Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Southeast University

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 54 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (12%)
5
Medium (62%)
2
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (12%)
§103 only5 (62%)
§112 only2 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
38% of docket
3
Information Tech
38% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL 1 74.4% +11.7%
BOKHARI, SYED M 1 82.6% +18.0%
HOLLWEG, THOMAS A 1 53.2% +31.1%
WERNER, MARSHALL L 1 65.9% +45.3%
KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE 1 11.1% +94.1%
GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE 1 58.8% +45.3%
SYLVESTER, KEVIN 1 66.7% +50.0%
CHAVEZ, RENEE D 1 68.4% +13.2%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18681820 UPLINK AND DOWNLINK ASYMMETRIC CHANNEL MODEL PARAMETER GENERATING METHOD BOKHARI, SYED M 4d overdue

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18013279 DEVICE FOR ONLINE CO-PRODUCTION OF CARBON-CONTAINING PRECURSORS AND HIGH-QUALITY OXYGEN-CONTAINING FUELS FROM BIOMASS PYROLYSIS GAS KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE 32d overdue
18852172 SKYWAVE MASSIVE MIMO-OFDM TRIPLE BEAM-BASED CHANNEL MODELING AND CHANNEL INFORMATION ACQUISITION BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL 5d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18563384 ASYMMETRIC WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING AND DEMULTIPLEXING CHIP BASED ON INVERSE DESIGN HOLLWEG, THOMAS A 183d overdue
17610042 DYNAMIC INTERACTIVE SIMULATION METHOD FOR RECOGNITION AND PLANNING OF URBAN VIEWING CORRIDOR CHAVEZ, RENEE D 146d overdue
18013279 DEVICE FOR ONLINE CO-PRODUCTION OF CARBON-CONTAINING PRECURSORS AND HIGH-QUALITY OXYGEN-CONTAINING FUELS FROM BIOMASS PYROLYSIS GAS KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE 32d overdue
17911130 GENE INTERFERENCE VECTOR- AND IRON NANOPARTICLE-BASED COMPOSITION FOR KILLING CANCER CELLS, AND USE THEREOF GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE 30d overdue
18852172 SKYWAVE MASSIVE MIMO-OFDM TRIPLE BEAM-BASED CHANNEL MODELING AND CHANNEL INFORMATION ACQUISITION BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL 5d overdue
18681820 UPLINK AND DOWNLINK ASYMMETRIC CHANNEL MODEL PARAMETER GENERATING METHOD BOKHARI, SYED M 4d overdue
18138154 WRIST REHABILITATION TRAINING SYSTEM BASED ON MUSCLE COORDINATION AND VARIABLE STIFFNESS IMPEDANCE CONTROL WERNER, MARSHALL L 12d
17834820 IMPREGNATED POROUS POWDER WITH SUPERHYDROPHOBIC PARTICLES AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF SYLVESTER, KEVIN 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2632 1
2473 1
2874 1
2125 1
1774 1
1637 1
1794 1
2186 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18852172 SKYWAVE MASSIVE MIMO-OFDM TRIPLE BEAM-BASED CHANNEL MODELING AND CHANNEL INFORMATION ACQUISITION BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL 2632 §101 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2024
18681820 UPLINK AND DOWNLINK ASYMMETRIC CHANNEL MODEL PARAMETER GENERATING METHOD BOKHARI, SYED M 2473 §112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 06, 2024
18563384 ASYMMETRIC WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING AND DEMULTIPLEXING CHIP BASED ON INVERSE DESIGN HOLLWEG, THOMAS A 2874 §103 Non-Final OA 183d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2023
18138154 WRIST REHABILITATION TRAINING SYSTEM BASED ON MUSCLE COORDINATION AND VARIABLE STIFFNESS IMPEDANCE CONTROL WERNER, MARSHALL L 2125 §112 Final Rejection 12d Pending Apr 24, 2023
18013279 DEVICE FOR ONLINE CO-PRODUCTION OF CARBON-CONTAINING PRECURSORS AND HIGH-QUALITY OXYGEN-CONTAINING FUELS FROM BIOMASS PYROLYSIS GAS KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE 1774 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2022
17911130 GENE INTERFERENCE VECTOR- AND IRON NANOPARTICLE-BASED COMPOSITION FOR KILLING CANCER CELLS, AND USE THEREOF GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE 1637 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2022
17834820 IMPREGNATED POROUS POWDER WITH SUPERHYDROPHOBIC PARTICLES AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF SYLVESTER, KEVIN 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jun 07, 2022
17610042 DYNAMIC INTERACTIVE SIMULATION METHOD FOR RECOGNITION AND PLANNING OF URBAN VIEWING CORRIDOR CHAVEZ, RENEE D 2186 §103 Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2021

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