Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chengdu University Of Technology manages 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is handled by a different examiner, with the workload spread across 3 specialized divisions.
The busiest examiner, GANEY, STEVEN J, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units involved, the portfolio shows a moderate level of technical diversity within the medical and mechanical engineering sectors. This spread ensures that the university's innovations are reviewed by a variety of examiners across multiple art units. The 5 pending office actions are evaluated by 5 distinct examiners, providing a range of perspectives across the 3 distinct art units. GANEY, STEVEN J handles 1 pending office action as part of this distribution.
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 + other | 3 (60%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GANEY, STEVEN J | 1 | 82.2% | +10.4% |
| DALLO, JOSEPH J | 1 | 89.7% | +7.1% |
| ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 1 | 71.0% | +14.1% |
| YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 1 | 63.1% | +48.3% |
| FEACHER, LORENA R | 1 | 28.5% | +32.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18784993 | Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based zonal spraying device and method for ecological restoration | GANEY, STEVEN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18634210 | OBJECT-ORIENTED METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND CLASSIFYING SURFACE LITHOLOGY IN HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGE | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 27d |
| 18762513 | GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE CHARACTERIZATION METHOD BASED ON SEISMIC VELOCITY SIGNAL AND ACCELERATION SIGNAL | DALLO, JOSEPH J | — |
| 18642664 | METHOD FOR SEPARATION AND SIMULTANEOUS IMAGING OF PRIMARY AND MULTIPLE WAVES BASED ON WAVE FIELD DECOMPOSITION | ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | — |
| 18630500 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING CHANGES IN URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF URBAN AGGLOMERATION BASED ON NIGHTTIME LIGHT REMOTE SENSING | FEACHER, LORENA R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18634210 | OBJECT-ORIENTED METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND CLASSIFYING SURFACE LITHOLOGY IN HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGE | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 27d |
| 18784993 | Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based zonal spraying device and method for ecological restoration | GANEY, STEVEN J | — |
| 18642664 | METHOD FOR SEPARATION AND SIMULTANEOUS IMAGING OF PRIMARY AND MULTIPLE WAVES BASED ON WAVE FIELD DECOMPOSITION | ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | — |
| 18630500 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING CHANGES IN URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF URBAN AGGLOMERATION BASED ON NIGHTTIME LIGHT REMOTE SENSING | FEACHER, LORENA R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18784993 | Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based zonal spraying device and method for ecological restoration | GANEY, STEVEN J | 3752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18762513 | GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE CHARACTERIZATION METHOD BASED ON SEISMIC VELOCITY SIGNAL AND ACCELERATION SIGNAL | DALLO, JOSEPH J | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18642664 | METHOD FOR SEPARATION AND SIMULTANEOUS IMAGING OF PRIMARY AND MULTIPLE WAVES BASED ON WAVE FIELD DECOMPOSITION | ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18634210 | OBJECT-ORIENTED METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND CLASSIFYING SURFACE LITHOLOGY IN HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGE | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 2666 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18630500 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING CHANGES IN URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF URBAN AGGLOMERATION BASED ON NIGHTTIME LIGHT REMOTE SENSING | FEACHER, LORENA R | 3625 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
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