Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Tata Group

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

64 pending office actions • 44 art units • 61 examiners • 0 of 64 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 240 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Tata Group has 72 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The portfolio reaches 68 distinct examiners and 48 distinct art units, reflecting broad allocation across both individual examiners and technical groups. The difference between examiner and art-unit coverage indicates that some art units contain multiple Tata matters, creating an opportunity to monitor related prosecution themes.

HATCHER, DEIRDRE D is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. That limited concentration means the portfolio is not centered on one examiner relationship. A coordinated docketing process, supported by art-unit-specific claim and amendment records, is better suited to the distribution shown here.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

64
Total Pending OAs
34
Non-Final OAs
19
Final Rejections
11
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
7
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due later (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.

53
Hard (83%)
10
Medium (16%)
1
Easy (2%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only22 (34%)
§101 + other26 (41%)
§103 only7 (11%)
§102 only3 (5%)
§112 only1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
9% of docket
18
Information Tech
28% of docket
6
Communications
9% of docket
3
Semiconductors
5% of docket
29
Mechanical / Eng
45% of docket
2
Business / Other
3% 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.

640 h
Manual time on pending OAs
128 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
224 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 2 25.8% +53.3%
SHEIKH, ASFAND M 2 46.0% +48.0%
COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD 2 40.9% +47.7%
DAUD, ABDULLAH AHMED 1 55.1% +30.5%
TRUONG, CAM Y T 1 82.3% +61.4%
WU, XIAO MIN 1 100.0% +0.0%
GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER 1 76.9% +27.3%
YU, ARIEL J 1 40.6% +26.7%
DETWEILER, JAMES M 1 39.0% +43.6%
LU, ZHIYU 1 48.8% +14.4%

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
19089071 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REAL-TIME LIVE TELEPRESENCE WITH DIGITAL AVATAR OF REMOTE PERSON WU, XIAO MIN —

Hard Cases (53)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17822722 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO INTERVIEWERS RUSS, COREY V 138d overdue
18934358 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING SUSTAINABILITY OF A FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK USING DIGITAL TWIN HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 46d overdue
18181376 RETAIL SPACE PLANNING THROUGH PATTERN RECOGNITION CHEIN, ALLEN C 9d
18491061 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) OPERATIONAL ENDURANCE OF AN ENTITY SHEIKH, ASFAND M 13d
18430459 MULTI-LEVEL RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT OF VENDORS BASED ON MULTI-DIMENSIONAL RELIABILITY SCORE SHEIKH, ASFAND M 14d
19004573 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING PRODUCT REVENUE MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE 22d
17361974 DETECTION OF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOUR OF DEVICES FROM ASSOCIATED UNLABELED SENSOR OBSERVATIONS ALGHAZZY, SHAMCY 22d
18323012 OPTIMAL INTRADAY SCHEDULING OF AGGREGATED DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES (DERs) BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 28d

