | SAEED, KAMAL A | 1626 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUniversity of Mississippi has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kamal A Saeed has the most, with 1 of University of Mississippi's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
