Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Kaohsiung University Of Science And Technology has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners but are contained within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that while the reviewers vary, the technical focus is relatively concentrated. This structure indicates that the university is engaging with multiple individuals within a limited number of specialized groups at the patent office.
RIDLEY, BASIA ANNA is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. Given the total of 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed with each examiner handling 1 action. This arrangement across 2 distinct art units means that multiple examiners are working within the same technical groups to process the university's applications. For practitioners, this implies a need to monitor for potential inconsistencies in examiner behavior within the same art unit while managing the 4 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIDLEY, BASIA ANNA | 1 | 13.5% | +1.7% |
| CARREON, ADRIAN JOHN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 1 | 83.6% | +13.4% |
| CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | 1 | 69.6% | +27.7% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18540442 | CULTURING DEVICE | CARREON, ADRIAN JOHN | — |
| 18519113 | METHOD FOR PREVENTING RAILCAR FROM OVERTURNING AND ANTI-OVERTURNING RAILCAR | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390991 | AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE COMPOSITION, AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE, AND ZINC ION SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME | RIDLEY, BASIA ANNA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17953669 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRE-PROCESSING GEOMETRIC MODEL DATA OF 3D MODELING SOFTWARE FOR DEEP LEARNING | CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | 23d |
| 18519113 | METHOD FOR PREVENTING RAILCAR FROM OVERTURNING AND ANTI-OVERTURNING RAILCAR | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| 2189 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18390991 | AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE COMPOSITION, AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE, AND ZINC ION SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME | RIDLEY, BASIA ANNA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18540442 | CULTURING DEVICE | CARREON, ADRIAN JOHN | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18519113 | METHOD FOR PREVENTING RAILCAR FROM OVERTURNING AND ANTI-OVERTURNING RAILCAR | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 3615 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 17953669 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRE-PROCESSING GEOMETRIC MODEL DATA OF 3D MODELING SOFTWARE FOR DEEP LEARNING | CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | 2189 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
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