Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics

7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven manages 7 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is handled by a different examiner, with the workload spread across 4 specialized divisions.

The busiest examiner, NATH, SUMAN KUMAR, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 7 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units involved, the portfolio shows a high level of technical diversity within the semiconductors and optics sectors. This spread ensures that the university's innovations are reviewed by a variety of examiners across multiple art units. The 7 pending office actions are evaluated by 7 distinct examiners, providing a range of perspectives across the 4 distinct art units. NATH, SUMAN KUMAR handles 1 pending office action as part of this distribution.

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

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)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.

3
Hard (43%)
4
Medium (57%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (43%)
§102 only1 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (43%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
43% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
29% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
29% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NATH, SUMAN KUMAR 1 82.7% +22.5%
RADKOWSKI, PETER 1 75.9% +9.0%
WONG, TINA MEI SENG 1 84.3% +14.4%
CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L 1 80.8% +22.7%
KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH 1 32.6% +58.9%
MI, QIUWEN 1 68.4% +49.9%
REGLAS, GEORGIANA C 1 37.7% +36.1%

Hard Cases (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18833599 A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING, SORTING AND COLLECTING ANALYTES, FOR EXAMPLE CELLS, IN A SAMPLE FLUID NATH, SUMAN KUMAR —
18604344 ELECTRO-OPTICAL MODULATOR WONG, TINA MEI SENG —
18683656 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE MONITORING OF AN ANALYTE OF INTEREST CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L —

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17621497 RATIOMETRIC DETECTION OF LUCIFERASE ASSAYS USING A CALIBRATOR LUCIFERASE REGLAS, GEORGIANA C 51d overdue
18017891 ELECTRODE INTEGRATED MICROSIEVE ASSEMBLY KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH 27d
18009096 METHODS FOR PRODUCING A (THREE DIMENSIONAL) NEURAL TISSUE MI, QIUWEN 43d
18833599 A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING, SORTING AND COLLECTING ANALYTES, FOR EXAMPLE CELLS, IN A SAMPLE FLUID NATH, SUMAN KUMAR —
18604344 ELECTRO-OPTICAL MODULATOR WONG, TINA MEI SENG —
18683656 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE MONITORING OF AN ANALYTE OF INTEREST CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2874 2
1798 1
1655 1
1651 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18833599 A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING, SORTING AND COLLECTING ANALYTES, FOR EXAMPLE CELLS, IN A SAMPLE FLUID NATH, SUMAN KUMAR — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 26, 2024
18658831 ELECTRO-OPTICAL MODULATOR RADKOWSKI, PETER 2874 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 08, 2024
18604344 ELECTRO-OPTICAL MODULATOR WONG, TINA MEI SENG 2874 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 13, 2024
18683656 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE MONITORING OF AN ANALYTE OF INTEREST CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L — §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 14, 2024
18017891 ELECTRODE INTEGRATED MICROSIEVE ASSEMBLY KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH 1798 §102 Final Rejection 27d Pending Jan 25, 2023
18009096 METHODS FOR PRODUCING A (THREE DIMENSIONAL) NEURAL TISSUE MI, QIUWEN 1655 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Dec 08, 2022
17621497 RATIOMETRIC DETECTION OF LUCIFERASE ASSAYS USING A CALIBRATOR LUCIFERASE REGLAS, GEORGIANA C 1651 §103 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2021

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