Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Nanjing University

14 pending office actions • 8 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

6
Hard (43%)
6
Medium (43%)
2
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (14%)
§103 only3 (21%)
§102 only2 (14%)
§112 only2 (14%)
Double-patenting + other1 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
21% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
7% of docket
3
Business / Other
21% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA 2 64.0% +17.9%
TATGE, LEXUS MARC 2 50.0% +100.0%
PRICE JR, RICHARD THOMAS 1 87.4% +5.7%
BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO 1 89.3% +1.9%
SHIPMAN, KYLE HARRISON 1
RAMIREZ, ALEXANDRE XAVIER 1 94.6% -2.1%
BACA, MATTHEW WALTER 1 73.6% +4.5%
FRANKLIN, JAMARA ALZAIDA 1 84.0% +6.5%
MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE 1 60.8% +21.8%
SINGH, PREM C 1 59.0% +33.1%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18895326 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PARALLEL ANALOG IN-MEMORY COMPUTING BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO 12d
18936972 METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF WHOLE WASTEWATE TOXICITY PRICE JR, RICHARD THOMAS
18465954 AC Current Sensor And Wireless Charging Chip FRANKLIN, JAMARA ALZAIDA

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17588223 METHOD FOR EVALUATING BIODEGRADABILITY OF SEWAGE THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING THOMPSON, MILANA KAYE 26d
18680824 ALTERNATING ELECTRIC FIELD-DRIVEN GALLIUM NITRIDE (GAN)-BASED NANO-LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE (NANOLED) STRUCTURE WITH ELECTRIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT EFFECT RAMIREZ, ALEXANDRE XAVIER
18374236 GENE CIRCUIT, RNA DELIVERY SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF TATGE, LEXUS MARC
18373605 NUCLEIC ACID DELIVERY SYSTEM AND APPLICATION THEREOF TATGE, LEXUS MARC
18273552 METHOD FOR MODIFYING DNA BY UTILIZING GLYCOSYLASE AND OXYAMINE COMPOUND POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA
17880311 TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR-METAL OHMIC-CONTACT STRUCTURE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF SEHAR, FAKEHA

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18148470 DEVICE FOR SYNTHESIZING HOMOGENEOUS POLYMER SPHERES BASED ON CHANNEL PREPOLYMERIZATION, AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME SINGH, PREM C 211d overdue
18374253 VIRAL VECTOR-BASED RNA DELIVERY SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA
18374236 GENE CIRCUIT, RNA DELIVERY SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF TATGE, LEXUS MARC
18373605 NUCLEIC ACID DELIVERY SYSTEM AND APPLICATION THEREOF TATGE, LEXUS MARC
18273552 METHOD FOR MODIFYING DNA BY UTILIZING GLYCOSYLASE AND OXYAMINE COMPOUND POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA
18252672 PROGRAMMABLE NANO-REACTORS FOR STOCHASTIC SENSING (PNRSS) MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1637 4
3643 1
2825 1
2855 1
1681 1
1771 1
2893 1
1687 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18936972 METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF WHOLE WASTEWATE TOXICITY PRICE JR, RICHARD THOMAS 3643 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 04, 2024
18895326 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PARALLEL ANALOG IN-MEMORY COMPUTING BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO 2825 §102 Final Rejection 12d Pending Sep 24, 2024
18797478 METHOD FOR REDUCING RISK OF ULTRA-SHORT CHAIN PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES IN WATER SHIPMAN, KYLE HARRISON §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 07, 2024
18680824 ALTERNATING ELECTRIC FIELD-DRIVEN GALLIUM NITRIDE (GAN)-BASED NANO-LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE (NANOLED) STRUCTURE WITH ELECTRIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT EFFECT RAMIREZ, ALEXANDRE XAVIER §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 31, 2024
18592378 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND IDENTIFYING SHALLOW-STRATUM FOREIGN OBJECTS BASED ON DISTRIBUTED ACOUSTIC SENSING BACA, MATTHEW WALTER 2855 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 29, 2024
18374253 VIRAL VECTOR-BASED RNA DELIVERY SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA 1637 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 28, 2023
18374236 GENE CIRCUIT, RNA DELIVERY SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF TATGE, LEXUS MARC 1637 §101§102§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 28, 2023
18373605 NUCLEIC ACID DELIVERY SYSTEM AND APPLICATION THEREOF TATGE, LEXUS MARC 1637 §101§102§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2023
18273552 METHOD FOR MODIFYING DNA BY UTILIZING GLYCOSYLASE AND OXYAMINE COMPOUND POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA 1637 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 22, 2023
18465954 AC Current Sensor And Wireless Charging Chip FRANKLIN, JAMARA ALZAIDA §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 12, 2023
18252672 PROGRAMMABLE NANO-REACTORS FOR STOCHASTIC SENSING (PNRSS) MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE 1681 §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 11, 2023
18148470 DEVICE FOR SYNTHESIZING HOMOGENEOUS POLYMER SPHERES BASED ON CHANNEL PREPOLYMERIZATION, AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME SINGH, PREM C 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 211d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2022
17880311 TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR-METAL OHMIC-CONTACT STRUCTURE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF SEHAR, FAKEHA 2893 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 03, 2022
17588223 METHOD FOR EVALUATING BIODEGRADABILITY OF SEWAGE THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING THOMPSON, MILANA KAYE 1687 §103§112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jan 29, 2022

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