Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Institutes Of Advanced Technology is currently managing 4 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, meaning each application is being reviewed by a different individual. However, these examiners are located within only 3 distinct art units, suggesting some technical overlap or clustering in the types of communication technologies being patented.
KY, KEVIN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. With 4 distinct examiners each handling one of the 4 pending office actions, no single examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio's progress. The fact that 4 examiners are spread across 3 art units indicates that at least two examiners are working within the same art unit, which may provide some consistency in the administrative standards applied to those specific cases. Practitioners should still prepare for 4 different examination styles, but they may find some commonality in the procedural expectations of the 3 distinct art units involved.
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 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KY, KEVIN | 1 | 77.4% | +25.0% |
| SONG, JIANFENG | 1 | 56.4% | +33.0% |
| SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J | 1 | 83.9% | +6.0% |
| BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C | 1 | 76.0% | +21.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19003261 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING PET PARAMETER IMAGE, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KY, KEVIN | — |
| 18393634 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING BATTERY PERFORMANCE BASED ON COMBINATION OF MATERIAL PARAMETERS OF BATTERY PULPING PROCESS | SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18353653 | VISUAL CONTINUOUS SPATIAL DIRECTED EVOLUTION METHOD | BOESEN, CHRISTIAN 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19003261 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING PET PARAMETER IMAGE, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KY, KEVIN | — |
| 18574727 | BIOENERGETIC-ACTIVE MATERIAL AND USE THEREOF | SONG, JIANFENG | — |
| 18353653 | VISUAL CONTINUOUS SPATIAL DIRECTED EVOLUTION METHOD | BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2671 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19003261 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING PET PARAMETER IMAGE, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KY, KEVIN | 2671 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18574727 | BIOENERGETIC-ACTIVE MATERIAL AND USE THEREOF | SONG, JIANFENG | 1613 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18393634 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING BATTERY PERFORMANCE BASED ON COMBINATION OF MATERIAL PARAMETERS OF BATTERY PULPING PROCESS | SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J | 2857 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18353653 | VISUAL CONTINUOUS SPATIAL DIRECTED EVOLUTION METHOD | BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C | — | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShenzhen Institutes Of Advanced Technology has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Kevin Ky has the most, with 1 of Shenzhen Institutes Of Advanced Technology's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
