Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kookmin University Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation currently manages 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These active cases are handled by 4 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units. This exact match between the number of pending actions, examiners, and art units indicates that every single application is being reviewed by a different person in a different department.
FRITH, SEAN A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, no individual examiner holds more than one case. This total lack of examiner overlap requires a prosecution strategy tailored to 4 different individual perspectives.
The 4 distinct art units involved show that the university has a broad reach within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector, touching many different specialized groups. With 4 pending office actions spread so thinly across examiners and art units, practitioners cannot rely on building a rapport with a single primary examiner or department for this portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRITH, SEAN A | 1 | 62.5% | +26.7% |
| KARACSONY, ROBERT | 1 | 77.1% | +15.3% |
| LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT | 1 | 82.3% | +15.3% |
| LAU, JASON | 1 | 53.7% | +15.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18397445 | LED DEVICE AND INK COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19253807 | ILLUMINANCE MEASURING APPARATUS, BIO-ILLUMINANCE MEASURING SYSTEM, AND BIO-ILLUMINANCE MEASUREMENT METHOD USING THE SAME | FRITH, SEAN A | — |
| 18495385 | HYDROGEN PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND HYDROGEN PRODUCTION METHOD USING BIOCHAR OVEN | LAU, JASON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19253807 | ILLUMINANCE MEASURING APPARATUS, BIO-ILLUMINANCE MEASURING SYSTEM, AND BIO-ILLUMINANCE MEASUREMENT METHOD USING THE SAME | FRITH, SEAN A | — |
| 18961924 | ANTENNA FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING ULTRA-WIDE BAND SIGNAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE ANTENNA | KARACSONY, ROBERT | — |
| 18397445 | LED DEVICE AND INK COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT | — |
| 18495385 | HYDROGEN PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND HYDROGEN PRODUCTION METHOD USING BIOCHAR OVEN | LAU, JASON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19253807 | ILLUMINANCE MEASURING APPARATUS, BIO-ILLUMINANCE MEASURING SYSTEM, AND BIO-ILLUMINANCE MEASUREMENT METHOD USING THE SAME | FRITH, SEAN A | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2025 |
| 18961924 | ANTENNA FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING ULTRA-WIDE BAND SIGNAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE ANTENNA | KARACSONY, ROBERT | 2845 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18397445 | LED DEVICE AND INK COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT | 2818 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18495385 | HYDROGEN PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND HYDROGEN PRODUCTION METHOD USING BIOCHAR OVEN | LAU, JASON | 1732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
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