Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH

16 pending office actions • 13 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (2)

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.

1
Hard (6%)
14
Medium (88%)
1
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (6%)
§103 only12 (75%)
§102 only2 (12%)
§112 only1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
6% of docket
13
Information Tech
81% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
6% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 2 48.7% +26.1%
DWIVEDI, MAHESH H 1 69.4% +4.5%
AREVALO, JOSEPH 1 84.2% +21.1%
MARCELO, MELVIN C 1 85.9% -7.2%
KHATTAR, RAJESH 1 36.2% +35.2%
GOLAN, MATTHEW BRYCE 1 0.0% +0.0%
KAPOOR, DEVAN 1 10.0% +16.7%
STUART, CAREY ALEXANDER MC 1 61.3% +38.3%
BATAILLE, PIERRE MICHE 1 92.8% +6.2%
GRUSZKA, DANIEL PATRICK 1

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17919755 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING PERSONALIZED GUIDELINE INFORMATION FOR A USER IN A PREDETERMINED DOMAIN BATAILLE, PIERRE MICHE 5d overdue
18998142 DISTRIBUTED CONFIGURATION OF RIS SWARM AREVALO, JOSEPH 4d overdue
18434866 PASSIVE SELF-ANNOUNCING RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACE MARCELO, MELVIN C 42d

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17969721 HYPER NETWORK MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURE FOR SIMULATING PHYSICAL SYSTEMS KAPOOR, DEVAN 60d overdue
18509364 MACHINE-LEARNING EXTRACTION OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATION AND OPTIMIZED CHARACTERIZATION OF A TUMOR MICRO ENVIRONMENT OF A PATIENT KHATTAR, RAJESH 22d overdue
18030292 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED PROCESS SUPPORT GOLAN, MATTHEW BRYCE 63d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18791491 MACHINE LEARNING-DRIVEN DATA INTEGRATION FOR DATA SPACES AND DIGITAL TWINS ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 67d overdue
17969721 HYPER NETWORK MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURE FOR SIMULATING PHYSICAL SYSTEMS KAPOOR, DEVAN 60d overdue
18509364 MACHINE-LEARNING EXTRACTION OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATION AND OPTIMIZED CHARACTERIZATION OF A TUMOR MICRO ENVIRONMENT OF A PATIENT KHATTAR, RAJESH 22d overdue
18998142 DISTRIBUTED CONFIGURATION OF RIS SWARM AREVALO, JOSEPH 4d overdue
17734129 KEYWORD BASED OPEN INFORMATION EXTRACTION FOR FACT-RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE GRAPH CREATION AND LINK PREDICTION ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 13d
17996608 SARS-COV-2 VACCINES STUART, CAREY ALEXANDER MC 79d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2126 3
2100 2
2168 1
2642 1
2463 1
3684 1
2123 1
1671 1
2138 1
2121 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19075883 INFORMATION AGGREGATION IN A MULTI-MODAL ENTITY-FEATURE GRAPH FOR INTERVENTION PREDICTION FOR A MEDICAL PATIENT DWIVEDI, MAHESH H 2168 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Mar 11, 2025
18998142 DISTRIBUTED CONFIGURATION OF RIS SWARM AREVALO, JOSEPH 2642 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 24, 2025
18791491 MACHINE LEARNING-DRIVEN DATA INTEGRATION FOR DATA SPACES AND DIGITAL TWINS ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 2100 §103 Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2024
18434866 PASSIVE SELF-ANNOUNCING RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACE MARCELO, MELVIN C 2463 §112 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Feb 07, 2024
18509364 MACHINE-LEARNING EXTRACTION OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATION AND OPTIMIZED CHARACTERIZATION OF A TUMOR MICRO ENVIRONMENT OF A PATIENT KHATTAR, RAJESH 3684 §101 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2023
18030292 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED PROCESS SUPPORT GOLAN, MATTHEW BRYCE 2123 §103 Final Rejection 63d Pending Apr 05, 2023
17969721 HYPER NETWORK MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURE FOR SIMULATING PHYSICAL SYSTEMS KAPOOR, DEVAN 2126 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Oct 20, 2022
17996608 SARS-COV-2 VACCINES STUART, CAREY ALEXANDER MC 1671 §102 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Oct 19, 2022
17919755 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING PERSONALIZED GUIDELINE INFORMATION FOR A USER IN A PREDETERMINED DOMAIN BATAILLE, PIERRE MICHE 2138 §102 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2022
17734129 KEYWORD BASED OPEN INFORMATION EXTRACTION FOR FACT-RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE GRAPH CREATION AND LINK PREDICTION ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 2100 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending May 02, 2022
17726565 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOR A JOINT GROUP PREDICTION BY INDIVIDUAL PREDICTION AND EXPLANATION-BASED RE-RANKING GRUSZKA, DANIEL PATRICK 2121 §103 Final Rejection 70d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2022
17718442 SEMANTIC GRAPHING OF HETEROGENEOUS DOCUMENTS FOR AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING SHINE, NICHOLAS B 2126 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2022
17572740 COMPUTATION GRAPH OPTIMIZATION BY PARTIAL EVALUATIONS AHMED, SYED RAYHAN 2126 §103 Final Rejection 111d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2022
17560322 MECHANISM FOR REDUCING INFORMATION LOST IN SET NEURAL NETWORKS MILLER, ALEXANDRIA JOSEPHINE 2142 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Dec 23, 2021
17557231 AFFINITY GRAPH EXTRACTION AND UPDATING SYSTEMS AND METHODS PAULA, CESAR B 2145 §103 Final Rejection 99d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2021
17437846 EDGE DEVICE AWARE MACHINE LEARNING AND MODEL MANAGEMENT KNIGHT, PAUL M 2148 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Sep 10, 2021

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