Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Zhong Law, LLC

20 pending office actions • 9 clients • 19 examiners • 16 art units • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 66 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
13
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
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. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (6)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.

1
Hard (5%)
19
Medium (95%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§103 only18 (90%)
§102 only1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
5% of docket
4
Information Tech
20% of docket
9
Communications
45% of docket
2
Semiconductors
10% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
15% of docket
1
Business / Other
5% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOOHER, ADAM W 2 75.0% +9.7%
SHORTER, RASHIDA R 1 17.8% +25.7%
LEWIS, CAMRYN BROOKE 1 0.0% +0.0%
HSIEH, PING Y 1 78.9% +15.6%
CONNER, SEAN M 1 78.6% +26.8%
TSAI, TSUNG YIN 1 81.7% +11.0%
ADU-JAMFI, WILLIAM NMN 1
WALLACE, JOHN R 1 77.3% +24.9%
BONSHOCK, DENNIS G 1 42.9% -0.5%
GUAN, GUANG H 1 59.5% +55.8%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18412887 MEDICAL IMAGE DENOISING BASED ON LAYER SEPARATION TSAI, TSUNG YIN 37d overdue

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18599533 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC MEDICAL REPORT GENERATION LEWIS, CAMRYN BROOKE 5d overdue
18608805 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PROCESSES FOR DEEP JOB PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION AND TALENT PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION SHORTER, RASHIDA R 26d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18382424 QUICK MOUNTABLE ASSEMBLY FOR HANDLE, HANDLE ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD OF MOUNTING THE SAME GUAN, GUANG H 113d overdue
18412887 MEDICAL IMAGE DENOISING BASED ON LAYER SEPARATION TSAI, TSUNG YIN 37d overdue
18444779 BLE broadcast communication method, device and system HSIEH, PING Y 16d overdue
18531536 PROCESSING MEDICAL IMAGES BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING MODELS WALLACE, JOHN R 20d
18608805 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PROCESSES FOR DEEP JOB PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION AND TALENT PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION SHORTER, RASHIDA R 26d
18438426 MOTION ESTIMATION BASED ON MULTIPLE PAIRS OF IMAGES CONNER, SEAN M 29d

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26773
26632
28722
36261
36831
26641
26561
26821
39921
36311

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18608805 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PROCESSES FOR DEEP JOB PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION AND TALENT PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION Eightfold AI Inc. SHORTER, RASHIDA R 3626 §101 Final Rejection 26d Pending Mar 18, 2024
18599533 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC MEDICAL REPORT GENERATION Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd. LEWIS, CAMRYN BROOKE 3683 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18444779 BLE broadcast communication method, device and system Zgmicro Wuxi Corporation HSIEH, PING Y 2664 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Feb 19, 2024
18438426 MOTION ESTIMATION BASED ON MULTIPLE PAIRS OF IMAGES Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd. CONNER, SEAN M 2663 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Feb 10, 2024
18412887 MEDICAL IMAGE DENOISING BASED ON LAYER SEPARATION Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd. TSAI, TSUNG YIN 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Jan 15, 2024
18400140 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING PARTIAL BODY MODEL BASED ON DETECTED BODY PART IN AN IMAGE Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd. ADU-JAMFI, WILLIAM NMN 2677 §103 Final Rejection 54d Pending Dec 29, 2023
18531536 PROCESSING MEDICAL IMAGES BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Shanghai United Imaging Intellgence Co., Ltd. WALLACE, JOHN R 2682 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Dec 06, 2023
18514270 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLOR-PRESERVING SPECTRUM RESHAPE Focal Sharp, Inc. BONSHOCK, DENNIS G 3992 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Nov 20, 2023
18382424 QUICK MOUNTABLE ASSEMBLY FOR HANDLE, HANDLE ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD OF MOUNTING THE SAME Xiamen Lota International Co., Ltd. GUAN, GUANG H 3631 §103 Final Rejection 113d overdue Pending Oct 20, 2023
18374473 SEGMENTATION OF A REGION OF INTEREST IN A MEDICAL IMAGE Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd. MUKUNDHAN, ROHAN TEJAS 2663 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18369766 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LANGUAGE-GUIDED IMAGE RETRIEVAL Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd. FITZPATRICK, ATIBA O 2677 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Sep 18, 2023
18244132 Master-slave switching method and device Zgmicro Wuxi Corporation RIVAS, SALVADOR E 2413 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Sep 08, 2023
18233179 Audio broadcasting methods and devices Zgmicro Wuxi Corporation ZHANG, ZHENSHENG 2474 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2023
18350729 VECTOR INSTRUCTION WITH PRECISE INTERRUPTS AND/OR OVERWRITES Optimum Semiconductor Technologies Inc. HUISMAN, DAVID J 2183 §103 Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2023
18246335 SURGICAL MICROSCOPE HAVING ASSISTANT'S DEVICE Zumax Medical Co., Ltd. BOOHER, ADAM W 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Mar 23, 2023
18027646 MICROSURGERY AUXILIARY DEVICE Zumax Medical Co., Ltd. BOOHER, ADAM W 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Mar 22, 2023
18117068 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CARDIAC MOTION TRACKING AND ANALYSIS Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd. YANG, WEI WEN 2662 §103 Final Rejection 74d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2023
18018589 CORNEAL CONTACT LENS CLEANER AND METHOD FOR DETECTING PROTEIN REMOVAL EFFECT THEREOF Suzhou 3N Biological Technology Co., Ltd. ZHANG, RICHARD Z 1714 §102 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Jan 30, 2023
17981988 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANNOTATING TUBULAR STRUCTURES Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd. GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA 2677 §103 Final Rejection 93d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2022
17079539 METHOD AND DEVICE USED FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN USER EQUIPMENT (UE) AND BASE STATION Apex Beam Technologies LLC RANDHAWA, MANDISH K 2477 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Oct 26, 2020

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