Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY

43 pending office actions • 38 art units • 42 examiners • 0 of 43 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 159 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

43
Total Pending OAs
37
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 43 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

28
Overdue
3
Due this week
7
Due this month
3
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. 43 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (28)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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.

4
Hard (9%)
26
Medium (60%)
9
Easy (21%)
4
Unknown (9%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only4 (9%)
§103 only17 (40%)
§102 only9 (21%)
§112 only9 (21%)
No statute on record4 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

22
Life Sciences
51% of docket
8
Information Tech
19% of docket
4
Communications
9% of docket
5
Semiconductors
12% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
9% 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.

430 h
Manual time on pending OAs
86 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
150 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SKOWRONEK, KARLHEINZ R 2 21.8% +34.8%
WILLIAMS, DON J 1 83.8% +5.3%
JOHNSON, KYLE T 1 85.1% +15.5%
ANSARI, TAHMINA N 1 85.5% +18.1%
CROMER, ANDREW J 1 76.3% +17.6%
QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED 1 84.8% +9.6%
NGUYEN, HOAI AN D 1 86.2% +10.6%
XIAO, DI 1 77.5% +21.5%
KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 1 58.8% +63.7%
DICKERSON, CHAD S 1 62.7% +23.0%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18436970 Urban underground space Resistivity Sensing System and Data Collection Method Based on Cloud-Edge-End Collaboration NGUYEN, HOAI AN D 110d overdue
18586614 TRIBOELECTRIC NANOGENERATOR (TENG) AND POWER GENERATION DEVICE BASED ON PLANT FIBER AND MODIFIED TRIBO-ELECTRONEGATIVE MATERIAL QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED 74d overdue
18681748 METHOD FOR ACQUIRING SINGLE PHOTON SIGNALS OF ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND APPLICATION THEREOF WILLIAMS, DON J 63d

