Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
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
Zayed University has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being handled independently by different personnel in different divisions. The presence of 2 pending actions shows a small but technically distributed set of filings in the transportation and mechanical sectors.
The busiest examiner, JEN, MINGJEN, has 1 pending office action, sharing the workload with one other examiner. With 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units, the university must manage two separate prosecution tracks. This decentralized structure requires the legal team to adapt to the specific examination styles of 2 distinct examiners. Practitioners should monitor the 2 distinct art units for differing procedural requirements that may impact the 2 pending office actions currently active.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JEN, MINGJEN | 1 | 79.8% | +14.1% |
| HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 1 | 40.6% | +50.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977779 | INTELLIGENT ROBOTIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | JEN, MINGJEN | — |
| 18957699 | AUDITORY AND OLFACTORY MAPPING SYSTEM | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977779 | INTELLIGENT ROBOTIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | JEN, MINGJEN | — |
| 18957699 | AUDITORY AND OLFACTORY MAPPING SYSTEM | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18977779 | INTELLIGENT ROBOTIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | JEN, MINGJEN | 3657 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18957699 | AUDITORY AND OLFACTORY MAPPING SYSTEM | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 3791 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialZayed University has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Mingjen Jen has the most, with 1 of Zayed University's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
