Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Tokyo Institute of Technology

14 pending office actions • 14 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
3
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
10
Medium (71%)
2
Easy (14%)
2
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (50%)
§102 only3 (21%)
§112 only2 (14%)
No statute on record2 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
50% of docket
1
Information Tech
7% of docket
1
Communications
7% of docket
4
Semiconductors
29% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
7% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DANG, DUY M 1 91.4% +6.0%
JACKSON, MONIQUE R 1 34.7% +44.0%
VINEIS, FRANK J 1 39.9% +44.8%
BARRON, SEAN C 1 53.5% +30.9%
MILLER, JAMI VALENTINE 1 94.8% +4.0%
CANNON, RYAN SMITH 1 55.1% +36.7%
OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1 63.3% +42.1%
MARUF, SHEIKH 1 86.8% +10.2%
BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE 1 91.5% +6.5%
WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T 1 70.8% +12.4%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18481203 SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD MILLER, JAMI VALENTINE 15d
18546940 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM DANG, DUY M 28d
18280823 RECORDING AND/OR STIMULATION NEURAL ELECTRODE TO BE ATTACHED TO BRAIN SURFACE UPON USE, AND RECORDING OR STIMULATION METHOD USING SAME BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE 56d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18577800 CONDUCTIVE NANO-THIN FILM AND DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATOR USING SAME VINEIS, FRANK J 31d overdue
18450435 STACKED CHIP AND FABRICATION METHOD OF STACKED CHIP WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T 4d overdue
18255275 COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING DETERIORATION IN BRAIN FUNCTION OR MAINTAINING OR IMPROVING BRAIN FUNCTION OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 3d overdue
18281445 SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND FORMING METHOD FOR FERROELECTRIC THIN FILM MARUF, SHEIKH 13d
18438090 BLOCK COPOLYMER, UNDERCOAT AGENT, RESIN COMPOSITION FOR FORMING PHASE-SEPARATED STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING STRUCTURE BODY INCLUDING PHASE-SEPARATED STRUCTURE JACKSON, MONIQUE R 40d
18549429 THERMOELECTRIC POWER GENERATING ELEMENT, THERMOELECTRIC POWER GENERATING BATTERY, AND POWER GENERATION STABILIZING METHOD CANNON, RYAN SMITH 48d
18574611 CELL DISSOCIATING AGENT AND CELL SEPARATION METHOD BARRON, SEAN C

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2662 1
1787 1
1781 1
1653 1
2818 1
1726 1
1645 1
2897 1
3794 1
2893 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18546940 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM DANG, DUY M 2662 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18438090 BLOCK COPOLYMER, UNDERCOAT AGENT, RESIN COMPOSITION FOR FORMING PHASE-SEPARATED STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING STRUCTURE BODY INCLUDING PHASE-SEPARATED STRUCTURE JACKSON, MONIQUE R 1787 Other Non-Final OA 40d Pending Feb 09, 2024
18577800 CONDUCTIVE NANO-THIN FILM AND DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATOR USING SAME VINEIS, FRANK J 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jan 09, 2024
18574611 CELL DISSOCIATING AGENT AND CELL SEPARATION METHOD BARRON, SEAN C 1653 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 27, 2023
18481203 SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD MILLER, JAMI VALENTINE 2818 §112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Oct 04, 2023
18549429 THERMOELECTRIC POWER GENERATING ELEMENT, THERMOELECTRIC POWER GENERATING BATTERY, AND POWER GENERATION STABILIZING METHOD CANNON, RYAN SMITH 1726 §102 Final Rejection 48d Pending Oct 04, 2023
18255275 COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING DETERIORATION IN BRAIN FUNCTION OR MAINTAINING OR IMPROVING BRAIN FUNCTION OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1645 §102 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2023
18281445 SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND FORMING METHOD FOR FERROELECTRIC THIN FILM MARUF, SHEIKH 2897 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Sep 11, 2023
18280823 RECORDING AND/OR STIMULATION NEURAL ELECTRODE TO BE ATTACHED TO BRAIN SURFACE UPON USE, AND RECORDING OR STIMULATION METHOD USING SAME BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE 3794 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Sep 07, 2023
18450435 STACKED CHIP AND FABRICATION METHOD OF STACKED CHIP WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T 2893 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2023
18276901 L0 REGULARIZATION-BASED COMPRESSED SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH COHERENT ISING MACHINES LEE, PAUL D 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2023
18265480 GEL ELECTROLYTE MCNULTY, SEAMUS PATRICK 1752 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Jun 06, 2023
17859462 METHOD FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE-CONTAINING ORGANIC COMPOUND CONTRERAS, CIEL P 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2022
17639644 ARITHMETIC APPARATUS, ARITHMETIC METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS 2186 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Mar 02, 2022

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