Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Harbin Institute of Technology has 6 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters span 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio is distributed across separate examination channels rather than concentrated in one group.
SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI is the busiest examiner and handles 1 pending matter. Because no examiner carries more than that identified portion of the workload, counsel should organize prosecution management by individual matter and art unit.
The semiconductor and optics subject matter may produce different prior-art and claim-construction questions across the assignments. A central tracking process can preserve consistent technical positions while allowing each response to address its examiner's specific record.
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 (17%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI | 1 | 71.4% | +30.0% |
| KING, GEORGE G | 1 | 57.9% | +37.7% |
| MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 1 | 29.9% | +33.1% |
| VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN | 1 | 66.8% | +25.2% |
| VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 1 | 9.5% | +7.1% |
| KEATON, SHERROD L | 1 | 53.3% | +36.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17867685 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRACK PLANNING METHOD BASED ON IMPROVED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM | KEATON, SHERROD L | 169d overdue |
| 17982033 | HIGH-PRECISION DUAL-AXIS LASER INCLINOMETER BASED ON WAVEFRONT HOMODYNE INTERFERENCE AND MEASURING METHOD | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 70d |
| 18605776 | Method of Determining River Nitrous Oxide Emission based on Land-River-Atmosphere Simulation | SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI | — |
| 18583154 | COMBINED MONOLITHIC UNIFORM LIGHTING DEVICE BASED ON LENSES AND SAWTOOTH GRATINGS | KING, GEORGE G | — |
| 18557121 | Preparation Method for Hollow Fiber Inorganic Membrane | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | — |
| 17984660 | Method and Device for Protein-Protein Docking Based on Identification of Low-Entropy Hydration Layer on Protein Surface | VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17867685 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRACK PLANNING METHOD BASED ON IMPROVED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM | KEATON, SHERROD L | 169d overdue |
| 18605776 | Method of Determining River Nitrous Oxide Emission based on Land-River-Atmosphere Simulation | SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI | — |
| 18583154 | COMBINED MONOLITHIC UNIFORM LIGHTING DEVICE BASED ON LENSES AND SAWTOOTH GRATINGS | KING, GEORGE G | — |
| 18557121 | Preparation Method for Hollow Fiber Inorganic Membrane | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | — |
| 17984660 | Method and Device for Protein-Protein Docking Based on Identification of Low-Entropy Hydration Layer on Protein Surface | VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 2148 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18605776 | Method of Determining River Nitrous Oxide Emission based on Land-River-Atmosphere Simulation | SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI | 2857 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18583154 | COMBINED MONOLITHIC UNIFORM LIGHTING DEVICE BASED ON LENSES AND SAWTOOTH GRATINGS | KING, GEORGE G | 2872 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18557121 | Preparation Method for Hollow Fiber Inorganic Membrane | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 1718 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 17984660 | Method and Device for Protein-Protein Docking Based on Identification of Low-Entropy Hydration Layer on Protein Surface | VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN | 1686 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
| 17982033 | HIGH-PRECISION DUAL-AXIS LASER INCLINOMETER BASED ON WAVEFRONT HOMODYNE INTERFERENCE AND MEASURING METHOD | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
| 17867685 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRACK PLANNING METHOD BASED ON IMPROVED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM | KEATON, SHERROD L | 2148 | §101 | Final Rejection | 169d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHarbin Institute of Technology has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Ibrahim Nagi Shohatee has the most, with 1 of Harbin Institute of Technology's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
