Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology Inc.

16 pending office actions • 14 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (2)

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%)
12
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (6%)
3
Unknown (19%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (69%)
§112 only1 (6%)
Double-patenting + other1 (6%)
No statute on record3 (19%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
16
Information Tech
100% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AGUREYEV, VLADISLAV Y 1 90.5% +4.1%
DEWAN, SANJAY K 1 88.2% +3.1%
KIM, MATTHEW DAVID 1 72.8% +15.7%
ANDERSON II, JAMES M 1 75.2% +10.2%
SENFI, BEHROOZ M 1 82.6% +10.1%
LIN, WILL W 1 93.8% +5.4%
HODGES, SUSAN E 1 66.6% +14.6%
BECK, LERON 1 79.5% +11.7%
LAM, YEE F 1 76.9% +21.8%
HESS, MICHAEL J 1 43.9% +7.9%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19201850 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM DEWAN, SANJAY K 71d
18938358 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING MULTIPLE LINKS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME LIN, WILL W 76d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18714406 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR ANDERSON II, JAMES M 60d overdue
18975816 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE USING MOTION COMPENSATION SENFI, BEHROOZ M 3d overdue
18849475 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD BASED ON TEMPLATE MATCHING, AND DEVICE THEREFOR BECK, LERON 3d overdue
18881722 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD USING LINEAR MODEL AND DEVICE THEREFOR KIM, MATTHEW DAVID 28d
18673857 METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR LONG DISTANCE TRANSMISSION AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME LAM, YEE F 55d
18692814 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD USING OBMC, AND DEVICE THEREFOR HODGES, SUSAN E

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2471 2
2425 2
2472 1
2483 1
2482 1
2412 1
2487 1
2465 1
2481 1
2467 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19364708 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING MULTIPLE LINKS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME AGUREYEV, VLADISLAV Y 2471 Other Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Oct 21, 2025
19201850 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM DEWAN, SANJAY K 2472 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending May 07, 2025
18881722 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD USING LINEAR MODEL AND DEVICE THEREFOR KIM, MATTHEW DAVID 2483 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jan 06, 2025
18714406 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR ANDERSON II, JAMES M 2425 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Dec 17, 2024
18975816 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE USING MOTION COMPENSATION SENFI, BEHROOZ M 2482 Other Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 10, 2024
18938358 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING MULTIPLE LINKS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME LIN, WILL W 2412 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Nov 06, 2024
18692814 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD USING OBMC, AND DEVICE THEREFOR HODGES, SUSAN E 2425 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 17, 2024
18849475 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD BASED ON TEMPLATE MATCHING, AND DEVICE THEREFOR BECK, LERON 2487 Other Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Sep 21, 2024
18673857 METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR LONG DISTANCE TRANSMISSION AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME LAM, YEE F 2465 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending May 24, 2024
18689066 METHOD FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL BY USING LOCAL ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION (LIC) MODE, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR HESS, MICHAEL J 2481 §103 Final Rejection 74d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2024
18528770 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WEI, SIREN 2467 DPOther Non-Final OA 60d Pending Dec 04, 2023
18229165 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING MULTILINK, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME CUNNINGHAM, KEVIN M 2461 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2023
18015960 METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM LANGER, PAUL ANTHONY 2419 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jan 13, 2023
18085570 METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL CHANNEL OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM RIVAS, RAUL 2471 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Dec 20, 2022
17928263 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING DOWNLINK AND UPLINK RADIO RESOURCES IN UNLICENSED BAND JANGBAHADUR, LAKERAM 2469 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Nov 28, 2022
17911635 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING OR RECEIVING DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM LINDENBAUM, ALAN LOUIS 2413 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2022

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