Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Southeast University

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics

14 pending office actions • 9 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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%)
0
Medium (0%)
3
Easy (21%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other7 (50%)
§112 only3 (21%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
21% of docket
2
Information Tech
14% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
14% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
14% of docket
5
Business / Other
36% 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
CRIGLER, RYAN ALEXANDER 1 100.0% +0.0%
GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER 1 37.9% +51.2%
GREEN, ANTHONY J 1 85.0% +13.5%
HOLLWEG, THOMAS A 1 53.4% +31.4%
FLYNN, ABBY J 1 33.0% +55.4%
RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM 1 26.3% +23.5%
JOHNSON, CEDRIC D 1 81.9% +22.8%
TRAN, SCOTT THANH BINH 1 100.0% +0.0%
PARK, HYUN D 1 41.7% +22.8%
CORRIELUS, JEAN M 1 84.0% +12.5%

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
18713190 MICROBIALLY INDUCED CARBONATE PRECIPITATION-BASED VERTICAL BARRIER AND ITS PREPARATION METHOD GREEN, ANTHONY J —
18246860 METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SKILLS OF HUMAN-MACHINE COOPERATION ROBOT BASED ON GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL IMITATION LEARNING CORRIELUS, JEAN M —

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
18563384 ASYMMETRIC WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING AND DEMULTIPLEXING CHIP BASED ON INVERSE DESIGN HOLLWEG, THOMAS A 183d overdue
17610042 DYNAMIC INTERACTIVE SIMULATION METHOD FOR RECOGNITION AND PLANNING OF URBAN VIEWING CORRIDOR CHAVEZ, RENEE D 146d overdue
17834820 IMPREGNATED POROUS POWDER WITH SUPERHYDROPHOBIC PARTICLES AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF SYLVESTER, KEVIN 41d
18851361 SKYWAVE MASSIVE MIMO BEAM STRUCTURE PRECODING-BASED TRANSMISSION METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF CRIGLER, RYAN ALEXANDER —
18808099 EEG RECOGNITION METHOD FOR NATURAL HAND MOVEMENT BASED ON TIME-DOMAIN AND FREQUENCY-DOMAIN MULTI-LAYER BRAIN NETWORK GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER —
18552092 HYBRID-EQUIVALENCE-BASED POWER ELECTRONICS SYSTEM PARTITION COMPUTING METHOD FLYNN, ABBY J —
18470416 METHOD, SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM AND DEVICE FOR EVALUATING ADAPTIVE REUSE OF EXISTING RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM —
18546570 FOUNDATION SCOUR FLUID-SOLID-SOIL COUPLING SIMULATION METHOD BASED ON SPH-DEM COUPLING AND MULTIPHASE FLOW THEORY JOHNSON, CEDRIC D —

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18563384 ASYMMETRIC WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING AND DEMULTIPLEXING CHIP BASED ON INVERSE DESIGN HOLLWEG, THOMAS A 183d overdue
18808099 EEG RECOGNITION METHOD FOR NATURAL HAND MOVEMENT BASED ON TIME-DOMAIN AND FREQUENCY-DOMAIN MULTI-LAYER BRAIN NETWORK GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER —
18713190 MICROBIALLY INDUCED CARBONATE PRECIPITATION-BASED VERTICAL BARRIER AND ITS PREPARATION METHOD GREEN, ANTHONY J —
18552092 HYBRID-EQUIVALENCE-BASED POWER ELECTRONICS SYSTEM PARTITION COMPUTING METHOD FLYNN, ABBY J —
18470416 METHOD, SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM AND DEVICE FOR EVALUATING ADAPTIVE REUSE OF EXISTING RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM —
18546570 FOUNDATION SCOUR FLUID-SOLID-SOIL COUPLING SIMULATION METHOD BASED ON SPH-DEM COUPLING AND MULTIPHASE FLOW THEORY JOHNSON, CEDRIC D —
18249500 ADAPTIVE ROBUST ESTIMATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PARAMETERS OF UNMANNED SURFACE VESSEL PARK, HYUN D —
18246860 METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SKILLS OF HUMAN-MACHINE COOPERATION ROBOT BASED ON GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL IMITATION LEARNING CORRIELUS, JEAN M —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 1
2874 1
3626 1
2857 1
2159 1
1637 1
1794 1
1635 1
2186 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18851361 SKYWAVE MASSIVE MIMO BEAM STRUCTURE PRECODING-BASED TRANSMISSION METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF CRIGLER, RYAN ALEXANDER — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18808099 EEG RECOGNITION METHOD FOR NATURAL HAND MOVEMENT BASED ON TIME-DOMAIN AND FREQUENCY-DOMAIN MULTI-LAYER BRAIN NETWORK GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER 3791 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 19, 2024
18713190 MICROBIALLY INDUCED CARBONATE PRECIPITATION-BASED VERTICAL BARRIER AND ITS PREPARATION METHOD GREEN, ANTHONY J — §112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 24, 2024
18563384 ASYMMETRIC WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING AND DEMULTIPLEXING CHIP BASED ON INVERSE DESIGN HOLLWEG, THOMAS A 2874 §103§112 Non-Final OA 183d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2023
18552092 HYBRID-EQUIVALENCE-BASED POWER ELECTRONICS SYSTEM PARTITION COMPUTING METHOD FLYNN, ABBY J — §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 22, 2023
18470416 METHOD, SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM AND DEVICE FOR EVALUATING ADAPTIVE REUSE OF EXISTING RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM 3626 §101§102 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 19, 2023
18546570 FOUNDATION SCOUR FLUID-SOLID-SOIL COUPLING SIMULATION METHOD BASED ON SPH-DEM COUPLING AND MULTIPHASE FLOW THEORY JOHNSON, CEDRIC D — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 15, 2023
18265260 METHOD, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR MEASURING THE QUALITY OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT TRAN, SCOTT THANH BINH — §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 05, 2023
18249500 ADAPTIVE ROBUST ESTIMATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PARAMETERS OF UNMANNED SURFACE VESSEL PARK, HYUN D 2857 §101§112 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 18, 2023
18246860 METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SKILLS OF HUMAN-MACHINE COOPERATION ROBOT BASED ON GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL IMITATION LEARNING CORRIELUS, JEAN M 2159 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 28, 2023
17911130 GENE INTERFERENCE VECTOR- AND IRON NANOPARTICLE-BASED COMPOSITION FOR KILLING CANCER CELLS, AND USE THEREOF GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE 1637 §112 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2022
17834820 IMPREGNATED POROUS POWDER WITH SUPERHYDROPHOBIC PARTICLES AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF SYLVESTER, KEVIN 1794 §103§112 Final Rejection 41d Pending Jun 07, 2022
17634418 NATURAL MOVEMENT EEG RECOGNITION METHOD BASED ON SOURCE LOCALIZATION AND BRAIN NETWORKS SKIBINSKY, ANNA 1635 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 10, 2022
17610042 DYNAMIC INTERACTIVE SIMULATION METHOD FOR RECOGNITION AND PLANNING OF URBAN VIEWING CORRIDOR CHAVEZ, RENEE D 2186 §101§103 Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2021

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