Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Indian Institute Of Technology Madras(Iit Madras) manages 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to the distinct examiner, PANWALKAR, VINEETA S, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is further concentrated as it is limited to the distinct art unit.
The presence of only 1 pending office action across the distinct examiner and art unit reflects a very streamlined prosecution profile. In the Communications sector, the institute's current USPTO activity is entirely dependent on the review by PANWALKAR, VINEETA S. This lack of distribution across multiple examiners or art units means that the institute does not have to manage competing examiner styles or different art unit cultures. However, it also means that the 1 pending office action carries the full weight of the current prosecution efforts. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of the distinct examiner involved, as this relationship defines the current state of the Indian Institute Of Technology Madras(Iit Madras) portfolio at the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PANWALKAR, VINEETA S | 1 | 91.2% | +8.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19033482 | METHOD FOR COMPUTING WEIGHTS FOR A BEAMFORMING ALGORITHM FROM AN INTELLIGENT REFLECTING SURFACE | PANWALKAR, VINEETA S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19033482 | METHOD FOR COMPUTING WEIGHTS FOR A BEAMFORMING ALGORITHM FROM AN INTELLIGENT REFLECTING SURFACE | PANWALKAR, VINEETA S | 2635 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialIndian Institute Of Technology Madras(Iit Madras) has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Vineeta S Panwalkar has the most, with 1 of Indian Institute Of Technology Madras(Iit Madras)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
