Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
49 pending office actions • 44 art units • 49 examiners • 0 of 49 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 106 patents granted in the last 365 days
POSTECH Research and Business Development Foundation has 48 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 48 distinct examiners across 44 distinct art units. The nearly one-to-one examiner assignment pattern indicates exceptionally broad distribution, with limited evidence of repeated examiner handling.
GANNON, LEVI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has multiple pending matters in the profile. Counsel should emphasize application-specific prosecution strategies, while using the art-unit information to organize related semiconductor technologies and maintain consistent claim positions where appropriate.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 | 7 (14%) |
| §103 only | 15 (31%) |
| §102 only | 5 (10%) |
| §112 only | 2 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 20 (41%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GANNON, LEVI | 1 | 82.7% | +7.1% |
| GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1 | 54.8% | +13.6% |
| GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 1 | 59.8% | +23.3% |
| PATEL, AMAL A | 1 | 69.9% | +31.7% |
| MERLIN, JESSICA M | 1 | 61.8% | +24.1% |
| SHOEMAKER, ERIC JAMES | 1 | 73.8% | +33.3% |
| YANG, HAN | 1 | 92.1% | +11.7% |
| YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 1 | 62.1% | +47.4% |
| AZIZ, SHEZA ABDUL | 1 | — | — |
| HEISTERKAMP, JUSTIN BRYCE | 1 | 98.8% | +2.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19277989 | LSK DEMODULATOR | GANNON, LEVI | — |
| 19059977 | 2T DRAM CELL WITH ASYMMETRIC PARASITIC CAPACITOR AND 2T DRAM CELL ARRAY | YANG, HAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18191250 | DONOR SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE | SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A | 23d overdue |
| 18500041 | TRAJECTORY EVALUATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | LAU, TUNG S | 27d |
| 18773866 | MULTISCALE-POROUS ANION EXCHANGE MEMBRANE, MANUFACTURE OF THE SAME | WANG, ALEXANDER A | 70d |
| 19122228 | RADIATOR MODULE AND ANTENNA DEVICE FOR PERFORMING BROADSIDE RADIATION AND END-FIRE RADIATION | PATEL, AMAL A | — |
| 19076282 | STIMULI-RESPONSIVE META-HOLOGRAPHIC DEVICE AND HOLOGRAM GENERATING DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | MERLIN, JESSICA M | — |
| 19041594 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUGMENTING VISUAL FEATURE | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | — |
| 19024695 | 4T TCAM CELL UTILIZING DUAL-GATE TRANSISTORS, 4T TCAM CELL ARRAY, AND METHOD FOR WRITING INFORMATION TO 4T TCAM | HEISTERKAMP, JUSTIN BRYCE | — |
| 19002887 | NOVEL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL PROTEINS FROM ATRINA SP. BYSSUS AND USES THEREOF | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19235932 | THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE COMPRISING NANOTUBE ARRAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | — |
| 19189485 | ARCHITECTURAL 3D PRINTING APPARATUS USING CAPSULES STORING PRINTING MATERIALS | GRAHAM, ANDREW D | — |
| 19122228 | RADIATOR MODULE AND ANTENNA DEVICE FOR PERFORMING BROADSIDE RADIATION AND END-FIRE RADIATION | PATEL, AMAL A | — |
| 19076282 | STIMULI-RESPONSIVE META-HOLOGRAPHIC DEVICE AND HOLOGRAM GENERATING DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | MERLIN, JESSICA M | — |
| 19072612 | SOLDER INSPECTION DEVICE USING NEURAL NETWORK AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | SHOEMAKER, ERIC JAMES | — |
| 19059977 | 2T DRAM CELL WITH ASYMMETRIC PARASITIC CAPACITOR AND 2T DRAM CELL ARRAY | YANG, HAN | — |
| 19041594 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUGMENTING VISUAL FEATURE | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2836 | 2 |
| 1742 | 2 |
| 2845 | 2 |
| 2117 | 2 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| 2824 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| 2657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19277989 | LSK DEMODULATOR | GANNON, LEVI | 2836 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 19235932 | THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE COMPRISING NANOTUBE ARRAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1721 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 19189485 | ARCHITECTURAL 3D PRINTING APPARATUS USING CAPSULES STORING PRINTING MATERIALS | GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 1742 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19122228 | RADIATOR MODULE AND ANTENNA DEVICE FOR PERFORMING BROADSIDE RADIATION