Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

West Virginia University

14 pending office actions • 12 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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.

0
Hard (0%)
14
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
36% of docket
1
Information Tech
7% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BEGEMAN, ANDREW W 1 42.6% +21.0%
NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC 1 52.6% +40.2%
BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE 1 23.1% +27.6%
POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR 1 64.1% +32.3%
BASET, NESHAT 1 29.7% +28.0%
TEIXEIRA MOFFAT, JONATHAN CHARLES 1 68.1% +10.4%
LANGEL, WAYNE A 1 78.5% +23.4%
FORREST, MICHAEL 1 59.2% +13.4%
STOFFA, WYATT A 1 79.9% +22.4%
RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1 44.9% +32.6%

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
18416661 Shiny Based System for Determining Inventory Parameters BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE 27d
18397997 SCREENING, MONITORING, AND TREATMENT OF COGNITIVE DISORDERS BASET, NESHAT 83d

Interview Candidates (10)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18284525 COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR MICROWAVE CATALYTIC AMMONIA SYNTHESIS LANGEL, WAYNE A 99d overdue
18388192 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF IMPROVING AND MONITORING ADDICTION USING CUE REACTIVITY TEIXEIRA MOFFAT, JONATHAN CHARLES 46d overdue
18245265 RECYCLING OF FIBER REINFORCED THERMOSET AND THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES AND PREPEGS USING SOLVENTS AND CATALYSTS RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 42d overdue
18228599 DEVICES AND PROCESSES FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY UTILIZING VIBRATING SHARP-EDGE SPRAY IONIZATION STOFFA, WYATT A 17d overdue
19046805 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF IMPROVING TINNITUS VIA ULTRASOUND NEUROMODULATION OF THE BRAIN BEGEMAN, ANDREW W 14d
18416661 Shiny Based System for Determining Inventory Parameters BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE 27d
18240325 METHODS, DEVICES AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MODULAR PRODUCTION OF CARBON NANOMATERIALS FROM ACETYLENE USING MICROWAVE CATALYSIS FORREST, MICHAEL 27d
18633597 SCREENING, MONITORING, AND TREATMENT FRAMEWORK FOR FOCUSED ULTRASOUND NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC 53d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3798 2
3797 2
3624 1
3792 1
1736 1
1738 1
2881 1
1759 1
1626 1
1675 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19046805 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF IMPROVING TINNITUS VIA ULTRASOUND NEUROMODULATION OF THE BRAIN BEGEMAN, ANDREW W 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 06, 2025
18633597 SCREENING, MONITORING, AND TREATMENT FRAMEWORK FOR FOCUSED ULTRASOUND NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Apr 12, 2024
18416661 Shiny Based System for Determining Inventory Parameters BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jan 18, 2024
18398011 METHODS OF IMPROVING A COGNITIVE DISORDER BY NEUROMODULATION OF A PULVINAR NUCLEUS POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR 3797 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18397997 SCREENING, MONITORING, AND TREATMENT OF COGNITIVE DISORDERS BASET, NESHAT 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18388192 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF IMPROVING AND MONITORING ADDICTION USING CUE REACTIVITY TEIXEIRA MOFFAT, JONATHAN CHARLES 3792 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2023
18284525 COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR MICROWAVE CATALYTIC AMMONIA SYNTHESIS LANGEL, WAYNE A 1736 §103 Non-Final OA 99d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2023
18240325 METHODS, DEVICES AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MODULAR PRODUCTION OF CARBON NANOMATERIALS FROM ACETYLENE USING MICROWAVE CATALYSIS FORREST, MICHAEL 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 30, 2023
18228599 DEVICES AND PROCESSES FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY UTILIZING VIBRATING SHARP-EDGE SPRAY IONIZATION STOFFA, WYATT A 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18245265 RECYCLING OF FIBER REINFORCED THERMOSET AND THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES AND PREPEGS USING SOLVENTS AND CATALYSTS RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2023
18007296 SELECTIVE PHOSPHATASE INHIBITORS BASED ON ILLUDALIC ACID PATEL, SAGAR S 1626 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2023
18054285 Compositions Comprising Human Skin Fibroblasts and Amyloid Beta Peptide MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE 1675 §103 Final Rejection 70d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2022
18046632 AI-BASED TOOL FOR SCREENING SLEEP APNEA EPPERT, LUCY CLARE 3791 §103 Final Rejection 147d overdue Pending Oct 14, 2022
17473497 MACHINE LEARNED HIGH-ACCURACY SATELLITE DRAG MODEL (HASDM) WITH UNCERTAINTY QUALIFICATION (HASDM-ML-UQ) MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL 2187 §103 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2021

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