Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yangtze University has a patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. The university currently faces 2 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The distribution across 2 distinct art units indicates that the university's Communications research spans 2 technical classifications within the patent office.
RUSH, ERIC is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. Because there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 action. This 1 to 1 ratio between actions and examiners suggests a distribution of the current workload. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners means that the university must manage 2 separate prosecution paths within the Communications sector. This profile indicates that the university's intellectual property is being evaluated by 2 groups, requiring coordination across 2 art units and 2 individual examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSH, ERIC | 1 | 60.8% | +36.1% |
| NELSON, JAMEL M | 1 | 74.8% | +15.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521483 | METHOD FOR DETECTING INFRARED SHIP TARGET BASED ON IMPROVED YOLOV7 | RUSH, ERIC | 33d |
| 18220502 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREPARING ARTIFICIAL CORE FOR PETROLEUM GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION | NELSON, JAMEL M | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521483 | METHOD FOR DETECTING INFRARED SHIP TARGET BASED ON IMPROVED YOLOV7 | RUSH, ERIC | 33d |
| 18220502 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREPARING ARTIFICIAL CORE FOR PETROLEUM GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION | NELSON, JAMEL M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2677 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18521483 | METHOD FOR DETECTING INFRARED SHIP TARGET BASED ON IMPROVED YOLOV7 | RUSH, ERIC | 2677 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18220502 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREPARING ARTIFICIAL CORE FOR PETROLEUM GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION | NELSON, JAMEL M | 1743 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
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