Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Dankook University is active in the Semiconductors, Circuits and Optics technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners, providing perspectives during the prosecution process. The activity is spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a technical focus within the semiconductor field. The presence of 2 pending office actions across multiple art units indicates that the foundation is pursuing innovations in different segments of the electronics industry.
The busiest examiner, STOCK JR, GORDON J, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With the 2 pending office actions split between two different examiners and two different art units, the company must manage multiple individual examination styles. This requires a coordinated approach to ensure that the prosecution of both matters remains consistent across different technical divisions. Practitioners should monitor both examiners to identify any specific hurdles in the Semiconductors, Circuits and Optics space. By engaging with 2 distinct examiners, the foundation receives feedback from multiple reviewers on its patent applications.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOCK JR, GORDON J | 1 | 81.6% | +17.4% |
| SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 1 | 26.2% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18853507 | DIGITAL LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSOR USING BUNDLE OF OPTICAL FIBERS AND FABRICATION METHOD | STOCK JR, GORDON J | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18497366 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVING CONTINUOUS ACTION UNIQUENESS USING CRYPTOGRAPHIC HASH | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18853507 | DIGITAL LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSOR USING BUNDLE OF OPTICAL FIBERS AND FABRICATION METHOD | STOCK JR, GORDON J | — |
| 18497366 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVING CONTINUOUS ACTION UNIQUENESS USING CRYPTOGRAPHIC HASH | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3697 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18853507 | DIGITAL LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSOR USING BUNDLE OF OPTICAL FIBERS AND FABRICATION METHOD | STOCK JR, GORDON J | 2877 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18497366 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVING CONTINUOUS ACTION UNIQUENESS USING CRYPTOGRAPHIC HASH | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 3697 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialIndustry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Dankook University has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Gordon J Stock Jr. has the most, with 1 of Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Dankook University's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
