Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

National Cheng Kung University

15 pending office actions • 15 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 44 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (5)

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.

1
Hard (7%)
12
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (7%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (7%)
§103 only8 (53%)
§102 only4 (27%)
§112 only1 (7%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
40% of docket
2
Information Tech
13% of docket
1
Communications
7% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT 1 87.5% +16.7%
FLORES, JAVIER 1
SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE 1 71.4% +0.0%
NGUYEN, TAM M 1 77.2% +11.3%
CHESTNUT, BARRY A 1 73.5% +5.9%
BINDA, GREGORY JOHN 1 80.9% +11.8%
DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H 1 22.7% +24.0%
STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL 1 62.7% +49.4%
ROBERTS, SHAUN A 1 75.9% +10.5%
JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO 1 68.5% +25.0%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18368121 SINGLE-LAYERED HOLLOW TRANSMISSION SHAFT BINDA, GREGORY JOHN 81d overdue
18960638 DETECTION AND PROTECTION MECHANISM FOR FAKE RELAY STATION IN TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT 19d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18327163 NEAR-OPTIMAL SCHEDULING SYSTEM FOR CONSIDERING PROCESSING-TIME VARIATIONS AND REAL-TIME DATA STREAMING AND METHOD THEREOF DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H 121d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18327163 NEAR-OPTIMAL SCHEDULING SYSTEM FOR CONSIDERING PROCESSING-TIME VARIATIONS AND REAL-TIME DATA STREAMING AND METHOD THEREOF DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H 121d overdue
17985909 Test Strip Carrier, System and Method for Test Strip Detection JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO 112d overdue
18368121 SINGLE-LAYERED HOLLOW TRANSMISSION SHAFT BINDA, GREGORY JOHN 81d overdue
18486371 METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUEL NGUYEN, TAM M 70d overdue
17986782 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING KNOWLEDGE GRAPH AND SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THEREOF ROBERTS, SHAUN A 19d overdue
17988041 FUNCTIONAL POWDER DELIVERY DEVICE AND SYSTEM THEREOF STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL 8d overdue
18960638 DETECTION AND PROTECTION MECHANISM FOR FAKE RELAY STATION IN TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT 19d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2408 1
1735 1
1624 1
1771 1
1672 1
3679 1
3624 1
3783 1
2655 1
1797 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18960638 DETECTION AND PROTECTION MECHANISM FOR FAKE RELAY STATION IN TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT 2408 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Nov 26, 2024
18518644 METHOD OF PRODUCING A MEDICAL IMPLANT ADOPTING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FLORES, JAVIER 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 24, 2023
18498472 METHOD OF INHIBITING LIPOGENESIS WITH UBIQUITIN-SPECIFIC PEPTIDASE 24 INHIBITOR COMPOSITION SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE 1624 Other Non-Final OA 21d Pending Oct 31, 2023
18486371 METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUEL NGUYEN, TAM M 1771 §103 Final Rejection 70d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2023
18480009 USE AND DETECTION METHOD OF FLAVIVIRUS PROTEIN MICROARRAY CHESTNUT, BARRY A 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 03, 2023
18368121 SINGLE-LAYERED HOLLOW TRANSMISSION SHAFT BINDA, GREGORY JOHN 3679 §103 Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
18327163 NEAR-OPTIMAL SCHEDULING SYSTEM FOR CONSIDERING PROCESSING-TIME VARIATIONS AND REAL-TIME DATA STREAMING AND METHOD THEREOF DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H 3624 §101 Final Rejection 121d overdue Pending Jun 01, 2023
17988041 FUNCTIONAL POWDER DELIVERY DEVICE AND SYSTEM THEREOF STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Nov 16, 2022
17986782 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING KNOWLEDGE GRAPH AND SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THEREOF ROBERTS, SHAUN A 2655 §102 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Nov 14, 2022
17985909 Test Strip Carrier, System and Method for Test Strip Detection JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO 1797 §102 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Nov 14, 2022
17806273 MICROROBOT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF ALAWDI, ANWER AHMED 2851 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 10, 2022
17749695 TRAINING METHODS AND TRAINING SYSTEMS UTILIZING UNCREWED VEHICLES POLLOCK, ZACHARY JOSEPH 3715 §102 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending May 20, 2022
17738944 QUANTUM CIRCUIT FOR DAUBECHIES-6 (D6) WAVELET TRANSFORM AND INVERSE TRANSFORM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF GOLAN, MATTHEW BRYCE 2123 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending May 06, 2022
17418305 METHOD FOR STABILIZING BIOACTIVITY OF GROWTH FACTOR NIEBAUER, RONALD T 1658 §102 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Jun 25, 2021
17227415 APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING LEAK OF FACE MASK AND METHOD THEREFOR STANIS, TIMOTHY A 3785 §112 Final Rejection 260d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2021

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