Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
35 pending office actions • 21 art units • 35 examiners • 0 of 35 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 48 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has 37 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 37 actions are assigned to 37 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every pending case. The portfolio is spread across 23 distinct art units, showing a high degree of technical variety. The 23 distinct art units indicate that the university's biotech research is being evaluated by many different specialized groups, each with its own technical focus and examination standards for the 37 pending office actions.
JEN, MINGJEN is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, matching the distribution seen across the entire portfolio. Because there are 37 distinct examiners, the university must coordinate prosecution across a large number of individual reviewers. This wide distribution across 23 distinct art units suggests that the university's research is broad, requiring the prosecution team to be familiar with the specific guidelines of many different specialized teams. The workload of 1 pending office action for JEN, MINGJEN reflects the highly fragmented nature of this academic portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 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. 9 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 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (11%) |
| §103 only | 11 (31%) |
| §102 only | 3 (9%) |
| §112 only | 2 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 13 (37%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JEN, MINGJEN | 1 | 79.9% | +14.0% |
| MERSHON, JAYNE L | 1 | 66.5% | +18.8% |
| SU, SARAH | 1 | 80.2% | +18.0% |
| GLENN, KIMBERLY E | 1 | 89.5% | +6.9% |
| GRAMLING, SEAN P | 1 | 66.5% | +28.1% |
| LAROSE, RENEE MARIE | 1 | 79.2% | +9.2% |
| ALMO, KHAREEM E | 1 | 87.3% | +5.6% |
| GREGORY, BERNARR E | 1 | 90.5% | +6.7% |
| HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS | 1 | 79.2% | +15.7% |
| SONNERS, SCOTT E | 1 | 69.1% | +12.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19169231 | MILLIMETER-WAVE BANDPASS FILTER | GLENN, KIMBERLY E | — |
| 18961709 | VELOCITY ESTIMATION USING INTELLIGENT REFLECTING SURFACES | GREGORY, BERNARR E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18673481 | BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIAL AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEREOF | CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | 46d overdue |
| 18020029 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING PROTEIN EXPRESSION | NICOL, ALEXANDER W | 30d overdue |
| 18548621 | SKIN-ADHERENT, ULTRA-STRETCHABLE, AND CONFORMAL WEARABLE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | 7d |
| 18057249 | Model-Order-Reduction Method for Large-Scale Topology Optimization Designs Based on Domain Decomposition and Artificial Neural Networks | TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN | 27d |
| 19212857 | PEROVSKITE LAYER, METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME AND PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICE | MERSHON, JAYNE L | — |
| 19173756 | ENHANCED DISTRIBUTED ZERO-KNOWLEDGE PROOF GENERATION | SU, SARAH | — |
| 19008638 | A Method for Enhancing Controllability on Switching Speed of Electronic Cascode Power Device | ALMO, KHAREEM E | — |
| 18916747 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLABLE TEXT-TO-3D ROOM MESH GENERATION WITH LAYOUT CONSTRAINTS | SONNERS, SCOTT E | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19223394 | Non-Disruptive Robotic Arm for Intrusive Sensors in Pressurized Pipes | JEN, MINGJEN | — |
| 19212857 | PEROVSKITE LAYER, METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME AND PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICE | MERSHON, JAYNE L | — |
| 19173756 | ENHANCED DISTRIBUTED ZERO-KNOWLEDGE PROOF GENERATION | SU, SARAH | — |
| 19036783 | DISPLAY BASED ON COLOR SELECTIVE DIFFRACTION GRATINGS | GRAMLING, SEAN P | — |
| 18938326 | SYSTEM WITH PRIVACY-PRESERVING NEURAL GRAPH DATABASES AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME | HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS | — |
| 18916747 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLABLE TEXT-TO-3D ROOM MESH GENERATION WITH LAYOUT CONSTRAINTS | SONNERS, SCOTT E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 2 |
| 1613 | 2 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| 2491 | 1 |
| 2613 | 1 |
| 2659 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19223394 | Non-Disruptive Robotic Arm for Intrusive Sensors in Pressurized Pipes | JEN, MINGJEN | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19212857 | PEROVSKITE LAYER, METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME AND PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICE | MERSHON, JAYNE L | 1721 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 19173756 | ENHANCED DISTRIBUTED ZERO-KNOWLEDGE PROOF GENERATION | SU, SARAH | 2431 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
