Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Guangdong University of Technology

8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

3
Hard (38%)
3
Medium (38%)
2
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (25%)
§101 + other1 (12%)
§103 only3 (38%)
§112 only2 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
25% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
25% of docket
2
Business / Other
25% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN 1 100.0% +0.0%
LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK 1 76.9% +27.3%
HINES, JANA A 1 53.0% +39.6%
THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE 1
NORTON, JENNIFER L 1 49.8% +1.8%
PEO, JONATHAN M 1 48.2% +48.1%
KARAVIAS, DENISE R 1 63.1% +32.1%
LAU, KAITLYN RENEE 1 55.6% +80.0%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18665553 ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY SOUND-INSULATION RUBBER MORTAR AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18323492 LIFE PREDICTION METHOD OF ROTARY MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEM AND RELATED APPARATUS LAU, KAITLYN RENEE 33d
18611134 ULTRA-PRECISION MACHINING METHOD NORTON, JENNIFER L
17779187 NON-INTRUSIVE LOAD MONITORING METHOD KARAVIAS, DENISE R

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18323492 LIFE PREDICTION METHOD OF ROTARY MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEM AND RELATED APPARATUS LAU, KAITLYN RENEE 33d
18653997 ENERGY-SAVING AND ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY NON-AUTOCLAVED PIPE PILE CONCRETE MATERIAL WITH HIGH IMPACT RESISTANCE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK
18625237 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ISOLATING INDIVIDUAL COLONIES THROUGH AUTOMATIC MULTI-CHANNEL STREAKING IN HIGH-PRESSURE ENVIRONMENT HINES, JANA A
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1645 1
3774 1
3722 1
1779 1
2857 1
2148 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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
18625237 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ISOLATING INDIVIDUAL COLONIES THROUGH AUTOMATIC MULTI-CHANNEL STREAKING IN HIGH-PRESSURE ENVIRONMENT HINES, JANA A 1645 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 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
18323492 LIFE PREDICTION METHOD OF ROTARY MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEM AND RELATED APPARATUS LAU, KAITLYN RENEE 2148 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 33d Pending May 25, 2023

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