Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNION HOSPITAL, TONGJI MEDICAL COLLEGE, HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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%)
2
Medium (67%)
1
Easy (33%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (67%)
§112 only1 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
67% of docket
1
Information Tech
33% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BARNES JR, CARL E 1 32.2% +24.2%
O'NEILL, MARISOL ANN 1 52.2% +64.7%
KOSAR, AARON J 1 71.0% +30.2%

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18364562 DECELLULARIZED HEART VALVE (DHV) COMPOSITE, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF KOSAR, AARON J 23d overdue
18585805 MULTI-MODAL MULTI-VIEW CLASSIFICATION METHOD FOR ECHOCARDIOGRAMS BASED ON DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHM BARNES JR, CARL E 10d overdue
18409015 PREPARATION METHOD AND USE OF HYDROGEL MATERIAL FOR GROWTH OF BLOOD VESSEL ORGANOIDS O'NEILL, MARISOL ANN 42d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2178 1
1633 1
1655 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18585805 MULTI-MODAL MULTI-VIEW CLASSIFICATION METHOD FOR ECHOCARDIOGRAMS BASED ON DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHM BARNES JR, CARL E 2178 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2024
18409015 PREPARATION METHOD AND USE OF HYDROGEL MATERIAL FOR GROWTH OF BLOOD VESSEL ORGANOIDS O'NEILL, MARISOL ANN 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Jan 10, 2024
18364562 DECELLULARIZED HEART VALVE (DHV) COMPOSITE, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF KOSAR, AARON J 1655 §112 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Aug 03, 2023

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