Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Simon Fraser University Technology Licensing Office currently oversees 1 pending office action. This activity is concentrated in the Computing & Software technology area, which defines the current scope of the office's patent prosecution efforts. The matter is being handled within 1 distinct art unit.
The portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner. BAOQUOC N TO is the busiest examiner for the organization, handling 1 pending office action. This individual is responsible for the full volume of pending actions currently reported for the university's licensing office. With only 1 pending action and 1 examiner, the university's current prosecution success in the computing field is entirely dependent on the interactions with Baoquoc N To. This concentration allows for a very focused prosecution strategy but also means that the examiner's specific review style will be the determining factor for the pending application.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TO, BAOQUOC N | 1 | 89.9% | +7.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977185 | Whole-Query Optimization Using Program Synthesis | TO, BAOQUOC N | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2154 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18977185 | Whole-Query Optimization Using Program Synthesis | TO, BAOQUOC N | 2154 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSimon Fraser University Technology Licensing Office has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Baoquoc N To has the most, with 1 of Simon Fraser University Technology Licensing Office's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
