Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 7 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Qatar University maintains a portfolio with 10 pending office actions, primarily focused within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 10 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a broad prosecution strategy that engages multiple specialized divisions within the patent office.
The workload is highly decentralized, as evidenced by the fact that the busiest examiner, WEARE, MEREDITH H, is responsible for only 1 pending action. This ratio of 10 pending actions to 10 distinct examiners means that no individual examiner holds a majority of the university's active cases. Practitioners must navigate 6 distinct art units, requiring a versatile approach to different examination standards across the technology area.
The presence of the active matters across various technical sub-sectors within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area suggests a diverse intellectual property base. With the busiest examiner handling only 1 pending action, the portfolio's progress is not dependent on the pace of the busiest examiner but is instead subject to the varied timelines of the different examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (9%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (18%) |
| §103 only | 2 (18%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEARE, MEREDITH H | 1 | 50.4% | +31.7% |
| MARONEY, JENNA M | 1 | 64.5% | +20.3% |
| HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1 | 51.4% | +45.0% |
| AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1 | 63.2% | +47.3% |
| VALENTI, ANDREA M | 1 | 42.6% | +57.4% |
| AGAHI, PUYA | 1 | 49.2% | +24.4% |
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 1 | 68.8% | +25.2% |
| CHIU, TAK LIANG | 1 | 48.8% | +20.7% |
| PEO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 48.2% | +48.1% |
| BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 1 | 51.3% | +35.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17510986 | MEDICAL FACILITY REMOTE PATIENT ASSIGNMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 16d overdue |
| 18386189 | WEARABLE NON-INVASIVE BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING SYSTEM | AGAHI, PUYA | 63d |
| 18942300 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS OF DYSGRAPHIA | WEARE, MEREDITH H | — |
| 18861100 | DUAL-MIXED REFRIGERANT PRECOOLING PROCESS | MARONEY, JENNA M | — |
| 18907427 | PYRIDINE BASED CHALCONE ANALOGS AS THERAPEUTIC AGENTS AND USE THEREOF | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | — |
| 18772403 | PROSOPIS JULIFLORA WATER-SOLUBLE LEAF ETHANOLIC (PJ-WS-LE) EXTRACT AS A PREVENTIVE COATING FOR POST-HARVEST FRUITS | AHVAZI, BIJAN | — |
| 18119659 | ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY RESTORATION BY OPERATIONAL CYCLE-GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS | PORTER, JR, GARY A | — |
| 18115350 | ULTRAFAST WATER FLUX THROUGH HOT-PRESSED SOLUTION BLOWN SPUN NANOFIBER-BASED THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANES FOR FORWARD OSMOSIS | CHIU, TAK LIANG | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18102626 | POLYMERIC FOAM COMPOSITES FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT AT ROOM TEMPERATURE | PEO, JONATHAN M | 19d overdue |
| 18386189 | WEARABLE NON-INVASIVE BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING SYSTEM | AGAHI, PUYA | 63d |
| 18942300 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS OF DYSGRAPHIA | WEARE, MEREDITH H | — |
| 18861100 | DUAL-MIXED REFRIGERANT PRECOOLING PROCESS | MARONEY, JENNA M | — |
| 18907427 | PYRIDINE BASED CHALCONE ANALOGS AS THERAPEUTIC AGENTS AND USE THEREOF | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | — |
| 18772403 | PROSOPIS JULIFLORA WATER-SOLUBLE LEAF ETHANOLIC (PJ-WS-LE) EXTRACT AS A PREVENTIVE COATING FOR POST-HARVEST FRUITS | AHVAZI, BIJAN | — |
| 18587538 | DEPLOYMENT FRAME FOR COMBINING MULTIPLE ARTIFICIAL REEFS | VALENTI, ANDREA M | — |
| 18119659 | ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY RESTORATION BY OPERATIONAL CYCLE-GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS | PORTER, JR, GARY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 2124 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18942300 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS OF DYSGRAPHIA | WEARE, MEREDITH H | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18861100 | DUAL-MIXED REFRIGERANT PRECOOLING PROCESS | MARONEY, JENNA M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18907427 | PYRIDINE BASED CHALCONE ANALOGS AS THERAPEUTIC AGENTS AND USE THEREOF | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18772403 | PROSOPIS JULIFLORA WATER-SOLUBLE LEAF ETHANOLIC (PJ-WS-LE) EXTRACT AS A PREVENTIVE COATING FOR POST-HARVEST FRUITS | AHVAZI, BIJAN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18587538 | DEPLOYMENT FRAME FOR COMBINING MULTIPLE ARTIFICIAL REEFS | VALENTI, ANDREA M | 3643 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18386189 | WEARABLE NON-INVASIVE BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING SYSTEM | AGAHI, PUYA | 3791 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18119659 | ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY RESTORATION BY OPERATIONAL CYCLE-GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3796 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
| 18115350 | ULTRAFAST WATER FLUX THROUGH HOT-PRESSED SOLUTION BLOWN SPUN NANOFIBER-BASED THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANES FOR FORWARD OSMOSIS | CHIU, TAK LIANG | 1777 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 18102626 | POLYMERIC FOAM COMPOSITES FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT AT ROOM TEMPERATURE | PEO, JONATHAN M | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 17566259 | SUPER NEURONS WITH NON-LOCALIZED KERNEL OPERATIONS | BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 2124 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2021 |
| 17510986 | MEDICAL FACILITY REMOTE PATIENT ASSIGNMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 3686 | §101 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 26, 2021 |
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