Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
University of Mississippi Medical Center is managing 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This concentration within only 2 art units suggests that the 4 pending matters, while handled by different individuals, fall into closely related technological categories within the medical device field.
NGUYEN, HUONG Q is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Although each of the 4 actions is assigned to a different examiner, the overlap in art units means that examiners are likely working within the same specialized knowledge base. For practitioners, this environment suggests that while examiner personalities will vary across the actions, the underlying examination standards and relevant prior art are likely to be consistent across the 2 involved art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIEBAUER, RONALD T | 2 | 40.8% | +34.0% |
| NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 1 | 46.2% | +44.4% |
| REYNOLDS, FRED H | 1 | 32.9% | +39.3% |
| MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO | 1 | 14.8% | +40.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17710984 | VIRTUAL IMMERSIVE SENSORIMOTOR DEVICE AND METHODS TO DETECT NEUROLOGICAL IMPAIRMENTS | MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO | 98d overdue |
| 18842760 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPROVED CLINICAL VESTIBULAR TESTING | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | — |
| 16835041 | Molecular Size of Elastin-Like Polypeptide Delivery System for Therapeutics Modulates Deposition in the Placenta | NIEBAUER, RONALD T | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17710984 | VIRTUAL IMMERSIVE SENSORIMOTOR DEVICE AND METHODS TO DETECT NEUROLOGICAL IMPAIRMENTS | MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO | 98d overdue |
| 16104037 | Composition and Method for Therapeutic Agent Delivery During Pregnancy | NIEBAUER, RONALD T | 60d overdue |
| 18373749 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PRECISELY SIZED MACRO- AND MICRO-ELP CONTAINING PARTICLES FOR THE DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS | REYNOLDS, FRED H | 3d overdue |
| 18842760 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPROVED CLINICAL VESTIBULAR TESTING | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | — |
| 16835041 | Molecular Size of Elastin-Like Polypeptide Delivery System for Therapeutics Modulates Deposition in the Placenta | NIEBAUER, RONALD T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1658 | 3 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18842760 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPROVED CLINICAL VESTIBULAR TESTING | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18373749 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PRECISELY SIZED MACRO- AND MICRO-ELP CONTAINING PARTICLES FOR THE DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS | REYNOLDS, FRED H | 1658 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 17710984 | VIRTUAL IMMERSIVE SENSORIMOTOR DEVICE AND METHODS TO DETECT NEUROLOGICAL IMPAIRMENTS | MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 98d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
| 16835041 | Molecular Size of Elastin-Like Polypeptide Delivery System for Therapeutics Modulates Deposition in the Placenta | NIEBAUER, RONALD T | 1658 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2020 |
| 16104037 | Composition and Method for Therapeutic Agent Delivery During Pregnancy | NIEBAUER, RONALD T | 1658 | §112 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2018 |
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Start Free TrialUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Ronald T Niebauer has the most, with 2 of University of Mississippi Medical Center's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