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18491061 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) OPERATIONAL ENDURANCE OF AN ENTITY SHEIKH, ASFAND M 13d
18430459 MULTI-LEVEL RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT OF VENDORS BASED ON MULTI-DIMENSIONAL RELIABILITY SCORE SHEIKH, ASFAND M 14d
18323012 OPTIMAL INTRADAY SCHEDULING OF AGGREGATED DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES (DERs) BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 28d
19335178 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TEMPLATIZATION AND RETRIEVAL OF DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE FOR ENTERPRISE TEXT-TO-SQL SEMANTIC PARSING DAUD, ABDULLAH AHMED —
19306272 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFICATION OF PRODUCT TAXONOMY FROM PRODUCT ABBREVIATION TRUONG, CAM Y T —
19087648 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIFFUSION MODELS BASED GENERATION OF CUSTOMIZED TEXTUAL IMAGES GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER —
19083574 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN BASED DYNAMIC DECENTRALIZED NETWORK FOR WAREHOUSE COMMODITY MANAGEMENT YU, ARIEL J —
19084077 PERSONALIZED PROMOTION OFFER GENERATION BY UNDERSTANDING CUSTOMER BUYING INTENT TO MAXIMIZE RETURN ON INVESTMENT DETWEILER, JAMES M —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3624 8
3791 4
3627 3
2188 3
2857 2
3626 2
3692 2
1687 2
2125 2
2164 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19335178 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TEMPLATIZATION AND RETRIEVAL OF DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE FOR ENTERPRISE TEXT-TO-SQL SEMANTIC PARSING DAUD, ABDULLAH AHMED 2164 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 22, 2025
19306272 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFICATION OF PRODUCT TAXONOMY FROM PRODUCT ABBREVIATION TRUONG, CAM Y T 2169 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 21, 2025
19089071 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REAL-TIME LIVE TELEPRESENCE WITH DIGITAL AVATAR OF REMOTE PERSON WU, XIAO MIN 2613 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 25, 2025
19087648 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIFFUSION MODELS BASED GENERATION OF CUSTOMIZED TEXTUAL IMAGES GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 24, 2025
19083574 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN BASED DYNAMIC DECENTRALIZED NETWORK FOR WAREHOUSE COMMODITY MANAGEMENT YU, ARIEL J 3627 §101§102 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 19, 2025
19084077 PERSONALIZED PROMOTION OFFER GENERATION BY UNDERSTANDING CUSTOMER BUYING INTENT TO MAXIMIZE RETURN ON INVESTMENT DETWEILER, JAMES M 3621 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 19, 2025
19077502 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPONENT WISE SEGMENTATION AND PREDICTION OF BIOMASS SATURATION LU, ZHIYU 2665 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 12, 2025
19058356 OPTIMAL ROUTE PLANNING AND VEHICLE CAPACITY UTILIZATION WITH MANAGEMENT OF INCOMPATIBLE COMMODITIES IN LOGISTICS KIRK, BRYAN J 3628 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 20, 2025
19040904 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIGNAL ELEVATION BASED MUSCLE ACTIVITY DETECTION CERIONI, DANIEL LEE 3791 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 30, 2025
19037422 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INNOVATION VELOCITY MEASUREMENT YESILDAG, MEHMET 3624 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 27, 2025
19013916 NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDATION OF ITEMS MITROS, ANNA MAE 3689 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 08, 2025
19008192 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING INDEXED CORPUS FOR DOMAIN-DRIVEN KNOWLEDGE AUGMENTED QUESTION ANSWERING KIM, ETHAN DANIEL 2658 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 02, 2025
19006312 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE REAL TIME TRAINING FOR UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR AWARENESS UTAMA, ROBERT J 3715 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 31, 2024
19004897 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUGMENTED SPEECH EMBEDDINGS BASED AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION WOZNIAK, JAMES S 2655 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 30, 2024
19004575 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A PROGRESSIVE MULTI-LEVEL TRAINING FRAMEWORK WITH LOGIT-MASKING STRATEGY DAY, ROBERT N 2122 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 30, 2024
19004573 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING PRODUCT REVENUE MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE 3624 §101 Final Rejection 22d Pending Dec 30, 2024
19004383 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BAYESIAN REGRESSION-BASED FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS IN WIND-TURBINE SENSORS AND ACTUATORS WORKU, KIDEST 2119 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 29, 2024
18987452 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETERMINE CROP GROWTH STAGE NUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES RUDOLPH, VINCENT M 2671 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 19, 2024
18971339 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC PROMOTIONAL OFFER RECOMMENDATION LONG, MEREDITH A 3622 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 06, 2024
18960511 DYNAMIC ALGO CONTAINER FRAMEWORK PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 3624 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 26, 2024
18954277 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTING OPTIMAL ENERGY GENERATION SCHEDULE IN MULTI-ENERGY HUBS SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N 3624 §101 Final Rejection 29d Pending Nov 20, 2024
18934358 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING SUSTAINABILITY OF A FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK USING DIGITAL TWIN HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2024
