Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

20 pending office actions • 19 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
2
Due this week
8
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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.

1
Hard (5%)
17
Medium (85%)
1
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§103 only17 (85%)
§112 only1 (5%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

11
Life Sciences
55% of docket
4
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
5% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SHAIFER HARRIMAN, DANT B 1 81.0% +17.7%
PHAN, TUANKHANH D 1 78.8% +13.0%
MOHAMMADI, FAHIMEH M 1 76.4% +52.6%
STARCK, ERIC ANTHONY 1 58.3% +20.0%
HUSON, MONICA ANNE 1 79.5% +13.6%
SUMMERS, KIERSTEN V 1 11.9% +14.4%
CHANG, KYUNG SOOK 1 60.3% +41.2%
TAVERNINI, BREANNA MARIE 1
MARLEN, TAMMIE K 1 75.2% +21.3%
WILKINS III, HARRY D 1 62.5% +18.4%

Hard Cases (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18736547 COLLABORATIVE NEXUS DEVICE FOR SOLVING CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND WATER SUSTAINABILITY AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THEREOF SUMMERS, KIERSTEN V 46d overdue
18961727 METHOD OF MANAGING CARBON DATA USING BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK AND SYSTEM FOR THE SAME SHAIFER HARRIMAN, DANT B 20d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18736547 COLLABORATIVE NEXUS DEVICE FOR SOLVING CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND WATER SUSTAINABILITY AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THEREOF SUMMERS, KIERSTEN V 46d overdue
18673481 BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIAL AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEREOF CHANG, KYUNG SOOK 46d overdue
18782175 METHOD FOR PREPARING A COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL HUSON, MONICA ANNE 23d overdue
18349174 METHOD OF PREPARING ULTRATHIN METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS AS DUAL-ATOM ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION WILKINS III, HARRY D 10d overdue
18548621 SKIN-ADHERENT, ULTRA-STRETCHABLE, AND CONFORMAL WEARABLE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD MARLEN, TAMMIE K 7d
18961727 METHOD OF MANAGING CARBON DATA USING BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK AND SYSTEM FOR THE SAME SHAIFER HARRIMAN, DANT B 20d
18885787 SYSTEM AND METHOD USING INTELLIGENT PRIVACY ASSISTANT MODEL FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL OPERATION MOHAMMADI, FAHIMEH M 29d
18911684 SpaceGPT: Visual Language Model Empowered Remote Sensing Data Service Platform PHAN, TUANKHANH D 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1613 2
2434 1
2154 1
2439 1
3615 1
1742 1
3626 1
1682 1
3796 1
1794 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18961727 METHOD OF MANAGING CARBON DATA USING BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK AND SYSTEM FOR THE SAME SHAIFER HARRIMAN, DANT B 2434 §101 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Nov 27, 2024
18911684 SpaceGPT: Visual Language Model Empowered Remote Sensing Data Service Platform PHAN, TUANKHANH D 2154 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Oct 10, 2024
18885787 SYSTEM AND METHOD USING INTELLIGENT PRIVACY ASSISTANT MODEL FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL OPERATION MOHAMMADI, FAHIMEH M 2439 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Sep 16, 2024
18882845 OMNIDIRECTIONAL SURFACE VEHICLE STARCK, ERIC ANTHONY 3615 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Sep 12, 2024
18782175 METHOD FOR PREPARING A COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL HUSON, MONICA ANNE 1742 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jul 24, 2024
18736547 COLLABORATIVE NEXUS DEVICE FOR SOLVING CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND WATER SUSTAINABILITY AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THEREOF SUMMERS, KIERSTEN V 3626 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2024
18673481 BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIAL AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEREOF CHANG, KYUNG SOOK 1613 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending May 24, 2024
18498488 AMPLICON-FREE CRISPR-BASED ONE-POT DETECTION WITH LOOP-MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION FOR POINT-OF-CARE DIAGNOSIS OF VIRAL PATHOGENS TAVERNINI, BREANNA MARIE 1682 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Oct 31, 2023
18548621 SKIN-ADHERENT, ULTRA-STRETCHABLE, AND CONFORMAL WEARABLE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD MARLEN, TAMMIE K 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Sep 01, 2023
18349174 METHOD OF PREPARING ULTRATHIN METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS AS DUAL-ATOM ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION WILKINS III, HARRY D 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2023
18349175 ALIGNED AND MULTICHANNEL PERIPHERAL NERVE CONDUIT AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF WILLSE, DAVID H 3774 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jul 10, 2023
18260767 IDENTIFICATION AND USES OF PEPTIDE SEQUENCES OF SARS-COV-2 T CELL AND B CELL EPITOPES HILL, MYRON G 1671 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Jul 07, 2023
18322242 SUSTAINABLE EVAPORATIVE COOLING COATING FOR A BROAD RANGE OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY STANLEY, JANE L 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending May 23, 2023
18020029 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING PROTEIN EXPRESSION NICOL, ALEXANDER W 1634 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Feb 06, 2023
18073969 MULTILEVEL ANTIMICROBIAL POLYMERIC COLLOIDS AND DEVICE SCREENS CONTAINING SAME MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE 1617 Other Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Dec 02, 2022
18057249 Model-Order-Reduction Method for Large-Scale Topology Optimization Designs Based on Domain Decomposition and Artificial Neural Networks TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN 2188 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17934842 VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE BASED STRAIN SENSOR TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM 1718 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Sep 23, 2022
17792968 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLED RELEASE OF TARGET AGENT JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE 1613 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Jul 14, 2022
17644580 LOW-POWER PHOTONIC DEMODULATOR FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN 2817 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Dec 16, 2021
16625282 QUANTIFICATION, ISOLATION, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF EXOSOMES USING DROPLET-BASED AND WELL-BASED MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEMS MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN 1677 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Dec 20, 2019

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