Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees has 7 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 7 actions are assigned to 7 distinct examiners, meaning every pending matter is overseen by a different individual. The portfolio is further distributed across 6 distinct art units, indicating a wide reach within the mechanical and transportation sectors.
MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE is listed as the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 7 and there are 7 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed so that no examiner manages more than 1 case. This lack of concentration means the applicant must navigate 7 unique examiner perspectives to advance the portfolio.
The use of 6 distinct art units for 7 pending office actions suggests that the university's research and patenting efforts are technically varied. Some actions could possibly share an art unit, given the 6 units identified. This diversity in art units and examiners requires a broad prosecution strategy that accounts for different departmental standards. Managing 7 distinct examiners across 6 units is a complex administrative task.
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 (14%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | 1 | 78.2% | +15.1% |
| CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 1 | 57.7% | +22.1% |
| DEAK, LESLIE R | 1 | 75.3% | +17.8% |
| LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 1 | 81.8% | -3.3% |
| GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 1 | 81.2% | +15.0% |
| BRODERICK, BENJAMIN REEDER | 1 | — | — |
| HAIDER, FAWAAD | 1 | 50.2% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18625408 | AI SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ENHANCE IMAGES ACQUIRED THROUGH RANDOM MEDIUM | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569912 | LIQUID MAGNET SENSOR | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 36d |
| 19107273 | RECONFIGURABLE UNDERWATER MODEM | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | — |
| 18204677 | ANALYSIS OF BRIDGE-PILE FOUNDATION SYSTEM IN MULTI-LAYERED NON-LINEAR SOIL STRATA USING ENERGY-BASED METHOD | BRODERICK, BENJAMIN REEDER | — |
| 18168687 | DETERIORATION MODELS DEVELOPMENT METHOD FOR OFFSHORE JACKET-TYPE PLATFORMS | HAIDER, FAWAAD | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569912 | LIQUID MAGNET SENSOR | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 36d |
| 19107273 | RECONFIGURABLE UNDERWATER MODEM | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | — |
| 19016240 | SUN GLARE AVOIDANCE SYSTEM (SAS) IN SEMI OR FULLY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | — |
| 18764739 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING EXCESS TRANSTHYRETIN PROTEIN FROM BLOODSTREAM TO TREAT ATTR AMYLOIDOSIS | DEAK, LESLIE R | — |
| 18168687 | DETERIORATION MODELS DEVELOPMENT METHOD FOR OFFSHORE JACKET-TYPE PLATFORMS | HAIDER, FAWAAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19107273 | RECONFIGURABLE UNDERWATER MODEM | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19016240 | SUN GLARE AVOIDANCE SYSTEM (SAS) IN SEMI OR FULLY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 3661 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18764739 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING EXCESS TRANSTHYRETIN PROTEIN FROM BLOODSTREAM TO TREAT ATTR AMYLOIDOSIS | DEAK, LESLIE R | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18625408 | AI SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ENHANCE IMAGES ACQUIRED THROUGH RANDOM MEDIUM | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 2668 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18569912 | LIQUID MAGNET SENSOR | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 2855 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18204677 | ANALYSIS OF BRIDGE-PILE FOUNDATION SYSTEM IN MULTI-LAYERED NON-LINEAR SOIL STRATA USING ENERGY-BASED METHOD | BRODERICK, BENJAMIN REEDER | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18168687 | DETERIORATION MODELS DEVELOPMENT METHOD FOR OFFSHORE JACKET-TYPE PLATFORMS | HAIDER, FAWAAD | 3627 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
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