Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
82 pending office actions • 46 art units • 80 examiners • 0 of 82 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 127 patents granted in the last 365 days
Korea University Research and Business Foundation manages 80 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed across 78 distinct examiners and 44 distinct art units. The breadth of 44 distinct art units for 80 actions indicates an exceptionally diverse range of research and development outputs. OYER, ANDREW J is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending office actions. With 78 distinct examiners involved in 80 pending actions, the portfolio is almost entirely decentralized.
Practitioners must coordinate across 44 distinct art units, which likely represent a vast array of biological and pharmaceutical specialties. This high degree of examiner diversity, with 78 distinct examiners for 80 pending actions, means that almost every case requires a unique approach. Furthermore, the 44 distinct art units involved suggest that the foundation's biotechnology and pharmaceutical innovations are subject to many different departmental standards. Managing 80 pending office actions in this environment requires a highly versatile prosecution strategy. The fact that OYER, ANDREW J only holds 2 of the 80 pending actions highlights the extreme lack of examiner-level concentration in this extensive portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 24 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. 24 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 only | 2 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 10 (12%) |
| §103 only | 24 (29%) |
| §102 only | 5 (6%) |
| §112 only | 9 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 27 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OYER, ANDREW J | 2 | 79.1% | +16.7% |
| SCHNEE, HAL W | 2 | 84.5% | +22.3% |
| HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 1 | 50.4% | +53.2% |
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 1 | 77.9% | +23.8% |
| PATEL, SHIVANG I | 1 | 74.7% | +16.7% |
| MOTSINGER, SEAN T | 1 | 78.5% | +11.9% |
| NGUYEN, LONG T | 1 | 89.4% | +8.3% |
| STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 28.3% | +20.4% |
| TAYLOR, SAKINAH W | 1 | 86.5% | +23.6% |
| SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | 1 | 72.3% | +27.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19039548 | HYBRID COMPARATOR CIRCUIT DEVICE | NGUYEN, LONG T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18634813 | 3D DATA AUGMENTATION METHOD USING WEIGHTED LOCAL TRANSFORMATION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | THERKORN, ERICA GERALDINE | 46d overdue |
| 18031286 | PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY-BASED REAL-TIME BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM USING CONVOLUTIONAL BIDIRECTIONAL SHORT- AND LONG-TERM MEMORY RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK, AND REAL-TIME BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING METHOD USING SAME | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 28d overdue |
| 17925355 | COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCING IMMUNE RESPONSE BY USING ACTIVATION FUNCTION OF DENDRITIC CELLS OF STROMAL VASCULAR FRACTIONS ISOLATED FROM ADIPOSE TISSUES | BEHARRY, ZANNA MARIA | 4d overdue |
| 18700857 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BLOCKCHAIN-BASED SHARED ASSET TRANSACTION SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SAME | LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE | 15d |
| 18039630 | ADENINE BASE EDITOR HAVING INCREASED THYMINE-CYTOSINE SEQUENCE-SPECIFIC CYTOSINE EDITING ACTIVITY, AND USE THEREOF | SHIN, DANA H | 27d |
| 17637565 | COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING BACTERIAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE COMPRISING 4-GINGEROL DERIVATIVE COMPOUND AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT | YOO, SUN JAE | 27d |
| 17675589 | BIOMARKER COMPOSITION, DIAGNOSTIC KIT, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION | SWITZER, JULIET CAROLINE | 34d |
| 17965172 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING IMAGE USING BRAIN-INSPIRED SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK AND COMPUTER READABLE PROGRAM FOR THE SAME | SCHNEE, HAL W | 69d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17965172 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING IMAGE USING BRAIN-INSPIRED SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK AND COMPUTER READABLE PROGRAM FOR THE SAME | SCHNEE, HAL W | 69d |
| 19285984 | ENDOSCOPE CLIP USING SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | — |
| 19075992 | Neural regeneration enhancement device using wireless electrical stimulation based on high-frequency induction coil and conductive hydrogel | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | — |
| 19064582 | DATA AUGMENTATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MACHINE LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | PATEL, SHIVANG I | — |
| 19040535 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT DETECTION | MOTSINGER, SEAN T | — |
| 18996964 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONLINE ADVERTISING CONTENT PLATFORM | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18996889 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ERROR CORRECTION IN QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY COMMUNICATION | TAYLOR, SAKINAH W | — |
