Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Industry Foundation Of Chonnam National University

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

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 (12%)
5
Medium (62%)
2
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (12%)
§103 only4 (50%)
§102 only1 (12%)
§112 only2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
75% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 1 33.3% +76.9%
AVERY, BRIAN WILLIAM 1 63.8% +51.3%
CHANDRA, GYAN 1 71.1% +27.7%
MILLER, RONDE LEE 1 73.3% +22.2%
LEE, JAE W 1 65.6% +38.6%
SKIBINSKY, ANNA 1 38.8% +29.2%
WESTON, ALYSSA G 1 63.0% +49.7%
MOORE, SUSANNA 1 68.1% +31.8%

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
18065810 NOVEL MICROORGANISM FOR POLYSTYRENE BIODEGRADATION LEE, JAE W 22d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
17627914 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING BONE DISEASES MOORE, SUSANNA 51d overdue
18167796 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CALIBRATING CAMERA AND LIDAR SENSOR THROUH HIGH-RESOLUTION CONVERSION OF LIDAR DATA MILLER, RONDE LEE 45d overdue
18032902 COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE OR METABOLIC SYNDROME, COMPRISING FLAGELLIN FUSION PROTEINS CHANDRA, GYAN 44d overdue
18317965 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING USER BY SECURITY TOKEN COMBINED WITH BIOMETRIC DATA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES AVERY, BRIAN WILLIAM 2d overdue
17912480 ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE ANIMAL MODEL USING 3-DIMENSIONAL BIOPRINTED OCCLUDE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR WESTON, ALYSSA G 9d
17968902 METHOD FOR ANALYZING GENETIC INTERACTION OF CANCER VIA MOLECULAR NETWORK REFINING PROCESS, AND SYSTEM USING SAME SKIBINSKY, ANNA 12d
18375599 COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCING GROWTH OF PLANTS WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 21d
18065810 NOVEL MICROORGANISM FOR POLYSTYRENE BIODEGRADATION LEE, JAE W 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1612 1
2495 1
1674 1
2663 1
1656 1
1635 1
1633 1
1624 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18375599 COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCING GROWTH OF PLANTS WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 1612 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Oct 02, 2023
18317965 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING USER BY SECURITY TOKEN COMBINED WITH BIOMETRIC DATA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES AVERY, BRIAN WILLIAM 2495 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending May 16, 2023
18032902 COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE OR METABOLIC SYNDROME, COMPRISING FLAGELLIN FUSION PROTEINS CHANDRA, GYAN 1674 §112 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Apr 20, 2023
18167796 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CALIBRATING CAMERA AND LIDAR SENSOR THROUH HIGH-RESOLUTION CONVERSION OF LIDAR DATA MILLER, RONDE LEE 2663 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2023
18065810 NOVEL MICROORGANISM FOR POLYSTYRENE BIODEGRADATION LEE, JAE W 1656 §101 Final Rejection 22d Pending Dec 14, 2022
17968902 METHOD FOR ANALYZING GENETIC INTERACTION OF CANCER VIA MOLECULAR NETWORK REFINING PROCESS, AND SYSTEM USING SAME SKIBINSKY, ANNA 1635 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 19, 2022
17912480 ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE ANIMAL MODEL USING 3-DIMENSIONAL BIOPRINTED OCCLUDE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR WESTON, ALYSSA G 1633 §102 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 16, 2022
17627914 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING BONE DISEASES MOORE, SUSANNA 1624 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2022

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