Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Electro-Communications has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. KAUR, JASPREET is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The 2 pending office actions are split across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. KAUR, JASPREET handles 1 busiest examiner pending action. This distribution shows that each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different department within the Communications field. Because there are 2 distinct art units involved, the university must manage two separate sets of departmental expectations. KAUR, JASPREET is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, while the other of the 2 pending office actions is handled by another examiner. This structure of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests that the Communications portfolio is being examined on multiple fronts simultaneously, requiring a broad prosecution approach.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAUR, JASPREET | 1 | 77.8% | +37.5% |
| DECASTRO, ARIANA JOY LACAY | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18032444 | NAP ENVIRONMENT DETERMINATION SYSTEM | DECASTRO, ARIANA JOY LACAY | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18705213 | IRIS RECOGNITION APPARATUS, IRIS RECOGNITION SYSTEM, IRIS RECOGNITION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | KAUR, JASPREET | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2662 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18705213 | IRIS RECOGNITION APPARATUS, IRIS RECOGNITION SYSTEM, IRIS RECOGNITION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | KAUR, JASPREET | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18032444 | NAP ENVIRONMENT DETERMINATION SYSTEM | DECASTRO, ARIANA JOY LACAY | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
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