Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Konkuk University Industrial Cooperation Corp.

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 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
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
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 (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (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%)
3
Medium (50%)
2
Easy (33%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
§112 only2 (33%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
67% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% 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
KIR, ALBERT 1 67.6% +16.6%
HOANG, JOHNNY H 1 88.9% +12.1%
SAIDHA, TEKCHAND 1 82.9% +13.9%
NGUYEN, NGHI V 1 53.6% +50.4%
CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F 1 23.5% +44.0%
LIU, TRACY 1 54.9% +28.0%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18967142 Apparatus for Controlling Vehicle and Method Thereof HOANG, JOHNNY H 3d overdue
18607662 MXENE OR DERIVATIVE THEREOF IMMOBILIZED WITH NITROUS OXIDE REDUCTASE AND USE THEREOF SAIDHA, TEKCHAND 22d

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
17997988 METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATING MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F 13d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18967142 Apparatus for Controlling Vehicle and Method Thereof HOANG, JOHNNY H 3d overdue
17997988 METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATING MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F 13d
19021668 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROI-BASED VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING FOR MACHINE VISION KIR, ALBERT 14d
18607662 MXENE OR DERIVATIVE THEREOF IMMOBILIZED WITH NITROUS OXIDE REDUCTASE AND USE THEREOF SAIDHA, TEKCHAND 22d
18267230 METHOD FOR MASS PRODUCTION OF HIGHLY PURE, STEM CELL-DERIVED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE BY USING PEPTIDE NGUYEN, NGHI V 28d
17997340 METHOD FOR PRODUCING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES FROM THREE-DIMENSIONALLY CULTURED STEM CELLS LIU, TRACY 33d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2485 1
3747 1
1652 1
1653 1
1634 1
1614 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19021668 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROI-BASED VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING FOR MACHINE VISION KIR, ALBERT 2485 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jan 15, 2025
18967142 Apparatus for Controlling Vehicle and Method Thereof HOANG, JOHNNY H 3747 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 03, 2024
18607662 MXENE OR DERIVATIVE THEREOF IMMOBILIZED WITH NITROUS OXIDE REDUCTASE AND USE THEREOF SAIDHA, TEKCHAND 1652 §112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Mar 18, 2024
18267230 METHOD FOR MASS PRODUCTION OF HIGHLY PURE, STEM CELL-DERIVED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE BY USING PEPTIDE NGUYEN, NGHI V 1653 Other Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 14, 2023
17997988 METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATING MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F 1634 §112 Final Rejection 13d Pending Nov 04, 2022
17997340 METHOD FOR PRODUCING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES FROM THREE-DIMENSIONALLY CULTURED STEM CELLS LIU, TRACY 1614 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Oct 27, 2022

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