Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials

14 pending office actions • 12 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 43 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Shanghai Jiao Tong University has 15 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 15 distinct examiners and 13 distinct art units, indicating separate examiner handling with some technical-unit overlap.

LY, XUAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile supports application-specific prosecution planning, with art-unit tracking useful for identifying the limited recurring technical assignments.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
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.

11
Hard (79%)
2
Medium (14%)
1
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (7%)
§103 only1 (7%)
§112 only1 (7%)
Double-patenting + other1 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)10 (71%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
50% of docket
3
Information Tech
21% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
14% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
7% of docket
1
Business / Other
7% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LY, XUAN 1 85.5% +6.5%
SAWYER, JENNIFER C 1 68.4% -8.2%
OGG, DAVID EARL 1 83.9% +11.1%
HEBERT, THEODORE E 1 74.2% +14.2%
ROUDANI, OUSSAMA 1 79.8% +7.6%
HEASLEY, MEGHAN CHRISTINE 1 74.5% +36.3%
CHI, AMANDA LYNN 1 — —
SHELTON, SYNPHANE LA'SHAWN 1 100.0% +0.0%
ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J 1 55.5% +34.1%
PATEL, PREET BAKUL 1 12.5% -16.7%

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
18950843 METHOD FOR MANAGING HEAT-ELECTRIC OUTPUTS OF HIGH-PROPORTION NEW ENERGY SYSTEM BASED ON CSP-CHP COMBINED ENERGY SUPPLY AND SYSTEM THEREOF OGG, DAVID EARL —
18772022 ENGINEERED YEAST FOR EFFICIENT AND RAPID SYNTHESIS OF ERYTHRITOL AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREOF SHELTON, SYNPHANE LA'SHAWN —

Hard Cases (11)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18232087 DRAG REDUCTION DEVICE CURRY, CINDI M 52d overdue
18413015 ON-CHIP FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER BASED ON DOUBLE-LAYER HELICAL WAVEGUIDE PATEL, PREET BAKUL 43d overdue
19305867 ENERGY STORAGE APPARATUS AND FLEXIBLE DIRECT-CURRENT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM LY, XUAN —
19203692 PRECURSOR, PEROVSKITE LIGHT-ABSORBING LAYER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, PEROVSKITE CELL, AND ELECTRIC DEVICE SAWYER, JENNIFER C —
18846282 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPILING NEURAL NETWORK, COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPILATION DEVICE HEBERT, THEODORE E —
18820209 Methods For Sensing Beam Management In Integrated Sensing And Communications System ROUDANI, OUSSAMA —
18840106 FUSED QUINONOXIME IMIDAZOLE, ONIUM DERIVATIVES THEREOF, PREPARATION AND USE THEREOF HEASLEY, MEGHAN CHRISTINE —
18832935 DISINFECTION PRODUCT BASED ON CITRIC ACID AND NATURAL NAPHTHOQUINONE COMPOUND CHI, AMANDA LYNN —

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
18950843 METHOD FOR MANAGING HEAT-ELECTRIC OUTPUTS OF HIGH-PROPORTION NEW ENERGY SYSTEM BASED ON CSP-CHP COMBINED ENERGY SUPPLY AND SYSTEM THEREOF OGG, DAVID EARL —
18846282 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPILING NEURAL NETWORK, COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPILATION DEVICE HEBERT, THEODORE E —
18840106 FUSED QUINONOXIME IMIDAZOLE, ONIUM DERIVATIVES THEREOF, PREPARATION AND USE THEREOF HEASLEY, MEGHAN CHRISTINE —
18695159 POLYMER, PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT, METHOD FOR FORMING RESIST PATTERN, AND METHOD FOR FORMING WIRING PATTERN ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1641 2
2836 1
1728 1
2119 1
2199 1
2413 1
1613 1
1652 1
1737 1
2874 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19305867 ENERGY STORAGE APPARATUS AND FLEXIBLE DIRECT-CURRENT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM LY, XUAN 2836 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 21, 2025
19203692 PRECURSOR, PEROVSKITE LIGHT-ABSORBING LAYER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, PEROVSKITE CELL, AND ELECTRIC DEVICE SAWYER, JENNIFER C 1728 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 09, 2025
18950843 METHOD FOR MANAGING HEAT-ELECTRIC OUTPUTS OF HIGH-PROPORTION NEW ENERGY SYSTEM BASED ON CSP-CHP COMBINED ENERGY SUPPLY AND SYSTEM THEREOF OGG, DAVID EARL 2119 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 18, 2024
18846282 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPILING NEURAL NETWORK, COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPILATION DEVICE HEBERT, THEODORE E 2199 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 12, 2024
18820209 Methods For Sensing Beam Management In Integrated Sensing And Communications System ROUDANI, OUSSAMA 2413 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 29, 2024
18840106 FUSED QUINONOXIME IMIDAZOLE, ONIUM DERIVATIVES THEREOF, PREPARATION AND USE THEREOF HEASLEY, MEGHAN CHRISTINE — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 21, 2024
18832935 DISINFECTION PRODUCT BASED ON CITRIC ACID AND NATURAL NAPHTHOQUINONE COMPOUND CHI, AMANDA LYNN 1613 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 25, 2024
18772022 ENGINEERED YEAST FOR EFFICIENT AND RAPID SYNTHESIS OF ERYTHRITOL AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREOF SHELTON, SYNPHANE LA'SHAWN 1652 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 12, 2024
18695159 POLYMER, PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT, METHOD FOR FORMING RESIST PATTERN, AND METHOD FOR FORMING WIRING PATTERN ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J 1737 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 25, 2024
18413015 ON-CHIP FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER BASED ON DOUBLE-LAYER HELICAL WAVEGUIDE PATEL, PREET BAKUL 2874 §103§112 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jan 15, 2024
18232087 DRAG REDUCTION DEVICE CURRY, CINDI M 3642 §102§103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2023
18351892 TITANIUM ALLOY POWDER FOR SELECTIVE LASER MELTING 3D PRINTING, SELECTIVE LASER MELTED TITANIUM ALLOY AND PREPARATION THEREOF CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1733 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 13, 2023
18260562 MODIFIED IMMUNE EFFECTOR CELL AND USE THEREOF ROONEY, NORA MAUREEN 1641 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 06, 2023
16646577 MULTICELLULAR TARGETING LIPOSOME SZPERKA, MICHAEL EDWARD 1641 §103 Final Rejection 149d overdue Pending Jul 23, 2020

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Shanghai Jiao Tong University have?

Shanghai Jiao Tong University has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 14 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Shanghai Jiao Tong University applications?

Xuan Ly has the most, with 1 of Shanghai Jiao Tong University's pending office actions.

What technology area are Shanghai Jiao Tong University's patent applications in?

Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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