Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Inha University Research And Business Foundation

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
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.

1
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (1)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

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%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
§102 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
50% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
1
Communications
17% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
POLTORAK, PIOTR 1 74.7% +30.4%
EWALD, MARIA VERONICA 1 58.6% +6.8%
POTTS, RYAN PATRICK 1 79.7% +39.0%
BAND, MICHAEL A 1 44.8% +55.4%
SULLIVAN, CALEEN O 1 88.5% +11.4%
ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE 1 48.6% +43.6%

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
18156580 UNDERLAYER COMPOSITION FOR PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY, MULTILAYERED STRUCTURE FORMED USING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAME SULLIVAN, CALEEN O 7d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18922775 CONFIGURABLE MODULE-LATTICE POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY PROCESSOR FOR KEY-ENCAPSULATION MECHANISM POLTORAK, PIOTR 44d overdue
18156580 UNDERLAYER COMPOSITION FOR PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY, MULTILAYERED STRUCTURE FORMED USING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAME SULLIVAN, CALEEN O 7d
18012525 POLYIMIDE AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE 30d
18480285 METHOD OF GENERATING MICRO IMAGE AND APPARATUS THEREFOR POTTS, RYAN PATRICK 34d
18117568 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GAS DIFFUSION LAYER FOR FUEL CELL AND GAS DIFFUSION LAYER MANUFACTURED THEREBY BAND, MICHAEL A 61d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2433 1
1783 1
2672 1
1794 1
2899 1
1767 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18922775 CONFIGURABLE MODULE-LATTICE POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY PROCESSOR FOR KEY-ENCAPSULATION MECHANISM POLTORAK, PIOTR 2433 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2024
18512555 OH GROUP-CONTAINING PHOSPHOR-FLUORESCENT MATERIAL INCLUDING VALLEYTRONICS MATERIAL AND FLUORESCENT ORGANIC MATERIAL EWALD, MARIA VERONICA 1783 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Nov 17, 2023
18480285 METHOD OF GENERATING MICRO IMAGE AND APPARATUS THEREFOR POTTS, RYAN PATRICK 2672 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Oct 03, 2023
18117568 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GAS DIFFUSION LAYER FOR FUEL CELL AND GAS DIFFUSION LAYER MANUFACTURED THEREBY BAND, MICHAEL A 1794 §102 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Mar 06, 2023
18156580 UNDERLAYER COMPOSITION FOR PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY, MULTILAYERED STRUCTURE FORMED USING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAME SULLIVAN, CALEEN O 2899 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jan 19, 2023
18012525 POLYIMIDE AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE 1767 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Dec 22, 2022

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