Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 4 examiners and 3 art units, indicating some concentration of prosecution activity within shared examination assignments.
PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. That assignment supports checking for common issues and aligning positions across matters handled by the same examiner, while retaining separate analysis for the other assignments.
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 only | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 2 | 47.5% | +41.3% |
| ZAYKOVA-FELDMAN, LYUDMILA | 1 | 68.2% | +24.7% |
| MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| FIORITO, JAMES A | 1 | 71.6% | +28.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895672 | INTERPOLATION METHOD OF 3D SEISMIC DATA BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING | ZAYKOVA-FELDMAN, LYUDMILA | — |
| 18555648 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM-CONCENTRATED SOLUTION WITH HIGH RECOVERY RATE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM COMPOUND USING SAME | FIORITO, JAMES A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895672 | INTERPOLATION METHOD OF 3D SEISMIC DATA BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING | ZAYKOVA-FELDMAN, LYUDMILA | — |
| 18574420 | METHOD FOR PARTIALLY REDUCING VANADIUM PENTOXIDE USING AMMONIA SOLUTION, AND VANADIUM DIOXIDE POWDER PREPARED THEREBY | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | — |
| 18290355 | HIGH VALUE-ADDED METHOD FOR RESOURCE RECOVERY FROM LITHIUM SLUDGE AND FLUORIDE SLUDGE | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | — |
| 18555648 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM-CONCENTRATED SOLUTION WITH HIGH RECOVERY RATE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM COMPOUND USING SAME | FIORITO, JAMES A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 3 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18895672 | INTERPOLATION METHOD OF 3D SEISMIC DATA BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING | ZAYKOVA-FELDMAN, LYUDMILA | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18574420 | METHOD FOR PARTIALLY REDUCING VANADIUM PENTOXIDE USING AMMONIA SOLUTION, AND VANADIUM DIOXIDE POWDER PREPARED THEREBY | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1738 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18290355 | HIGH VALUE-ADDED METHOD FOR RESOURCE RECOVERY FROM LITHIUM SLUDGE AND FLUORIDE SLUDGE | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18501942 | HYDROMETALLURGICAL METHOD FOR RECOVERING LITHIUM FROM LITHIUM-CONTAINING MINERAL AND LITHIUM AQUEOUS SOLUTION RECOVERED THEREFROM | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18555648 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM-CONCENTRATED SOLUTION WITH HIGH RECOVERY RATE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM COMPOUND USING SAME | FIORITO, JAMES A | 1731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKorea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Nicholas Anthony Piro has the most, with 2 of Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
