Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, so the portfolio is distributed across separate examination settings. Counsel should maintain a common technical and disclosure framework while allowing each response to address its own examiner, art unit, and cited-material analysis.
LI, WENHAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The identified examiner does not control a concentrated group of applications, which makes portfolio-wide consistency more important than reliance on a single examiner interaction. For chemistry and materials claims, careful alignment between structure, composition, processing, and supported properties can help keep responses precise across the assignments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, WENHAN | 1 | — | — |
| GILLESPIE, KAMRYN JORDAN | 1 | 75.8% | +17.3% |
| BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1 | 81.2% | +15.2% |
| NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 1 | 37.5% | +26.0% |
| HESS, DANIEL A | 1 | 80.4% | +7.5% |
| RUFO, LOUIS J | 1 | 54.6% | +22.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18426696 | NANO-CATALYSTS SYNTHESIS METHOD | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| 18517923 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING STATE OF BATTERIES BY USING A MULTI-LEVEL NEURAL NETWORK | HESS, DANIEL A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18391724 | HIGH-POWER SINGLE-WAVELENGTH SEMICONDUCTOR LASER HAVING MULTI-SEGMENT GRATING STRUCTURE | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | — |
| 18172408 | Method for Stabilizing an Electrode Using a Functional Layer, the Electrode, and Applications Thereof | RUFO, LOUIS J | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18813812 | BLOCKCHAIN-BASED DYNAMIC AUTHORIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONAL DATA | GILLESPIE, KAMRYN JORDAN | 39d |
| 18426696 | NANO-CATALYSTS SYNTHESIS METHOD | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| 18391724 | HIGH-POWER SINGLE-WAVELENGTH SEMICONDUCTOR LASER HAVING MULTI-SEGMENT GRATING STRUCTURE | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | — |
| 18172408 | Method for Stabilizing an Electrode Using a Functional Layer, the Electrode, and Applications Thereof | RUFO, LOUIS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1614 | 1 |
| 2408 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18827872 | METHOD FOR PREPARING EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX NANOPARTICLE AND METHODS OF PREVENTING OR TREATING LUNG DISEASE AND REPAIRING HAIR FOLLICLE | LI, WENHAN | 1614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18813812 | BLOCKCHAIN-BASED DYNAMIC AUTHORIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONAL DATA | GILLESPIE, KAMRYN JORDAN | 2408 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18426696 | NANO-CATALYSTS SYNTHESIS METHOD | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1736 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18391724 | HIGH-POWER SINGLE-WAVELENGTH SEMICONDUCTOR LASER HAVING MULTI-SEGMENT GRATING STRUCTURE | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 2828 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18517923 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING STATE OF BATTERIES BY USING A MULTI-LEVEL NEURAL NETWORK | HESS, DANIEL A | 2876 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18172408 | Method for Stabilizing an Electrode Using a Functional Layer, the Electrode, and Applications Thereof | RUFO, LOUIS J | 1795 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNational Taiwan University of Science and Technology has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Wenhan Li has the most, with 1 of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
