Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 14, 2026

Myongji University Industry And Academia Cooperation Foundation

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

4
Hard (57%)
3
Medium (43%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (14%)
§103 only3 (43%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (43%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
2
Information Tech
29% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
29% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, MINH CHAU 1 82.9% +8.4%
ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN 1 81.3% +12.2%
KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G 1 27.6% +64.7%
SU, STEPHANIE T 1 68.2% +30.9%
HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J 1 50.0% +43.9%
SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO 1 44.9% +14.2%
CHAO, MICHAEL W 1 70.1% +40.5%

Hard Cases (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18450612 Recombinant Escherichia coli producing xylitol from xylose, method for preparing the same, and uses thereof KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G 22d
18995093 COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD HAVING INTEROPERABILITY FOR HYDROGEN VEHICLE FUELING NGUYEN, MINH CHAU
18912471 METHOD OF ENCODING/DECODING AN IMAGE BASED ON REGION OF INTEREST ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN
18015666 TARGET POWER TRANSMISSION AMOUNT CHANGING METHOD AND POWER TRANSMITTING APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING SAME HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17606621 CROSS-CERTIFICATE METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING CHAO, MICHAEL W 13d
18030414 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EARLY RENEGOTIATION IN MESSAGE SEQUENCING BETWEEN ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND GRID SU, STEPHANIE T 15d
18450612 Recombinant Escherichia coli producing xylitol from xylose, method for preparing the same, and uses thereof KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G 22d
17632217 PAIRING CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE IN POWER TRANSMISSION SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO 36d
18912471 METHOD OF ENCODING/DECODING AN IMAGE BASED ON REGION OF INTEREST ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN
18015666 TARGET POWER TRANSMISSION AMOUNT CHANGING METHOD AND POWER TRANSMITTING APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING SAME HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2459 1
1653 1
3662 1
2859 1
3663 1
2492 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18995093 COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD HAVING INTEROPERABILITY FOR HYDROGEN VEHICLE FUELING NGUYEN, MINH CHAU 2459 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 15, 2025
18912471 METHOD OF ENCODING/DECODING AN IMAGE BASED ON REGION OF INTEREST ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 10, 2024
18450612 Recombinant Escherichia coli producing xylitol from xylose, method for preparing the same, and uses thereof KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G 1653 §103§112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Aug 16, 2023
18030414 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EARLY RENEGOTIATION IN MESSAGE SEQUENCING BETWEEN ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND GRID SU, STEPHANIE T 3662 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Apr 05, 2023
18015666 TARGET POWER TRANSMISSION AMOUNT CHANGING METHOD AND POWER TRANSMITTING APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING SAME HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J 2859 §101§102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 11, 2023
17632217 PAIRING CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE IN POWER TRANSMISSION SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO 3663 §103 Final Rejection 36d Pending Feb 01, 2022
17606621 CROSS-CERTIFICATE METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING CHAO, MICHAEL W 2492 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Oct 26, 2021

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