Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)

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 (43%)
3
Medium (43%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (29%)
§103 only1 (14%)
§102 only2 (29%)
§112 only1 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
43% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
29% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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
DANGOL, ASHESH 1 69.7% +50.1%
GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY 1 58.3% +26.2%
CURRY, CINDI M 1 83.9% +10.3%
TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI 1 50.0% +68.6%
ROSENAU, DEREK JOHN 1 77.6% +8.0%
HANN, JAY B 1 61.3% +32.7%
LEATHERS, EMILY GORMAN 1 58.3% +2.9%

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
17625772 STRUCTURAL INTEGRATED DESIGN METHOD FOR CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE BOLT PREFORM LEATHERS, EMILY GORMAN 127d overdue
17981594 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING DEFECTS IN AIRCRAFT TEMPLATE HANN, JAY B 31d overdue
18799421 VARIABLE-DIAMETER BLADE SUITABLE FOR TRANS-MEDIA AIRCRAFT CURRY, CINDI M 4d overdue

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
17981594 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING DEFECTS IN AIRCRAFT TEMPLATE HANN, JAY B 31d overdue
19242914 DUCTED STRUCTURE, DUCTED FAN AND AIRCRAFT DANGOL, ASHESH 16d overdue
18799421 VARIABLE-DIAMETER BLADE SUITABLE FOR TRANS-MEDIA AIRCRAFT CURRY, CINDI M 4d overdue
19023211 MULTI-MODAL COMMUNICATION DYNAMIC SWITCHING AND ADAPTIVE COMPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOW-ALTITUDE INTELLIGENT NETWORK GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY
18275730 NUMERICAL SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION METHOD OF IMPACT DAMAGE BASED ON LASER MAPPED SOLID MESH TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3642 2
2485 1
2837 1
2186 1
2187 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19242914 DUCTED STRUCTURE, DUCTED FAN AND AIRCRAFT DANGOL, ASHESH 3642 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2025
19023211 MULTI-MODAL COMMUNICATION DYNAMIC SWITCHING AND ADAPTIVE COMPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOW-ALTITUDE INTELLIGENT NETWORK GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER KINGSBURY 2485 §102 Final Rejection Pending Jan 15, 2025
18799421 VARIABLE-DIAMETER BLADE SUITABLE FOR TRANS-MEDIA AIRCRAFT CURRY, CINDI M 3642 §103§112 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2024
18275730 NUMERICAL SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION METHOD OF IMPACT DAMAGE BASED ON LASER MAPPED SOLID MESH TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI §112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 03, 2023
18140251 PIEZOELECTRIC COMPOSITE MATERIAL, ACTUATOR, AND PREPARATION METHOD OF ACTUATOR ROSENAU, DEREK JOHN 2837 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 27, 2023
17981594 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING DEFECTS IN AIRCRAFT TEMPLATE HANN, JAY B 2186 §101§112 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2022
17625772 STRUCTURAL INTEGRATED DESIGN METHOD FOR CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE BOLT PREFORM LEATHERS, EMILY GORMAN 2187 §101§102§112 Final Rejection 127d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2022

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