Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Korea Institute Of Materials Science

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
§102 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

5
Life Sciences
71% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
29% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RICKMAN, HOLLY C 1 70.7% +23.4%
ADENIJI, IBRAHIM M 1 68.1% +37.1%
HEVEY, JOHN A 1 61.1% +20.5%
HU, ANN M 1 67.7% +21.0%
O'KEEFE, SEAN P 1 65.9% +13.4%
ROE, JESSEE RANDALL 1 76.2% +8.0%
SYLVESTER, KEVIN 1 66.7% +50.0%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17637607 WATER ELECTROLYSIS ELECTRODE CONTAINING CATALYST HAVING THREE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSHEET STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND WATER ELECTROLYSIS DEVICE INCLUDING SAME SYLVESTER, KEVIN 93d overdue
18013537 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MULTIPHASE MAGNET AND MULTIPHASE MAGNET MANUFACTURED THEREBY O'KEEFE, SEAN P 4d overdue
18273718 FINE GRAINED PURE TITANIUM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR HEVEY, JOHN A 6d
18270640 COMPOSITION FOR PREPARING ORGANIC-INORGANIC COMPLEX HYDROGEL AND KIT FOR PREPARING ORGANIC-INORGANIC COMPLEX HYDROGEL COMPRISING SAME HU, ANN M 15d
18290362 MEMBER FOR MAGNETIC COOLING AND AMR BED COMPRISING SAME ADENIJI, IBRAHIM M 61d
18717554 LOW-DIELECTRIC-CONSTANT POLYMER SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR RICKMAN, HOLLY C 82d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1785 1
3763 1
1735 1
3774 1
1738 1
1759 1
1794 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18717554 LOW-DIELECTRIC-CONSTANT POLYMER SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR RICKMAN, HOLLY C 1785 §102 Non-Final OA 82d Pending Jun 07, 2024
18290362 MEMBER FOR MAGNETIC COOLING AND AMR BED COMPRISING SAME ADENIJI, IBRAHIM M 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Nov 13, 2023
18273718 FINE GRAINED PURE TITANIUM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR HEVEY, JOHN A 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jul 21, 2023
18270640 COMPOSITION FOR PREPARING ORGANIC-INORGANIC COMPLEX HYDROGEL AND KIT FOR PREPARING ORGANIC-INORGANIC COMPLEX HYDROGEL COMPRISING SAME HU, ANN M 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jun 30, 2023
18013537 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MULTIPHASE MAGNET AND MULTIPHASE MAGNET MANUFACTURED THEREBY O'KEEFE, SEAN P 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2023
18035898 SUPER-HEAT-RESISTANT ALLOY ROE, JESSEE RANDALL 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending May 08, 2023
17637607 WATER ELECTROLYSIS ELECTRODE CONTAINING CATALYST HAVING THREE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSHEET STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND WATER ELECTROLYSIS DEVICE INCLUDING SAME SYLVESTER, KEVIN 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 93d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2022

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