Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Autodesk, Inc.

19 pending office actions • 14 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 63 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
11
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. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (11)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.

5
Hard (26%)
13
Medium (68%)
1
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only5 (26%)
§103 only13 (68%)
§112 only1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
5% of docket
12
Information Tech
63% of docket
5
Communications
26% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
5% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 2 57.7% +35.3%
UDDIN, MD I 1 77.3% +73.5%
ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS 1 81.8% +16.6%
WU, MING HAN 1 76.2% +24.2%
HOANG, PHUONG N 1 69.6% +50.8%
MEROUAN, ABDERRAHIM 1 73.2% +17.2%
LIU, ZHENGXI 1 64.0% +39.8%
TRAN, VINCENT HUY 1 86.7% +9.3%
ZHAI, KYLE 1 74.5% +18.4%
BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 1 17.6% +37.5%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18509091 PREDICTIVE MODELING AND CONTROL FOR WATER RESOURCE INFRASTRUCTURE TRAN, VINCENT HUY 4d overdue
18798408 CONTEXT-ENRICHED PROMPT GENERATION FOR DOMAIN EXPLORATION ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS 8d

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 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
18637139 SEAMLESS THREE-DIMENSIONAL DESIGN COLLABORATION HOANG, PHUONG N 12d
17958145 REPOSITIONING COOLING CHANNELS IN COOLING MOLDS WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 15d
18141206 PROJECTING COST METRICS FROM AN ENGINEERING MODEL TO AN ARCHITECTURAL MODEL BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 22d
17127500 TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING FRAME GRIDS FOR STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS OF BUILDINGS HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 39d

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
18595179 CUSTOMIZABLE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING OF COLUMN PLACEMENT IN STRUCTURAL DESIGN WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 153d overdue
18798408 CONTEXT-ENRICHED PROMPT GENERATION FOR DOMAIN EXPLORATION ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS 8d
18391498 TECHNIQUES FOR SAMPLING AND REMIXING IN IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS LIU, ZHENGXI 8d
18637139 SEAMLESS THREE-DIMENSIONAL DESIGN COLLABORATION HOANG, PHUONG N 12d
19084117 Automatically Sectioning of Construction Specification Documents for Query Optimization UDDIN, MD I 14d
17958145 REPOSITIONING COOLING CHANNELS IN COOLING MOLDS WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 15d
18141206 PROJECTING COST METRICS FROM AN ENGINEERING MODEL TO AN ARCHITECTURAL MODEL BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 22d
18365471 COMPUTER AIDED AUTOMATED SHAPE ADJUSTMENT OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIES ZHAI, KYLE 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2187 5
2611 2
2169 1
2656 1
2618 1
2194 1
2683 1
2115 1
3624 1
2159 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19084117 Automatically Sectioning of Construction Specification Documents for Query Optimization UDDIN, MD I 2169 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 19, 2025
18798408 CONTEXT-ENRICHED PROMPT GENERATION FOR DOMAIN EXPLORATION ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Aug 08, 2024
18765122 MULTI-USER PROMPTS FOR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS WU, MING HAN 2618 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jul 05, 2024
18637139 SEAMLESS THREE-DIMENSIONAL DESIGN COLLABORATION HOANG, PHUONG N 2194 §101 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18595179 CUSTOMIZABLE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING OF COLUMN PLACEMENT IN STRUCTURAL DESIGN WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 2187 §103 Non-Final OA 153d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2024
18391494 TECHNIQUES FOR SAMPLING AND REMIXING IN IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS MEROUAN, ABDERRAHIM 2683 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18391498 TECHNIQUES FOR SAMPLING AND REMIXING IN IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS LIU, ZHENGXI 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18509091 PREDICTIVE MODELING AND CONTROL FOR WATER RESOURCE INFRASTRUCTURE TRAN, VINCENT HUY 2115 §112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 14, 2023
18365471 COMPUTER AIDED AUTOMATED SHAPE ADJUSTMENT OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIES ZHAI, KYLE 2611 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Aug 04, 2023
18141206 PROJECTING COST METRICS FROM AN ENGINEERING MODEL TO AN ARCHITECTURAL MODEL BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 3624 §101 Final Rejection 22d Pending Apr 28, 2023
18150129 CONTRASTIVE MULTI-FORMAT SHAPE SIMILARITY AND SEARCH MAHMOOD, REZWANUL 2159 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Jan 04, 2023
18086516 THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING GAMBETTA, KELLY M 1718 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
17958145 REPOSITIONING COOLING CHANNELS IN COOLING MOLDS WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 2187 §101 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Sep 30, 2022
17849483 MODELLING FLUID FLOW CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY 2187 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Jun 24, 2022
17832116 VOXEL-BASED APPROACH FOR DESIGN MODELS HAO, YI 2187 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2022
17687535 COMPUTER-AIDED TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING DESIGNS THAT REFLECT DESIGN INTENTS HOANG, AMY P 2143 §101 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2022
17348338 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATING TASKS BASED ON BOUNDARY REPRESENTATIONS OF 3D CAD OBJECTS MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL 2187 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending Jun 15, 2021
17127500 TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING FRAME GRIDS FOR STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS OF BUILDINGS HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 2188 §101 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Dec 18, 2020
17098228 GENERATING BUILDING DESIGNS WHILE COMPUTATIONALLY OPTIMIZING FOR WORK CONDITIONS GIRI, PURSOTTAM 2186 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 13, 2020

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