Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Indian Institute Of Technology Kharagpur has 5 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, which indicates that the institution's communications research is being evaluated by several different specialized technical groups. This distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests a broad research agenda that touches on multiple facets of communication technology. The 5 pending office actions represent a significant ongoing effort to protect the institution's academic and technical innovations. This structure allows the institution to receive feedback from multiple reviewers across different technical disciplines.
TIEU, JANICE N is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. The institution's workload is perfectly dispersed among 5 distinct examiners, with each examiner responsible for a single pending matter. This 1 to 1 ratio between 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners ensures a wide variety of examiner interactions and reduces the impact of any single examiner's perspective. Such a high degree of examiner diversity across 3 distinct art units is typical for a large research institution with a varied technological output. No single examiner has a dominant influence over the institution's pending applications.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIEU, JANICE N | 1 | 90.3% | +10.4% |
| VLAHOS, SOPHIA | 1 | 87.1% | +10.7% |
| KIM, YEWON | 1 | 87.2% | +12.5% |
| MONTES, NARCISO EDUARDO | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| DUONG, DIEU HIEN | 1 | 78.2% | +16.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963983 | A METHOD AND MULTI-USER UPLINK RECEIVER FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF MULTIPLE ACCESS SCHEMES | VLAHOS, SOPHIA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17780554 | WIDEBAND ELECTROMAGNETICALLY COUPLED MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA FOR 60 GHZ MILLIMETER WAVE PHASED ARRAY | DUONG, DIEU HIEN | 126d 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 | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17780554 | WIDEBAND ELECTROMAGNETICALLY COUPLED MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA FOR 60 GHZ MILLIMETER WAVE PHASED ARRAY | DUONG, DIEU HIEN | 126d 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2633 | 2 |
| 2189 | 1 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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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