Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tongji University is currently managing 7 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are spread across 5 distinct art units, indicating that the university's research and patenting activities in chemistry cover several different specialized classifications. The prosecution involves 7 distinct examiners, which matches the total number of pending actions.
With 7 distinct examiners each handling a single matter, the busiest examiner, BARBEE, MANUEL L, is responsible for 1 pending action. This distribution of examiners to pending office actions suggests that the university's legal representatives must engage with a unique individual for every active case. The spread across 5 distinct art units further defines the prosecution landscape, as each unit may have different internal standards for the Chemistry & Materials field. Practitioners must tailor their strategies to the 7 distinct examiners and the specific nuances of the art units involved.
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 | 1 (12%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §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 | 81.1% | +14.9% |
| BARBEE, MANUEL L | 1 | 81.7% | +13.9% |
| PEO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 48.2% | +48.1% |
| EL HAJ HASSAN, BACHAR | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| XIA, XUYANG | 1 | 72.5% | +52.3% |
| SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1 | 61.0% | +26.6% |
| BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN | 1 | 62.6% | +33.2% |
| HUANG, RYAN | 1 | 52.9% | +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 | — |
| 18412918 | GRANULATION-PROMOTING MICROCARRIER FOR ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDATION (ANAMMOX) PROCESS, AND PREPARATION AND USE METHOD THEREOF | EL HAJ HASSAN, BACHAR | — |
| 18513241 | CLOSED-LOOP ONLINE SELF-LEARNING FRAMEWORK APPLIED TO AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | XIA, XUYANG | — |
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 | — |
| 18613179 | Method and Device for Treating Coking Wastewater through Denitrification and Anammox | PEO, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18513241 | CLOSED-LOOP ONLINE SELF-LEARNING FRAMEWORK APPLIED TO AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | XIA, XUYANG | — |
| 18288122 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING ALKALINE SOIL AND ENHANCING CARBON CAPTURE USING SLUDGE STABILIZATION PRODUCT | SMITH, JENNIFER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3658 | 1 |
| 2857 | 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 |
| 18613179 | Method and Device for Treating Coking Wastewater through Denitrification and Anammox | PEO, JONATHAN M | — | §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 |
| 18513241 | CLOSED-LOOP ONLINE SELF-LEARNING FRAMEWORK APPLIED TO AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | XIA, XUYANG | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 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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