Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The University of Hong Kong

30 pending office actions • 28 art units • 30 examiners • 0 of 30 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

30
Total Pending OAs
19
Non-Final OAs
11
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 30 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

18
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 30 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (18)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (3)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
25
Medium (83%)
3
Easy (10%)
2
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only25 (83%)
§112 only3 (10%)
No statute on record2 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

19
Life Sciences
63% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
3
Communications
10% of docket
1
Semiconductors
3% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
23% 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.

300 h
Manual time on pending OAs
60 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
105 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JHA, ABDHESH K 1 80.2% +17.8%
GUYAH, REMASH RAJA 1 76.3% +34.8%
TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS 1 78.1% +16.0%
SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY 1 84.1% +9.2%
SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM 1 82.4% +22.2%
PARK, SOO JIN 1 81.9% +17.2%
BROOME, SAID A 1 81.9% +17.2%
SHOSTAK, ANDREY 1 52.2% +63.0%
TRUONG, QUANGLONG N 1 78.6% +23.4%
MATALKAH, FATIMAH KHALAF 1 56.3% +11.5%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18850969 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DYNAMIC EVENTS JHA, ABDHESH K 3d overdue
18608983 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED IMAGE PROCESSOR FOR INTRAORAL IMAGES SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM 42d
18586415 Systems and Methods for Robust Multi-Channel Image Reconstruction in MRI PARK, SOO JIN 46d
18621152 TRANSCORNEAL STIMULATOR FOR TREATING BRAIN DISEASES SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY 48d
18429195 DEEP LEARNING BASED METHOD TO GENERATE A DENTAL PROSTHESIS BROOME, SAID A 75d

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
18566778 A PHOTORESPONSIVE DELIVERY SYSTEM BASED ON A MODIFIED PAMAM AND METHODS THEREOF TRUONG, QUANGLONG N 49d overdue
18571200 FALL RISK ASSESSMENT DEVICE SHOSTAK, ANDREY 26d overdue
18709731 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION IN RADAR GUYAH, REMASH RAJA 17d overdue
18850969 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DYNAMIC EVENTS JHA, ABDHESH K 3d overdue
18703699 HOT STAMPING METHOD FOR PRE-COATED STEEL SHEETS TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS 3d overdue
18564498 BIOENGINEERED DERMAL PAPILLA AND HAIR FOLLICLES AND RELATED PRODUCTS, METHODS AND APPLICATIONS MATALKAH, FATIMAH KHALAF 13d
18608983 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED IMAGE PROCESSOR FOR INTRAORAL IMAGES SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM 42d
18586415 Systems and Methods for Robust Multi-Channel Image Reconstruction in MRI PARK, SOO JIN 46d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1615 2
1733 2
3668 1
3648 1
3725 1
3796 1
2672 1
2675 1
2612 1
3791 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18850969 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DYNAMIC EVENTS JHA, ABDHESH K 3668 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2024
18709731 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION IN RADAR GUYAH, REMASH RAJA 3648 §112 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending May 13, 2024
18703699 HOT STAMPING METHOD FOR PRE-COATED STEEL SHEETS TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS 3725 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2024
18621152 TRANSCORNEAL STIMULATOR FOR TREATING BRAIN DISEASES SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 48d Pending Mar 29, 2024
18608983 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED IMAGE PROCESSOR FOR INTRAORAL IMAGES SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM 2672 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Mar 19, 2024
18586415 Systems and Methods for Robust Multi-Channel Image Reconstruction in MRI PARK, SOO JIN 2675 §112 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Feb 23, 2024
18429195 DEEP LEARNING BASED METHOD TO GENERATE A DENTAL PROSTHESIS BROOME, SAID A 2612 §103 Final Rejection 75d Pending Jan 31, 2024
18571200 FALL RISK ASSESSMENT DEVICE SHOSTAK, ANDREY 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2023
18566778 A PHOTORESPONSIVE DELIVERY SYSTEM BASED ON A MODIFIED PAMAM AND METHODS THEREOF TRUONG, QUANGLONG N 1615 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2023
18564498 BIOENGINEERED DERMAL PAPILLA AND HAIR FOLLICLES AND RELATED PRODUCTS, METHODS AND APPLICATIONS MATALKAH, FATIMAH KHALAF 1638 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Nov 27, 2023
18476499 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION IN MEMRISTOR-BASED IN-MEMORY COMPUTING NGUYEN, HIEN N 2824 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18466854 METHOD FOR ASSESSING RESPIRATORY VIRAL INFECTIONS PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
18461081 NIDOGEN 1 AS A DIAGNOSTIC MARKER AND THERAPEUTIC TARGET OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA, COMPOSITION AND METHODS THEREOF SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN 1642 Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 05, 2023
18352040 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS TARGETING S100A10 FOR THE TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF LIVER CANCER CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH 1683 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
18342056 NOVEL ANTICARIES MATERIAL FOR DENTAL USE COHEN, MICHAEL P 1612 §103 Final Rejection 62d Pending Jun 27, 2023
18137666 SUPER ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION-RESISTANT BILAYER PASSIVE FILM STRUCTURE AND STAINLESS STEEL SUITABLE FOR WATER ELECTROLYSIS INDUSTRY CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 21, 2023
18157725 Micro Scale Mist Mouthguard Cleaning Device MORAN, EDWARD JOHN 3772 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Jan 20, 2023
18014760 NON-IMMERSIVE DRY SINTERING STRATEGY FOR REALIZING DECENT METAL BASED ELECTRODES JANSSEN, REBECCA 1733 §112 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Jan 06, 2023
18151107 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARTICLE SIZE-INSENSITIVE HIGH-THROUGHPUT SINGLE-STREAM PARTICLE FOCUSING HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Jan 06, 2023
18000491 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING A SARS-COV-2 INFECTION NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI 1615 §103 Final Rejection 295d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2022
17980888 800 MPA GRADE STEEL BAR AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF SU, XIAOWEI 1733 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Nov 04, 2022
17936179 23-O-ACETYLALISOL B AS A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR CORONAVIRUS INDUCED SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME LEE, WILLIAM Y 1623 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Sep 28, 2022
17821411 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING SARS-CoV-2 BARRERA, IMMACULADA 1671 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2022
17729584 SURGERY DEVICE WITH PATIENT-SPECIFIC FIBULA MALLEOLUS CAP HU, ANN M 3774 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending Apr 26, 2022
17754992 METHODS TO PREPARE V-T CELLS DERIVED EXOSOMES FOR TREATMENT OF EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS-ASSOCIATED CANCERS HOLTZMAN, KATHERINE ANN 1646 §103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2022
17625665 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CLEARING TISSUE BARRON, SEAN C 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Jan 07, 2022
17278189 IMPROVED HIGH-THROUGHPUT COMBINATORIAL GENETIC MODIFICATION SYSTEM AND OPTIMIZED CAS9 ENZYME VARIANTS LIPPOLIS, ALEXANDRA ROSE 1637 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Mar 19, 2021
17265756 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION AND IMAGING OF AMYLOID FIBRILS, AMYLOID PLAQUES, RNA, AND NUCLEOLI NGUYEN, NAM P 1678 Other Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2021
17048297 IMMUNO-ONCOLYTIC MODIFIED VACCINIA TIAN TAN VIRUS AND METHODS OF TREATING CANCER WANG, RUIXUE 1672 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Oct 16, 2020
16768319 TRANSGENIC RICE PLANTS OVEREXPRESSING ACYL-COA-BINDING PROTEIN2 SHOW ENHANCED GRAIN SIZE BOGGS, RUSSELL T 1663 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending May 29, 2020

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