Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

ETH ZÜRICH

11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
2
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
10
Medium (91%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (9%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (91%)
No statute on record1 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
18% of docket
9
Communications
82% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V 2 72.2% +19.8%
SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM 1 86.2% +21.0%
PASIEWICZ, DANIEL M 1 76.3% +12.3%
YILMAKASSAYE, SURAFEL 1 48.6% +35.2%
YU, NORMAN 1 87.6% +13.8%
ZHAI, KYLE 1 74.5% +18.4%
HE, YINGCHUN 1 82.2% +14.4%
CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY 1 75.0% +40.9%
COUSO, JOSE L 1 90.3% +8.1%
HESS, MICHAEL J 1 43.9% +7.9%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18386827 Machine Learning Model-Based Image Noise Synthesis COUSO, JOSE L 17d overdue
19210298 GAUSSIAN SPLATTING WITH NEURAL SPLINE DEFORMATION SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM 3d overdue
18776765 AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF ALIGNMENT BETWEEN TWO AUDIO SIGNALS YU, NORMAN 7d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18850577 SENSOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR DEVICE PASIEWICZ, DANIEL M 4d overdue
19210298 GAUSSIAN SPLATTING WITH NEURAL SPLINE DEFORMATION SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM 3d overdue
17669053 SHAPE AND APPEARANCE RECONSTRUCTION WITH DEEP GEOMETRIC REFINEMENT NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V 3d overdue
18421429 DATA-DRIVEN PHYSICS-BASED FACIAL ANIMATION RETARGETING CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY 5d
18776765 AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF ALIGNMENT BETWEEN TWO AUDIO SIGNALS YU, NORMAN 7d
18751043 CONTROLLABLE 3D STYLE TRANSFER FOR RADIANCE FIELDS HE, YINGCHUN 14d
18751038 CONTROLLABLE 3D STYLE TRANSFER FOR RADIANCE FIELDS NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V 19d
18771451 RUNTIME MOTION ADAPTATION FOR PRECISE CHARACTER LOCOMOTION ZHAI, KYLE 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2619 2
2613 2
2166 1
2699 1
2639 1
2693 1
2611 1
2667 1
2481 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19210298 GAUSSIAN SPLATTING WITH NEURAL SPLINE DEFORMATION SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM 2166 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 16, 2025
18850577 SENSOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR DEVICE PASIEWICZ, DANIEL M 2699 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2024
18850604 SENSOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR DEVICE YILMAKASSAYE, SURAFEL 2639 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Sep 25, 2024
18776765 AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF ALIGNMENT BETWEEN TWO AUDIO SIGNALS YU, NORMAN 2693 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jul 18, 2024
18771451 RUNTIME MOTION ADAPTATION FOR PRECISE CHARACTER LOCOMOTION ZHAI, KYLE 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 12, 2024
18751038 CONTROLLABLE 3D STYLE TRANSFER FOR RADIANCE FIELDS NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V 2619 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18751043 CONTROLLABLE 3D STYLE TRANSFER FOR RADIANCE FIELDS HE, YINGCHUN 2613 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18421429 DATA-DRIVEN PHYSICS-BASED FACIAL ANIMATION RETARGETING CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY 2613 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jan 24, 2024
18386827 Machine Learning Model-Based Image Noise Synthesis COUSO, JOSE L 2667 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2023
18049262 MACHINE LEARNING BASED VIDEO COMPRESSION HESS, MICHAEL J 2481 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2022
17669053 SHAPE AND APPEARANCE RECONSTRUCTION WITH DEEP GEOMETRIC REFINEMENT NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V 2619 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2022

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