Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shandong University of Science and Technology is managing 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Each of these actions is assigned to a different examiner and located in a different art unit, as shown by the 4 distinct examiners and the distinct art units. This level of dispersion suggests that the university's active patent matters cover a range of technical subjects within the medical and mechanical fields.
JUAN C BARRERA is the busiest examiner, though he is responsible for only 1 pending action. The fact that 4 different examiners are handling the pending actions means that no single individual has a dominant influence over the university's current pending portfolio. This diversity requires the university to manage separate prosecution paths, each with its own technical requirements and examiner expectations, rather than relying on a centralized strategy within a single art unit.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARRERA, JUAN C | 1 | 63.3% | +35.0% |
| KIM, EUGENE LEE | 1 | 20.7% | +24.8% |
| KEATON, SHERROD L | 1 | 53.3% | +35.7% |
| PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE | 1 | 68.0% | +15.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18094637 | VOLLEYBALL PASSING TRAINING DEVICE | KIM, EUGENE LEE | 29d |
| 18057685 | BIDIRECTIONAL SELF-REGULATING CHEMICAL FLOODING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING OIL RECOVERY | PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE | 34d |
| 18068743 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING HEIGHT OF CONFINED WATER RISING ZONE | KEATON, SHERROD L | 62d |
| 18735092 | APERTURE-ADJUSTABLE MIXED-FLOW NOZZLE AND ITS ATOMIZATION METHOD | BARRERA, JUAN C | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18094637 | VOLLEYBALL PASSING TRAINING DEVICE | KIM, EUGENE LEE | 29d |
| 18057685 | BIDIRECTIONAL SELF-REGULATING CHEMICAL FLOODING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING OIL RECOVERY | PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE | 34d |
| 18068743 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING HEIGHT OF CONFINED WATER RISING ZONE | KEATON, SHERROD L | 62d |
| 18735092 | APERTURE-ADJUSTABLE MIXED-FLOW NOZZLE AND ITS ATOMIZATION METHOD | BARRERA, JUAN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| 3711 | 1 |
| 2148 | 1 |
| 2187 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18735092 | APERTURE-ADJUSTABLE MIXED-FLOW NOZZLE AND ITS ATOMIZATION METHOD | BARRERA, JUAN C | 3752 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18094637 | VOLLEYBALL PASSING TRAINING DEVICE | KIM, EUGENE LEE | 3711 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jan 09, 2023 |
| 18068743 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING HEIGHT OF CONFINED WATER RISING ZONE | KEATON, SHERROD L | 2148 | §101Other | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 18057685 | BIDIRECTIONAL SELF-REGULATING CHEMICAL FLOODING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING OIL RECOVERY | PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE | 2187 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
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