Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

17 pending office actions • 15 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
7
Due this month
0
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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (7)

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%)
14
Medium (82%)
3
Easy (18%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (82%)
§112 only3 (18%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
41% of docket
1
Information Tech
6% of docket
5
Communications
29% of docket
2
Semiconductors
12% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
12% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHOY, PAN G 1 24.2% +35.1%
GOLDBERG, IVAN R 1 35.4% +36.1%
SELLERS, DANIEL R 1 67.6% +17.3%
GE, JIN 1 79.8% +17.9%
COONS, LOGAN DOUGLAS 1 100.0% +0.0%
KUDO, KEN 1
CHEN, PO-CHIH 1 74.7% +13.9%
LI, RUIPING 1 77.1% +18.5%
SULTANA, NADIRA 1 74.3% +30.4%
KIM, ANDREW NATHANIEL 1

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
18522937 NOISE POINT FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND FAULT DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM COONS, LOGAN DOUGLAS 26d

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
18955598 MULTI-AGENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNING-BASED MOBILE ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING SERVICE METHOD CHOY, PAN G 29d

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
18236299 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING FEATURE VECTOR TO IMPROVE FACE RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE OF LOW-QUALITY IMAGE LI, RUIPING 72d overdue
18239728 PHENANTHROLINE-BASED COMPOUND, METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME AND PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELL COMPRISING THE SAME CHEN, PO-CHIH 56d overdue
18783599 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING WALKING IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT SELLERS, DANIEL R 17d overdue
18358646 APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AUDIO SIGNALS AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF SULTANA, NADIRA 11d overdue
18954358 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING AND DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND METHOD LINKING RIDE-SHARING SERVICE AND VEHICLE-TO-GRID GOLDBERG, IVAN R 12d
18955598 MULTI-AGENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNING-BASED MOBILE ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING SERVICE METHOD CHOY, PAN G 29d
18652278 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD WITH IMAGE NOISE REMOVAL GE, JIN 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2857 2
1729 2
3624 1
3619 1
2694 1
2619 1
2671 1
1621 1
2676 1
2653 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18955598 MULTI-AGENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNING-BASED MOBILE ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING SERVICE METHOD CHOY, PAN G 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Nov 21, 2024
18954358 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING AND DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND METHOD LINKING RIDE-SHARING SERVICE AND VEHICLE-TO-GRID GOLDBERG, IVAN R 3619 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 20, 2024
18783599 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING WALKING IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT SELLERS, DANIEL R 2694 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2024
18652278 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD WITH IMAGE NOISE REMOVAL GE, JIN 2619 §112 Non-Final OA 29d Pending May 01, 2024
18522937 NOISE POINT FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND FAULT DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM COONS, LOGAN DOUGLAS 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Nov 29, 2023
18386265 DATA AUGMENTATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACTION RECOGNITION THROUGH SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING BASED ON OBJECT KUDO, KEN 2671 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Nov 02, 2023
18239728 PHENANTHROLINE-BASED COMPOUND, METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME AND PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELL COMPRISING THE SAME CHEN, PO-CHIH 1621 §112 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2023
18236299 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING FEATURE VECTOR TO IMPROVE FACE RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE OF LOW-QUALITY IMAGE LI, RUIPING 2676 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2023
18358646 APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AUDIO SIGNALS AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF SULTANA, NADIRA 2653 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
18215815 ELECTROLYTE FOR AQUEOUS ZINC-BROMINE BATTERY CONTAINING BROMINE COMPLEXING AGENT AND METAL ION ADDITIVE, AND AQUEOUS ZINC-BROMINE NON-FLOW BATTERY CONTAINING SAME KIM, ANDREW NATHANIEL 1727 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 28, 2023
18165620 METHOD OF PRODUCING HYDROGEN PEROXIDE USING MICROORGANISM OF THE GENUS DESEMZIA MCKNIGHT, CIARA A 1656 §103 Non-Final OA 118d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2023
18084222 ELECTRODE INCLUDING POLYMER FIBER AGGREGATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF GATEWOOD, DANIEL S 1729 §112 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2022
18010767 POSITIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM-SULFUR SECONDARY BATTERY, AND LITHIUM-SULFUR SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME OROZCO, MARIA F 1729 §103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2022
17993922 METHOD FOR SCREENING MARKERS FOR PREDICTING PROGNOSIS OF RENAL CELL CARCINOMA USING TRANSCRIPTOMIC ANALYSIS DAHLIN, HEATHER RAQUEL 1629 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Nov 24, 2022
18053859 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION APPARATUS OF FUEL CELL ELECTRODE ALEXANDER, EMMA LYNNE 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2022
17852191 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE SIMULATION SYSTEM AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE SIMULATION METHOD DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL 2188 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2022
17423939 DETECTION OF CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RAMADAN, OMAR 1678 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jul 19, 2021

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