Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 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. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

1
Hard (25%)
3
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (25%)
§103 only3 (75%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
50% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
25% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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
DORAISWAMY, RANJIT P 1 63.0% +44.1%
AGRAWAL, SHISHIR 1 9.5% +18.2%
PELTON, NATHANIEL R 1 75.1% +19.0%
RICHTER, KARA MARIE 1 57.9% +50.0%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18179398 METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING WORKFLOW-BASED NEURAL NETWORK INCLUDING ATTENTION LAYER AGRAWAL, SHISHIR 72d

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
18676534 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ANSWER TO QUERY DORAISWAMY, RANJIT P 6d
18179398 METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING WORKFLOW-BASED NEURAL NETWORK INCLUDING ATTENTION LAYER AGRAWAL, SHISHIR 72d
18089878 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ON-SITE DETERMINATION OF CHARGING CURRENT FOR A BATTERY PELTON, NATHANIEL R
17898956 Systems and Methods for Time of Flight Measurement Implementing Threshold-Based Sampling for Waveform Digitizing RICHTER, KARA MARIE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2166 1
2123 1
2859 1
3645 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18676534 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ANSWER TO QUERY DORAISWAMY, RANJIT P 2166 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending May 29, 2024
18179398 METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING WORKFLOW-BASED NEURAL NETWORK INCLUDING ATTENTION LAYER AGRAWAL, SHISHIR 2123 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Mar 07, 2023
18089878 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ON-SITE DETERMINATION OF CHARGING CURRENT FOR A BATTERY PELTON, NATHANIEL R 2859 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 28, 2022
17898956 Systems and Methods for Time of Flight Measurement Implementing Threshold-Based Sampling for Waveform Digitizing RICHTER, KARA MARIE 3645 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 30, 2022

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