Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tianjin University has 13 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 13 matters are distributed among 13 distinct examiners, ensuring that no single examiner is handling more than one action for the institution. This one-to-one ratio between 13 pending office actions and 13 distinct examiners indicates a highly atomized prosecution process where each application is subject to an independent review.
The prosecution spans 11 distinct art units, which is a high number relative to the 13 pending actions. SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, reflecting the highly decentralized nature of the university's current patent examination process. With 11 distinct art units involved, the university's chemistry and materials research appears to cover a broad spectrum of specialized sub-fields, each requiring interaction with different departmental experts at the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 + other | 4 (31%) |
| §103 only | 2 (15%) |
| §112 only | 3 (23%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (31%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | 1 | 75.0% | +33.3% |
| BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 1 | 80.6% | +28.2% |
| MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 1 | 46.5% | +54.6% |
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.5% | +39.1% |
| SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 1 | 52.2% | +61.8% |
| VELEZ-LOPEZ, MARIO M | 1 | 74.6% | +4.9% |
| TON, TRI T | 1 | 86.1% | +10.5% |
| KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1 | 49.7% | +15.5% |
| CHONG, JASON Y | 1 | 73.3% | +18.1% |
| MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18897986 | PRODUCTION PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR SYNTHESIZING BISPHENOL A BY RESIN METHOD | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17793009 | 4-UREIDO-5-CARBOXYL-IMIDAZOLE-AMIDE HYDROLASE AND USE THEREOF | KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | 74d overdue |
| 18199371 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE FILLING WELDING PARAMETERS OF LARGE DEFORMATION PIPELINE STEEL BASED ON SECONDARY REGULATION METHOD | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 5d |
| 19007435 | INTEGRATED COOLING UNIT FOR IN-WHEEL MOTOR | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | — |
| 18412617 | INPH PREDICTION METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON THE NEW/OLD STIMULUS BCI PARADIGM | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
| 18407501 | iNPH PREDICTION METHOD BASED ON THE VISUAL ODDBALL PARADIGM | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | — |
| 18518562 | DC VOLTAGE ADAPTIVE COORDINATED CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD UNDER FAULT OF VSC-HVDC RECEIVING-END POWER GRID | VELEZ-LOPEZ, MARIO M | — |
| 18457309 | BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE APTAMER FLUORESCENCE DETECTION DEVICE BASED ON SMART PHONE AND SENSING METHOD OF SAME | TON, TRI T | — |
| 18217824 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER CHEMICAL RATIOMETRIC SENSOR MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR MEASURING UNDERWATER DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATION | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18214777 | METHOD FOR PREPARING AROMATIC HYDROCARBON-RICH PYROLYTIC OIL BY CATALYTIC PYROLYSIS OF WASTE MASK | CHONG, JASON Y | 149d overdue |
| 19007435 | INTEGRATED COOLING UNIT FOR IN-WHEEL MOTOR | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | — |
| 18897986 | PRODUCTION PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR SYNTHESIZING BISPHENOL A BY RESIN METHOD | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | — |
| 18685866 | FOUR-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM PARALLEL ROBOT FOR POSTOPERATIVE REHABILITATION OF ANKLE JOINT FRACTURE | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| 18412617 | INPH PREDICTION METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON THE NEW/OLD STIMULUS BCI PARADIGM | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
| 18407501 | iNPH PREDICTION METHOD BASED ON THE VISUAL ODDBALL PARADIGM | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | — |
| 18457309 | BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE APTAMER FLUORESCENCE DETECTION DEVICE BASED ON SMART PHONE AND SENSING METHOD OF SAME | TON, TRI T | — |
| 18217824 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER CHEMICAL RATIOMETRIC SENSOR MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR MEASURING UNDERWATER DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATION | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1692 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19007435 | INTEGRATED COOLING UNIT FOR IN-WHEEL MOTOR | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18897986 | PRODUCTION PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR SYNTHESIZING BISPHENOL A BY RESIN METHOD | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 1692 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18685866 | FOUR-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM PARALLEL ROBOT FOR POSTOPERATIVE REHABILITATION OF ANKLE JOINT FRACTURE | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18412617 | INPH PREDICTION METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON THE NEW/OLD STIMULUS BCI PARADIGM | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3796 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 18407501 | iNPH PREDICTION METHOD BASED ON THE VISUAL ODDBALL PARADIGM | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18518562 | DC VOLTAGE ADAPTIVE COORDINATED CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD UNDER FAULT OF VSC-HVDC RECEIVING-END POWER GRID | VELEZ-LOPEZ, MARIO M | 2115 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2023 |
| 18457309 | BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE APTAMER FLUORESCENCE DETECTION DEVICE BASED ON SMART PHONE AND SENSING METHOD OF SAME | TON, TRI T | 1645 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18217824 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER CHEMICAL RATIOMETRIC SENSOR MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR MEASURING UNDERWATER DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATION | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
| 18214777 | METHOD FOR PREPARING AROMATIC HYDROCARBON-RICH PYROLYTIC OIL BY CATALYTIC PYROLYSIS OF WASTE MASK | CHONG, JASON Y | 1772 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 149d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18202730 | MEDIUM-ENTROPY PEROVSKITE OXYGEN CARRIER AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18199371 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE FILLING WELDING PARAMETERS OF LARGE DEFORMATION PIPELINE STEEL BASED ON SECONDARY REGULATION METHOD | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 3761 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 17980220 | CAPACITY-COMPENSATION ELECTROLYTE, SECONDARY BATTERY CONTAINING THE SAME AND APPLICATION | D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 1723 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2022 |
| 17793009 | 4-UREIDO-5-CARBOXYL-IMIDAZOLE-AMIDE HYDROLASE AND USE THEREOF | KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | 1653 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 74d overdue | Pending | Jul 14, 2022 |
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