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17623555 CHRONIC DISEASE PREDICTION SYSTEM BASED ON MULTI-TASK LEARNING MODEL SKOWRONEK, KARLHEINZ R 161d overdue
17718326 OPERATING RESERVE QUANTIFICATION METHOD FOR POWER SYSTEMS USING PROBABILISTIC WIND POWER FORECASTING TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI 111d overdue
18698351 MIXED TRAFFIC FLOW-ORIENTED VEHICLE ECO-DRIVING CONTROL METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE JOHNSON, KYLE T 60d overdue
18036561 NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTER SUPPORTING BILLIONS OF NEURONS GONZALES, VINCENT 42d overdue
18617608 SPHERICAL SHEARLET-BASED COMPRESSION AND RECONSTRUCTION METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCALAR INFORMATION ANSARI, TAHMINA N 17d overdue
17792167 MOLECULAR GRAPH REPRESENTATION LEARNING METHOD BASED ON CONTRASTIVE LEARNING SKOWRONEK, KARLHEINZ R 34d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17623555 CHRONIC DISEASE PREDICTION SYSTEM BASED ON MULTI-TASK LEARNING MODEL SKOWRONEK, KARLHEINZ R 161d overdue
18436970 Urban underground space Resistivity Sensing System and Data Collection Method Based on Cloud-Edge-End Collaboration NGUYEN, HOAI AN D 110d overdue
18698351 MIXED TRAFFIC FLOW-ORIENTED VEHICLE ECO-DRIVING CONTROL METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE JOHNSON, KYLE T 60d overdue
18405750 IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION METHOD BASED ON KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION COMPRESSION MODEL AND DEVICE THEREOF DICKERSON, CHAD S 60d overdue
18579793 CROSS-DOMAIN REMOTE SENSING IMAGE SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION METHOD BASED ON ITERATIVE INTRA-DOMAIN ADAPTATION AND SELF-TRAINING XIAO, DI 31d overdue
18617608 SPHERICAL SHEARLET-BASED COMPRESSION AND RECONSTRUCTION METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCALAR INFORMATION ANSARI, TAHMINA N 17d overdue
18607543 Base Strain Generator and Base Strain Sensitivity Test System CROMER, ANDREW J 11d overdue
18014692 USE OF SATIVENE, AND RECOMBINANT BIOCONTROL FUNGUS AND MUSCARDINE CADAVER AND USE THEREOF KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 7d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2857 2
1736 2
1645 2
1625 2
1687 2
2878 1
3656 1
2674 1
3667 1
2834 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18681748 METHOD FOR ACQUIRING SINGLE PHOTON SIGNALS OF ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND APPLICATION THEREOF WILLIAMS, DON J 2878 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Sep 27, 2024
18698351 MIXED TRAFFIC FLOW-ORIENTED VEHICLE ECO-DRIVING CONTROL METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE JOHNSON, KYLE T 3656 §101 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2024
18617608 SPHERICAL SHEARLET-BASED COMPRESSION AND RECONSTRUCTION METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCALAR INFORMATION ANSARI, TAHMINA N 2674 §101 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Mar 26, 2024
18607543 Base Strain Generator and Base Strain Sensitivity Test System CROMER, ANDREW J 3667 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2024
18586614 TRIBOELECTRIC NANOGENERATOR (TENG) AND POWER GENERATION DEVICE BASED ON PLANT FIBER AND MODIFIED TRIBO-ELECTRONEGATIVE MATERIAL QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED 2834 §112 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2024
18436970 Urban underground space Resistivity Sensing System and Data Collection Method Based on Cloud-Edge-End Collaboration NGUYEN, HOAI AN D 2858 §102 Non-Final OA 110d overdue Pending Feb 08, 2024
18579793 CROSS-DOMAIN REMOTE SENSING IMAGE SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION METHOD BASED ON ITERATIVE INTRA-DOMAIN ADAPTATION AND SELF-TRAINING XIAO, DI 2178 §112 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2024
18014692 USE OF SATIVENE, AND RECOMBINANT BIOCONTROL FUNGUS AND MUSCARDINE CADAVER AND USE THEREOF KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 1635 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jan 05, 2024
18405750 IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION METHOD BASED ON KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION COMPRESSION MODEL AND DEVICE THEREOF DICKERSON, CHAD S 2683 §112 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2024
18395776 METHOD FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL DEFECT ON STEEL SURFACE BASED ON SEMI-SUPERVISED CONTRASTIVE LEARNING SHEN, QUN 2662 §103 Non-Final OA 97d overdue Pending Dec 26, 2023
18520164 Ultrasonic online nondestructive measurement method for melt density during molding ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Nov 27, 2023
18495424 FULL-FORM MODEL-FREE ADAPTIVE DISTURBANCE COMPENSATION CONTROL IN THE PRESENCE OF UNMEASURABLE DISTURBANCES KABIR, SAAD M 2119 Other Non-Final OA 46d Pending Oct 26, 2023
18495300 COMPACT-FORM MODEL-FREE ADAPTIVE DISTURBANCE COMPENSATION CONTROL IN THE PRESENCE OF MEASURABLE DISTURBANCES PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C 2116 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2023
18280479 METHOD FOR PREPARING NANOMATERIAL MACROSCOPIC COMPOSITESTHROUGH SUBSTRATE HEATING AND SOLVENT EVAPORATION NGUYEN, CAM N 1736 §112 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Sep 06, 2023
18454824 POROUS AMMONIA SYNTHESIS CATALYST, ITS PREPARATION METHOD AND USE SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT 1736 §102 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2023
18264604 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR WITH ENDOGENOUS PROTEIN MOLECULE REPLACING SINGLE DOMAIN ANTIBODY FAUST, AMBER KATHLEEN 1643 §102 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Aug 08, 2023
