Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 14, 2026

Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology

11 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
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.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (1)

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.

5
Hard (45%)
3
Medium (27%)
3
Easy (27%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (9%)
§101 + other1 (9%)
§103 only2 (18%)
§102 only1 (9%)
§112 only3 (27%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (27%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
82% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
18% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
REYNOLDS, FRED H 2 33.1% +39.0%
DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH 1 32.6% +40.6%
SINGH, ANOOP KUMAR 1 42.8% +67.4%
FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1 51.4% +17.1%
HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE 1 54.2% +25.6%
KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 1 58.2% +64.5%
LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS 1 33.3% +0.0%
THUESON, HANNA MARIE 1 77.3% +26.5%
ZHU, JIANJIAN 1 61.0% +83.7%
MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL 1 36.1% +64.0%

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17686669 EXPANDABLE LIVER ORGANOIDS, MEDIA COMPOSITION FOR DIFFERENTIATION THEREOF, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIVER ORGANOIDS USING THE SAME THUESON, HANNA MARIE 46d overdue
17231278 HUMAN INTESTINAL EPITHELIUM MODEL AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL 16d overdue
18283589 COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING CANCER COMPRISING DUAL EXPRESSIONVECTOR FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY EXPRESSING PROTEIN PRESENT IN CELL AND PROTEIN SECRETED OUT OF CELL KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 7d
18312110 NOVEL PEPTIDE HAVING ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AND TISSUE REGENERATIVE ACTIONS REYNOLDS, FRED H 61d
18282160 NOVEL BICYCLIC COMPOUND, OPTICAL ISOMER THEREOF OR PHARMACEUTICALLY ACCEPTABLE SALT THEREOF, USE THEREOF, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR REYNOLDS, FRED H

Interview Candidates (10)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17686669 EXPANDABLE LIVER ORGANOIDS, MEDIA COMPOSITION FOR DIFFERENTIATION THEREOF, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIVER ORGANOIDS USING THE SAME THUESON, HANNA MARIE 46d overdue
17231278 HUMAN INTESTINAL EPITHELIUM MODEL AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL 16d overdue
18283589 COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING CANCER COMPRISING DUAL EXPRESSIONVECTOR FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY EXPRESSING PROTEIN PRESENT IN CELL AND PROTEIN SECRETED OUT OF CELL KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 7d
17598916 METHOD FOR PRODUCING CAR GENE-INTRODUCED NK CELLS AND USE THEREOF ZHU, JIANJIAN 9d
18572480 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING LIPASE INHIBITOR FOR TREATMENT OR TREATMENT OF RNA VIRAL INFECTIONS FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 16d
18312110 NOVEL PEPTIDE HAVING ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AND TISSUE REGENERATIVE ACTIONS REYNOLDS, FRED H 61d
18889046 METHOD FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING MUSCLE DISEASE DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH
18837056 TWO-DIMENSIONAL CULTURE METHOD HAVING CLEAR CHEMICAL COMPOSITION FOR CULTURING THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTESTINAL ORGANOID-DERIVED INTESTINAL STEM CELL AGGREGATE SINGH, ANOOP KUMAR

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1658 2
1631 2
1626 1
1655 1
1635 1
1652 1
1638 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18889046 METHOD FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING MUSCLE DISEASE DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 18, 2024
18837056 TWO-DIMENSIONAL CULTURE METHOD HAVING CLEAR CHEMICAL COMPOSITION FOR CULTURING THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTESTINAL ORGANOID-DERIVED INTESTINAL STEM CELL AGGREGATE SINGH, ANOOP KUMAR §112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2024
18572480 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING LIPASE INHIBITOR FOR TREATMENT OR TREATMENT OF RNA VIRAL INFECTIONS FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1626 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18290222 COMPOSITION CONTAINING ACANTHOPANAX EXTRACT AND GARCINIA CAMBOGIA EXTRACT OR COMPOUND ISOLATED THEREFROM AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT FOR PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF LIVER DISEASE HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE 1655 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 10, 2023
18283589 COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING CANCER COMPRISING DUAL EXPRESSIONVECTOR FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY EXPRESSING PROTEIN PRESENT IN CELL AND PROTEIN SECRETED OUT OF CELL KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 1635 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 7d Pending Sep 22, 2023
18282160 NOVEL BICYCLIC COMPOUND, OPTICAL ISOMER THEREOF OR PHARMACEUTICALLY ACCEPTABLE SALT THEREOF, USE THEREOF, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 14, 2023
18312110 NOVEL PEPTIDE HAVING ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AND TISSUE REGENERATIVE ACTIONS REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 §101§102§103§112DPOther Final Rejection 61d Pending May 04, 2023
17767425 MONO-HYDROXY OR DI-HYDROXY DERIVATIVES OF POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR, AND USE THEREOF LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS 1652 §102Other Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Apr 07, 2022
17686669 EXPANDABLE LIVER ORGANOIDS, MEDIA COMPOSITION FOR DIFFERENTIATION THEREOF, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIVER ORGANOIDS USING THE SAME THUESON, HANNA MARIE 1638 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2022
17598916 METHOD FOR PRODUCING CAR GENE-INTRODUCED NK CELLS AND USE THEREOF ZHU, JIANJIAN 1631 §112Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 28, 2021
17231278 HUMAN INTESTINAL EPITHELIUM MODEL AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL 1631 §103§112 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2021

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