Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chung-Ang University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical niche for these filings. Despite the 1 distinct art unit, the workload is divided between 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This arrangement requires the foundation to monitor 2 separate sets of examiner communications within the same technical field.
REGLAS, GILLIAN CHELSEA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions, the foundation must manage separate prosecution tracks. The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical arguments may be similar across both applications, even though the examiners may have different interpretations of the prior art. REGLAS, GILLIAN CHELSEA is responsible for 1 pending office action, which represents a portion of the foundation's current active workload.
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.
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.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (11%) |
| §103 only | 4 (44%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (11%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| CADEAU, WEDNEL | 1 | 71.8% | +19.2% |
| HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | 1 | 34.5% | +39.9% |
| ALMAWRI, MAGED M | 1 | 75.6% | +21.0% |
| LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 1 | 78.6% | +33.5% |
| MATEY, MICHAEL A | 1 | 79.9% | +18.3% |
| LAROSE, RENEE MARIE | 1 | 79.2% | +9.2% |
| RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 1 | 76.3% | +12.0% |
| SMITH, MAURICE C | 1 | 84.5% | -4.0% |
| ZHU, JIANJIAN | 1 | 58.8% | +82.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18799331 | BATTERY MONITORING APPARATUS | SMITH, MAURICE C | 70d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036909 | MICROFLUIDIC-BASED BLADDER CANCER MIMIC AND USE THEREOF | ZHU, JIANJIAN | 19d |
| 18852857 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING DISEASE OF INTEREST ON BASIS OF DEEP NEURAL NETWORK, AND COMPUTER-READABLE PROGRAM THEREFOR | HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | — |
| 18804446 | PULLEY-INTEGRATED CABLE ACTUATOR AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036909 | MICROFLUIDIC-BASED BLADDER CANCER MIMIC AND USE THEREOF | ZHU, JIANJIAN | 19d |
| 19025719 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR ANALYZING SKIN BASED ON HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE SENSOR AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | CADEAU, WEDNEL | — |
| 18852857 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING DISEASE OF INTEREST ON BASIS OF DEEP NEURAL NETWORK, AND COMPUTER-READABLE PROGRAM THEREFOR | HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | — |
| 18947162 | STATOR HAVING A COOLING STRUCTURE AND A MOTOR INCLUDING THE STATOR | ALMAWRI, MAGED M | — |
| 18937610 | LIQUID HYDROGEN RATIO ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND LIQUID HYDROGEN RATIO ANALYSIS METHOD | LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18923003 | COOLING APPARATUS FOR POWER MODULE | MATEY, MICHAEL A | — |
| 18804446 | PULLEY-INTEGRATED CABLE ACTUATOR AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 2 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 1631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19025719 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR ANALYZING SKIN BASED ON HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE SENSOR AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | CADEAU, WEDNEL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18852857 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING DISEASE OF INTEREST ON BASIS OF DEEP NEURAL NETWORK, AND COMPUTER-READABLE PROGRAM THEREFOR | HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA | 3684 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18947162 | STATOR HAVING A COOLING STRUCTURE AND A MOTOR INCLUDING THE STATOR | ALMAWRI, MAGED M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18937610 | LIQUID HYDROGEN RATIO ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND LIQUID HYDROGEN RATIO ANALYSIS METHOD | LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18923003 | COOLING APPARATUS FOR POWER MODULE | MATEY, MICHAEL A | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18886543 | VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE | LAROSE, RENEE MARIE | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18804446 | PULLEY-INTEGRATED CABLE ACTUATOR AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18799331 | BATTERY MONITORING APPARATUS | SMITH, MAURICE C | 2877 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18036909 | MICROFLUIDIC-BASED BLADDER CANCER MIMIC AND USE THEREOF | ZHU, JIANJIAN | 1631 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
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