Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Indian Institute Of Technology Kharagpur

6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

5
Hard (83%)
0
Medium (0%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (17%)
§112 only1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (67%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
33% of docket
2
Communications
33% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TIEU, JANICE N 1 90.2% +10.7%
VLAHOS, SOPHIA 1 87.2% +10.5%
KIM, YEWON 1 88.0% +11.5%
JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 1 53.8% +21.6%
MONTES, NARCISO EDUARDO 1 57.1% +0.0%
DUONG, DIEU HIEN 1 78.2% +16.5%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18963983 A METHOD AND MULTI-USER UPLINK RECEIVER FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF MULTIPLE ACCESS SCHEMES VLAHOS, SOPHIA

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17780554 WIDEBAND ELECTROMAGNETICALLY COUPLED MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA FOR 60 GHZ MILLIMETER WAVE PHASED ARRAY DUONG, DIEU HIEN 126d overdue
18581010 MULTI-HOP PARALLEL RELAY BASED NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 110d overdue
18076547 TRACKING COVERAGE ARTIFACTS FOR PERIODIC SIGNALS USING SEQUENCE-BASED ABSTRACTIONS MONTES, NARCISO EDUARDO 34d
18966032 UNIFIED MULTIPLE ACCESS (MA) BASED SYSTEM FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION OF DATA BY MULTIPLE USERS TIEU, JANICE N
18800359 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENERGY-OPTIMIZED UAV-ASSISTED UNDERWATER WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK KIM, YEWON

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17780554 WIDEBAND ELECTROMAGNETICALLY COUPLED MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA FOR 60 GHZ MILLIMETER WAVE PHASED ARRAY DUONG, DIEU HIEN 126d overdue
18581010 MULTI-HOP PARALLEL RELAY BASED NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 110d overdue
18966032 UNIFIED MULTIPLE ACCESS (MA) BASED SYSTEM FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION OF DATA BY MULTIPLE USERS TIEU, JANICE N
18963983 A METHOD AND MULTI-USER UPLINK RECEIVER FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF MULTIPLE ACCESS SCHEMES VLAHOS, SOPHIA
18800359 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENERGY-OPTIMIZED UAV-ASSISTED UNDERWATER WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK KIM, YEWON

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2633 2
2400 1
2189 1
2845 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18966032 UNIFIED MULTIPLE ACCESS (MA) BASED SYSTEM FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION OF DATA BY MULTIPLE USERS TIEU, JANICE N 2633 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 02, 2024
18963983 A METHOD AND MULTI-USER UPLINK RECEIVER FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF MULTIPLE ACCESS SCHEMES VLAHOS, SOPHIA 2633 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 29, 2024
18800359 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENERGY-OPTIMIZED UAV-ASSISTED UNDERWATER WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK KIM, YEWON §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 12, 2024
18581010 MULTI-HOP PARALLEL RELAY BASED NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF JOHNSON, AMY COHEN 2400 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 110d overdue Pending Feb 19, 2024
18076547 TRACKING COVERAGE ARTIFACTS FOR PERIODIC SIGNALS USING SEQUENCE-BASED ABSTRACTIONS MONTES, NARCISO EDUARDO 2189 §101 Final Rejection 34d Pending Dec 07, 2022
17780554 WIDEBAND ELECTROMAGNETICALLY COUPLED MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA FOR 60 GHZ MILLIMETER WAVE PHASED ARRAY DUONG, DIEU HIEN 2845 §103§112 Non-Final OA 126d overdue Pending May 27, 2022

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