Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

National Central University

14 pending office actions • 11 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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.

0
Hard (0%)
12
Medium (86%)
2
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (43%)
§102 only6 (43%)
§112 only2 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
7% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
14% of docket
7
Semiconductors
50% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
29% 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.

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
CARLEY, JEFFREY T. 1 73.7% +26.9%
LEE, PAUL CHANG 1 74.8% +14.0%
KIM, RICHARD H 1 81.7% +5.0%
BOURQUINE, MACKENZI TATE 1 80.3% +13.2%
MUHAMMAD, KEY 1 65.1% +22.8%
BEATTY, COLLIN X 1 82.3% +14.7%
YOH, JULIUS FRANCIS 1 100.0% +0.0%
TSAI, TSUNG YIN 1 81.7% +11.0%
HE, WEIMING 1 46.1% +13.0%
DONG, LIANG 1 52.3% +32.1%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18365203 VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENT PROJECTION SYSTEM BEATTY, COLLIN X 149d overdue
18216607 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING HORMONE RECEPTOR STATUS TSAI, TSUNG YIN 91d overdue
18601890 VHOE-FORMING ANGLE-MULTIPLEXING RECORDING SYSTEM WITH ROTATING GRATING BOURQUINE, MACKENZI TATE 4d overdue
18226216 MICROFLUIDIC DETECTION DEVICE YOH, JULIUS FRANCIS 3d overdue
18636025 VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT FOR MIXED REALITY NEAR-EYE DISPLAY KIM, RICHARD H 2d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18365203 VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENT PROJECTION SYSTEM BEATTY, COLLIN X 149d overdue
18216607 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING HORMONE RECEPTOR STATUS TSAI, TSUNG YIN 91d overdue
18326736 CUTTING APPARATUS AND ITS HOLDING DEVICE DONG, LIANG 88d overdue
18650147 OSCILLATOR FREQUENCY MODULATION METHOD AND OSCILLATOR PIEZOELECTRIC STRUCTURE CARLEY, JEFFREY T. 15d overdue
18601890 VHOE-FORMING ANGLE-MULTIPLEXING RECORDING SYSTEM WITH ROTATING GRATING BOURQUINE, MACKENZI TATE 4d overdue
18635822 VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS TO AVOID GHOST NOISE LEE, PAUL CHANG 2d overdue
18216377 MIXED REALITY RENDERING SYSTEM HE, WEIMING 19d
18424850 MULTIDIRECTIONAL OPTICAL ELEMENT MUHAMMAD, KEY 53d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2872 3
2871 2
3729 1
1799 1
2656 1
2611 1
3724 1
2896 1
3761 1
2884 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18650147 OSCILLATOR FREQUENCY MODULATION METHOD AND OSCILLATOR PIEZOELECTRIC STRUCTURE CARLEY, JEFFREY T. 3729 §102 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2024
18635822 VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS TO AVOID GHOST NOISE LEE, PAUL CHANG 2871 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2024
18636025 VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT FOR MIXED REALITY NEAR-EYE DISPLAY KIM, RICHARD H 2871 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2024
18601890 VHOE-FORMING ANGLE-MULTIPLEXING RECORDING SYSTEM WITH ROTATING GRATING BOURQUINE, MACKENZI TATE 2872 §102 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2024
18424850 MULTIDIRECTIONAL OPTICAL ELEMENT MUHAMMAD, KEY 2872 §102 Final Rejection 53d Pending Jan 28, 2024
18365203 VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENT PROJECTION SYSTEM BEATTY, COLLIN X 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 149d overdue Pending Aug 03, 2023
18226216 MICROFLUIDIC DETECTION DEVICE YOH, JULIUS FRANCIS 1799 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
18216607 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING HORMONE RECEPTOR STATUS TSAI, TSUNG YIN 2656 §102 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18216377 MIXED REALITY RENDERING SYSTEM HE, WEIMING 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jun 29, 2023
18326736 CUTTING APPARATUS AND ITS HOLDING DEVICE DONG, LIANG 3724 §103 Final Rejection 88d overdue Pending May 31, 2023
18126159 Avalanche Photodiode with Cascaded Multiplication Layers for High Speed and Wide Dynamic Range Applications REAMES, MATTHEW L 2896 §103 Final Rejection 177d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2023
17938951 LASER PROCESSING EQUIPMENT AND METHOD LIU, CHRIS Q 3761 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2022
17805869 PARTICLE INDUCED RADIOGRAPHY SYSETM COMPRISING AN IMPLANTED MATERIAL CONFIGURED TO INTERACT WITH AN INCOMING PROTON BEAM TO GENERATE SECONDARY PARTICLES HO, ALLEN C 2884 §112 Non-Final OA 131d overdue Pending Jun 08, 2022
17724477 FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD FOR PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY SIGNAL WEARE, MEREDITH H 3791 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 19, 2022

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