Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beijing University of Technology has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 7 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, giving each case a separate examination setting.
KAY, DOUGLAS is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The distributed structure requires careful docket management and case-specific responses, supported by consistent treatment of shared technical themes where appropriate.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAY, DOUGLAS | 1 | 63.0% | +28.9% |
| DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1 | 78.3% | +38.0% |
| SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL | 1 | 79.5% | +11.3% |
| HOLMES, REX R | 1 | 80.1% | +17.9% |
| HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN | 1 | 74.6% | +61.0% |
| GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 1 | 19.7% | +11.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200815 | ONLINE SOFT MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR DIOXIN EMISSION CONCENTRATION IN MSWI PROCESS | KAY, DOUGLAS | 87d overdue |
| 18387062 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING EMOTIONAL INDICATORS BASED ON PUPIL-WAVE | HOLMES, REX R | 46d |
| 18827659 | Data-knowledge-driven Approach for Optimal Control of Wastewater Treatment Processes | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
| 18136812 | DYNAMIC MULTI-OBJECTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION-BASED OPTIMAL CONTROL METHOD FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200815 | ONLINE SOFT MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR DIOXIN EMISSION CONCENTRATION IN MSWI PROCESS | KAY, DOUGLAS | 87d overdue |
| 18387062 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING EMOTIONAL INDICATORS BASED ON PUPIL-WAVE | HOLMES, REX R | 46d |
| 18827659 | Data-knowledge-driven Approach for Optimal Control of Wastewater Treatment Processes | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
| 18822416 | Used Home Appliance Recognition Method Based On Multi-Source Data Fusion | SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL | — |
| 17631772 | OSCILLATING LASER WELDING WITH FILLER WIRES FOR JOINTING ALUMINUM ALLOY SHEETS WITH A LARGE GAP THEREBETWEEN | HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN | — |
| 18136812 | DYNAMIC MULTI-OBJECTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION-BASED OPTIMAL CONTROL METHOD FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 2673 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19200815 | ONLINE SOFT MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR DIOXIN EMISSION CONCENTRATION IN MSWI PROCESS | KAY, DOUGLAS | 2857 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 87d overdue | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 18827659 | Data-knowledge-driven Approach for Optimal Control of Wastewater Treatment Processes | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1773 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18822416 | Used Home Appliance Recognition Method Based On Multi-Source Data Fusion | SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL | 2673 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2024 |
| 18387062 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING EMOTIONAL INDICATORS BASED ON PUPIL-WAVE | HOLMES, REX R | 3796 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 17631772 | OSCILLATING LASER WELDING WITH FILLER WIRES FOR JOINTING ALUMINUM ALLOY SHEETS WITH A LARGE GAP THEREBETWEEN | HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN | 3741 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18136812 | DYNAMIC MULTI-OBJECTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION-BASED OPTIMAL CONTROL METHOD FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 2186 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBeijing University of Technology has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Douglas Kay has the most, with 1 of Beijing University of Technology's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
