Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (17%)
§102 only4 (67%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FLETCHER III, WILLIAM P 1 76.2% +16.6%
VALENCIA, JUAN C 1 86.6% +7.4%
WEISS, PAMELA HL 1 54.0% +46.9%
PHAN, ANNETTE HOANG-ANH 1 70.6% +33.3%
BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 1 36.1% +46.3%
WRIGHT, SARAH C 1 41.5% +46.9%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18640960 THERMO-CHEMICAL PROCESSING OF COAL VIA SOLVENT EXTRACTION VALENCIA, JUAN C 84d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18299490 CHAR BRICKS AND METHODS OF FABRICATION THEREOF WEISS, PAMELA HL 121d overdue
17990195 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS TO CONTROL CELLULAR EXPRESSION BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 60d overdue
18878508 PRE-COATING PYROLYSIS CHAR FOR CHAR BRICKS FLETCHER III, WILLIAM P 17d overdue
17463362 HYDROGEL-ENCAPSULATED CELLS AND HYDROGEL-DISPERSED CELLS WRIGHT, SARAH C 23d
18122940 CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE USING COVALENT ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS PHAN, ANNETTE HOANG-ANH 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1759 1
1771 1
1732 1
1736 1
1655 1
1619 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18878508 PRE-COATING PYROLYSIS CHAR FOR CHAR BRICKS FLETCHER III, WILLIAM P 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2024
18640960 THERMO-CHEMICAL PROCESSING OF COAL VIA SOLVENT EXTRACTION VALENCIA, JUAN C 1771 §102 Non-Final OA 84d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2024
18299490 CHAR BRICKS AND METHODS OF FABRICATION THEREOF WEISS, PAMELA HL 1732 Other Non-Final OA 121d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2023
18122940 CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE USING COVALENT ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS PHAN, ANNETTE HOANG-ANH 1736 §102 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Mar 17, 2023
17990195 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS TO CONTROL CELLULAR EXPRESSION BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 1655 §102 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2022
17463362 HYDROGEL-ENCAPSULATED CELLS AND HYDROGEL-DISPERSED CELLS WRIGHT, SARAH C 1619 §102 Final Rejection 23d Pending Aug 31, 2021

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