Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wichita State University has 8 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 8 actions are distributed among 8 distinct examiners, resulting in a perfect match between the number of examiners and pending matters. This indicates that no single examiner is currently reviewing more than 1 application for the university. The portfolio is active across 5 distinct art units. NICKOLAS R HARM is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action.
The involvement of 5 distinct art units for 8 pending actions shows that the university's medical and mechanical innovations are technically diverse and fall into several different specialized examination categories. Managing 8 pending office actions across 8 distinct examiners requires a broad approach to prosecution, as each application is being reviewed by a different person. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner's feedback will necessarily predict the outcome of other pending matters in the portfolio. The distribution across 5 distinct art units highlights the technical breadth of the university's current medical and mechanical filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (12%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARM, NICKOLAS R | 1 | 79.5% | +5.8% |
| LUCK, SEAN M | 1 | 62.7% | +27.5% |
| KUDO, KEN | 1 | — | — |
| SENGUPTA, SONYA MAZUMDAR | 1 | 68.7% | +20.1% |
| PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 1 | 55.6% | +15.6% |
| SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 1 | 56.3% | +37.7% |
| CHEN, KUANGYUE | 1 | 63.1% | +45.7% |
| SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 1 | 52.7% | +27.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18431479 | MARKER TRANSFER TAPE AND METHOD OF APPLYING MARKERS | SENGUPTA, SONYA MAZUMDAR | 41d |
| 17180000 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED SANDING | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 69d |
| 17933499 | RESISTANCE WELDING APPARATUS AND METHOD | CHEN, KUANGYUE | 71d |
| 19091259 | ENERGY DIRECTOR FOR ULTRASONIC WELDING OF THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES | HARM, NICKOLAS R | — |
| 18439757 | IN-PROCESS INSPECTION FOR AUTOMATED FIBER PLACEMENT | KUDO, KEN | — |
| 18304149 | COBALT-COATED ELECTRODES | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18046530 | INDUCTION WELDING MODULE | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 20d |
| 18431479 | MARKER TRANSFER TAPE AND METHOD OF APPLYING MARKERS | SENGUPTA, SONYA MAZUMDAR | 41d |
| 17180000 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED SANDING | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 69d |
| 17933499 | RESISTANCE WELDING APPARATUS AND METHOD | CHEN, KUANGYUE | 71d |
| 18885069 | POURABLE AND DESTROYABLE SPACECRAFT MATERIAL AND COSMIC RAY RADIATION SHIELD | LUCK, SEAN M | — |
| 18304149 | COBALT-COATED ELECTRODES | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| 2671 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19091259 | ENERGY DIRECTOR FOR ULTRASONIC WELDING OF THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES | HARM, NICKOLAS R | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18885069 | POURABLE AND DESTROYABLE SPACECRAFT MATERIAL AND COSMIC RAY RADIATION SHIELD | LUCK, SEAN M | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18439757 | IN-PROCESS INSPECTION FOR AUTOMATED FIBER PLACEMENT | KUDO, KEN | 2671 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18431479 | MARKER TRANSFER TAPE AND METHOD OF APPLYING MARKERS | SENGUPTA, SONYA MAZUMDAR | 1745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18304149 | COBALT-COATED ELECTRODES | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 1795 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18046530 | INDUCTION WELDING MODULE | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
| 17933499 | RESISTANCE WELDING APPARATUS AND METHOD | CHEN, KUANGYUE | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Sep 20, 2022 |
| 17180000 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED SANDING | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Feb 19, 2021 |
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