Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Soochow University

18 pending office actions • 15 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 49 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (2)

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.

7
Hard (39%)
9
Medium (50%)
2
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (11%)
§103 only8 (44%)
§102 only1 (6%)
§112 only2 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (28%)

Industry Mix

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

14
Life Sciences
78% of docket
1
Information Tech
6% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
3
Business / Other
17% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
YE, XINWEN 1 43.2% +44.2%
DIAZ, MATTHEW R 1 53.5% +43.7%
HAN, JONATHAN 1 83.7% +9.6%
NOLAN, JASON MICHAEL 1 66.3% -28.0%
LANIER, BENJAMIN E 1 69.3% +17.5%
ZENG, LINGWEN R 1 76.4% +20.7%
ROYCE, LIAM A 1 65.5% +21.8%
RHOADES, DEREK JAMES 1 70.7% +17.4%
CUTLIFF, YATE KAI RENE 1 79.8% +24.2%
MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE 1 81.7% +2.2%

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
18012645 METHOD FOR SLAG MODIFICATION DURING END PERIOD OF CASTING IN STEEL LADLE HAVING COVER MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE

Hard Cases (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17631439 TARGETED EXOSOME BASED ON RBD REGION OF SARS-COV-2 S PROTEIN AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI 239d overdue
18012321 SALVIA PLEBIA AND SCUTELLARIAE RADIX COMPOUND ACNE CREAM, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF AMIN, ALPA NILESH 45d overdue
18709543 Field Effect Transistor Device with Blocking Region HAN, JONATHAN
18638894 USE OF SMALL MOLECULE COMPOUND AND LENALIDOMIDE IN PREPARATION OF DRUG FOR TREATING MULTIPLE MYELOMA NOLAN, JASON MICHAEL
18012388 LAYERED METAL OXIDE/AMINE COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF IN MAGNESIUM ION BATTERY ZENG, LINGWEN R
18293754 PERYLENE-BASED MICELLE CAPABLE OF RAPIDLY ADSORBING AND EFFICIENTLY DEGRADING CONTAMINANT AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME ROYCE, LIAM A
18037550 METHOD FOR PREPARING CARBOXYLIC ACID ESTER COMPOUND RHOADES, DEREK JAMES

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18617185 GROUP DELEGATION COMPUTING METHOD LANIER, BENJAMIN E 62d
19170179 METHOD FOR PREPARING IONOGEL FIBER BASED ON HALOGENOMETALLATE IONIC LIQUID YE, XINWEN
18726997 NANO-COMPOSITE MATERIAL-BASED INTELLIGENT FIREPROOF TEXTILE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR DIAZ, MATTHEW R
18012388 LAYERED METAL OXIDE/AMINE COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF IN MAGNESIUM ION BATTERY ZENG, LINGWEN R
18293754 PERYLENE-BASED MICELLE CAPABLE OF RAPIDLY ADSORBING AND EFFICIENTLY DEGRADING CONTAMINANT AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME ROYCE, LIAM A
18037550 METHOD FOR PREPARING CARBOXYLIC ACID ESTER COMPOUND RHOADES, DEREK JAMES
18037553 METHOD FOR PREPARING 2-IODO ARYL ETHER UNDER THE ACTION OF ALKALI METAL HYDRIDE CUTLIFF, YATE KAI RENE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1754 1
1700 1
1629 1
2437 1
1777 1
1692 1
1733 1
1655 1
1618 1
1631 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19170179 METHOD FOR PREPARING IONOGEL FIBER BASED ON HALOGENOMETALLATE IONIC LIQUID YE, XINWEN 1754 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 04, 2025
18726997 NANO-COMPOSITE MATERIAL-BASED INTELLIGENT FIREPROOF TEXTILE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR DIAZ, MATTHEW R 1700 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 05, 2024
18709543 Field Effect Transistor Device with Blocking Region HAN, JONATHAN §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 13, 2024
18638894 USE OF SMALL MOLECULE COMPOUND AND LENALIDOMIDE IN PREPARATION OF DRUG FOR TREATING MULTIPLE MYELOMA NOLAN, JASON MICHAEL 1629 §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 18, 2024
18617185 GROUP DELEGATION COMPUTING METHOD LANIER, BENJAMIN E 2437 §112 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18012388 LAYERED METAL OXIDE/AMINE COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF IN MAGNESIUM ION BATTERY ZENG, LINGWEN R §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 18, 2024
18293754 PERYLENE-BASED MICELLE CAPABLE OF RAPIDLY ADSORBING AND EFFICIENTLY DEGRADING CONTAMINANT AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME ROYCE, LIAM A 1777 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 30, 2024
18037550 METHOD FOR PREPARING CARBOXYLIC ACID ESTER COMPOUND RHOADES, DEREK JAMES §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 21, 2023
18037553 METHOD FOR PREPARING 2-IODO ARYL ETHER UNDER THE ACTION OF ALKALI METAL HYDRIDE CUTLIFF, YATE KAI RENE 1692 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 31, 2023
18012645 METHOD FOR SLAG MODIFICATION DURING END PERIOD OF CASTING IN STEEL LADLE HAVING COVER MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE 1733 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 21, 2023
18012321 SALVIA PLEBIA AND SCUTELLARIAE RADIX COMPOUND ACNE CREAM, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF AMIN, ALPA NILESH 1655 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18196929 CAPSAICIN-DERIVED PHOTOSENSITIZER, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF BAEK, JONGHWAN NMN 1618 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending May 12, 2023
18035685 SYNERGISTIC STEM CELL-BASED MEDICATION FOR TREATING MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND RELATED APPLICATION KIM, TAEYOON 1631 §102 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending May 05, 2023
18044565 IMMUNOADJUVANT-BASED HYDROGEL COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF WHITEMAN, BRIAN A 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Mar 08, 2023
17921553 STEM CELL DRUG FOR TREATING DIABETES UNDERDAHL, THANE E 1699 §112 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2022
17598051 METHOD FOR INDUCING GELATION AND BIOMIMETIC MINERALIZATION OF SILK FIBROIN SOLUTION BY ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE PRAGANI, RAJAN 1614 §103 Non-Final OA 171d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2022
17631478 DIMETHYLMONOTHIOARSINIC ACID-INDUCED MALIGNANTLY TRANSFORMED CELL LINE OF HUMAN KERATINOCYTES AND USE THEREOF EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL 1632 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 30, 2022
17631439 TARGETED EXOSOME BASED ON RBD REGION OF SARS-COV-2 S PROTEIN AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI 1672 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 239d overdue Pending Jan 28, 2022

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