Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Southern University Of Science And Technology currently manages 6 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 6 actions are spread across 6 distinct art units, indicating a varied technical focus for their pending matters. The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, which means that every single pending office action is being handled by a different individual at the USPTO.
PATEL, SANJIV D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This matches the workload of every other examiner involved, as there are 6 distinct examiners for the 6 pending office actions. There is no examiner concentration in this portfolio, requiring a unique approach for each pending matter.
The 6 distinct art units involved show that the company's 6 pending office actions are not concentrated in a single technical group. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate the specific requirements of 6 different art units and the individual styles of 6 different examiners. The lack of overlap among the 6 distinct examiners means that no single examiner's past decisions will necessarily predict the outcome of other pending actions. This distribution across 6 distinct art units highlights the specialized nature of the pending portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, SANJIV D | 1 | 78.2% | +3.8% |
| BHAT, ADITYA S | 1 | 81.1% | +10.1% |
| BARAL, PRABIN | 1 | — | — |
| BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1 | 56.2% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19479166 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN IMAGE, DEVICE, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PATEL, SANJIV D | — |
| 18796456 | LEAST-SQUARES REVERSE TIME MIGRATION METHOD, SYSTEM, TERMINAL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BHAT, ADITYA S | — |
| 18664042 | METHOD FOR SCALABLE FABRICATION OF ULTRAFLAT POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND MEMBRANES | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18796456 | LEAST-SQUARES REVERSE TIME MIGRATION METHOD, SYSTEM, TERMINAL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BHAT, ADITYA S | — |
| 18664042 | METHOD FOR SCALABLE FABRICATION OF ULTRAFLAT POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND MEMBRANES | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2625 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19479166 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN IMAGE, DEVICE, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PATEL, SANJIV D | 2625 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 18796456 | LEAST-SQUARES REVERSE TIME MIGRATION METHOD, SYSTEM, TERMINAL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BHAT, ADITYA S | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18748187 | P-CHANNEL DEVICE AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT THEREOF | BARAL, PRABIN | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18664042 | METHOD FOR SCALABLE FABRICATION OF ULTRAFLAT POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND MEMBRANES | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1714 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSouthern University Of Science And Technology has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Sanjiv D Patel has the most, with 1 of Southern University Of Science And Technology's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
