Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
13 pending office actions • 12 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
South China University of Technology has 13 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are spread across 13 examiners and 12 art units, creating a highly distributed prosecution profile. Each examiner has one pending matter, so the workload does not appear concentrated around a recurring examiner.
NGUYEN, LINH V is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. That figure equals the assignment shown for each examiner, making examiner-specific preparation more important than a single consolidated response pattern. The near one-to-one relationship between examiners and art units also supports tracking each matter independently.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 only | 1 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (23%) |
| §103 only | 2 (15%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (46%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, LINH V | 1 | 89.2% | +2.3% |
| WILCZEWSKI, MARY A | 1 | 84.7% | +10.3% |
| SEDOROOK, DAVID PAUL | 1 | 91.8% | +7.1% |
| COX, THADDEUS B | 1 | 77.0% | +18.9% |
| YU, HONG | 1 | 31.1% | +5.7% |
| SERGENT, RABON A | 1 | 55.1% | +24.1% |
| FAN, LYNN Y | 1 | 47.3% | +49.8% |
| BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE | 1 | 63.4% | +39.8% |
| HALVORSON, MARK | 1 | 47.9% | +20.7% |
| CABRAL, ROBERT S | 1 | 62.8% | +32.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18995862 | TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER WITH SUB-100FS RESOLUTION AND BASED ON TRANSMISSION LINE STRUCTURE | NGUYEN, LINH V | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18278911 | A CLOCK OSCILLATOR FOR BIOCHEMICAL REACTION COMPUTERS | FAN, LYNN Y | 23d |
| 18009578 | CARRIER FOR IMMOBILIZING PROTEIN AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | FEELY, MICHAEL J | 42d |
| 18365239 | FUSION PROTEIN BASED ON SINGLE-CHAIN ANTIBODY FRAGMENT, NANO-ASSEMBLY, AND PREPARATION METHODS THEREFOR AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE | 76d |
| 17611418 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING MATERIAL CONTAINING TETRAPHENYLBENZENE, PREPARATION,AND APPLICATION | WILCZEWSKI, MARY A | — |
| 18723738 | High-contrast display screen LED device and manufacturing method therefor | SEDOROOK, DAVID PAUL | — |
| 18719851 | METHOD FOR ENHANCING ACTIVITY OF PHOTOSENSITIZER BY MAGNETIC FIELD | COX, THADDEUS B | — |
| 18571477 | N-TYPE CONJUGATED POLYMER, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND USE THEREOF | SERGENT, RABON A | — |
| 18363747 | SERUM ALBUMIN-BASED FUSION PROTEIN, AND NANO-ASSEMBLY, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF | HALVORSON, MARK | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18278911 | A CLOCK OSCILLATOR FOR BIOCHEMICAL REACTION COMPUTERS | FAN, LYNN Y | 23d |
| 18365239 | FUSION PROTEIN BASED ON SINGLE-CHAIN ANTIBODY FRAGMENT, NANO-ASSEMBLY, AND PREPARATION METHODS THEREFOR AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE | 76d |
| 17611418 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING MATERIAL CONTAINING TETRAPHENYLBENZENE, PREPARATION,AND APPLICATION | WILCZEWSKI, MARY A | — |
| 18719851 | METHOD FOR ENHANCING ACTIVITY OF PHOTOSENSITIZER BY MAGNETIC FIELD | COX, THADDEUS B | — |
| 18571477 | N-TYPE CONJUGATED POLYMER, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND USE THEREOF | SERGENT, RABON A | — |
| 18363747 | SERUM ALBUMIN-BASED FUSION PROTEIN, AND NANO-ASSEMBLY, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF | HALVORSON, MARK | — |
| 18273045 | NON-METALLIC TEMPERATURE-RESPONSIVE COMPOSITE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI), AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | CABRAL, ROBERT S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1614 | 2 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1643 | 1 |
| 1646 | 1 |
| 1685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18995862 | TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER WITH SUB-100FS RESOLUTION AND BASED ON TRANSMISSION LINE STRUCTURE | NGUYEN, LINH V | 2845 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 17611418 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING MATERIAL CONTAINING TETRAPHENYLBENZENE, PREPARATION,AND APPLICATION | WILCZEWSKI, MARY A | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18723738 | High-contrast display screen LED device and manufacturing method therefor | SEDOROOK, DAVID PAUL | 2812 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18719851 | METHOD FOR ENHANCING ACTIVITY OF PHOTOSENSITIZER BY MAGNETIC FIELD | COX, THADDEUS B | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18667863 | BIO-INK, APPLICATION THEREOF, PENILE CORPUS CAVERNOSUM PROSTHESIS AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | YU, HONG | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18571477 | N-TYPE CONJUGATED POLYMER, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND USE THEREOF | SERGENT, RABON A | 1765 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18278911 | A CLOCK OSCILLATOR FOR BIOCHEMICAL REACTION COMPUTERS | FAN, LYNN Y | 1759 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18365239 | FUSION PROTEIN BASED ON SINGLE-CHAIN ANTIBODY FRAGMENT, NANO-ASSEMBLY, AND PREPARATION METHODS THEREFOR AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE | 1643 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18363747 | SERUM ALBUMIN-BASED FUSION PROTEIN, AND NANO-ASSEMBLY, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF | HALVORSON, MARK | 1646 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18273045 | NON-METALLIC TEMPERATURE-RESPONSIVE COMPOSITE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI), AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | CABRAL, ROBERT S | 1614 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18259158 | BIOCHEMICAL REACTION LOGIC GATE BASED ON ENZYMATIC REACTION | NGUYEN, PETER | 1685 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18009578 | CARRIER FOR IMMOBILIZING PROTEIN AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | FEELY, MICHAEL J | 1766 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 18094978 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD BASED ON MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY WITH SPARSE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS | STRAPP, MATTHEW JACOB | 2182 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSouth China University of Technology has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 13 examiners.
Linh V Nguyen has the most, with 1 of South China University of Technology's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
