Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Xiamen University

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (2)

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 (29%)
4
Easy (57%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (14%)
§102 only1 (14%)
§112 only4 (57%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
QIAN, YUN 1 54.5% +20.8%
NIEBAUER, RONALD T 1 41.4% +33.8%
REYNOLDS, FRED H 1 33.0% +39.2%
SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE 1 29.3% +47.3%
MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA 1 58.4% +16.8%
KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 1 33.3% +30.0%
BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 1 73.5% +39.9%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18267586 FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS METHOD FOR LITHIUM ION DETERMINATION USING FREE-BASE PHTHALOCYANINE (FBPc) AS MOLECULAR PROBE SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE 71d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17747360 PEPTIDE SCYREPROCIN OF SCYLLA PARAMAMOSAIN AND METHOD THEREOF KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 111d overdue
17765110 USE OF VALERIC ACID DERIVATIVE IN TREATMENT OF DOWN'S SYNDROME BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 60d overdue
17860505 OSMIUM-CONTAINING CONJUGATED POLYMER AND METHODS THEREOF MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA 43d overdue
19209840 SMART CATALYST SUPPORT WITH IN-SITU TEMPERATURE FIELD MONITORING AND DYNAMIC REGULATION QIAN, YUN 34d
18350803 PEPTIDE DISINFECTANT FOR PREVENTING CORONAVIRUSES NIEBAUER, RONALD T 60d
18337091 PREPAKAGED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (PCR) REAGENT FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION AND METHOD THEREOF REYNOLDS, FRED H 70d
18267586 FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS METHOD FOR LITHIUM ION DETERMINATION USING FREE-BASE PHTHALOCYANINE (FBPc) AS MOLECULAR PROBE SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE 71d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1658 3
1738 1
1758 1
1767 1
1625 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19209840 SMART CATALYST SUPPORT WITH IN-SITU TEMPERATURE FIELD MONITORING AND DYNAMIC REGULATION QIAN, YUN 1738 §112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 16, 2025
18350803 PEPTIDE DISINFECTANT FOR PREVENTING CORONAVIRUSES NIEBAUER, RONALD T 1658 §102 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Jul 12, 2023
18337091 PREPAKAGED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (PCR) REAGENT FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION AND METHOD THEREOF REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 §112 Final Rejection 70d Pending Jun 19, 2023
18267586 FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS METHOD FOR LITHIUM ION DETERMINATION USING FREE-BASE PHTHALOCYANINE (FBPc) AS MOLECULAR PROBE SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE 1758 §112 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Jun 15, 2023
17860505 OSMIUM-CONTAINING CONJUGATED POLYMER AND METHODS THEREOF MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA 1767 §112 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2022
17747360 PEPTIDE SCYREPROCIN OF SCYLLA PARAMAMOSAIN AND METHOD THEREOF KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 1658 Other Final Rejection 111d overdue Pending May 18, 2022
17765110 USE OF VALERIC ACID DERIVATIVE IN TREATMENT OF DOWN'S SYNDROME BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 1625 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2022

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