Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Sun Yat-sen University has 7 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 7 distinct examiners, ensuring that no single official is managing multiple cases for the university. This distribution suggests that the university's chemical research covers a variety of specific sub-disciplines, each requiring a unique examiner's expertise. The 7 pending actions represent the current active workload for the university's patent prosecution efforts.
The portfolio is active across 3 distinct art units, which provides some grouping of the 7 pending actions. RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which is the same volume as the other six examiners. With 7 distinct examiners and 3 art units, practitioners will likely encounter multiple examiners working within the same technical departments. This concentration in 3 distinct art units allows for a more focused analysis of departmental trends compared to a more fragmented portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the 3 distinct art units to identify any shared procedural or substantive standards that might apply to the 7 pending office actions while addressing the individual concerns of 7 different examiners.
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.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | 1 | 73.2% | +29.4% |
| NGUYEN, KEMAYA DEANN HUU | 1 | 74.4% | +38.1% |
| NGUYEN, NAM P | 1 | 54.8% | +48.7% |
| KNIGHT, PAUL M | 1 | 61.9% | +18.4% |
| EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 1 | 69.8% | +47.5% |
| SABOUR, GHAZAL | 1 | 37.8% | +43.2% |
| STUBBS, JOHN THOMAS | 1 | — | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
| 18748165 | Method for Manufacturing Biosensor | NGUYEN, NAM 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 | — |
| 18304594 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PROBABILITY OF A KIDNEY STONE IN A SUBJECT BEING A URIC-ACID STONE | SABOUR, GHAZAL | — |
| 18146571 | METHOD, KIT AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PREDICTING SURVIVAL TIME OF INDIVIDUAL WITH BLADDER CANCER AFTER SURGERY FROM INDIVIDUAL'S BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE | STUBBS, JOHN THOMAS | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
| 18748165 | Method for Manufacturing Biosensor | NGUYEN, NAM 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 | — |
| 18304594 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PROBABILITY OF A KIDNEY STONE IN A SUBJECT BEING A URIC-ACID STONE | SABOUR, GHAZAL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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§112 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18748165 | Method for Manufacturing Biosensor | NGUYEN, NAM P | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18390892 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING MODEL TO DETERMINE WHETHER A SUBJECT HAS NEPHROLITHIASIS | KNIGHT, PAUL M | — | §101§103§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 |
| 18304594 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PROBABILITY OF A KIDNEY STONE IN A SUBJECT BEING A URIC-ACID STONE | SABOUR, GHAZAL | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 18146571 | METHOD, KIT AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PREDICTING SURVIVAL TIME OF INDIVIDUAL WITH BLADDER CANCER AFTER SURGERY FROM INDIVIDUAL'S BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE | STUBBS, JOHN THOMAS | 1686 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
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