Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
50 pending office actions • 28 art units • 50 examiners • 0 of 50 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 103 patents granted in the last 365 days
POSTECH Research and Business Development Foundation currently manages 50 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio is distributed across 50 distinct examiners, indicating a highly fragmented prosecution landscape where each examiner handles a very small portion of the total workload. This distribution extends to 28 distinct art units, suggesting the foundation's research spans a diverse range of chemical and material sub-specialties. The high number of art units relative to the total actions implies that the technical subject matter is not concentrated in a single specialized group.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MERSHON, JAYNE L, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that the total number of 50 pending office actions and the number of 50 distinct examiners are equal, the workload is perfectly dispersed. This lack of examiner concentration means that prosecution strategies must be tailored individually for every single pending matter rather than relying on trends observed with a specific official. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 28 distinct art units to find commonalities in examination styles. The busiest examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 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. 9 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 | 6 (12%) |
| §103 only | 14 (28%) |
| §102 only | 6 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 22 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERSHON, JAYNE L | 1 | 66.5% | +18.8% |
| GANNON, LEVI | 1 | 82.7% | +7.1% |
| MILLER, MICHAEL G | 1 | 52.0% | +15.8% |
| MERLIN, JESSICA M | 1 | 61.7% | +24.0% |
| SHOEMAKER, ERIC JAMES | 1 | 75.0% | +31.3% |
| YANG, HAN | 1 | 92.0% | +11.8% |
| AZIZ, SHEZA ABDUL | 1 | — | — |
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 1 | 68.8% | +25.2% |
| HEISTERKAMP, JUSTIN BRYCE | 1 | 98.8% | +2.2% |
| SANTIAGO, MARICELI | 1 | 81.1% | +8.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 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 | — |
| 19015435 | CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE | SANTIAGO, MARICELI | — |
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 |
| 19349793 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GRAPHENE THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE AND GRAPHENE THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE MANUFACTURED THEREBY | MERSHON, JAYNE L | — |
| 19098337 | LIQUID-PHASE ALLOY CATALYST, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL CHALCOGENIDE THIN FILM COMPRISING THERMODYNAMICALLY INDUCED GRAIN BOUNDARY IN MONOLAYER CRYSTAL USING SAME | MILLER, MICHAEL G | — |
| 19076282 | STIMULI-RESPONSIVE META-HOLOGRAPHIC DEVICE AND HOLOGRAM GENERATING DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | MERLIN, JESSICA M | — |
| 19028020 | PERIPHERAL NERVE STIMULATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD | PORTER, JR, GARY A | — |
| 19024695 | 4T TCAM CELL UTILIZING DUAL-GATE TRANSISTORS, 4T TCAM CELL ARRAY, AND METHOD FOR WRITING INFORMATION TO 4T TCAM | HEISTERKAMP, JUSTIN BRYCE | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19349793 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GRAPHENE THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE AND GRAPHENE THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE MANUFACTURED THEREBY | MERSHON, JAYNE L | — |
| 19098337 | LIQUID-PHASE ALLOY CATALYST, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL CHALCOGENIDE THIN FILM COMPRISING THERMODYNAMICALLY INDUCED GRAIN BOUNDARY IN MONOLAYER CRYSTAL USING SAME | MILLER, MICHAEL G | — |
| 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 | — |
| 19028020 | PERIPHERAL NERVE STIMULATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD | PORTER, JR, GARY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 2 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19349793 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GRAPHENE THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE AND GRAPHENE THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE MANUFACTURED THEREBY | MERSHON, JAYNE L | 1721 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19277989 | LSK DEMODULATOR | GANNON, LEVI | 2836 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 19098337 | LIQUID-PHASE ALLOY CATALYST, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL CHALCOGENIDE THIN FILM COMPRISING THERMODYNAMICALLY INDUCED GRAIN BOUNDARY IN MONOLAYER CRYSTAL USING SAME | MILLER, MICHAEL G | 1712 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19076282 | STIMULI-RESPONSIVE META-HOLOGRAPHIC DEVICE AND HOLOGRAM GENERATING DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | MERLIN, JESSICA M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19072612 | SOLDER INSPECTION DEVICE USING NEURAL NETWORK AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | SHOEMAKER, ERIC JAMES | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19059977 | 2T DRAM CELL WITH ASYMMETRIC PARASITIC CAPACITOR AND 2T DRAM CELL ARRAY | YANG, HAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19039252 | METHOD OF GENERATING SPEECH BASED ON NORMALIZING FLOW MODEL THAT GENERATES TIMBRE FROM TEXT | AZIZ, SHEZA ABDUL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19028020 | PERIPHERAL NERVE STIMULATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3796 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19024695 | 4T TCAM CELL UTILIZING DUAL-GATE TRANSISTORS, 4T TCAM CELL ARRAY, AND METHOD FOR WRITING INFORMATION TO 4T TCAM | HEISTERKAMP, JUSTIN BRYCE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19015435 | CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE | SANTIAGO, MARICELI | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19002887 | NOVEL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL PROTEINS FROM ATRINA SP. BYSSUS AND USES THEREOF | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | — | §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 | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18934024 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING BASE IMAGE | CAI, PHUONG HAU | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18929890 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE | SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS | 3663 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18926170 | DRONE SYSTEM FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR OPERATION AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN | 3666 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18924930 | VIDEO TEMPORAL ACTION LOCALIZATION METHOD AND DEVICE | YENTRAPATI, AVINASH | — | §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 | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18888977 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING OBJECTS THROUGH IMAGE PYRAMID SYNTHESIS OF HETEROGENEOUS RESOLUTION IMAGES | PARK, EDWARD | — | §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 |
| 18822697 | METHOD OF PREDICTING OPTIMAL PROCESS CONDITIONS IN LASER POWDER BED FUSION | CHOI, ALICIA M | — | §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 |
| 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 |
| 18708261 | EFFECT OF GB1 DOMAIN FUSION ON UPREGULATION OF RECOMBINANT PROTEIN EXPRESSION IN PLANT | DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN | 1662 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18657173 | BINDER FOR SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME | LYNCH, VICTORIA HOM | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18654150 | QUANTUM DEVICE INCLUDING MODERATE FLUORIATED GRAPHENE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18601066 | HIGH-ENTROPY ALLOY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | WU, JENNY R | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18291633 | RESISTIVE HYDROGEN SENSOR COMPRISING SENSING LAYER HAVING SEMICONDUCTING SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | KOLB, NATHANIEL J | 2896 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18544268 | INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE NEURON CIRCUIT AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | RETEBO, METASEBIA T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18542385 | MULTI-CONSTRAINT QUBIT ALLOCATION METHOD AND QUANTUM APPARATUS USING THE SAME | SANKS, SCHYLER S | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18533756 | VAN DER WAALS STACKED JOSEPHSON JUNCTION STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME | ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH | 2817 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18500041 | TRAJECTORY EVALUATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | LAU, TUNG S | 2857 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Nov 01, 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 |
| 18369252 | Selective Electrochemical Redox Catalyst With Schottky Conjunction | YOON, KEVIN E | 1735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 18, 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 | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18319369 | TREE-SEARCH BASED TRAJECTORY PLANNING AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE BASE STATION | KAKARLA, BHASKAR | — | §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 |
| 18078833 | ANODELESS LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
| 17995114 | Kidney Organoids Having a Nephron-like Structure and Methods of Preparing the Same | THUESON, HANNA MARIE | 1638 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 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 |
| 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 | — | §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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