Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials has 4 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are distributed among 4 examiners and 4 art units. DESTA, ELIAS is the busiest identified examiner, with 1 pending action.
The one-to-one distribution indicates distinct examination paths across the portfolio. Counsel should manage each matter independently while maintaining a coordinated view of the institute's semiconductor and optics prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 only | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DESTA, ELIAS | 1 | 84.0% | +10.1% |
| NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | 1 | 88.9% | +22.2% |
| DAHER, KIRA B | 1 | 42.4% | +56.1% |
| GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 1 | 34.6% | +39.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18027441 | MULTI-TARGET DISTANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND MULTI-TARGET DISTANCE MEASUREMENT METHOD USING THE SAME | NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | 8d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550615 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING INSULATION PERFORMANCE OF LOW-TEMPERATURE STORAGE TANK | DESTA, ELIAS | 13d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18027441 | MULTI-TARGET DISTANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND MULTI-TARGET DISTANCE MEASUREMENT METHOD USING THE SAME | NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | 8d |
| 18550615 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING INSULATION PERFORMANCE OF LOW-TEMPERATURE STORAGE TANK | DESTA, ELIAS | 13d |
| 17783021 | SOFT ACTUATOR, SOFT ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY HAVING THE SOFT ACTUATOR, AND WEARABLE ROBOT HAVING THE SOFT ACTUATOR OR THE SOFT ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | DAHER, KIRA B | — |
| 17608813 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING METHOD ENABLING THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING ON ONE AREA OF BED, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTER USED THEREIN | GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18550615 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING INSULATION PERFORMANCE OF LOW-TEMPERATURE STORAGE TANK | DESTA, ELIAS | 2857 | §101 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18027441 | MULTI-TARGET DISTANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND MULTI-TARGET DISTANCE MEASUREMENT METHOD USING THE SAME | NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 17783021 | SOFT ACTUATOR, SOFT ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY HAVING THE SOFT ACTUATOR, AND WEARABLE ROBOT HAVING THE SOFT ACTUATOR OR THE SOFT ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | DAHER, KIRA B | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2022 |
| 17608813 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING METHOD ENABLING THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING ON ONE AREA OF BED, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTER USED THEREIN | GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialKorea Institute of Machinery & Materials has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Elias Desta has the most, with 1 of Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
