Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials currently has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 5 actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, meaning each case is being handled by a different person. The portfolio is distributed across 4 distinct art units, showing a relatively broad technical footprint within its primary technology area.
EDWARDS, LOREN C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Because there are 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending actions, no single examiner has an outsized influence on the portfolio. Practitioners must manage five different examiner relationships across 4 distinct art units to successfully navigate the current prosecution cycle. This distribution suggests that the company's 5 pending office actions are being evaluated independently by a diverse group of patent office personnel.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDWARDS, LOREN C | 1 | 81.5% | +29.2% |
| YE, XINWEN | 1 | 43.4% | +44.0% |
| DESTA, ELIAS | 1 | 84.0% | +10.0% |
| WANG, RUIXUE | 1 | 57.4% | +17.8% |
| DAHER, KIRA B | 1 | 41.6% | +54.3% |
| GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 1 | 34.8% | +39.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17996797 | LIPID NANOPILLAR ARRAY-BASED IMMUNOASSAY | WANG, RUIXUE | 154d overdue |
| 18553390 | IMPRINTING DEVICE AND IMPRINTING METHOD | YE, XINWEN | 38d overdue |
| 18550615 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING INSULATION PERFORMANCE OF LOW-TEMPERATURE STORAGE TANK | DESTA, ELIAS | 13d |
| 19112384 | EXHAUST GAS REDUCTION DEVICE INCLUDING ELECTRICALLY HEATED CATALYST-COATED PARTICULATE FILTER | EDWARDS, LOREN C | 14d |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17996797 | LIPID NANOPILLAR ARRAY-BASED IMMUNOASSAY | WANG, RUIXUE | 154d overdue |
| 18553390 | IMPRINTING DEVICE AND IMPRINTING METHOD | YE, XINWEN | 38d overdue |
| 18550615 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING INSULATION PERFORMANCE OF LOW-TEMPERATURE STORAGE TANK | DESTA, ELIAS | 13d |
| 19112384 | EXHAUST GAS REDUCTION DEVICE INCLUDING ELECTRICALLY HEATED CATALYST-COATED PARTICULATE FILTER | EDWARDS, LOREN C | 14d |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 1754 | 2 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1672 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19112384 | EXHAUST GAS REDUCTION DEVICE INCLUDING ELECTRICALLY HEATED CATALYST-COATED PARTICULATE FILTER | EDWARDS, LOREN C | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 18553390 | IMPRINTING DEVICE AND IMPRINTING METHOD | YE, XINWEN | 1754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18550615 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING INSULATION PERFORMANCE OF LOW-TEMPERATURE STORAGE TANK | DESTA, ELIAS | 2857 | §101 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 17996797 | LIPID NANOPILLAR ARRAY-BASED IMMUNOASSAY | WANG, RUIXUE | 1672 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 154d overdue | Pending | Oct 21, 2022 |
| 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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