Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Korea University Research And Business Foundation Sejong Campus has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners. The prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct art units.
Winston Rahul Furtado is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending actions, each examiner is managing exactly 1 case. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the mechanical systems research is split between two different technical groups at the patent office. Practitioners must manage 3 distinct examiners across these 2 distinct art units. This distribution ensures that no single examiner is responsible for more than 1 of the 3 pending office actions. The 3 pending office actions require a strategy that accounts for the different technical focuses of the 2 distinct art units and the individual styles of the 3 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 1 | 19.4% | +23.4% |
| CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 1 | 64.5% | +28.0% |
| ALEJANDRO MULERO, LUZ L | 1 | 47.8% | +40.2% |
| KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 1 | 37.5% | +92.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19080808 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PHARMACEUTICAL MIXER OF ADHD MEDICATION BY ASSESSING MENTAL HEALTH OF ADOLESCENT THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 9d |
| 18728903 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING DYSKINESIA-RELATED INFORMATION AND DEVICE USED THEREFOR | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | — |
| 18487581 | INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA ETCHING APPARATUS, AND INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA ETCHING METHOD USING SAME | ALEJANDRO MULERO, LUZ L | — |
| 18014007 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MOTOR HOTSPOT POSITION BY USING BRAINWAVE, AND TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION APPARATUS USING SAME | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19080808 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PHARMACEUTICAL MIXER OF ADHD MEDICATION BY ASSESSING MENTAL HEALTH OF ADOLESCENT THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 9d |
| 18728903 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING DYSKINESIA-RELATED INFORMATION AND DEVICE USED THEREFOR | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | — |
| 18487581 | INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA ETCHING APPARATUS, AND INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA ETCHING METHOD USING SAME | ALEJANDRO MULERO, LUZ L | — |
| 18014007 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MOTOR HOTSPOT POSITION BY USING BRAINWAVE, AND TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION APPARATUS USING SAME | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3687 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19080808 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PHARMACEUTICAL MIXER OF ADHD MEDICATION BY ASSESSING MENTAL HEALTH OF ADOLESCENT THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 3687 | §101 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Mar 15, 2025 |
| 18728903 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING DYSKINESIA-RELATED INFORMATION AND DEVICE USED THEREFOR | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18487581 | INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA ETCHING APPARATUS, AND INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA ETCHING METHOD USING SAME | ALEJANDRO MULERO, LUZ L | 1716 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18014007 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MOTOR HOTSPOT POSITION BY USING BRAINWAVE, AND TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION APPARATUS USING SAME | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2022 |
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