Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (Iit Madras)

8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due later (3)

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 (62%)
2
Medium (25%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (25%)
§112 only1 (12%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (62%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
12% of docket
3
Information Tech
38% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
3
Business / Other
38% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DUONG, FRANK 2 90.4% +6.5%
CHEN, PETER 1 87.6% +22.0%
HENSON, JAMAAL R 1 84.5% +3.8%
MASUR, PAUL H 1 87.1% +13.5%
SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL 1 77.7% +9.4%
SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 1 63.6% +11.1%
PAN, HANG 1 74.6% +25.5%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18742715 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND TIMING ALIGNMENT IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) NETWORK DUONG, FRANK 83d
18844702 TRANSMISSION OF SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNALS USING A PLURALITY OF PORTS OF A USER EQUIPMENT CHEN, PETER

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
18755029 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND TIMING ALIGNMENT IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) NETWORK DUONG, FRANK 83d
18033783 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SELF-STABILIZING COMPILATION PAN, HANG 83d
18839113 METHODS OF WAVEFORM SWITCHING IN A CELLULAR NETWORK HENSON, JAMAAL R
18799434 PHYSICAL LAYER SIGNALING PROCEDURES FOR AI/ML BASED CHANNEL FEEDBACK MASUR, PAUL H
18697509 METHOD OF IMPROVING ACCURACY OF POSITIONING A NODE IN A CELLULAR NETWORK SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18579377 AN ELECTRODE SYSTEM BASED ON DIFFERENTIAL OXIDANT RESPONSE FOR THE DETECTION OF FREE CHLORINE SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 24d overdue
18033783 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SELF-STABILIZING COMPILATION PAN, HANG 83d
18844702 TRANSMISSION OF SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNALS USING A PLURALITY OF PORTS OF A USER EQUIPMENT CHEN, PETER
18799434 PHYSICAL LAYER SIGNALING PROCEDURES FOR AI/ML BASED CHANNEL FEEDBACK MASUR, PAUL H

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2474 2
2646 1
1795 1
2193 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18844702 TRANSMISSION OF SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNALS USING A PLURALITY OF PORTS OF A USER EQUIPMENT CHEN, PETER §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 06, 2024
18839113 METHODS OF WAVEFORM SWITCHING IN A CELLULAR NETWORK HENSON, JAMAAL R §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 16, 2024
18799434 PHYSICAL LAYER SIGNALING PROCEDURES FOR AI/ML BASED CHANNEL FEEDBACK MASUR, PAUL H §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 09, 2024
18755029 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND TIMING ALIGNMENT IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) NETWORK DUONG, FRANK 2474 §103§112 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Jun 26, 2024
18742715 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND TIMING ALIGNMENT IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) NETWORK DUONG, FRANK 2474 §112 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Jun 13, 2024
18697509 METHOD OF IMPROVING ACCURACY OF POSITIONING A NODE IN A CELLULAR NETWORK SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL 2646 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 01, 2024
18579377 AN ELECTRODE SYSTEM BASED ON DIFFERENTIAL OXIDANT RESPONSE FOR THE DETECTION OF FREE CHLORINE SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 1795 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Jan 15, 2024
18033783 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SELF-STABILIZING COMPILATION PAN, HANG 2193 §102§103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Apr 25, 2023

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