Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hangzhou Innovation Institute Beihang University has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending action. This distribution means each pending case is being handled by a different examiner in a different unit, providing a balanced prosecution landscape.
The involvement of 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units indicates that the institute's communications innovations are being reviewed from multiple technical angles. For the practitioner, this requires managing two separate sets of examiner expectations and procedural requirements. LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER and the other involved examiner will each bring their own perspective to the 2 pending office actions. This structure ensures that the institute's progress is not dependent on a single individual's decision. With 2 pending office actions in total, the institute can maintain a focused yet diverse strategy that addresses the specific technical challenges presented in each of the 2 distinct art units within the Communications area.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER | 1 | 90.0% | +14.3% |
| KWAK, DEAN P | 1 | 58.8% | +37.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851880 | COARSE ANNOTATION BASED SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND DEVICE | LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER | — |
| 17938916 | Remote monitoring method, system and storage medium for sewage treatment process | KWAK, DEAN P | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851880 | COARSE ANNOTATION BASED SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND DEVICE | LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER | — |
| 17938916 | Remote monitoring method, system and storage medium for sewage treatment process | KWAK, DEAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2664 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18851880 | COARSE ANNOTATION BASED SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND DEVICE | LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER | 2664 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 17938916 | Remote monitoring method, system and storage medium for sewage treatment process | KWAK, DEAN P | 1795 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHangzhou Innovation Institute Beihang University has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Karsten Foster Lantz has the most, with 1 of Hangzhou Innovation Institute Beihang University's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
