Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Harbin Institute of Technology is currently managing 6 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. This level of activity reflects a focused effort to expand its intellectual property holdings in this specific field. The prosecution of these applications is distributed among 6 distinct examiners, which ensures that each case receives an independent evaluation from a different official.
The technical diversity of the institute's work is highlighted by the involvement of 5 distinct art units. This suggests that the 6 pending office actions cover a variety of sub-topics within the Networking & Security domain, requiring the institute to navigate the specific requirements of multiple examination groups. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy must be flexible enough to address the standards of 5 distinct art units simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for the institute is HUQ, FARZANA B, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 6 distinct examiners for the 6 pending office actions, the workload is evenly split, with no single examiner holding more than one case. This lack of concentration means that the institute's overall success is not tied to the discretion of any one individual, such as HUQ, FARZANA B, but rather to the outcomes across all 6 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUQ, FARZANA B | 1 | 79.7% | +31.2% |
| SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI | 1 | 71.4% | +30.0% |
| KING, GEORGE G | 1 | 57.8% | +37.6% |
| MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 1 | 29.9% | +32.7% |
| VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 1 | 9.5% | +7.1% |
| KEATON, SHERROD L | 1 | 53.3% | +35.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. 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 |
| 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 | — |
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 |
| 18883397 | AIR-GROUND INTEGRATED WIRELESS DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR WIDE-AREA INTERNET OF THINGS | HUQ, FARZANA B | 76d |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2455 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 2148 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18883397 | AIR-GROUND INTEGRATED WIRELESS DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR WIDE-AREA INTERNET OF THINGS | HUQ, FARZANA B | 2455 | §103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18605776 | Method of Determining River Nitrous Oxide Emission based on Land-River-Atmosphere Simulation | SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI | — | §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 |
| 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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