Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Korea Institute Of Fusion Energy has 4 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 3 examiners and 3 art units, so the portfolio has some distribution across examination resources while remaining relatively compact.
CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner handles a larger share of the current record than the other identified examination assignments, making consistency in claim amendments and technical explanations particularly useful for those matters.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 2 | 75.0% | +15.9% |
| DOWNES, NATHANAEL JASON | 1 | 62.9% | +15.7% |
| YOO, REGINA M | 1 | 63.8% | +5.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19109222 | PLASMA GENERATOR BY MEANS OF RESONANT WAVEGUIDE | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | — |
| 19109286 | PLASMA GENERATION DEVICE USING RESONANT WAVEGUIDE HAVING TUNER | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19109222 | PLASMA GENERATOR BY MEANS OF RESONANT WAVEGUIDE | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | — |
| 19109286 | PLASMA GENERATION DEVICE USING RESONANT WAVEGUIDE HAVING TUNER | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | — |
| 18010912 | MICROWAVE PLASMA DEVICE WITH INCREASED SELECTIVITY OF NITROGEN OXIDE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING NITROGEN OXIDE-CONTAINING WATER USING SAME | DOWNES, NATHANAEL JASON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2845 | 2 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19109222 | PLASMA GENERATOR BY MEANS OF RESONANT WAVEGUIDE | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 2845 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19109286 | PLASMA GENERATION DEVICE USING RESONANT WAVEGUIDE HAVING TUNER | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 2845 | §101DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 18010912 | MICROWAVE PLASMA DEVICE WITH INCREASED SELECTIVITY OF NITROGEN OXIDE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING NITROGEN OXIDE-CONTAINING WATER USING SAME | DOWNES, NATHANAEL JASON | 1794 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 17906688 | DISINFECTION SYSTEM USING PLASMA-DISCHARGED WATER, AND SPRAY NOZZLE FOR SPRAYING PLASMA-DISCHARGED WATER AS DROPLETS | YOO, REGINA M | 1700 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialKorea Institute Of Fusion Energy has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Raymond Rei-Yang Chai has the most, with 2 of Korea Institute Of Fusion Energy's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