| 19169231 | MILLIMETER-WAVE BANDPASS FILTER | GLENN, KIMBERLY E | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19036783 | DISPLAY BASED ON COLOR SELECTIVE DIFFRACTION GRATINGS | GRAMLING, SEAN P | 2875 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19011644 | System and Method for Estimating Properties of an Object | LAROSE, RENEE MARIE | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19008638 | A Method for Enhancing Controllability on Switching Speed of Electronic Cascode Power Device | ALMO, KHAREEM E | 2849 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18961709 | VELOCITY ESTIMATION USING INTELLIGENT REFLECTING SURFACES | GREGORY, BERNARR E | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18938326 | SYSTEM WITH PRIVACY-PRESERVING NEURAL GRAPH DATABASES AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME | HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS | 2491 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18916747 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLABLE TEXT-TO-3D ROOM MESH GENERATION WITH LAYOUT CONSTRAINTS | SONNERS, SCOTT E | 2613 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18810567 | Persona Knowledge-Aligned Prompt Tuning Method for Online Debate | PATEL, SHREYANS A | 2659 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18795885 | PHASED-ARRAY TRANSMITTER BASED ON INTERMEDIATE-FREQUENCY LOCAL-OSCILLATOR (IFLO) PHASE-SHIFTING ARCHITECTURE | YUN, EUGENE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18782175 | METHOD FOR PREPARING A COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | 1742 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18754329 | Passive On-Chip Optical Long-Pass Filter | CHU, CHRIS H | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18673364 | RECHARGEABLE ALKALINE BATTERY WITH ENHANCED CYCLING STABILITY AND COULOMBIC EFFICIENCY | BROWN, MADISON ELIZABETH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18673481 | BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIAL AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEREOF | CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | 1613 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18657915 | DRIVING AXON REGENERATION BY NRF2 OVEREXPRESSION AND EDARAVONE APPLICATION | BARRON, SEAN C | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18647909 | ULTRA-WIDE FIELD-OF-VIEW PINHOLE COMPOUND EYE USING HEMISPHERICAL NANOWIRE ARRAY FOR ROBOTIC VISION | WARD, DAVID WILLIAM | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18602101 | ANTI-ICING AND ANTI-FROSTING COATING COMPOSITE | KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18585161 | Transient Feature Recognition Technique for Defect Detection, Classification and Location Identification in Water Supply | BECKER, BRANDON J | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18411052 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AI NEURAL NETWORK SPEED ENHANCEMENT BY IMPLEMENTING NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE WITH PARTIAL CONVOLUTION | GONZALES, VINCENT | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18577797 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING AND TREATING AGE-RELATED CONDITIONS | POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18406932 | MULTIPLEXED PROTEIN AND NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION METHOD WITH ROLLING CIRCLE AMPLIFICATION (RCA) ASSISTED COLOR COMBINATORIAL AND SEQUENTIAL FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION (CCS-FISH) | KOVACH, KARA NICOLE | 1681 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18394726 | BIODEGRADABLE SPINY MILLI-BALL ROBOT | LANGE, ERIC A | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18485373 | ANTHRAQUINONE-BASED COVALENT ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS | IANNUCCI, LOUISE JAMES | 1721 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18548621 | SKIN-ADHERENT, ULTRA-STRETCHABLE, AND CONFORMAL WEARABLE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | 3796 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18262738 | LIQUID-BASED CMOS MEMS MICRO THERMAL CONVECTIVE ACCELEROMETER | PARCO JR, RUBEN C | 2853 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18347894 | CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS PRODUCED USING WASTE VIA CARBON SEQUESTRATION | CHAU, LISA N | 1785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 06, 2023 |
| 18322242 | SUSTAINABLE EVAPORATIVE COOLING COATING FOR A BROAD RANGE OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY | STANLEY, JANE L | 1767 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 18246529 | SIMULTANEOUS AMPLIFICATION OF DNA AND RNA FROM SINGLE CELLS | HOPPE, EMMA RUTH | 1683 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 18020029 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING PROTEIN EXPRESSION | NICOL, ALEXANDER W | 1634 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 18073969 | MULTILEVEL ANTIMICROBIAL POLYMERIC COLLOIDS AND DEVICE SCREENS CONTAINING SAME | MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE | 1617 | §103DP | 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§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
| 17792968 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLED RELEASE OF TARGET AGENT | JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE | 1613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jul 14, 2022 |
| 16625282 | QUANTIFICATION, ISOLATION, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF EXOSOMES USING DROPLET-BASED AND WELL-BASED MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEMS | MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN | 1677 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Dec 20, 2019 |
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