Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ntnu - Norges Teknisk - Naturvitenskapelige Universitet has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit. This single action represents the entire current pending workload for the university in this specific technology area, indicating a very focused prosecution effort.
N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. As there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is responsible for all current pending prosecution activity for the university. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner suggests that the university's current patent office interactions are highly centralized for this application.
Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences and past rulings of this single examiner to optimize the prosecution outcome for this pending matter. Monitoring the trends within the 1 distinct art unit involved may also provide insights into the likely progression of the case.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | 1 | 78.3% | +14.9% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839259 | LONG OFFSET LOW FREQUENCY SEISMIC SURVEYS USING OPTICAL FIBERS | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18839259 | LONG OFFSET LOW FREQUENCY SEISMIC SURVEYS USING OPTICAL FIBERS | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNtnu - Norges Teknisk - Naturvitenskapelige Universitet has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Amie Mercedes N'Dure has the most, with 1 of Ntnu - Norges Teknisk - Naturvitenskapelige Universitet's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
