Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Huaqiao University is managing 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution is divided among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a lack of concentration in the current review process. This distribution indicates that the university is simultaneously addressing different technical requirements across separate administrative divisions.
LU, JIONG-PING serves as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This individual handles 1 of the 2 total pending actions currently active for the university. Because there are 2 distinct examiners involved in the 2 pending office actions, each matter is receiving an independent evaluation. This structure requires the university to maintain distinct prosecution strategies for each of its active cases within the Chemistry & Materials sector. The use of 2 distinct art units further emphasizes the technical breadth of the current pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LU, JIONG-PING | 1 | 83.6% | +7.8% |
| NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 1 | 67.5% | +24.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18294174 | CHEMICAL-MECHANICAL COMBINED MACHINING METHOD FOR SILICON CARBIDE SURFACE | LU, JIONG-PING | 26d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129922 | METHOD FOR MEASURING THICKNESS AND OPTICAL CONSTANTS OF DIAMOND FILM | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 79d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129922 | METHOD FOR MEASURING THICKNESS AND OPTICAL CONSTANTS OF DIAMOND FILM | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 79d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1713 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18294174 | CHEMICAL-MECHANICAL COMBINED MACHINING METHOD FOR SILICON CARBIDE SURFACE | LU, JIONG-PING | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18129922 | METHOD FOR MEASURING THICKNESS AND OPTICAL CONSTANTS OF DIAMOND FILM | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 2857 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 79d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
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