Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Kyungpook National University Hospital

Technology area: Chemistry & Materials

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Kyungpook National University Hospital has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This workload is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current prosecution efforts are highly localized. For a practitioner, this means there is no administrative complexity from multiple examiners or different art unit standards. The prosecution strategy can be entirely focused on the specific practices of the 1 distinct art unit.

The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total pending office actions count is 1, SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE is the sole examiner currently handling the company's active prosecution. This allows the practitioner to focus all their efforts on a single interaction at the USPTO. The outcome of the pending matter will be determined by the specific examination approach of SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE within the 1 distinct art unit. This concentration allows for a more direct and efficient prosecution process.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE 1 28.9% +46.7%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17602365 MULTI-LAYERED FILTER FOR SEPARATING BLOOD COMPONENTS AND DISEASE DIAGNOSIS KIT USING THE SAME SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17602365 MULTI-LAYERED FILTER FOR SEPARATING BLOOD COMPONENTS AND DISEASE DIAGNOSIS KIT USING THE SAME SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1758 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
17602365 MULTI-LAYERED FILTER FOR SEPARATING BLOOD COMPONENTS AND DISEASE DIAGNOSIS KIT USING THE SAME SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE 1758 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 08, 2021

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