18276052 METHOD FOR INHIBITING CARDIAC FIBROBLAST TRANSDIFFERENTIATION HAUK TEODORO, PRICILA NMN 1645 §102 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Aug 07, 2023
18364471 IMAGE AND SEGMENTATION LABEL GENERATIVE MODEL FOR TREE-STRUCTURED DATA AND APPLICATION MOTSINGER, SEAN T 2673 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2023
18214162 WATER-SOLUBLE DIETARY FIBER, USE THEREOF IN PREPARATION OF MEDICAMENT THAT PROMOTES METABOLISM OF ELLAGIC ACID INTO UROLITHIN A, AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION CRAIGO, BAHAR ALAWI 1699 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 26, 2023
18269213 MOLECULE FOR INDUCING SPONTANEOUS CALCIFICATION OF TUMOR CELLS AND USE THEREOF GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Jun 22, 2023
18336001 HUMAN PRIMARY MYELOFIBROSIS CELL STRAIN AND USE THEREOF NOBLE, MARCIA STEPHENS 1632 §102 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Jun 15, 2023
18320657 AIR EXTRACTOR KASTURE, DNYANESH G 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending May 19, 2023
18316256 EFFICIENT, SECURE AND LOW-COMMUNICATION VERTICAL FEDERATED LEARNING METHOD NGUYEN, CHAU T 2145 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending May 12, 2023
18036561 NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTER SUPPORTING BILLIONS OF NEURONS GONZALES, VINCENT 2124 §101 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
18144990 METHOD AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATING OR ALLEVIATING GLIOMAS IN A SUBJECT ENGLISH, CONNOR KENNEDY 1625 §112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending May 09, 2023
18313288 B3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GENE FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY IMPROVING LENGTH, STRENGTH AND ELONGATION OF COTTON FIBERS AND USE THEREOF WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD 1663 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 05, 2023
18306986 PREPARATION OF NANO SILVER/DUAL MODIFIED CHITOSAN ANTIBACTERIAL HYDROGEL DRESSING WITH DISCOLORATION EFFECT FOR WOUND INFECTION JUDGEMENT AND HYDROGEL DRESSING PREPARED BY THE SAME CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2023
18189191 ENERGY-EFFICIENT CAPACITANCE EXTRACTION METHOD BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING LI, LIANG Y 2143 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Mar 23, 2023
18044180 METHOD FOR USING PLANT MATERIAL TO SIMULTANEOUSLY CONTROL WEEDS AND PLANT TARGET PLANT KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE 3642 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Mar 06, 2023
18022990 SPACE SPECTRUM ESTIMATION METHOD OF SUPER-RESOLUTION COPRIME PLANAR ARRAY BASED ON TENSOR FILLING OF OPTIMAL STRUCTURED VIRTUAL DOMAIN QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 2857 Final Rejection 171d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
18111571 Method for removing protein corona of the surface of nanometer particle GABEL, GAILENE 1678 §112 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Feb 19, 2023
18097461 BACILLUS SP. PRODUCING BIOFLOCCULANT AND BIOSURFACTANT AND USE THEREOF DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN 1645 §102 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2023
18012999 N-(3-HYDROXYPYRIDINE-2-CARBONYL)GLYCINE-BASED ANTITUMOR DRUG SENSITIZER AND APPLICATION THEREOF MAHLUM, JONATHAN DAVIS 1625 §102 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2022
17983420 HUMAN T-LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA/LYMPHOMA CELL STRAIN AND USE THEREOF ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN 1615 §112 Final Rejection 34d Pending Nov 09, 2022
17907696 ULTRA-SMALL NANO METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN 1766 §112 Non-Final OA 184d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2022
17953878 BIOMARKERS COMPOSITION RELATED TO DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS OF IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY AND APPLICATION THEREOF OYEYEMI, OLAYINKA A 1681 §102 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2022
17882573 METHOD FOR CHEMICAL UPCYCLING OF RESINS CONTAINING ESTER BONDS RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1759 Other Non-Final OA 128d overdue Pending Aug 07, 2022
17792167 MOLECULAR GRAPH REPRESENTATION LEARNING METHOD BASED ON CONTRASTIVE LEARNING SKOWRONEK, KARLHEINZ R 1687 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jul 12, 2022
17860129 FEDERATED LEARNING METHOD FOR DECISION TREE-ORIENTED HORIZONTAL BAKER, EZRA JAMES 2126 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2022
17775404 FUNGUS AND MICROBIAL AGENT FOR TREATING MERCURY CONTAMINATION, USE THEREOF, MERCURY REMOVAL METHOD, AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING FUNGUS CAPABLE OF TREATING MERCURY CONTAMINATION KANE, TREVOR LOGAN 1657 §103 Non-Final OA 126d overdue Pending May 09, 2022
17718326 OPERATING RESERVE QUANTIFICATION METHOD FOR POWER SYSTEMS USING PROBABILISTIC WIND POWER FORECASTING TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI 2189 §101 Final Rejection 111d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2022
17623555 CHRONIC DISEASE PREDICTION SYSTEM BASED ON MULTI-TASK LEARNING MODEL SKOWRONEK, KARLHEINZ R 1687 §102 Non-Final OA 161d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2021
17622759 METHOD FOR PREPARING DRUG-LOADED SILK FIBROIN NANOCAPSULE, AND PRODUCT THEREOF AZPURU, CARLOS A 1617 §112 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Dec 24, 2021

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