Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA

3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
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 only1 (33%)
§102 only1 (33%)
§112 only1 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
67% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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
NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC 1 52.6% +40.2%
DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC 1 77.8% -5.0%
WALL, VINCENT 1 61.8% +25.1%

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18713327 CONTACTLESS ELECTROCARDIOGRAM MONITORING METHOD BASED ON MILLIMETER-WAVE RADAR NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC 2d overdue
18216425 VERTICAL GALLIUM OXIDE TRANSISTOR AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF WALL, VINCENT 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3797 1
2818 1
2898 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18713327 CONTACTLESS ELECTROCARDIOGRAM MONITORING METHOD BASED ON MILLIMETER-WAVE RADAR NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC 3797 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending May 24, 2024
18271919 SOLID OXYGEN IONIC CONDUCTOR BASED FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023
18216425 VERTICAL GALLIUM OXIDE TRANSISTOR AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF WALL, VINCENT 2898 §112 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jun 29, 2023

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