Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
16 pending office actions • 8 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 43 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Jiao Tong University currently has 16 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 16 distinct examiners, indicating no overlap in examiner assignments for the current pending workload. These matters are spread across 8 distinct art units. The involvement of 8 distinct art units shows that the university's chemistry and materials research is being evaluated by several different specialized groups. This distribution reflects a broad research output across the Chemistry & Materials sector.
The busiest examiner, LY, XUAN, holds 1 pending action. This reflects the broader trend in the portfolio where each pending office action is managed by one of the 16 distinct examiners. This one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners suggests a highly varied prosecution experience. With 8 distinct art units involved, the university's Chemistry & Materials portfolio requires a strategy that accounts for the specific nuances of multiple examination divisions at the USPTO. Practitioners should be prepared for unique examiner feedback on every pending matter.
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.
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.
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 | 2 (12%) |
| §103 only | 1 (6%) |
| §112 only | 2 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (56%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (6%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LY, XUAN | 1 | 85.4% | +6.4% |
| SAWYER, JENNIFER C | 1 | 68.6% | -8.4% |
| WALSH, JOHN B | 1 | 82.4% | +8.7% |
| SMITH, GRAHAM P | 1 | 77.1% | +12.1% |
| OGG, DAVID EARL | 1 | 83.7% | +11.4% |
| HEBERT, THEODORE E | 1 | 74.1% | +14.5% |
| ROUDANI, OUSSAMA | 1 | 79.7% | +7.6% |
| CHI, AMANDA LYNN | 1 | — | — |
| SHELTON, SYNPHANE LA'SHAWN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SHOOK, DANIEL P | 1 | 87.1% | +8.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19064373 | SMARTNIC OFFLOADING BASED REMOTE MEMORY SYSTEM | WALSH, JOHN B | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18271283 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) SILICON-BASED TRANSFER STRUCTURE BASED ON PHOTOSENSITIVE COMPOSITE, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURED THEREBY | SHOOK, DANIEL P | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18232087 | DRAG REDUCTION DEVICE | CURRY, CINDI M | 52d overdue |
| 17638189 | HIGH-PRECISION HIGH-FIDELITY REAL-TIME SIMULATION AND BEHAVIOR PREDICTION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR NUCLEAR POWER STATION | SAXENA, AKASH | 50d 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 | — |
| 18832935 | DISINFECTION PRODUCT BASED ON CITRIC ACID AND NATURAL NAPHTHOQUINONE COMPOUND | CHI, AMANDA LYNN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19052678 | LOW-FREQUENCY MULTIFERROIC MECHANICAL ANTENNA AMPLIFIED WITH MULTIFUNCTIONAL METAMATERIAL BEAM | SMITH, GRAHAM P | — |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1728 | 1 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1641 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19305867 | ENERGY STORAGE APPARATUS AND FLEXIBLE DIRECT-CURRENT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM | LY, XUAN | — | §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 |
| 19064373 | SMARTNIC OFFLOADING BASED REMOTE MEMORY SYSTEM | WALSH, JOHN B | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19052678 | LOW-FREQUENCY MULTIFERROIC MECHANICAL ANTENNA AMPLIFIED WITH MULTIFUNCTIONAL METAMATERIAL BEAM | SMITH, GRAHAM P | 2845 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 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 | — | §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 | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18820209 | Methods For Sensing Beam Management In Integrated Sensing And Communications System | ROUDANI, OUSSAMA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 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 | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18271283 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) SILICON-BASED TRANSFER STRUCTURE BASED ON PHOTOSENSITIVE COMPOSITE, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURED THEREBY | SHOOK, DANIEL P | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18695159 | POLYMER, PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT, METHOD FOR FORMING RESIST PATTERN, AND METHOD FOR FORMING WIRING PATTERN | ANGEBRANNDT, MARTIN J | — | §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 |
| 17638189 | HIGH-PRECISION HIGH-FIDELITY REAL-TIME SIMULATION AND BEHAVIOR PREDICTION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR NUCLEAR POWER STATION | SAXENA, AKASH | 2188 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Feb 25, 2022 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial