Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Huzhou Institute Of Zhejiang University has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a singular technical focus for the current prosecution. The matter is under the review of 1 distinct examiner, LEPISTO, RYAN A. This concentration of the pending workload into a single art unit and examiner suggests a very specific regulatory path for the institute's innovations at this time.
LEPISTO, RYAN A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is the only one currently reviewing a pending action for the institute. The outcome of the current prosecution cycle is therefore concentrated on the interactions with this specific examiner. There is no current opportunity to compare examiner behavior across different applications within this portfolio, as only 1 pending office action exists.
The presence of 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit means there is no diversification in the technical review process at this time. Practitioners must address the specific requirements of LEPISTO, RYAN A within that single art unit. With only 1 pending office action, the current prosecution activity is highly focused. This concentrated environment requires a dedicated approach to the single application currently under review in the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEPISTO, RYAN A | 1 | 87.7% | +7.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728412 | DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL FIBER TEMPERATURE-MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE PIPELINE GROUP | LEPISTO, RYAN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2874 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18728412 | DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL FIBER TEMPERATURE-MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE PIPELINE GROUP | LEPISTO, RYAN A | 2874 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHuzhou Institute Of Zhejiang University has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ryan A Lepisto has the most, with 1 of Huzhou Institute Of Zhejiang University's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
