Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (Iit Madras)

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (57%)
3
Easy (43%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (57%)
§112 only3 (43%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
29% of docket
4
Information Tech
57% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DUONG, FRANK 2 90.3% +6.6%
SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 1 64.1% +11.9%
PALIWAL, YOGESH 1 83.8% +10.8%
MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE 1 81.6% +2.0%
PAN, HANG 1 74.5% +25.8%
ROYSTON, JOHN M 1 77.8% +16.8%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18034958 METHOD FOR SELECTIVE EXTRACTION OF GOLD BY NIACIN MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE 17d overdue
18265701 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TIME-EFFICIENT SYNTHETIC NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING DATA PALIWAL, YOGESH 9d overdue
18755029 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND TIMING ALIGNMENT IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) NETWORK DUONG, FRANK 83d
18742715 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND TIMING ALIGNMENT IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) NETWORK DUONG, FRANK 83d

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
18033451 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTELY MEASURING PROPERTIES OF A FLUID ROYSTON, JOHN M 31d overdue
18579377 AN ELECTRODE SYSTEM BASED ON DIFFERENTIAL OXIDANT RESPONSE FOR THE DETECTION OF FREE CHLORINE SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 24d overdue
18265701 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TIME-EFFICIENT SYNTHETIC NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING DATA PALIWAL, YOGESH 9d overdue
18033783 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SELF-STABILIZING COMPILATION PAN, HANG 83d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2474 2
1795 1
2435 1
1733 1
2193 1
2855 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18755029 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND TIMING ALIGNMENT IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) NETWORK DUONG, FRANK 2474 §103 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
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
18265701 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TIME-EFFICIENT SYNTHETIC NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING DATA PALIWAL, YOGESH 2435 §112 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2023
18034958 METHOD FOR SELECTIVE EXTRACTION OF GOLD BY NIACIN MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE 1733 §112 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending May 02, 2023
18033783 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SELF-STABILIZING COMPILATION PAN, HANG 2193 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Apr 25, 2023
18033451 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTELY MEASURING PROPERTIES OF A FLUID ROYSTON, JOHN M 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2023

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