Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of South Africa has 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, providing the university with two separate points of contact during the examination process. The workload is also distributed across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the university's research in semiconductors or optics covers multiple specialized technical categories. This variety in the prosecution landscape indicates a diverse range of intellectual property being pursued.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SEVEN, EVREN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total count of pending office actions is 2, this examiner manages a significant portion of the university's current active cases. For a practitioner, this means that the decisions made by SEVEN, EVREN will have a substantial impact on the portfolio's immediate success. Navigating 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners requires a flexible strategy that can adapt to different procedural requirements and examining styles. The outcome of these 2 pending office actions will be vital for the university's intellectual property objectives in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEVEN, EVREN | 1 | 74.7% | +8.8% |
| DODSON, JUSTIN C | 1 | 46.7% | +36.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247483 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A NANOFLUID USING LASER ABLATION, CORRESPONDING NANOFLUID AND LASER ABLATION SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING NANOFLUIDS | DODSON, JUSTIN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2812 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18685147 | Non-Volatile Resistive Random-Access Memory and a Manufacturing Method Thereof | SEVEN, EVREN | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18247483 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A NANOFLUID USING LASER ABLATION, CORRESPONDING NANOFLUID AND LASER ABLATION SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING NANOFLUIDS | DODSON, JUSTIN C | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUniversity of South Africa has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Evren Seven has the most, with 1 of University of South Africa's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
