Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chongqing University has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. NGHIEM, MICHAEL P is the busiest examiner, handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. The distribution of 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct examiners indicates that no single examiner has a majority share of the workload.
With 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the portfolio is spread out for its size. NGHIEM, MICHAEL P is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, which is the same amount as the other examiners. This lack of concentration means that prosecution success depends on the individual decisions of 3 different people. The 2 distinct art units involved suggest that the 3 pending office actions cover a few different sub-specialties within the semiconductors field. Practitioners must manage 3 separate examiner relationships across 2 different organizational groups at the office.
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% | +24.2% |
| VAZ, JANICE EZVI | 1 | 77.0% | +18.5% |
| GRAY, SUNGHEE Y | 1 | 83.2% | +10.8% |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | — | §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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