Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Communications
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Konkuk University Industrial Cooperation Corp. has 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct art units, indicating a moderate level of technical diversity within the chemistry sector. The presence of 3 art units suggests that the university's research spans several different chemical classifications.
The portfolio involves 5 distinct examiners, meaning each of the pending office actions is being reviewed by a different person. BRADLEY, CHRISTINA is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This distribution of examiners across the art units indicates a decentralized prosecution environment. For a practitioner, this requires managing multiple examiner relationships and styles simultaneously. The lack of concentration among examiners means that no single individual's preferences will dictate the outcome for the entire group of 5 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRADLEY, CHRISTINA | 1 | 62.6% | +33.3% |
| ANTHONY, JOSEPH DAVID | 1 | 73.2% | +5.2% |
| SU, XIAOWEI | 1 | 71.7% | +12.8% |
| CADEAU, WEDNEL | 1 | 71.8% | +19.2% |
| LIU, TRACY | 1 | 54.5% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711556 | NONAMERIC PEPTIDE HAVING EXCELLENT ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY AGAINST GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA AND ENANTIOMER THEREOF | BRADLEY, CHRISTINA | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17997340 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES FROM THREE-DIMENSIONALLY CULTURED STEM CELLS | LIU, TRACY | 33d |
| 18711556 | NONAMERIC PEPTIDE HAVING EXCELLENT ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY AGAINST GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA AND ENANTIOMER THEREOF | BRADLEY, CHRISTINA | — |
| 18536996 | METAL NANOSTRUCTURE PREPARATION METHOD USING GALVANIC REPLACEMENT REACTION, AND METAL NANOSTRUCTURE PREPARED THEREBY | SU, XIAOWEI | — |
| 18484566 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF ENCODING/DECODING AN IMAGE BASED ON MULTI-COMPRESSION LEVEL | CADEAU, WEDNEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| 2632 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18711556 | NONAMERIC PEPTIDE HAVING EXCELLENT ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY AGAINST GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA AND ENANTIOMER THEREOF | BRADLEY, CHRISTINA | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18601213 | ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID TYPE FIRE-EXTINGUISHING MICROCAPSULE HAVING DOUBLE-WALL STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND FIRE-EXTINGUISHING COMPOSITION COMPRISING SAME | ANTHONY, JOSEPH DAVID | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18536996 | METAL NANOSTRUCTURE PREPARATION METHOD USING GALVANIC REPLACEMENT REACTION, AND METAL NANOSTRUCTURE PREPARED THEREBY | SU, XIAOWEI | 1733 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18484566 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF ENCODING/DECODING AN IMAGE BASED ON MULTI-COMPRESSION LEVEL | CADEAU, WEDNEL | 2632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 17997340 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES FROM THREE-DIMENSIONALLY CULTURED STEM CELLS | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
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