Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hefei University Of Technology

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 1 of 6 (17%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

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 (50%)
3
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (50%)
§103 only3 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
33% of docket
2
Information Tech
33% of docket
1
Communications
17% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
OKEBATO, SAHLU 1 76.2% +18.5%
WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 1 57.7% +35.3%
GOLDEN, ANDREW J 1 42.1% +39.0%
LY, KRISTINA ELISABETH 1 100.0% +0.0%
TEIXEIRA MOFFAT, JONATHAN CHARLES 1 68.1% +10.4%
KOSSEK, MAGDALENA IZABELLA 1 66.7% +50.0%

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
17866977 CAPACITY CONFIGURATION METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ENERGY STORAGE IN MICROGRID KOSSEK, MAGDALENA IZABELLA 10d overdue
18378412 PHAGE FOR LYSING BURKHOLDERIA GLADIOLI AND USE THEREOF LY, KRISTINA ELISABETH 16d
19055565 METHOD, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCT FOR PATTERN DESIGN IN FILAMENT WINDING WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 72d

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
18652841 PEROVSKITE TANDEM SOLAR CELLS BASED ON A TUNNELING LAYER OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL LAYERED METAL CARBIDES AND METAL NITRIDES GOLDEN, ANDREW J 99d overdue
17966475 MIS ROBOTIC CONTROL TERMINAL AND ROBOT SYSTEM TEIXEIRA MOFFAT, JONATHAN CHARLES 42d overdue
17866977 CAPACITY CONFIGURATION METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ENERGY STORAGE IN MICROGRID KOSSEK, MAGDALENA IZABELLA 10d overdue
19239917 Processing method, system, device and medium for brightness compensation of display screen OKEBATO, SAHLU 34d
19055565 METHOD, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCT FOR PATTERN DESIGN IN FILAMENT WINDING WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 72d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2625 1
2187 1
1726 1
1671 1
3700 1
2117 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19239917 Processing method, system, device and medium for brightness compensation of display screen OKEBATO, SAHLU 2625 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jun 16, 2025
19055565 METHOD, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCT FOR PATTERN DESIGN IN FILAMENT WINDING WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 2187 §101 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Feb 18, 2025
18652841 PEROVSKITE TANDEM SOLAR CELLS BASED ON A TUNNELING LAYER OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL LAYERED METAL CARBIDES AND METAL NITRIDES GOLDEN, ANDREW J 1726 §103 Final Rejection 99d overdue Pending May 02, 2024
18378412 PHAGE FOR LYSING BURKHOLDERIA GLADIOLI AND USE THEREOF LY, KRISTINA ELISABETH 1671 §101 Non-Final OA 16d AI Ready Oct 10, 2023
17966475 MIS ROBOTIC CONTROL TERMINAL AND ROBOT SYSTEM TEIXEIRA MOFFAT, JONATHAN CHARLES 3700 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Oct 14, 2022
17866977 CAPACITY CONFIGURATION METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ENERGY STORAGE IN MICROGRID KOSSEK, MAGDALENA IZABELLA 2117 §101 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2022

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