Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chongqing University has 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, reflecting a variety of semiconductor-related research areas. The portfolio involves 4 distinct examiners, with NGHIEM, MICHAEL P being the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This one-to-one ratio of actions to examiners and art units indicates a broad and non-concentrated prosecution environment.
For a practitioner, the fact that 4 distinct examiners are reviewing 4 pending office actions means that each case requires an individualized approach. While NGHIEM, MICHAEL P is the busiest examiner, he only manages one of the active matters. The distribution across 4 distinct art units suggests that the university's work is spread across several specialized semiconductor divisions. This requires the legal team to address the specific preferences of four different examiners while navigating different art unit standards. The current prosecution profile shows a balanced workload where no single examiner or art unit holds a majority of the pending cases, requiring consistent attention across the entire semiconductors, circuits, and optics portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 1 | 67.5% | +24.3% |
| VAZ, JANICE EZVI | 1 | 76.3% | +20.3% |
| GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | 1 | 82.9% | +11.4% |
| NGUYEN, CAM N | 1 | 84.8% | +12.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18540180 | ELECTROCHEMICAL REGENERATION METHOD OF ACTIVATED CARBON | NGUYEN, CAM N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725736 | PT PRIMARY VOLTAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHOD BASED ON INVERSE BLACK BOX MODEL AND INVERSE ELECTROMAGNETIC DUALITY MODEL | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18606889 | IN-SITU DETECTION COMPONENTS FOR DISSOLVED GASES IN LIQUID-PHASE MEDIA AND PREPARATION METHODS THEREOF | GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18700394 | METHOD FOR DETECTING INSULATOR FAULT OF TRANSMISSION LINE BASED ON USRNet AND IMPROVED MobileNet-SSD ALGORITHM | VAZ, JANICE EZVI | 47d |
| 18725736 | PT PRIMARY VOLTAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHOD BASED ON INVERSE BLACK BOX MODEL AND INVERSE ELECTROMAGNETIC DUALITY MODEL | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18606889 | IN-SITU DETECTION COMPONENTS FOR DISSOLVED GASES IN LIQUID-PHASE MEDIA AND PREPARATION METHODS THEREOF | GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | — |
| 18540180 | ELECTROCHEMICAL REGENERATION METHOD OF ACTIVATED CARBON | NGUYEN, CAM N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18725736 | PT PRIMARY VOLTAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHOD BASED ON INVERSE BLACK BOX MODEL AND INVERSE ELECTROMAGNETIC DUALITY MODEL | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18700394 | METHOD FOR DETECTING INSULATOR FAULT OF TRANSMISSION LINE BASED ON USRNet AND IMPROVED MobileNet-SSD ALGORITHM | VAZ, JANICE EZVI | 2667 | §103 | Final Rejection | 47d | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18606889 | IN-SITU DETECTION COMPONENTS FOR DISSOLVED GASES IN LIQUID-PHASE MEDIA AND PREPARATION METHODS THEREOF | GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18540180 | ELECTROCHEMICAL REGENERATION METHOD OF ACTIVATED CARBON | NGUYEN, CAM N | 4100 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialChongqing University has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Michael P Nghiem has the most, with 1 of Chongqing University's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
