Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beijing University of Technology has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners. The prosecution workload is distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the university's medical and mechanical research is concentrated in a few specific technical areas.
KAY, DOUGLAS is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. With 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending actions, the workload is evenly spread among different individuals. The 3 distinct art units indicate that while the examiners are different, they are working within a limited number of specialized divisions at the patent office. Practitioners should be prepared for a variety of examiner perspectives while focusing on the specific practices of these 3 art units for the 5 pending office actions.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 | 62.7% | +28.7% |
| SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL | 1 | 80.2% | +9.5% |
| HOLMES, REX R | 1 | 80.2% | +17.9% |
| GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 1 | 19.3% | +11.5% |
| CORDAY, CAMERON A | 1 | 76.9% | +1.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822416 | Used Home Appliance Recognition Method Based On Multi-Source Data Fusion | SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL | — |
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 |
| 18136812 | DYNAMIC MULTI-OBJECTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION-BASED OPTIMAL CONTROL METHOD FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | — |
| 18119851 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SIZE OF MOLTEN POOL IN WIRE AND ARC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS | CORDAY, CAMERON A | — |
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 3 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 |
| 18136812 | DYNAMIC MULTI-OBJECTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION-BASED OPTIMAL CONTROL METHOD FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3745 | 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 |
| 18822416 | Used Home Appliance Recognition Method Based On Multi-Source Data Fusion | SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL | — | §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 |
| 18136812 | DYNAMIC MULTI-OBJECTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION-BASED OPTIMAL CONTROL METHOD FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
| 18119851 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SIZE OF MOLTEN POOL IN WIRE AND ARC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS | CORDAY, CAMERON A | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
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