Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Huazhong University Of Science And Technology

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 42 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

1
Hard (12%)
7
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (12%)
§103 only6 (75%)
§102 only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
12% of docket
4
Information Tech
50% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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.

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
EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 1 66.7% +17.1%
RADKOWSKI, PETER 1 76.0% +8.4%
KANG, INSUN 1 78.8% +40.3%
PALENIK, JEFFREY T 1 54.1% +26.7%
GREENE, JOSEPH L 1 63.2% +36.7%
NGUYEN, NHA UYEN CHAU 1
JOHNSON, CEDRIC D 1 81.8% +23.1%
DIEP, DUY T 1 29.2% +6.7%

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
18148457 INVERSE ESTIMATION-BASED RADIUS CALCULATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FERROMAGNETIC TARGET DETECTION JOHNSON, CEDRIC D 15d

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17938058 KNOWLEDGE GRAPH REASONING MODEL, SYSTEM, AND REASONING METHOD BASED ON BAYESIAN FEW-SHOT LEARNING DIEP, DUY T

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
18602957 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRUSTED THIRD PARTY AUDIT OF PERSONAL-INFORMATION DELETION GREENE, JOSEPH L 89d overdue
18284812 IMMUNE PREPARATION, COMPOSITION COMPRISING IMMUNE PREPARATION AND USE THEREOF, AND PREPARATION METHOD PALENIK, JEFFREY T 31d overdue
19033372 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING PROCESS PARAMETERS FOR PORE INHIBITION IN HIGH-POWER LASER SHAPING WELDING EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 9d
18148457 INVERSE ESTIMATION-BASED RADIUS CALCULATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FERROMAGNETIC TARGET DETECTION JOHNSON, CEDRIC D 15d
18650290 METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROCESSOR FOR ENHANCING ROBUSTNESS OF SOURCE-CODE CLASSIFICATION MODEL KANG, INSUN 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3761 1
2874 1
2193 1
1615 1
2443 1
3774 1
2186 1
2123 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19033372 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING PROCESS PARAMETERS FOR PORE INHIBITION IN HIGH-POWER LASER SHAPING WELDING EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jan 21, 2025
19003172 PIXEL GRAYSCALE MODULATION STRUCTURE BASED ON PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS RADKOWSKI, PETER 2874 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Dec 27, 2024
18650290 METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROCESSOR FOR ENHANCING ROBUSTNESS OF SOURCE-CODE CLASSIFICATION MODEL KANG, INSUN 2193 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Apr 30, 2024
18284812 IMMUNE PREPARATION, COMPOSITION COMPRISING IMMUNE PREPARATION AND USE THEREOF, AND PREPARATION METHOD PALENIK, JEFFREY T 1615 §102 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2024
18602957 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRUSTED THIRD PARTY AUDIT OF PERSONAL-INFORMATION DELETION GREENE, JOSEPH L 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Mar 12, 2024
18324995 PNEUMATIC SOFT DEXTEROUS HAND FOR PATIENT WITH MISSING FINGER FUNCTIONS AND SOFT ROBOT NGUYEN, NHA UYEN CHAU 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending May 28, 2023
18148457 INVERSE ESTIMATION-BASED RADIUS CALCULATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FERROMAGNETIC TARGET DETECTION JOHNSON, CEDRIC D 2186 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Dec 30, 2022
17938058 KNOWLEDGE GRAPH REASONING MODEL, SYSTEM, AND REASONING METHOD BASED ON BAYESIAN FEW-SHOT LEARNING DIEP, DUY T 2123 §101 Final Rejection Pending Oct 05, 2022

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