AND END-FIRE RADIATION | PATEL, AMAL A | 2845 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19076282 | STIMULI-RESPONSIVE META-HOLOGRAPHIC DEVICE AND HOLOGRAM GENERATING DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | MERLIN, JESSICA M | 2871 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19072612 | SOLDER INSPECTION DEVICE USING NEURAL NETWORK AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | SHOEMAKER, ERIC JAMES | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19059977 | 2T DRAM CELL WITH ASYMMETRIC PARASITIC CAPACITOR AND 2T DRAM CELL ARRAY | YANG, HAN | 2824 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19041594 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUGMENTING VISUAL FEATURE | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 2666 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19039252 | METHOD OF GENERATING SPEECH BASED ON NORMALIZING FLOW MODEL THAT GENERATES TIMBRE FROM TEXT | AZIZ, SHEZA ABDUL | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19024695 | 4T TCAM CELL UTILIZING DUAL-GATE TRANSISTORS, 4T TCAM CELL ARRAY, AND METHOD FOR WRITING INFORMATION TO 4T TCAM | HEISTERKAMP, JUSTIN BRYCE | 2827 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19015435 | CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE | SANTIAGO, MARICELI | 2875 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19002887 | NOVEL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL PROTEINS FROM ATRINA SP. BYSSUS AND USES THEREOF | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 1616 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18963991 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING THE IMPACT OF LABEL NOISE ON THE PREDICTION ACCURACY OF A CONCEPTUAL BOTTLENECK MODEL | BODNARK, MATTHEW JAMES | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18943668 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING FACIAL IMAGES USING FACIAL IDENTITY FEATURES AND STYLES | ANSARI, TAHMINA N | 2674 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18929890 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE | SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS | 3663 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18924930 | VIDEO TEMPORAL ACTION LOCALIZATION METHOD AND DEVICE | YENTRAPATI, AVINASH | 2672 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18908921 | METHOD OF TRANSFERRING AN OBJECT USING A STAMP WITH SHAPE MEMORY POLYMER NANOTIPS | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1742 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18891241 | STRETCHABLE COMPOSITE ELECTRODE AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18888977 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING OBJECTS THROUGH IMAGE PYRAMID SYNTHESIS OF HETEROGENEOUS RESOLUTION IMAGES | PARK, EDWARD | 2675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18845991 | HIGH EXPRESSION VECTOR INCLUDING STRONG RECOMBINANT PROMOTER AND/OR TERMINATOR FOR MASS-PRODUCING PROTEIN OF INTEREST IN PLANT, AND METHOD FOR MASS-PRODUCING PROTEIN OF INTEREST USING SAME | STANKOVIC, BRATISLAV | 1662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18825465 | SURFACTANT COMPOSITION INCLUDING AMPHIPHILIC BLOCK COPOLYMER BASED ON POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE | ALAWADI, SARAH | 1619 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18822697 | METHOD OF PREDICTING OPTIMAL PROCESS CONDITIONS IN LASER POWDER BED FUSION | CHOI, ALICIA M | 2117 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18773866 | MULTISCALE-POROUS ANION EXCHANGE MEMBRANE, MANUFACTURE OF THE SAME | WANG, ALEXANDER A | 1741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18731582 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY INCLUDING SAME | MCCLURE, JOSHUA PATRICK | 1727 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18731062 | STRETCHABLE ION-GEL SENSOR AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18657173 | BINDER FOR SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME | LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | 1724 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18654150 | QUANTUM DEVICE INCLUDING MODERATE FLUORIATED GRAPHENE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | 2892 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18544268 | INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE NEURON CIRCUIT AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | RETEBO, METASEBIA T | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18542385 | MULTI-CONSTRAINT QUBIT ALLOCATION METHOD AND QUANTUM APPARATUS USING THE SAME | SANKS, SCHYLER S | 2129 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18500041 | TRAJECTORY EVALUATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | LAU, TUNG S | 2857 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18493683 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WIDE-RANGE ENERGY HARVESTING USING AUTO-CHANGE DUAL MODE MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING | MCDANIEL, TYNESE V | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18381273 | SYNAPTIC ARRAY DEVICE AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK LEARNING METHOD USING IT | YORKS, ANDREW CHARLES | 4100 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18458707 | TRANSCEIVER DEVICE INCLUDING RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACE AND THE RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACE | HO, ANH N | 2845 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18365274 | TOMATO-DERIVED SIJUL GENE REGULATING PHLOEM DEVELOPMENT AND USE THEREOF | STOCKDALE, JESSICA NICOLE | 1663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18357959 | ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | CHANDHOK, JENNA N | 1789 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18200477 | MUSIC DATA ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD USING TOPOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS, AND MUSIC DATA GENERATION APPARATUS USING THE SAME | QIN, JIANCHUN | 2837 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18319369 | TREE-SEARCH BASED TRAJECTORY PLANNING AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE BASE STATION | KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 2116 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
| 18034443 | MULTIAXIAL ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE TISSUE, AND METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR FORMING SAME | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18250181 | METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTION OF PHASOR-AIDED STATE ESTIMATION TO MONITOR OPERATING STATE OF LARGE SCALE POWER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DEFECT DATA IN MIXED DISTRIBUTED STATE ESTIMATION BY USING SAME | LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | 2117 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 18191250 | DONOR SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE | SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18012959 | METHOD FOR PREPARING COMPOSITION FOR CULTURING PANCREATIC ORGANOIDS, COMPOSITION THEREFOR, AND METHOD FOR CULTURING ORGANOIDS BY USING SAME | REGLAS, GILLIAN CHELSEA | 1632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2022 |
| 17893215 | Method for fabricating oleophilic-hydrophobic nanofiber membrane and separation of water-in-oil emulsion using same method and waste heat | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1777 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Aug 23, 2022 |
| 17886446 | PERSONALIZED SLEEP PLANNING SYSTEM CONSIDERING INDIVIDUAL DYNAMIC CONSTRAINTS AND SLEEP SCHEDULE CREATING METHOD USING SAME | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 3715 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2022 |
| 17737893 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE | KITT, STEPHEN A | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | May 05, 2022 |
| 17694889 | LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT WITH INTERMEDIATE LAYER BETWEEN SEMICONDUCTOR LAYERS AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | MIHALIOV, DMITRI | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d | Pending | Mar 15, 2022 |
| 16634076 | METHOD FOR ISOLATING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE USING HYDROPHOBIC INTERACTION | BARRON, SEAN C | 1653 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Jan 24, 2020 |
| 18718409 | MACHINE-LEARNING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EDGE DEVICE BY USING RESISTIVE ELEMENTS, AND ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD USING SAME | FACCENDA, GISEL GABRIELA | 2127 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18297570 | COMPUTATION CIRCUIT CAPABLE OF REDUCING QUANTIZATION ERROR | JASMIN, LYNDA C | 3629 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
| 17610682 | SMART WIRELESSLY DRIVEN CONTACT LENS FOR MEASURING INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE OF AND TREATING GLAUCOMA PATIENTS | NGO, MEAGAN N | 3700 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialPOSTECH Research and Business Development Foundation has 49 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 44 art units and 49 examiners.
Levi Gannon has the most, with 1 of POSTECH Research and Business Development Foundation's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
