Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shandong Normal University currently has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SHERMAN, STEPHEN G, and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, SHERMAN, STEPHEN G, is responsible for the 1 pending office action, which represents the university's entire current pending workload. The concentration of the 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit indicates a narrow focus within the communications field.
Practitioners must focus on the specific requirements of this art unit and the individual preferences of SHERMAN, STEPHEN G. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the university's current patent prosecution success depends entirely on the outcome of this single case. There are no other pending actions to provide a broader view of how the Communications group evaluates the university's innovations. The relationship between the examiner and the 1 pending office action means that the entire prosecution strategy is centered on the interaction with SHERMAN, STEPHEN G. For a practitioner, the success of the 1 pending office action requires a focused approach that addresses the specific technical standards of the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | 1 | 82.3% | +16.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19011881 | SYSTEM FOR PANCREATIC CANCER IMAGE SEGMENTATION BASED ON MULTI-VIEW FEATURE FUSION NETWORK | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19011881 | SYSTEM FOR PANCREATIC CANCER IMAGE SEGMENTATION BASED ON MULTI-VIEW FEATURE FUSION NETWORK | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19011881 | SYSTEM FOR PANCREATIC CANCER IMAGE SEGMENTATION BASED ON MULTI-VIEW FEATURE FUSION NETWORK | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | 2621 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialShandong Normal University has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Stephen G Sherman has the most, with 1 of Shandong Normal University's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
