Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Autodesk Inc.

33 pending office actions • 19 art units • 31 examiners • 0 of 33 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 65 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

33
Total Pending OAs
21
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

16
Hard (48%)
17
Medium (52%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (9%)
§101 + other12 (36%)
§103 only14 (42%)
§102 only2 (6%)
Double-patenting + other1 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
17
Information Tech
52% of docket
8
Communications
24% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
4
Business / Other
12% 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.

330 h
Manual time on pending OAs
66 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
115 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DEBNATH, NUPUR 2 65.1% +35.5%
HAO, YI 2 36.2% +45.4%
NGUYEN, CINDY 1 78.3% +9.1%
STEWART, CRYSTOL 1 33.3% +28.8%
PATEL, SHIVANG I 1 74.7% +16.3%
IMPERIAL, JED-JUSTIN 1 73.3% +11.9%
TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI 1 83.3% +19.4%
ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS 1 81.9% +16.6%
YU, XINYUAN 1 100.0% +0.0%
WANG, YI 1 76.9% +14.4%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18798408 CONTEXT-ENRICHED PROMPT GENERATION FOR DOMAIN EXPLORATION ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS 8d
18803378 GENERATIVE DESIGN SHAPE OPTIMIZATION WITH SINGULARITIES AND DISCONNECTION PREVENTION FOR COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI
18784690 USER FEEDBACK MECHANISM FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS YU, XINYUAN

Hard Cases (16)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17687535 COMPUTER-AIDED TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING DESIGNS THAT REFLECT DESIGN INTENTS HOANG, AMY P 44d overdue
17098228 GENERATING BUILDING DESIGNS WHILE COMPUTATIONALLY OPTIMIZING FOR WORK CONDITIONS GIRI, PURSOTTAM 14d
18141206 PROJECTING COST METRICS FROM AN ENGINEERING MODEL TO AN ARCHITECTURAL MODEL BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 22d
18150129 CONTRASTIVE MULTI-FORMAT SHAPE SIMILARITY AND SEARCH MAHMOOD, REZWANUL 30d
19016604 COMPUTER AIDED GENERATIVE TASK SCHEDULING STEWART, CRYSTOL
18649891 TECHNIQUES FOR USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO GENERATE SCENES BASED UPON IMAGE TILES BROOME, SAID A
18446339 TECHNIQUES FOR USING MULTIMODAL MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO GENERATE DESIGN ALTERNATIVES FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS FLYNN, ABBY J
18301888 DIVERSITY-BASED OPTIMIZATION OF GENERATIVE GEOMETRY SYSTEMS CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY

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
18798408 CONTEXT-ENRICHED PROMPT GENERATION FOR DOMAIN EXPLORATION ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS 8d
19016604 COMPUTER AIDED GENERATIVE TASK SCHEDULING STEWART, CRYSTOL
19005915 NEURAL STYLE TRANSFER IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPES PATEL, SHIVANG I
18916487 TECHNIQUES FOR MOTION EDITING FOR CHARACTER ANIMATIONS IMPERIAL, JED-JUSTIN
18803378 GENERATIVE DESIGN SHAPE OPTIMIZATION WITH SINGULARITIES AND DISCONNECTION PREVENTION FOR COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI
18781191 GEOMETRY-BASED DESIGN DATA SEARCH TOOL WANG, YI
17945008 CONVERSION OF GEOMETRY TO BOUNDARY REPRESENTATION WITH FACILITATED EDITING FOR COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND 2.5-AXIS SUBTRACTIVE MANUFACTURING DEBNATH, NUPUR
17718185 GENERATING COLLABORATIVE DESIGNS FROM MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS HAO, YI

