Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Portland State University has 2 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, so the portfolio has separate examination channels.
KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Any response strategy should preserve claim-specific analysis for each assignment while monitoring the identified examiner’s matter.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 1 | 80.8% | +18.2% |
| WISE, OLIVIA M. | 1 | 33.9% | +29.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521473 | ACOUSTIC TRANSISTOR | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17815154 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGET THERMAL ANALYSIS IN COMPLEX FLUIDS | WISE, OLIVIA M. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521473 | ACOUSTIC TRANSISTOR | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| 17815154 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGET THERMAL ANALYSIS IN COMPLEX FLUIDS | WISE, OLIVIA M. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 1 |
| 1685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18521473 | ACOUSTIC TRANSISTOR | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 17815154 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGET THERMAL ANALYSIS IN COMPLEX FLUIDS | WISE, OLIVIA M. | 1685 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPortland State University has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
William Joseph Klimowicz has the most, with 1 of Portland State University's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