| 18972088 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH 3D OCCUPANCY PREDICTION LEARNING | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1682 | 3 |
| 1638 | 2 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 1618 | 2 |
| 1726 | 2 |
| 3774 | 2 |
| 1635 | 2 |
| 2842 | 1 |
| 3621 | 1 |
| 2407 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19285984 | ENDOSCOPE CLIP USING SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19075992 | Neural regeneration enhancement device using wireless electrical stimulation based on high-frequency induction coil and conductive hydrogel | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19064582 | DATA AUGMENTATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MACHINE LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | PATEL, SHIVANG I | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19040535 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT DETECTION | MOTSINGER, SEAN T | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 19039548 | HYBRID COMPARATOR CIRCUIT DEVICE | NGUYEN, LONG T | 2842 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18996964 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONLINE ADVERTISING CONTENT PLATFORM | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 3621 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18996889 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ERROR CORRECTION IN QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY COMMUNICATION | TAYLOR, SAKINAH W | 2407 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18972088 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH 3D OCCUPANCY PREDICTION LEARNING | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18867776 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESIGNING WMMSE BEAMFORMING MATRIX ROBUST TO CHANNEL ERRORS IN MU-MISO SYSTEMS | GHOWRWAL, OMAR J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18952430 | CARBON DIOXIDE-SEPARATING APPARATUS AND CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE AND STORAGE SYSTEM | GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18939070 | RADAR ON-CHIP ANTANA APPARATUS | BYTHROW, PETER M | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18939509 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION FOR ANTI-AGING OR WRINKLE REDUCTION COMPRISING CULTURE BROTH OF NEURAL STEM CELLS AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT AND METHOD OF PREPARING SAME | JOHNSON, ALLISON MARIE | 1638 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18937364 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING BEAMFORMING VECTOR USING NEURAL NETWORK MODEL BASED ON FEATURE REFLECTING DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION OF BASE STATION | FAYED, RASHA K | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18928720 | SEPARATOR MEMBRANE HAVING HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE COMPRISING MESOPORES, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR AND XYLENE SEPARATION METHOD USING SAME | NGUYEN, TAM M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18928711 | COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE COMPRISING PHOSPHOLIPASE C ACTIVATOR AS AN ACTIVE INGREDIENT | STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18858543 | METHOD FOR CONVERTING HUMAN SOMATIC CELLS INTO PROLIFERATIVE NEURAL STEM CELLS | MOORE, JOHN DAVID | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18897759 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH OBJECT DETECTION MODEL TRAINING | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18845718 | NOVEL TAFAMIDIS SYNTHESIS METHOD | SHIM, DAVID M. | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18577372 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE | LI, WEI | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18833314 | RADIATIVE COOLING DEVICE USING AT LEAST ONE REINFORCEMENT LAYER FOR RADIATIVE COOLING | ALVARE, PAUL | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18777984 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRIVACY-PRESERVING ECG DATA COLLECTION FOR ARRHYTHMIA CLASSIFICATION | CHEN, ALAN S | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18750724 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENSURING INTEGRITY OF QUANTUM COMPUTER | BEAN, GRIFFIN TANNER | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18708982 | CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW MEASURING DEVICE USING NEAR-INFRARED RAYS | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18707072 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING PAIN, COMPRISING GR82334 AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT | VARADARAJ, ARCHANA | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18702227 | FC VARIANTS HAVING IMPROVED PH-DEPENDENT FCRN BINDING CAPACITY AND FCRIIIA BINDING SELECTIVITY | LANDSMAN, ROBERT S | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18634813 | 3D DATA AUGMENTATION METHOD USING WEIGHTED LOCAL TRANSFORMATION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | THERKORN, ERICA GERALDINE | 2618 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18633741 | BACTERIOPHAGE-BASED SERS-ACTIVE GOLD NANOHALO STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE | 1618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18700857 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BLOCKCHAIN-BASED SHARED ASSET TRANSACTION SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SAME | LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE | 3698 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18626254 | SUPER-AMPHIPHILIC FIBER-NANOWIRE COMPOSITE AND APPLICATION | DILLON, DANIEL P | 1783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18602365 | METHOD OF TRAINING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL BY USING HARDWARE ACCELERATOR, AND HARDWARE ACCELERATOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME | SMITH, BRIAN M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18688117 | SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE AND SEMICONDUCTOR THIN FILM DEPOSITION APPARATUS | HO, TU TU V | 2818 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18585166 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATION OF DIVERSE QUESTION-ANSWER PAIR | MARU, MATIYAS T | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18443445 | INFERENCE MODEL SELECTION METHOD CONSIDERING TASK REQUEST RATE | BYCER, ERIC J | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18682704 | LOW-TEMPERATURE NITROGEN OXIDE ADSORBER BASED ON METAL OXIDE-SUPPORTED PLATINUM/GAMMA-ALUMINA CATALYST AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME | KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18436782 | ANTI-FROST HYDROGEL COATING COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HYDROGEL COATING FILM USING THE SAME, AND HEAT EXCHANGER INCLUDING THE SAME | TESKIN, FRED M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18417028 | METHOD FOR PREPARING TASTE BUD ORGANOIDS USING ANTERIOR TONGUE EPITHELIAL CELLS | JACKSON III, WALTER | 1638 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18579218 | EMULSION-TYPE DEHUMIDIFYING COMPOSITION FOR REMOVING MOISTURE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | OYER, ANDREW J | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18406988 | MAGNETIC STRUCTURE WITH SPIKE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME | OYER, ANDREW J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18402839 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR WAFER MAP PATTERN DETECTION USING HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING | SCHNEE, HAL W | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18399813 | UWB-BASED INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD USING OUT-OF-BAND MANAGEMENT | SIDDIQUI, KASHIF | 2415 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18400789 | EFFICIENT INDOOR PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL BASED ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL MXENE NANOSHEETS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1726 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18574665 | PEPTIDE HAVING OBESITY AND MUSCLE LOSS INHIBITORY ACTIVITIES, AND USE THEREOF | HELLMAN, KRISTINA M | 1654 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18574671 | PEPTIDE HAVING ANTICANCER ACTIVITY, AND USE THEREOF | KOMATSU, LI N | 1658 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18044667 | METHOD FOR QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY DIFFERENTIATING FUNCTIONAL GLIAL CELLS | PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | 1631 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18572460 | ORGANIC THERMOELECTRIC ASSEMBLY WITH IMPROVED THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE OF SATURATED MOLECULES USING NONCOVALENT ANCHOR-INDUCED ELECTRON DOPING OF SINGLE LAYER GRAPHENE ELECTRODE AND ORGANIC THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | TRAN, UYEN M | 1726 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18562074 | DEGRADABLE SUBSTRATE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DEGRADABLE SUBSTRATE ASSEMBLY FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DEGRADABLE SUBSTRATE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE | AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M | 2847 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18507705 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING SIMILARITY OF PROGRAMMING CODES BASED ON CROSS-VALIDATION ENSEMBLE AND FILTERING STRATEGY | NGUYEN, CINDY | 2156 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18288728 | NOVEL PROTEIN HAVING METHANE OR BUTANE OXIDATION ACTIVITY | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1657 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18556237 | HIGH-SENSITIVITY NANOPLASMONIC BIOSENSOR FOR DETECTING AUTOPHAGY MARKERS, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND AUTOPHAGY MARKER DETECTION METHOD USING SAME | VOLKOV, ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVIC | 1677 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18287139 | HUMAN ANTIBODY TARGETING COVID-19 VIRUS | HILL, MYRON G | 1671 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKorea University Research and Business Foundation has 82 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 46 art units and 80 examiners.
Andrew J Oyer has the most, with 2 of Korea University Research and Business Foundation's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.