Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Education University of Hong Kong operates within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the current focus of the university's patent prosecution efforts.
The examination is conducted by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. RAHMAN, HAFIZUR is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This concentration means that all active intellectual property negotiations are handled by a single individual in a specific technical unit.
For practitioners, the involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical focus. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will be the primary driver of the portfolio's progress. Navigating the specific requirements of RAHMAN, HAFIZUR is essential for advancing the university's interests in the semiconductors field. The centralized nature of the current workload allows for a dedicated strategy tailored to the feedback from this 1 distinct examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | 1 | 77.6% | +20.1% |
| RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | 1 | 93.3% | +8.6% |
| BODENDORF, ANDREW | 1 | 29.6% | +36.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18155910 | METHOD FOR FACILITATING LANGUAGE LEARNING USING A TACTILE-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING SYSTEM | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 73d overdue |
| 18341934 | COMPACT MATCHING NETWORKS FOR GALLIUM NITRIDE DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER IN A SMALL FORM-FACTOR PACKAGE | RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | 5d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18155910 | METHOD FOR FACILITATING LANGUAGE LEARNING USING A TACTILE-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING SYSTEM | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 73d overdue |
| 18471971 | DEEP LEARNING MODEL FOR DIAGNOSIS OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA ON NON-CONTRAST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY | GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2677 | 1 |
| 2843 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18471971 | DEEP LEARNING MODEL FOR DIAGNOSIS OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA ON NON-CONTRAST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY | GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | 2677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18341934 | COMPACT MATCHING NETWORKS FOR GALLIUM NITRIDE DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER IN A SMALL FORM-FACTOR PACKAGE | RAHMAN, HAFIZUR | 2843 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18155910 | METHOD FOR FACILITATING LANGUAGE LEARNING USING A TACTILE-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING SYSTEM | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 3715 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialThe Education University of Hong Kong has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Winta Gebreslassie has the most, with 1 of The Education University of Hong Kong's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
