Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Anhui University has 2 pending office actions focused in the Computing & Software technology area. Unlike more dispersed portfolios, these actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, despite being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. This concentration suggests a specific technological focus within the broader computing sector. The use of different examiners within a single unit can provide various perspectives on the same set of guidelines, which may be beneficial for the active matters.
MUI, CHRISTINE T serves as the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for the current workload, each individual is managing a specific matter. The 1 distinct art unit involved provides a singular venue for prosecution, which may simplify the tracking of examiner trends and unit specific procedures. Practitioners should coordinate responses to ensure that the arguments presented to MUI, CHRISTINE T are compatible with those presented to the other examiner in the same environment. This strategy helps maintain a unified approach across the 2 pending office actions.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1 | 78.3% | +19.9% |
| MAPAR, BIJAN | 1 | 67.5% | +28.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18441009 | METHOD FOR QUANTITATIVELY DETECTING HYDROQUINONE | MUI, CHRISTINE T | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2189 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18441009 | METHOD FOR QUANTITATIVELY DETECTING HYDROQUINONE | MUI, CHRISTINE T | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 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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