Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY maintains a portfolio with 4 pending office actions concentrated in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that each active case is being handled by a different individual at the patent office. Despite the variety of examiners, the work is centralized within 2 distinct art units, suggesting a thematic overlap in the underlying chemical or material technologies being prosecuted.
MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. is the busiest examiner for this entity, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because the workload is distributed such that no single examiner holds all of the cases, the university must navigate the specific preferences of multiple officials simultaneously within the 2 distinct art units. Success requires addressing the individual requirements of the various examiners involved in these pending matters to ensure consistent progress across the entire portfolio.
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 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1 | 65.8% | +51.9% |
| CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | 1 | 7.7% | +46.2% |
| GEBRESILASSIE, KIBROM K | 1 | 72.3% | +25.8% |
| NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 1 | 26.7% | +51.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17980679 | SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY MEASURING 3DOF LGEs BY LASER AND METHOD THEREFOR | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 71d |
| 18337579 | ARRAY ANTENNA BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT METHOD BASED ON PHASE REGULATION AND CONTROL, APPARATUS AND ARRAY ANTENNA | CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | — |
| 18337611 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ANTENNA ARRAY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | GEBRESILASSIE, KIBROM K | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17980679 | SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY MEASURING 3DOF LGEs BY LASER AND METHOD THEREFOR | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 71d |
| 18229934 | ANAEROBIC AMMONIA OXIDATION TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR TREATING WASTEWATER WITH HIGH AMMONIA NITROGEN AND HIGH COD | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | — |
| 18337579 | ARRAY ANTENNA BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT METHOD BASED ON PHASE REGULATION AND CONTROL, APPARATUS AND ARRAY ANTENNA | CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | — |
| 18337611 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ANTENNA ARRAY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | GEBRESILASSIE, KIBROM K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18229934 | ANAEROBIC AMMONIA OXIDATION TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR TREATING WASTEWATER WITH HIGH AMMONIA NITROGEN AND HIGH COD | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1773 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18337579 | ARRAY ANTENNA BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT METHOD BASED ON PHASE REGULATION AND CONTROL, APPARATUS AND ARRAY ANTENNA | CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18337611 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ANTENNA ARRAY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | GEBRESILASSIE, KIBROM K | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 17980679 | SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY MEASURING 3DOF LGEs BY LASER AND METHOD THEREFOR | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 3645 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
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