Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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.

4
Hard (57%)
3
Medium (43%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§101 + other1 (14%)
§103 only2 (29%)
§102 only1 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
14% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
57% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
29% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KAPLAN, HAL IRA 1 86.0% +9.3%
RADKOWSKI, PETER 1 76.1% +8.7%
LEE, HWA S 1 72.7% +2.9%
SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P 1 85.6% +6.0%
MCINTOSH, ANDREW T 1 77.3% +18.0%
LE, JOHN H 1 87.9% +7.0%
JOHNSON, CEDRIC D 1 81.9% +22.8%

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
19192300 WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND IMAGING DEVICE COMPRISING SAME KAPLAN, HAL IRA

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 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
18839731 STACKED SHEET CURVED SURFACE DEFORATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF BASED ON MULTI-CONTACT MICRO-REFLECTOR LEE, HWA S
18664246 FLOATING PLATFORM WITH MULTI-FREQUENCY ADAPTIVE VIBRATION DAMPING AND OFFSHORE WIND POWER SYSTEM SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P
18461487 METHOD FOR MEASURING OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THIN FILM MATERIAL LE, JOHN H

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 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
18519518 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCELERATION OF DEEP-LEARNING COMPUTING WITH EDGE-TERMINAL COLLABORATION MCINTOSH, ANDREW T

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2836 1
2874 1
2877 1
2857 1
2186 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19192300 WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND IMAGING DEVICE COMPRISING SAME KAPLAN, HAL IRA 2836 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 28, 2025
19003172 PIXEL GRAYSCALE MODULATION STRUCTURE BASED ON PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS RADKOWSKI, PETER 2874 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Dec 27, 2024
18839731 STACKED SHEET CURVED SURFACE DEFORATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF BASED ON MULTI-CONTACT MICRO-REFLECTOR LEE, HWA S 2877 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 20, 2024
18664246 FLOATING PLATFORM WITH MULTI-FREQUENCY ADAPTIVE VIBRATION DAMPING AND OFFSHORE WIND POWER SYSTEM SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 14, 2024
18519518 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCELERATION OF DEEP-LEARNING COMPUTING WITH EDGE-TERMINAL COLLABORATION MCINTOSH, ANDREW T §102Other Non-Final OA Pending Nov 27, 2023
18461487 METHOD FOR MEASURING OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THIN FILM MATERIAL LE, JOHN H 2857 §101 Final Rejection Pending Sep 05, 2023
18148457 INVERSE ESTIMATION-BASED RADIUS CALCULATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FERROMAGNETIC TARGET DETECTION JOHNSON, CEDRIC D 2186 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Dec 30, 2022

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