Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hunan University currently has 1 pending office action assigned to 1 distinct examiner. USTARIS, JOSEPH G is the busiest examiner for the university, overseeing this 1 pending office action. There are 0 distinct art units listed for this pending matter.
This single action represents the entirety of the university's current pending prosecution activity. With 1 distinct examiner handling the only pending matter, the university's immediate patent outcomes are subject to the specific review style of USTARIS, JOSEPH G. The absence of multiple art units or examiners indicates a very narrow current prosecution footprint.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| USTARIS, JOSEPH G | 1 | 36.6% | +27.6% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19007082 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SHORELINE SEGMENTATION IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS BASED ON THE PERSPECTIVE OF AN UNMANNED SURFACE VESSEL (USV) | USTARIS, JOSEPH G | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19007082 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SHORELINE SEGMENTATION IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS BASED ON THE PERSPECTIVE OF AN UNMANNED SURFACE VESSEL (USV) | USTARIS, JOSEPH G | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
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