Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Southern University Of Science And Technology has 6 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are handled by 6 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. The prosecution activity is concentrated within 3 distinct art units, suggesting a variety of examiner perspectives even within a small number of pending matters.
PATEL, SANJIV D is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This distribution shows that no single examiner is handling more than one of the 6 pending office actions for the university. The involvement of 6 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units suggests a decentralized approach at the examiner level, while the focus on three art units keeps the technical content within a relatively narrow field. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate the specific preferences of six different examiners while operating within a limited number of technical classifications. The absence of any examiner overlap indicates that each application is being evaluated as an independent matter without a central point of contact in the examination corps for the 6 pending office actions.
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 (17%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 | 78.1% | +3.8% |
| NGUYEN, CUONG H | 1 | 78.7% | +8.9% |
| BHAT, ADITYA S | 1 | 81.1% | +10.0% |
| BARAL, PRABIN | 1 | — | — |
| TRINH, MINH N | 1 | 85.5% | +9.8% |
| BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1 | 56.1% | +16.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 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 | — |
| 19174166 | ROBOT BASED ON ORIGAMI PRINCIPLES AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, CONTROLLER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, CUONG H | — |
| 18796456 | LEAST-SQUARES REVERSE TIME MIGRATION METHOD, SYSTEM, TERMINAL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BHAT, ADITYA S | — |
| 18717530 | FLEXIBLE ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC ELECTRODE ARRAY, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF | TRINH, MINH N | — |
| 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 |
| 3794 | 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 |
| 19174166 | ROBOT BASED ON ORIGAMI PRINCIPLES AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, CONTROLLER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, CUONG H | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 18796456 | LEAST-SQUARES REVERSE TIME MIGRATION METHOD, SYSTEM, TERMINAL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BHAT, ADITYA S | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18748187 | P-CHANNEL DEVICE AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT THEREOF | BARAL, PRABIN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18717530 | FLEXIBLE ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC ELECTRODE ARRAY, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF | TRINH, MINH N | 3794 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18664042 | METHOD FOR SCALABLE FABRICATION OF ULTRAFLAT POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND MEMBRANES | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1714 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
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