18897055 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF ENTERPRISE OPERATIONS USING MATURITY ASSESMENT CRANDALL, RICHARD W. 3619 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18882865 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TIME SERIES FORECASTING INCORPORATING SEASONAL CORRELATIONS USING SCALABLE ARCHITECTURE NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 2124 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 12, 2024
18828168 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMAL SCHEDULING OF POWER SOURCES FOR MEETING ELECTRICITY DEMAND OF ENTERPRISE BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 3624 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 09, 2024
18822583 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME CALIBRATION OF EAR-EEG DEVICE EPPERT, LUCY CLARE 3791 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 03, 2024
18823160 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DAMAGE LOCALIZATION USING LOW POWER GUIDED WAVE BUTLER, KEVIN C 2852 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 03, 2024
18810285 ESTIMATION OF ACTUAL LOCATION OF USER DEVICE USING AGGREGATION OF LOCATION ESTIMATION MODELS COSME, NATASHA W 2465 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 20, 2024
18805294 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION PREDICTION BROWN, MICHAEL J 2115 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 14, 2024
18791517 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GENERATING OPTIMAL PORTFOLIO FOR SELLER BIDDING STRATEGY IN DECOUPLED MULTI-ENERGY MARKETS DUCK, BRANDON M 3693 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 01, 2024
18785497 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFORM BASED SUBSPACE INTERPOLATION FOR UNSUPERVISED DOMAIN ADAPTATION FOR MACHINE INSPECTION KORANG-BEHESHTI, YOSSEF 2857 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 26, 2024
18762186 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF LEARNING-BASED PROBLEM MANAGEMENT FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) OPERATIONS MASKULINSKI, MICHAEL C 2113 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 02, 2024
18754618 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CLOUD INSTANCES FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC) APPLICATIONS ROTARU, OCTAVIAN 3624 §101§102§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 26, 2024
18753595 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING ACCRETION IN A ROTARY KILN SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 2857 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 25, 2024
18742068 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENABLING A HYBRID ARCHITECTURE IN AN ENTERPRISE APPLICATION NIGATU, BEZA DIRESSA 4100 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 13, 2024
18633767 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING POST-EXERCISE RECOVERY SCORE USING PERSONALIZED CARDIAC MODEL HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI 3791 §101§112 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 12, 2024
18430459 MULTI-LEVEL RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT OF VENDORS BASED ON MULTI-DIMENSIONAL RELIABILITY SCORE SHEIKH, ASFAND M 3626 §101 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 01, 2024
18429168 EARLY RISK ASSESSMENT OF PRETERM DELIVERY IN A SUBJECT SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA 1682 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 31, 2024
18414297 INTER-BANK TRANSACTION WITH PRIVACY ENABLED AUDITING AND PRIVACY ENABLED INTER-BANK SETTLEMENTS IN BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 3692 §101§112 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Jan 16, 2024
18393876 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INVERSELY PREDICTING NANOFEATURES OF PLASMONIC METASURFACE USING REMODELED VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER LE, HUNG VAN 2145 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 22, 2023
18527487 ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIER FOR IMPUTATION OF MOBILITY DATA OF UNKNOWN SUBJECT MILLER, ALEXANDRIA JOSEPHINE 2142 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 04, 2023
18524400 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING EQUIPMENT FOR PELLETIZATION COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD 2188 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 30, 2023
18385604 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING DRUG-LIKE MOLECULES FROM DESIRED GENE EXPRESSION SIGNATURES ELKINS, BLAKE HARRISON 1687 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 31, 2023
18491061 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) OPERATIONAL ENDURANCE OF AN ENTITY SHEIKH, ASFAND M 3626 §101 Final Rejection 13d Pending Oct 20, 2023
18462782 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND MANAGING FARM VERSIONS AND MEASURING PORTABILITY TO TARGET FARMS HO, THOMAS Y 3624 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 07, 2023
18241521 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STABILIZING AND ACCELERATING ITERATIVE NUMERICAL SIMULATION TRIVEDI, ATUL 3661 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 01, 2023
18264055 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING PERSONALIZED THERAPEUTICS AND DIET BASED ON FUNCTIONS OF MICROBIOME LIU, GUOZHEN 1686 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 02, 2023
18362123 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN HARDWARE ACCELERATORS FOR DATA MODEL TRAINING HADDAD, MAJD MAHER 2125 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 31, 2023
18333769 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING GARMENTS ON TARGET BODY POSES COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD 2188 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 13, 2023
18332552 ESTIMATING BLOOD PRESSURE OF A SUBJECT USING AN ECG DRIVEN CARDIOVASCULAR MODEL AGAHI, PUYA 3791 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 09, 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Tata Group have?

Tata Group has 64 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 44 art units and 61 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Tata Group applications?

Michael Borowski has the most, with 2 of Tata Group's pending office actions.

What technology area are Tata Group's patent applications in?

Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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