Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tongji University has 8 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Each action is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, indicating complete dispersion across the available examination assignments.
RAMIREZ, ELLIS B is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. The data favors application-specific technical review and consistent internal quality control rather than a concentrated examiner strategy.
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 only | 2 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | 1 | 81.5% | +14.9% |
| BARBEE, MANUEL L | 1 | 81.7% | +13.9% |
| PHAM, ANNIE | 1 | 90.0% | +11.1% |
| PEO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 48.4% | +47.6% |
| EL HAJ HASSAN, BACHAR | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1 | 60.9% | +26.9% |
| BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN | 1 | 63.4% | +33.2% |
| HUANG, RYAN | 1 | 53.1% | +31.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19333388 | METHOD FOR PLANNING AND CONTROLLING HUMANOID BEHAVIOR OF ROBOT FOR CLOSE PHYSICAL INTERACTION | RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18159302 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATION PERFORMANCE OF SLUDGE BY IN-SITU CRYSTALLIZATION OF WATER | HUANG, RYAN | 9d |
| 18035429 | APPLICATION OF ISOQUINOLINE COMPOUND IN TUMOR TREATMENT | BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN | 53d |
| 19026592 | HIGH-PRECISION MAPPING METHOD FOR UNDERGROUND POOR TEXTURE SPACE BASED ON MOBILE-FIXED COLLABORATIVE DEVIATION CORRECTION | BARBEE, MANUEL L | — |
| 19026563 | STRUCTURE DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOW-LIGHT CONFINED SPACE BASED ON MOBILE-FIXED COLLABORATIVE GUIDANCE | PHAM, ANNIE | — |
| 18412918 | GRANULATION-PROMOTING MICROCARRIER FOR ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDATION (ANAMMOX) PROCESS, AND PREPARATION AND USE METHOD THEREOF | EL HAJ HASSAN, BACHAR | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18159302 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATION PERFORMANCE OF SLUDGE BY IN-SITU CRYSTALLIZATION OF WATER | HUANG, RYAN | 9d |
| 18035429 | APPLICATION OF ISOQUINOLINE COMPOUND IN TUMOR TREATMENT | BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN | 53d |
| 19333388 | METHOD FOR PLANNING AND CONTROLLING HUMANOID BEHAVIOR OF ROBOT FOR CLOSE PHYSICAL INTERACTION | RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | — |
| 19026592 | HIGH-PRECISION MAPPING METHOD FOR UNDERGROUND POOR TEXTURE SPACE BASED ON MOBILE-FIXED COLLABORATIVE DEVIATION CORRECTION | BARBEE, MANUEL L | — |
| 19026563 | STRUCTURE DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOW-LIGHT CONFINED SPACE BASED ON MOBILE-FIXED COLLABORATIVE GUIDANCE | PHAM, ANNIE | — |
| 18613179 | Method and Device for Treating Coking Wastewater through Denitrification and Anammox | PEO, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18288122 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING ALKALINE SOIL AND ENHANCING CARBON CAPTURE USING SLUDGE STABILIZATION PRODUCT | SMITH, JENNIFER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3658 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1624 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19333388 | METHOD FOR PLANNING AND CONTROLLING HUMANOID BEHAVIOR OF ROBOT FOR CLOSE PHYSICAL INTERACTION | RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 19026592 | HIGH-PRECISION MAPPING METHOD FOR UNDERGROUND POOR TEXTURE SPACE BASED ON MOBILE-FIXED COLLABORATIVE DEVIATION CORRECTION | BARBEE, MANUEL L | 2857 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19026563 | STRUCTURE DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOW-LIGHT CONFINED SPACE BASED ON MOBILE-FIXED COLLABORATIVE GUIDANCE | PHAM, ANNIE | 2662 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18613179 | Method and Device for Treating Coking Wastewater through Denitrification and Anammox | PEO, JONATHAN M | 1779 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18412918 | GRANULATION-PROMOTING MICROCARRIER FOR ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDATION (ANAMMOX) PROCESS, AND PREPARATION AND USE METHOD THEREOF | EL HAJ HASSAN, BACHAR | 1772 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 18288122 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING ALKALINE SOIL AND ENHANCING CARBON CAPTURE USING SLUDGE STABILIZATION PRODUCT | SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1731 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18035429 | APPLICATION OF ISOQUINOLINE COMPOUND IN TUMOR TREATMENT | BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN | 1624 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 18159302 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATION PERFORMANCE OF SLUDGE BY IN-SITU CRYSTALLIZATION OF WATER | HUANG, RYAN | 1777 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTongji University has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 8 examiners.
Ellis B Ramirez has the most, with 1 of Tongji University's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
