Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Korea Basic Science Institute has 2 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that the docket spans separate examination channels.
KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate portfolio objectives while preparing examiner-specific responses for each assignment.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI | 1 | 44.9% | +20.2% |
| ZENG, LINGWEN R | 1 | 76.6% | +20.2% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18807111 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING HYBRID EXOSOME | KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI | — |
| 18408128 | ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SODIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND SODIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | ZENG, LINGWEN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18807111 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING HYBRID EXOSOME | KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI | 1615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18408128 | ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SODIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND SODIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | ZENG, LINGWEN R | 1723 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKorea Basic Science Institute has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
John Seungjai Kwon has the most, with 1 of Korea Basic Science Institute's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
