Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Kaohsiung Medical University

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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 (80%)
1
Medium (20%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (60%)
§103 only1 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
60% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
40% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BARR, MARY EVANGELINE 1 35.9% +31.8%
HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA 1 35.7% +42.6%
JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE 1
KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES 1 60.6% +33.7%
WRIGHT, SARAH C 1 41.4% +46.2%

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
17855736 METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING ROBUST PREDICTION MODEL, PREDICTION SYSTEM, AND PROGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES 15d
18901161 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL DEVICE OF ESTIMATING SURVIVAL RATES OF CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT BARR, MARY EVANGELINE
18578721 CLINICAL THERAPEUTIC DRUG PREDICTION AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING EFFICACY OF SECOND-GENERATION HORMONE DRUG IN TREATMENT OF PROSTATE CANCER HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA
18506147 Method for detection of single nucleotide variant JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17697935 METHOD FOR PREPARING ZONAL LAYERED CHONDROCYTE SHEETS AND TREATING METHOD THEREOF WRIGHT, SARAH C 146d overdue
17855736 METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING ROBUST PREDICTION MODEL, PREDICTION SYSTEM, AND PROGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES 15d
18901161 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL DEVICE OF ESTIMATING SURVIVAL RATES OF CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT BARR, MARY EVANGELINE
18578721 CLINICAL THERAPEUTIC DRUG PREDICTION AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING EFFICACY OF SECOND-GENERATION HORMONE DRUG IN TREATMENT OF PROSTATE CANCER HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3682 1
3684 1
1682 1
1685 1
1619 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18901161 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL DEVICE OF ESTIMATING SURVIVAL RATES OF CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT BARR, MARY EVANGELINE 3682 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 30, 2024
18578721 CLINICAL THERAPEUTIC DRUG PREDICTION AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING EFFICACY OF SECOND-GENERATION HORMONE DRUG IN TREATMENT OF PROSTATE CANCER HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA 3684 §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 12, 2024
18506147 Method for detection of single nucleotide variant JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE 1682 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Nov 10, 2023
17855736 METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING ROBUST PREDICTION MODEL, PREDICTION SYSTEM, AND PROGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES 1685 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jun 30, 2022
17697935 METHOD FOR PREPARING ZONAL LAYERED CHONDROCYTE SHEETS AND TREATING METHOD THEREOF WRIGHT, SARAH C 1619 §103 Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2022

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