Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

University of Mississippi Medical Center

5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

1
Hard (20%)
2
Medium (40%)
1
Easy (20%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (20%)
§103 only2 (40%)
§112 only1 (20%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
60% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
40% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
REYNOLDS, FRED H 1 33.0% +39.2%
ALLEN, MICHAEL D 1 32.6% +48.7%
GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER 1 21.5% +6.8%
MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 1 14.3% +33.3%
NIEBAUER, RONALD T 1 41.4% +33.8%

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18141324 Virtual Immersive Sensorimotor Training System for Improving Functional Performance GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER 98d overdue
17710984 VIRTUAL IMMERSIVE SENSORIMOTOR DEVICE AND METHODS TO DETECT NEUROLOGICAL IMPAIRMENTS MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 98d overdue

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue 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
18277612 METHODS OF STRATIFYING AND TREATING CORONAVIRUS INFECTION ALLEN, MICHAEL D 53d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1658 2
1671 1
3715 1
3791 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18373749 METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PRECISELY SIZED MACRO- AND MICRO-ELP CONTAINING PARTICLES FOR THE DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 Other Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2023
18277612 METHODS OF STRATIFYING AND TREATING CORONAVIRUS INFECTION ALLEN, MICHAEL D 1671 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18141324 Virtual Immersive Sensorimotor Training System for Improving Functional Performance GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER 3715 §103 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2023
17710984 VIRTUAL IMMERSIVE SENSORIMOTOR DEVICE AND METHODS TO DETECT NEUROLOGICAL IMPAIRMENTS MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 3791 §101 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2022
16104037 Composition and Method for Therapeutic Agent Delivery During Pregnancy NIEBAUER, RONALD T 1658 §112 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2018

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