Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days
Southwest Petroleum University currently has 6 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These matters are handled by 6 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently reviewing a single action for the university. This lack of examiner overlap suggests that prosecution strategies must be tailored individually for every active case in the portfolio.
The workload is spread across 5 distinct art units, which is fewer than the number of examiners involved. This indicates that some examiners are grouped within the same art units even though no single examiner handles more than 1 busiest examiner pending office action. WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
Managing the pending office actions across 5 distinct art units requires a broad understanding of various software-related examination practices. Because there are 6 distinct examiners, the university cannot rely on building a long-term relationship with a single examiner to streamline these specific pending matters. WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN represents a unique interaction within the Computing & Software sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 5 (83%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN | 1 | 84.0% | +11.5% |
| AYAD, TAMIR | 1 | 42.3% | +47.9% |
| CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | 1 | 69.6% | +27.7% |
| SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| HANN, JAY B | 1 | 61.1% | +31.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17543426 | INTELLIGENT RECOGNITION METHOD FOR WHILE-DRILLING SAFETY RISK BASED ON CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK | HANN, JAY B | 30d |
| 19369171 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIUMS FOR FRACTURING DESIGN OF INFILL WELL BASED ON RECOVERABLE REGION | WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN | — |
| 19223115 | SOLAR CELL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | AYAD, TAMIR | — |
| 18136703 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL ACID FRACTURING METHOD FOR CARBONATE RESERVOIRS IN LONG INTERVALS | CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | — |
| 18151398 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE STIMULATED RESERVIOR VOLUME OF HORIZONTAL WELLS BY COUPLING RESERVOIR FLOW | SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM | — |
| 17952993 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING FRACTURE HEIGHT DURING FRACTURING STIMULATION IN MULTI-LAYER FORMATION | TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17543426 | INTELLIGENT RECOGNITION METHOD FOR WHILE-DRILLING SAFETY RISK BASED ON CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK | HANN, JAY B | 30d |
| 19369171 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIUMS FOR FRACTURING DESIGN OF INFILL WELL BASED ON RECOVERABLE REGION | WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN | — |
| 19223115 | SOLAR CELL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | AYAD, TAMIR | — |
| 18136703 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL ACID FRACTURING METHOD FOR CARBONATE RESERVOIRS IN LONG INTERVALS | CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| 2187 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19369171 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIUMS FOR FRACTURING DESIGN OF INFILL WELL BASED ON RECOVERABLE REGION | WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN | 3672 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2025 |
| 19223115 | SOLAR CELL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | AYAD, TAMIR | 1726 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 18136703 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL ACID FRACTURING METHOD FOR CARBONATE RESERVOIRS IN LONG INTERVALS | CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
| 18151398 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE STIMULATED RESERVIOR VOLUME OF HORIZONTAL WELLS BY COUPLING RESERVOIR FLOW | SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM | 2187 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
| 17952993 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING FRACTURE HEIGHT DURING FRACTURING STIMULATION IN MULTI-LAYER FORMATION | TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN | 2188 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
| 17543426 | INTELLIGENT RECOGNITION METHOD FOR WHILE-DRILLING SAFETY RISK BASED ON CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK | HANN, JAY B | 2186 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Dec 06, 2021 |
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