Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Industry Foundation of Chonnam National University

14 pending office actions • 13 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

6
Hard (43%)
7
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (7%)
§101 + other1 (7%)
§103 only3 (21%)
§102 only1 (7%)
§112 only1 (7%)
Double-patenting + other3 (21%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

12
Life Sciences
86% of docket
1
Information Tech
7% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
7% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S 1 60.3% +48.4%
FRASER, STEWART A 1 86.0% +14.3%
SCHUBERG, LAURA J 1 23.7% +37.2%
WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 1 25.0% +49.0%
AVERY, BRIAN WILLIAM 1 60.2% +55.0%
RAYMONDA, MATTHEW HAROLD 1 35.7% +55.0%
CHANDRA, GYAN 1 71.3% +27.4%
DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN 1 52.7% +34.2%
DEBERRY, REGINA M 1 50.0% +30.4%
CONSTANTINE, CHARLES Z 1 59.0% +48.8%

Hard Cases (8)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
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
18395922 NOVEL ORGANOTIN SILICATE COMPOUNDS, PREPARATION METHODS THEREOF AND PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME FRASER, STEWART A
18287435 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING PARKINSON'S DISEASE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF SCHUBERG, LAURA J
18032909 FLAGELLIN FUSION PROTEIN AND USE THEREOF DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN
17775101 SYNTHETIC ALPHA-SECRETASE AND USE THEREOF ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS

Interview Candidates (10)

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
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
18375599 COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCING GROWTH OF PLANTS WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 21d
18696589 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATING INFLAMMATORY DISEASES ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S
18395922 NOVEL ORGANOTIN SILICATE COMPOUNDS, PREPARATION METHODS THEREOF AND PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME FRASER, STEWART A
18287435 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING PARKINSON'S DISEASE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF SCHUBERG, LAURA J
18251188 COMPOSITION FOR TARGETING CANCER CELL, COMPRISING STRAIN EXPRESSING MONOMERIC STREPTAVIDIN, AND BIOTINYLATED COMPOUND RAYMONDA, MATTHEW HAROLD
18032909 FLAGELLIN FUSION PROTEIN AND USE THEREOF DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1617 1
1631 1
1612 1
2495 1
1653 1
1674 1
1645 1
1647 1
1657 1
1656 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18696589 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATING INFLAMMATORY DISEASES ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S 1617 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2024
18395922 NOVEL ORGANOTIN SILICATE COMPOUNDS, PREPARATION METHODS THEREOF AND PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME FRASER, STEWART A §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 26, 2023
18287435 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING PARKINSON'S DISEASE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF SCHUBERG, LAURA J 1631 §102 Final Rejection Pending Oct 18, 2023
18375599 COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCING GROWTH OF PLANTS WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 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
18251188 COMPOSITION FOR TARGETING CANCER CELL, COMPRISING STRAIN EXPRESSING MONOMERIC STREPTAVIDIN, AND BIOTINYLATED COMPOUND RAYMONDA, MATTHEW HAROLD 1653 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 28, 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
18032909 FLAGELLIN FUSION PROTEIN AND USE THEREOF DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN 1645 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 20, 2023
18030584 NOVEL PROTEIN SPECIFICALLY BINDING TO CALRETICULIN AND HAVING HUMAN FIBRONECTIN DOMAIN III SCAFFOLD AND USE THEREOF DEBERRY, REGINA M 1647 §102§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 06, 2023
18002292 SALMONELLA STRAIN FOR TREATING CANCER AND USE THEREOF CONSTANTINE, CHARLES Z 1657 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 19, 2022
18065810 NOVEL MICROORGANISM FOR POLYSTYRENE BIODEGRADATION LEE, JAE W 1656 §101 Non-Final OA 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 §101§112 Final Rejection 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§103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 16, 2022
17775101 SYNTHETIC ALPHA-SECRETASE AND USE THEREOF ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS 1651 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending May 06, 2022

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