Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Korea Institute Of Ocean Science & Technology has 10 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed among 10 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently reviewing a case for the institute. The active prosecution is spread across 6 distinct art units, reflecting a technical focus within the biotechnology sector.
CHAN, KEVIN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. Since there are 10 pending office actions in total, the workload is spread across the 10 distinct examiners. The involvement of 6 distinct art units means the legal team must adapt to the specific examination styles of multiple different groups. This structure, where 10 distinct examiners each handle one of the 10 pending office actions, ensures that no single examiner's personal tendencies have a disproportionate impact on the institute's overall patenting success in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals area.
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 | 4 (40%) |
| §103 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAN, KEVIN | 1 | — | — |
| TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 1 | 70.1% | +32.2% |
| MULLER, BRYAN R | 1 | 43.8% | +30.9% |
| HUYNH, PHUONG | 1 | 85.6% | +14.7% |
| HAGOS, EYOB | 1 | 66.3% | +43.1% |
| NGUYEN, LAM S | 1 | 78.8% | +0.2% |
| MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY | 1 | 66.3% | +61.0% |
| PETTITT, JOHN F | 1 | 26.0% | +21.8% |
| EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU | 1 | 92.3% | +0.0% |
| GU, QINHUA | 1 | 75.9% | +27.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18524168 | STEAM SUPPLY SYSTEM AND STEAM SUPPLY METHOD FOR CAPTURING CARBON dioxide SHIP ONBOARD USING ENGINE COOLANT HEAT SOURCE AND HEAT PUMP | EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18978792 | TOWABLE OFFSHORE FLOATING STRUCTURE | CHAN, KEVIN | — |
| 18836201 | FLOATING-TYPE OFFSHORE WIND POWER MOORING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF REDUCING YAW MOTION | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | — |
| 18750554 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REVERSE-TIME MIGRATION OF VERTICAL CABLE SEISMIC SURVEY DATA USING DIRECTIONAL PROPAGATION OF RECEIVER WAVEFIELDS | HUYNH, PHUONG | — |
| 18604072 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULATION OF MARINE POLLUTION DISPERSION USING NUMERICAL TRACER TECHNIQUE | HAGOS, EYOB | — |
| 18536481 | COLD POOL DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM | NGUYEN, LAM S | — |
| 18527564 | AGAR HYDROLYSIS PRODUCT HAVING HYALURONIDASE INHIBITORY ACTIVITY AND USES THEREOF | MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY | — |
| 18524144 | STEAM SUPPLY SYSTEM AND STEAM SUPPLY METHOD FOR CAPTURING CARBON DIOXIDE SHIP ONBOARD USING ENGINE exhaust gas HEAT SOURCE AND HEAT PUMP UNDER 150°C | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| 18551128 | CELL CULTURE MEDIUM COMPOSITION CONTAINING SPIRULINA HYDROLYSATE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | GU, QINHUA | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18836201 | FLOATING-TYPE OFFSHORE WIND POWER MOORING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF REDUCING YAW MOTION | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | — |
| 18781313 | MICROPLASTIC COLLECTION DEVICE UTILIZING CYCLONE | MULLER, BRYAN R | — |
| 18750554 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REVERSE-TIME MIGRATION OF VERTICAL CABLE SEISMIC SURVEY DATA USING DIRECTIONAL PROPAGATION OF RECEIVER WAVEFIELDS | HUYNH, PHUONG | — |
| 18604072 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULATION OF MARINE POLLUTION DISPERSION USING NUMERICAL TRACER TECHNIQUE | HAGOS, EYOB | — |
| 18527564 | AGAR HYDROLYSIS PRODUCT HAVING HYALURONIDASE INHIBITORY ACTIVITY AND USES THEREOF | MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY | — |
| 18524144 | STEAM SUPPLY SYSTEM AND STEAM SUPPLY METHOD FOR CAPTURING CARBON DIOXIDE SHIP ONBOARD USING ENGINE exhaust gas HEAT SOURCE AND HEAT PUMP UNDER 150°C | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| 18551128 | CELL CULTURE MEDIUM COMPOSITION CONTAINING SPIRULINA HYDROLYSATE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | GU, QINHUA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18978792 | TOWABLE OFFSHORE FLOATING STRUCTURE | CHAN, KEVIN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18836201 | FLOATING-TYPE OFFSHORE WIND POWER MOORING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF REDUCING YAW MOTION | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 3678 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18781313 | MICROPLASTIC COLLECTION DEVICE UTILIZING CYCLONE | MULLER, BRYAN R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18750554 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REVERSE-TIME MIGRATION OF VERTICAL CABLE SEISMIC SURVEY DATA USING DIRECTIONAL PROPAGATION OF RECEIVER WAVEFIELDS | HUYNH, PHUONG | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18604072 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULATION OF MARINE POLLUTION DISPERSION USING NUMERICAL TRACER TECHNIQUE | HAGOS, EYOB | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18536481 | COLD POOL DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM | NGUYEN, LAM S | 2853 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18527564 | AGAR HYDROLYSIS PRODUCT HAVING HYALURONIDASE INHIBITORY ACTIVITY AND USES THEREOF | MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY | 1655 | §101§102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18524144 | STEAM SUPPLY SYSTEM AND STEAM SUPPLY METHOD FOR CAPTURING CARBON DIOXIDE SHIP ONBOARD USING ENGINE exhaust gas HEAT SOURCE AND HEAT PUMP UNDER 150°C | PETTITT, JOHN F | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18524168 | STEAM SUPPLY SYSTEM AND STEAM SUPPLY METHOD FOR CAPTURING CARBON dioxide SHIP ONBOARD USING ENGINE COOLANT HEAT SOURCE AND HEAT PUMP | EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18551128 | CELL CULTURE MEDIUM COMPOSITION CONTAINING SPIRULINA HYDROLYSATE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | GU, QINHUA | 1633 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
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