Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Qingdao University

3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)

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%)
2
Medium (67%)
1
Easy (33%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (67%)
§112 only1 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
67% of docket
1
Information Tech
33% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VAN SELL, NATHAN L 1 53.8% +24.3%
SALAMON, PETER A 1 86.3% +5.6%
CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T 1 74.9% +32.6%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18335144 GRAPHENE QUANTUM DOT/POLYMER ANTIBACTERIAL AND ANTIVIRAL COMPOSITE FIBER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR SALAMON, PETER A 17d overdue

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17566615 BlockNet security organization storage mapping method for spatial data CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T 198d overdue
18690002 METHOD FOR GROWING ZINC-CATECHOLATE FRAMEWORKS ON BIO-FIBERS AND THEIR ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS VAN SELL, NATHAN L 86d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1783 1
1759 1
2154 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18690002 METHOD FOR GROWING ZINC-CATECHOLATE FRAMEWORKS ON BIO-FIBERS AND THEIR ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS VAN SELL, NATHAN L 1783 §112 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18335144 GRAPHENE QUANTUM DOT/POLYMER ANTIBACTERIAL AND ANTIVIRAL COMPOSITE FIBER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR SALAMON, PETER A 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 15, 2023
17566615 BlockNet security organization storage mapping method for spatial data CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T 2154 §103 Non-Final OA 198d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2021

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