Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 14, 2026

National Sun Yat-sen University

6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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 (67%)
1
Medium (17%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (17%)
§112 only1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (67%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
33% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
3
Business / Other
50% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P 1 73.1% +29.4%
NGUYEN, KEMAYA DEANN HUU 1 74.1% +39.5%
JANG, BO BIN 1 88.3% +7.5%
WALKER, MARNITIA TRARESE 1
KNIGHT, PAUL M 1 62.1% +17.4%
EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH 1 68.1% +50.0%

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
18931101 METAL COMPOUND THIN FILM, METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME AND THIN FLIM CATALYST FOR WATER ELECTROLYSIS RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P
18668259 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE JANG, BO BIN
18416903 METHODS OF TREATING OR PREVENTING RESPIRATORY DISEASE WITH HOUTTUYNIA CORDATA THUNB-BASED AEROSOL INHALATION THERAPY WALKER, MARNITIA TRARESE
18531762 LASER MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH

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
18826321 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR 3D PROFILE MEASUREMENTS USING COLOR FRINGE PROJECTION TECHNIQUES NGUYEN, KEMAYA DEANN HUU 19d overdue
18931101 METAL COMPOUND THIN FILM, METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME AND THIN FLIM CATALYST FOR WATER ELECTROLYSIS RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P
18390892 METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING MODEL TO DETERMINE WHETHER A SUBJECT HAS NEPHROLITHIASIS KNIGHT, PAUL M
18531762 LASER MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1712 1
2877 1
1655 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18931101 METAL COMPOUND THIN FILM, METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME AND THIN FLIM CATALYST FOR WATER ELECTROLYSIS RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P 1712 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 30, 2024
18826321 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR 3D PROFILE MEASUREMENTS USING COLOR FRINGE PROJECTION TECHNIQUES NGUYEN, KEMAYA DEANN HUU 2877 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2024
18668259 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE JANG, BO BIN §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 20, 2024
18416903 METHODS OF TREATING OR PREVENTING RESPIRATORY DISEASE WITH HOUTTUYNIA CORDATA THUNB-BASED AEROSOL INHALATION THERAPY WALKER, MARNITIA TRARESE 1655 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 19, 2024
18390892 METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING MODEL TO DETERMINE WHETHER A SUBJECT HAS NEPHROLITHIASIS KNIGHT, PAUL M §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2023
18531762 LASER MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 07, 2023

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