Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Indian Institute Of Technology Delhi maintains a patent portfolio featuring 2 pending office actions. These matters are situated within the Communications technology area, reflecting the institution's research focus in this sector. The prosecution workload is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units.
VLAHOS, SOPHIA is designated as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the total 2 pending office actions currently active for the institution. The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the Communications filings are being reviewed by different specialized groups within the patent office.
Practitioners managing these 2 pending office actions must navigate the requirements of 2 distinct examiners, including VLAHOS, SOPHIA. The distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that while the technology area is Communications, the specific inventions may span different technical niches. This structure requires a tailored approach for each of the 2 pending office actions to address the specific concerns of the different art units involved.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VLAHOS, SOPHIA | 1 | 87.1% | +10.8% |
| MCBETH, WILLIAM C | 1 | 66.7% | +58.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19057259 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SHARED APERTURE 8N-PORT MIMO ANTENNA SYSTEM | VLAHOS, SOPHIA | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472485 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING A MULTI-OPERATOR EDGE ENVIRONMENT | MCBETH, WILLIAM C | 79d |
| 19057259 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SHARED APERTURE 8N-PORT MIMO ANTENNA SYSTEM | VLAHOS, SOPHIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2631 | 1 |
| 2449 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19057259 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SHARED APERTURE 8N-PORT MIMO ANTENNA SYSTEM | VLAHOS, SOPHIA | 2631 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18472485 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING A MULTI-OPERATOR EDGE ENVIRONMENT | MCBETH, WILLIAM C | 2449 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialIndian Institute Of Technology Delhi has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Sophia Vlahos has the most, with 1 of Indian Institute Of Technology Delhi's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
