Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Ansys, Inc.

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

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.

3
Hard (43%)
4
Medium (57%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (43%)
§103 only4 (57%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
7
Information Tech
100% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GIRI, PURSOTTAM 1 19.4% +10.6%
OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS 1 67.7% +22.0%
MAUST, TROY A 1 75.2% +13.5%
HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 1 28.8% +35.5%
NILSSON, ERIC 1 82.8% +17.7%
HAO, YI 1 34.9% +43.8%
MORRIS, JOSEPH PATRICK 1 36.8% +43.6%

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
17806837 AUTOMATED DESIGN OF ARCHITECTURES OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS NILSSON, ERIC 3d overdue

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17687300 DATA DRIVEN MODELING OF A ROUGH SURFACE FOR SHOOTING AND BOUNCING RAYS HAO, YI 78d overdue
18656516 BOUNDARY-FREE PERIODIC MESHING METHOD GIRI, PURSOTTAM 70d overdue
17458760 Method and System for Simulating Propagation of a Composite Electromagnetic Beam MORRIS, JOSEPH PATRICK 9d
18096009 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME SIMULATIONS USING CONVERGENCE STOPPING CRITERION HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 28d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17687300 DATA DRIVEN MODELING OF A ROUGH SURFACE FOR SHOOTING AND BOUNCING RAYS HAO, YI 78d overdue
18656516 BOUNDARY-FREE PERIODIC MESHING METHOD GIRI, PURSOTTAM 70d overdue
17806837 AUTOMATED DESIGN OF ARCHITECTURES OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS NILSSON, ERIC 3d overdue
17458760 Method and System for Simulating Propagation of a Composite Electromagnetic Beam MORRIS, JOSEPH PATRICK 9d
18372048 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD COMPONENTS OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS 12d
18369804 AUTOMATING EXTRACTION OF MATERIAL MODEL COEFFICIENTS FOR SIMULATIONS MAUST, TROY A 14d
18096009 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME SIMULATIONS USING CONVERGENCE STOPPING CRITERION HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2186 2
2188 2
2189 1
2151 1
2187 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18656516 BOUNDARY-FREE PERIODIC MESHING METHOD GIRI, PURSOTTAM 2186 §103 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending May 06, 2024
18372048 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD COMPONENTS OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS 2186 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Sep 22, 2023
18369804 AUTOMATING EXTRACTION OF MATERIAL MODEL COEFFICIENTS FOR SIMULATIONS MAUST, TROY A 2189 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 18, 2023
18096009 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME SIMULATIONS USING CONVERGENCE STOPPING CRITERION HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 2188 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jan 11, 2023
17806837 AUTOMATED DESIGN OF ARCHITECTURES OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS NILSSON, ERIC 2151 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2022
17687300 DATA DRIVEN MODELING OF A ROUGH SURFACE FOR SHOOTING AND BOUNCING RAYS HAO, YI 2187 §101 Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2022
17458760 Method and System for Simulating Propagation of a Composite Electromagnetic Beam MORRIS, JOSEPH PATRICK 2188 §101 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 27, 2021

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