Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Teikyo University is managing 6 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, resulting in a diverse set of perspectives on the university's patent applications. This variety in examiners may require a more tailored approach for each individual application in the portfolio, as no two pending matters are currently assigned to the same person.
The 6 pending office actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating a relatively broad technical reach within the semiconductor field. WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL is the busiest examiner for the university, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner or art unit dominates the university's current prosecution landscape. The presence of 4 distinct art units suggests that the university's research spans several specialized subfields within the broader Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics category.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 1 | 65.5% | +41.7% |
| SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | 1 | 82.2% | +16.8% |
| MONSUR, NASIMA | 1 | 78.5% | +26.7% |
| THOMAS, BRANDI N | 1 | 82.6% | +7.8% |
| KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | 1 | 29.5% | +67.7% |
| NGUYEN, QUANG | 1 | 38.0% | +52.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18852886 | BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENT DISCRIMINATION SYSTEM, BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENT DISCRIMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17260418 | LIPID PARTICLE CONTAINING A-TYPE CpG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE | NGUYEN, QUANG | 88d overdue |
| 18877741 | SURGICAL MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, AUXILIARY IMAGING DEVICE, AND SURGICAL FIELD IMAGING METHOD | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | — |
| 18724864 | PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION SYSTEM, PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | MONSUR, NASIMA | — |
| 18703154 | INTRAOCULAR ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND INTRAOCULAR ILLUMINATION ATTACHMENT | THOMAS, BRANDI N | — |
| 17924704 | THERMOSTABLE GLUCOCEREBROSIDASE | KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17260418 | LIPID PARTICLE CONTAINING A-TYPE CpG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE | NGUYEN, QUANG | 88d overdue |
| 18877741 | SURGICAL MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, AUXILIARY IMAGING DEVICE, AND SURGICAL FIELD IMAGING METHOD | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | — |
| 18852886 | BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENT DISCRIMINATION SYSTEM, BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENT DISCRIMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
| 18724864 | PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION SYSTEM, PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | MONSUR, NASIMA | — |
| 17924704 | THERMOSTABLE GLUCOCEREBROSIDASE | KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18877741 | SURGICAL MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, AUXILIARY IMAGING DEVICE, AND SURGICAL FIELD IMAGING METHOD | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18852886 | BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENT DISCRIMINATION SYSTEM, BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENT DISCRIMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18724864 | PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION SYSTEM, PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | MONSUR, NASIMA | 2858 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18703154 | INTRAOCULAR ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND INTRAOCULAR ILLUMINATION ATTACHMENT | THOMAS, BRANDI N | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 17924704 | THERMOSTABLE GLUCOCEREBROSIDASE | KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | 1653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2022 |
| 17260418 | LIPID PARTICLE CONTAINING A-TYPE CpG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE | NGUYEN, QUANG | 1631 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 88d overdue | Pending | Jan 14, 2021 |
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