Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Harbin Institute of Technology

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

4
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (75%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
50% of docket
1
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
25% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KING, GEORGE G 1 58.2% +38.1%
CHAUDHRI, OMAIR 1 65.8% +23.7%
MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D 1 29.9% +32.8%
KEATON, SHERROD L 1 53.1% +35.9%

Hard Cases (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17867685 THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRACK PLANNING METHOD BASED ON IMPROVED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM KEATON, SHERROD L 169d overdue
18583154 COMBINED MONOLITHIC UNIFORM LIGHTING DEVICE BASED ON LENSES AND SAWTOOTH GRATINGS KING, GEORGE G
18505084 Plasma cleaning head and plasma cleaning equipment for optical parts CHAUDHRI, OMAIR
18557121 Preparation Method for Hollow Fiber Inorganic Membrane MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17867685 THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRACK PLANNING METHOD BASED ON IMPROVED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM KEATON, SHERROD L 169d overdue
18583154 COMBINED MONOLITHIC UNIFORM LIGHTING DEVICE BASED ON LENSES AND SAWTOOTH GRATINGS KING, GEORGE G
18505084 Plasma cleaning head and plasma cleaning equipment for optical parts CHAUDHRI, OMAIR
18557121 Preparation Method for Hollow Fiber Inorganic Membrane MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2872 1
1711 1
1718 1
2148 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18583154 COMBINED MONOLITHIC UNIFORM LIGHTING DEVICE BASED ON LENSES AND SAWTOOTH GRATINGS KING, GEORGE G 2872 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Feb 21, 2024
18505084 Plasma cleaning head and plasma cleaning equipment for optical parts CHAUDHRI, OMAIR 1711 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Nov 08, 2023
18557121 Preparation Method for Hollow Fiber Inorganic Membrane MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D 1718 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2023
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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