Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nanjing University Of Posts And Telecommunications currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending case is being handled by a different individual. Furthermore, the portfolio is active in 3 distinct art units, which suggests a range of technical focuses within the broader computing field. This lack of concentration means that the university must manage a variety of examination styles and art unit-specific requirements simultaneously.
KUDO, KEN is the busiest examiner for the university, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Given that the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the 3 pending office actions are spread evenly among the 3 distinct examiners. This distribution requires practitioners to be versatile, as they cannot rely on a single examiner's patterns to predict outcomes across the portfolio. The alignment of 3 pending office actions with 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units highlights a decentralized prosecution strategy in the Computing & Software sector, necessitating a case-by-case approach for each application.
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 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUDO, KEN | 1 | — | — |
| BAKER, EZRA JAMES | 1 | 42.3% | +29.8% |
| VASQUEZ, MARKUS A | 1 | 51.2% | +27.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18331887 | INDOOR PASSIVE HUMAN BEHAVIOR RECOGNITION METHOD AND DEVICE | BAKER, EZRA JAMES | 34d |
| 18032570 | GLOBAL PHASE TRACKING AND PREDICTING METHOD SUITABLE FOR TWIN-FIELD QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | VASQUEZ, MARKUS A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18331887 | INDOOR PASSIVE HUMAN BEHAVIOR RECOGNITION METHOD AND DEVICE | BAKER, EZRA JAMES | 34d |
| 18032570 | GLOBAL PHASE TRACKING AND PREDICTING METHOD SUITABLE FOR TWIN-FIELD QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | VASQUEZ, MARKUS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2671 | 1 |
| 2126 | 1 |
| 2121 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18675032 | METHOD FOR IMAGE MOTION DEBLURRING, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM THEREFOR | KUDO, KEN | 2671 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | May 27, 2024 |
| 18331887 | INDOOR PASSIVE HUMAN BEHAVIOR RECOGNITION METHOD AND DEVICE | BAKER, EZRA JAMES | 2126 | §101 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18032570 | GLOBAL PHASE TRACKING AND PREDICTING METHOD SUITABLE FOR TWIN-FIELD QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | VASQUEZ, MARKUS A | 2121 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
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