Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
The First Affiliated Hospital Of Ningbo University has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CESE, KENNY A, within 1 distinct art unit. The 1 pending action indicates a low volume of current patent prosecution for the hospital. This profile reflects a specific interest in communications technology with a minimal administrative footprint at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner, CESE, KENNY A, is responsible for the 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution is centralized. This structure allows the applicant to focus entirely on the specific examination standards of CESE, KENNY A. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the specific preferences of this 1 distinct examiner to navigate the 1 pending office action within the Communications sector.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CESE, KENNY A | 1 | 75.2% | +11.0% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977275 | AUTOMATIC SCORING METHOD AND AUTOMATIC SCORING SYSTEM FOR ABDOMINAL AORTIC CALCIFICATION | CESE, KENNY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18977275 | AUTOMATIC SCORING METHOD AND AUTOMATIC SCORING SYSTEM FOR ABDOMINAL AORTIC CALCIFICATION | CESE, KENNY A | 2663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialThe First Affiliated Hospital Of Ningbo University has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kenny A Cese has the most, with 1 of The First Affiliated Hospital Of Ningbo University's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
