Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
Guangdong University of Technology currently manages 8 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 8 distinct examiners, indicating a highly fragmented prosecution landscape where each examiner handles exactly one pending matter. This distribution suggests that the university's legal team must coordinate with a wide variety of individual examiner preferences rather than focusing on a single point of contact.
The portfolio spans 5 distinct art units, which reflects a breadth of specialized subject matter even within the broader chemistry field. LIBAN M HASSAN is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though they are currently responsible for only 1 pending office action. This low concentration of work with any single examiner highlights the diverse nature of the university's ongoing patent applications.
Practitioners should prepare for 8 separate negotiation tracks, as the lack of examiner overlap prevents the application of insights from one case to another. The presence of 5 art units further complicates this by introducing multiple sets of technical guidelines. Managing this portfolio requires a versatile strategy that addresses the specific tendencies of 8 different examiners across 5 specialized technical groups.
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 | 2 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| §112 only | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1 | 50.7% | +31.1% |
| PAN, YUHUI R | 1 | 83.3% | +22.1% |
| GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
| LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK | 1 | 75.0% | +29.7% |
| THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE | 1 | — | — |
| NORTON, JENNIFER L | 1 | 49.8% | +2.5% |
| PEO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 48.2% | +48.1% |
| KARAVIAS, DENISE R | 1 | 63.2% | +30.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18916505 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING PRODUCT ASSEMBLY QUALITY BASED ON LONGITUDINAL UNIFIED LEARNING | PAN, YUHUI R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18611134 | ULTRA-PRECISION MACHINING METHOD | NORTON, JENNIFER L | — |
| 17779187 | NON-INTRUSIVE LOAD MONITORING METHOD | KARAVIAS, DENISE R | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19024005 | AN IN VITRO TRANS-DERMAL DIFFUSION APPARATUS FOR GAS EXPOSURE | HASSAN, LIBAN M | — |
| 18916505 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING PRODUCT ASSEMBLY QUALITY BASED ON LONGITUDINAL UNIFIED LEARNING | PAN, YUHUI R | — |
| 18653997 | ENERGY-SAVING AND ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY NON-AUTOCLAVED PIPE PILE CONCRETE MATERIAL WITH HIGH IMPACT RESISTANCE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK | — |
| 18231263 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL TREATMENT OF WASTEWATER WITH SCREENING CURRENT COLLECTOR-BASED FLOW ANODE | PEO, JONATHAN M | — |
| 17779187 | NON-INTRUSIVE LOAD MONITORING METHOD | KARAVIAS, DENISE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19024005 | AN IN VITRO TRANS-DERMAL DIFFUSION APPARATUS FOR GAS EXPOSURE | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1799 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18916505 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING PRODUCT ASSEMBLY QUALITY BASED ON LONGITUDINAL UNIFIED LEARNING | PAN, YUHUI R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18665553 | ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY SOUND-INSULATION RUBBER MORTAR AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18653997 | ENERGY-SAVING AND ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY NON-AUTOCLAVED PIPE PILE CONCRETE MATERIAL WITH HIGH IMPACT RESISTANCE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18621119 | MICRO-NANO MEDICAL STENT FOR DIRECTIONAL, QUANTITATIVE AND TIMED RELEASE OF DRUG AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18611134 | ULTRA-PRECISION MACHINING METHOD | NORTON, JENNIFER L | 3722 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18231263 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL TREATMENT OF WASTEWATER WITH SCREENING CURRENT COLLECTOR-BASED FLOW ANODE | PEO, JONATHAN M | 1779 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
| 17779187 | NON-INTRUSIVE LOAD MONITORING METHOD | KARAVIAS, DENISE R | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
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