Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Anhui University has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, including HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI. The busiest examiner, HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI, is currently responsible for 1 pending action.
The portfolio spans 3 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that each of the 3 pending office actions is being reviewed in a separate technical unit. This decentralized approach indicates that the university's current medical and mechanical research covers a variety of specialized fields. With 3 distinct examiners involved, the prosecution is spread across 3 distinct art units to ensure specialized review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 1 | 40.6% | +50.8% |
| WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | 1 | 81.4% | +8.8% |
| MAPAR, BIJAN | 1 | 67.7% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18616393 | GRAPHENE-BASED OPTICAL BISTABLE DEVICE WITH TERNARY PHOTONIC CRYSTAL STRUCTURE | WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | 24d overdue |
| 19002641 | INTELLIGENT WARD ROUND METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON SSVEP ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM SIGNAL | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | — |
| 18166927 | ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD SIMULATION METHOD BASED ON SUBGRIDDING TECHNIQUE AND ONE-STEP ALTERNATING-DIRECTION-IMPLICIT-FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (ADI-FDTD) ALGORITHM | MAPAR, BIJAN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19002641 | INTELLIGENT WARD ROUND METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON SSVEP ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM SIGNAL | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | — |
| 18166927 | ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD SIMULATION METHOD BASED ON SUBGRIDDING TECHNIQUE AND ONE-STEP ALTERNATING-DIRECTION-IMPLICIT-FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (ADI-FDTD) ALGORITHM | MAPAR, BIJAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2189 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19002641 | INTELLIGENT WARD ROUND METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON SSVEP ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM SIGNAL | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18616393 | GRAPHENE-BASED OPTICAL BISTABLE DEVICE WITH TERNARY PHOTONIC CRYSTAL STRUCTURE | WASHINGTON, TAMARA Y | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18166927 | ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD SIMULATION METHOD BASED ON SUBGRIDDING TECHNIQUE AND ONE-STEP ALTERNATING-DIRECTION-IMPLICIT-FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (ADI-FDTD) ALGORITHM | MAPAR, BIJAN | 2189 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAnhui University has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Andrew Eli Hoffpauir has the most, with 1 of Anhui University's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
