Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
3 pending office actions • 0 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute has 3 pending office actions currently in progress. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, suggesting a decentralized approach to its patent filings. GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C is the busiest examiner for the institute. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action, which is a portion of the 3 total actions pending for the organization.
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 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1 | 72.3% | +37.7% |
| ALI, WAQAAS A | 1 | 81.1% | +17.8% |
| CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | 1 | 7.7% | +46.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18619580 | LARGE-SCALE IN-SITU DEWATERING TREATMENT METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LAKE SLUDGE | ALI, WAQAAS A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18323363 | HYDROLOGICAL MODEL CONSIDERING UNCERTAINTY OF RUNOFF PRODUCTION STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING ITS IMPACT ON SURFACE-SUBSURFACE HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS | CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18637189 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RURAL WASTEWATER RECYCLING | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | — |
| 18619580 | LARGE-SCALE IN-SITU DEWATERING TREATMENT METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LAKE SLUDGE | ALI, WAQAAS A | — |
| 18323363 | HYDROLOGICAL MODEL CONSIDERING UNCERTAINTY OF RUNOFF PRODUCTION STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING ITS IMPACT ON SURFACE-SUBSURFACE HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS | CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18637189 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RURAL WASTEWATER RECYCLING | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18619580 | LARGE-SCALE IN-SITU DEWATERING TREATMENT METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LAKE SLUDGE | ALI, WAQAAS A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18323363 | HYDROLOGICAL MODEL CONSIDERING UNCERTAINTY OF RUNOFF PRODUCTION STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING ITS IMPACT ON SURFACE-SUBSURFACE HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS | CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
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