Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
17 pending office actions • 10 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days
Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology has 17 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 17 actions are assigned to 16 distinct examiners, showing that the pending matters are being reviewed by many different officials. This distribution of 16 distinct examiners for 17 pending office actions requires the institute to address a variety of examiner styles and technical interpretations. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate these different perspectives across the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals portfolio.
The workload is spread across 10 distinct art units, reflecting the technical diversity of the institute's chemical and pharmaceutical research. Tam M Nguyen is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This makes Tam M Nguyen the examiner responsible for 2 of the 17 total pending matters. The presence of 10 distinct art units indicates that the institute's research falls into many different specialized administrative categories within the USPTO.
With 16 distinct examiners and 10 distinct art units, the prosecution environment is decentralized. The institute must coordinate its strategy across 10 different administrative divisions to ensure consistency. The presence of 17 pending office actions across such an array of examiners and units highlights the complexity of managing this portfolio. Applicants should focus on the specific requirements of each of the 10 distinct art units while addressing the feedback from the 16 distinct examiners involved in the 17 pending office actions. Tam M Nguyen represents a point of overlap with 2 actions.
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 + other | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 8 (47%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (24%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, TAM M | 2 | 77.1% | +11.6% |
| SINGH, PREM C | 1 | 59.0% | +33.1% |
| ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL | 1 | 59.2% | +42.1% |
| MISHRA, DEEPA | 1 | 29.3% | +35.2% |
| JARRELL, NOBLE E | 1 | 81.1% | +9.7% |
| MOORE, MARGARET G | 1 | 68.0% | +15.2% |
| YI, CHANGHYUN | 1 | 94.0% | +4.1% |
| NGUYEN, LAUREN | 1 | 54.8% | +34.3% |
| D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 1 | 68.1% | +41.8% |
| GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN | 1 | 75.0% | +18.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18797480 | ANTIVIRAL 1,3-DI-OXO-INDENE COMPOUNDS | JARRELL, NOBLE E | — |
| 18397073 | VERTICAL ORGANIC TRANSISTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | YI, CHANGHYUN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271640 | NANOWIRE-BASED IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE KIT FOR DETECTING SARS CORONAVIRUS 2 ANTIBODY, AND USE THEREOF | GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN | 9d |
| 17419860 | POLYMER COMPOSITE MATERIAL COMPRISING ARAMID NANOFIBER, AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME | LOEWE, ROBERT S | 12d |
| 18070401 | FATTY LIVER AND LIVER FIBROSIS EVALUATION SYSTEM BASED ON IMPEDANCE | GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 19d |
| 18927121 | REAL-TIME CHEMICAL SCREENING METHOD USING LIVER ORGANOIDS FLUORESCENTLY LABELED WITH CYTOCHROME P450 1A1 ENZYME | MISHRA, DEEPA | — |
| 18001333 | ANTIVIRAL COMPOSITION OBTAINED THROUGH DRUG REPOSITIONING | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | — |
| 17997151 | SARS CORONAVIRUS 2 DIAGNOSTIC KIT INCLUDING RECEPTOR AND ANTIBODY BINDING TO SARS CORONAVIRUS 2 SPIKE PROTEIN | BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271640 | NANOWIRE-BASED IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE KIT FOR DETECTING SARS CORONAVIRUS 2 ANTIBODY, AND USE THEREOF | GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN | 9d |
| 19000611 | CATALYST FOR PRODUCING BASIC CHEMICAL RAW MATERIAL FROM DIESEL | SINGH, PREM C | — |
| 18952945 | ANTIVIRAL 1,3-DI-OXO-INDENE COMPOUNDS | ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL | — |
| 18927121 | REAL-TIME CHEMICAL SCREENING METHOD USING LIVER ORGANOIDS FLUORESCENTLY LABELED WITH CYTOCHROME P450 1A1 ENZYME | MISHRA, DEEPA | — |
| 18753540 | REACTOR FOR OXYGEN-FREE DIRECT CONVERSION OF METHANE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING ETHYLENE USING THE SAME | NGUYEN, TAM M | — |
| 18687504 | REACTOR FOR NON-OXIDATIVE DIRECT CONVERSION OF METHANE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING ETHYLENE AND AROMATIC COMPOUND BY USING SAME | NGUYEN, TAM M | — |
| 18575726 | POLYAMIC ACID AQUEOUS SOLUTION COMPOSITION | MOORE, MARGARET G | — |
| 18378233 | TRANSMISSIVE WAVELENGTH TUNABLE HYPERSPECTRAL FILTER USING LAYERED TWISTED LIQUID CRYSTAL THIN FILM | NGUYEN, LAUREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 2 |
| 1672 | 2 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1626 | 1 |
| 1651 | 1 |
| 1623 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19000611 | CATALYST FOR PRODUCING BASIC CHEMICAL RAW MATERIAL FROM DIESEL | SINGH, PREM C | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18952945 | ANTIVIRAL 1,3-DI-OXO-INDENE COMPOUNDS | ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18927121 | REAL-TIME CHEMICAL SCREENING METHOD USING LIVER ORGANOIDS FLUORESCENTLY LABELED WITH CYTOCHROME P450 1A1 ENZYME | MISHRA, DEEPA | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18797480 | ANTIVIRAL 1,3-DI-OXO-INDENE COMPOUNDS | JARRELL, NOBLE E | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18753540 | REACTOR FOR OXYGEN-FREE DIRECT CONVERSION OF METHANE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING ETHYLENE USING THE SAME | NGUYEN, TAM M | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18687504 | REACTOR FOR NON-OXIDATIVE DIRECT CONVERSION OF METHANE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING ETHYLENE AND AROMATIC COMPOUND BY USING SAME | NGUYEN, TAM M | 1771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18575726 | POLYAMIC ACID AQUEOUS SOLUTION COMPOSITION | MOORE, MARGARET G | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18397073 | VERTICAL ORGANIC TRANSISTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | YI, CHANGHYUN | 2812 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18378233 | TRANSMISSIVE WAVELENGTH TUNABLE HYPERSPECTRAL FILTER USING LAYERED TWISTED LIQUID CRYSTAL THIN FILM | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18242048 | ELECTROLYTE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME | D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18271640 | NANOWIRE-BASED IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE KIT FOR DETECTING SARS CORONAVIRUS 2 ANTIBODY, AND USE THEREOF | GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN | 1672 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18011733 | EFFICIENT DEPOLYMERIZATION METHOD OF POLYMERS COMPRISING ESTER FUNCTIONAL GROUP, AND PURIFICATION METHOD THEREOF | DOLETSKI, BLAINE G | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 18001333 | ANTIVIRAL COMPOSITION OBTAINED THROUGH DRUG REPOSITIONING | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 1626 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
| 18070401 | FATTY LIVER AND LIVER FIBROSIS EVALUATION SYSTEM BASED ON IMPEDANCE | GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 1651 | §101§103DP | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17997151 | SARS CORONAVIRUS 2 DIAGNOSTIC KIT INCLUDING RECEPTOR AND ANTIBODY BINDING TO SARS CORONAVIRUS 2 SPIKE PROTEIN | BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI | 1672 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2022 |
| 17594754 | PHTHALAZINONE COMPOUNDS AND USE THEREOF | SHTERENGARTS, SAMANTHA L | 1623 | §102 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Oct 28, 2021 |
| 17419860 | POLYMER COMPOSITE MATERIAL COMPRISING ARAMID NANOFIBER, AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME | LOEWE, ROBERT S | 1767 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Jun 30, 2021 |
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