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2188 4
2187 4
2186 3
3624 2
2612 2
2156 1
2616 1
2656 1
2114 1
2619 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19082109 TECHNIQUES FOR STORING AND ACCESSING DATA USING AN INFORMATION MODEL NGUYEN, CINDY 2156 §102DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 17, 2025
19016604 COMPUTER AIDED GENERATIVE TASK SCHEDULING STEWART, CRYSTOL 3624 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 10, 2025
19005915 NEURAL STYLE TRANSFER IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPES PATEL, SHIVANG I §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 30, 2024
18916487 TECHNIQUES FOR MOTION EDITING FOR CHARACTER ANIMATIONS IMPERIAL, JED-JUSTIN 2616 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 15, 2024
18803378 GENERATIVE DESIGN SHAPE OPTIMIZATION WITH SINGULARITIES AND DISCONNECTION PREVENTION FOR COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 13, 2024
18798408 CONTEXT-ENRICHED PROMPT GENERATION FOR DOMAIN EXPLORATION ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS 2656 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Aug 08, 2024
18784690 USER FEEDBACK MECHANISM FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS YU, XINYUAN 2114 §102 Final Rejection Pending Jul 25, 2024
18781191 GEOMETRY-BASED DESIGN DATA SEARCH TOOL WANG, YI 2619 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 23, 2024
18765122 MULTI-USER PROMPTS FOR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS WU, MING HAN 2618 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 05, 2024
18649891 TECHNIQUES FOR USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO GENERATE SCENES BASED UPON IMAGE TILES BROOME, SAID A 2612 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 29, 2024
18638551 TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATED PROGRAMMING OF ROBOT TASKS USING LANGUAGE MODELS EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O 3658 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 17, 2024
18429258 HYBRID SURFACE MODELLING WITH SUBDIVISION SURFACES AND NURBS SURFACES SAXENA, AKASH 2188 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 31, 2024
18391494 TECHNIQUES FOR SAMPLING AND REMIXING IN IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS MEROUAN, ABDERRAHIM 2683 §103 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18391498 TECHNIQUES FOR SAMPLING AND REMIXING IN IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS LIU, ZHENGXI 2611 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18506971 ADAPTIVE DYNAMIC LOADING STRATEGY FOR RENDERING LARGE THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS MINKO, DENIS VASILIY 2612 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 10, 2023
18446339 TECHNIQUES FOR USING MULTIMODAL MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO GENERATE DESIGN ALTERNATIVES FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS FLYNN, ABBY J §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2023
18141206 PROJECTING COST METRICS FROM AN ENGINEERING MODEL TO AN ARCHITECTURAL MODEL BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 3624 §101 Final Rejection 22d Pending Apr 28, 2023
18301888 DIVERSITY-BASED OPTIMIZATION OF GENERATIVE GEOMETRY SYSTEMS CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 17, 2023
18150129 CONTRASTIVE MULTI-FORMAT SHAPE SIMILARITY AND SEARCH MAHMOOD, REZWANUL 2159 §101§103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jan 04, 2023
18150135 TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR CONTRASTIVE MULTI-FORMAT SHAPE SIMILARITY AND SEARCH JIANG, HAIMEI 2142 §101Other Final Rejection Pending Jan 04, 2023
17990301 DUAL MODEL SHAPE SYNTHESIS KIM, EUNHEE 2188 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 18, 2022
17960036 MATERIAL SPECIFICATION TO FACILITATE PART CREATION IN COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE COTHRAN, BERNARD E 2188 §102 Final Rejection Pending Oct 04, 2022
17958157 GENERATING COOLING CHANNELS FOR COOLING MOLDS JOHANSEN, JOHN E 2187 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 30, 2022
17945008 CONVERSION OF GEOMETRY TO BOUNDARY REPRESENTATION WITH FACILITATED EDITING FOR COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND 2.5-AXIS SUBTRACTIVE MANUFACTURING DEBNATH, NUPUR 2186 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 14, 2022
17894978 AUTOMATED DESIGN OF ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES FOR FABRICATION WITH STANDARD COMPONENTS DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED 2199 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 24, 2022
17718185 GENERATING COLLABORATIVE DESIGNS FROM MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS HAO, YI 2187 §101§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 11, 2022
17713724 LIBRARY-BASED CONNECTIONS DESIGN AUTOMATION LEATHERS, EMILY GORMAN 2187 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 05, 2022
17696340 MULTI-USER COLLABORATION SYSTEM FOR GENERATIVE DESIGNS HAO, YI 2187 §101§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Mar 16, 2022
17687535 COMPUTER-AIDED TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING DESIGNS THAT REFLECT DESIGN INTENTS HOANG, AMY P 2143 §101§103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2022
17523749 TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING VISUALIZATIONS OF GEOMETRIC STYLE GRADIENTS DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL 2188 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 10, 2021
17465735 TECHNIQUES FOR ROBOT CONTROL BASED ON GENERATED ROBOT SIMULATIONS TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY 3656 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 02, 2021
17344710 GENERATIVE DESIGN TECHNIQUES FOR SOFT ROBOT MANIPULATORS DEBNATH, NUPUR 2186 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 10, 2021
17098228 GENERATING BUILDING DESIGNS WHILE COMPUTATIONALLY OPTIMIZING FOR WORK CONDITIONS GIRI, PURSOTTAM 2186 §101§103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 13, 2020

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