Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pukyong National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The foundation currently has 7 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. This indicates a broad prosecution effort where almost every pending action is being reviewed in a different specialized unit. WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 7 pending office actions and 7 distinct examiners, the workload is spread across the examining corps. The involvement of 6 distinct art units suggests that the foundation's chemistry and materials research spans many different specialized fields. This high degree of diversity in both examiners and art units requires the foundation to manage multiple prosecution tracks simultaneously, each with its own set of technical requirements across 6 different administrative groups.
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.
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.
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 | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1 | 65.3% | +42.6% |
| ZHANG, LEI | 1 | 15.4% | +100.0% |
| WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 1 | 48.4% | +60.3% |
| BARZYKIN, VICTOR V | 1 | 82.3% | +3.7% |
| DAVIS, AMELIE R | 1 | 65.0% | +33.4% |
| TAI, XIUYU | 1 | 58.6% | +49.5% |
| DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | 1 | 77.0% | +10.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18231130 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY PANEL WITH NO COLOR UNEVENNESS USING INKJET | BARZYKIN, VICTOR V | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646836 | CERVICAL BODY TEMPERATURE CHANGE MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ZHANG, LEI | 1d overdue |
| 18480145 | COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING OBESITY COMPRISING POLY-y-GLUTAMIC ACID ISOLATED FROM BACILLUS AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT | WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 27d |
| 18913344 | CONTAINER STRUCTURE AND FLUID TRANSFER DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 46d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646836 | CERVICAL BODY TEMPERATURE CHANGE MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ZHANG, LEI | 1d overdue |
| 18480145 | COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING OBESITY COMPRISING POLY-y-GLUTAMIC ACID ISOLATED FROM BACILLUS AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT | WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 27d |
| 18085147 | SLAM SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLES USING BUMPER-MOUNTED DUAL LIDAR | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | 33d |
| 18913344 | CONTAINER STRUCTURE AND FLUID TRANSFER DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 46d |
| 18225232 | DEVICE FOR ACQUIRING PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGE AND ULTRASONIC IMAGE AND METHOD THEREOF | DAVIS, AMELIE R | — |
| 18164240 | DETECTION KIT, DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DETECTION KIT | TAI, XIUYU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 2 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1622 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18913344 | CONTAINER STRUCTURE AND FLUID TRANSFER DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18646836 | CERVICAL BODY TEMPERATURE CHANGE MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ZHANG, LEI | 3798 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18480145 | COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING OBESITY COMPRISING POLY-y-GLUTAMIC ACID ISOLATED FROM BACILLUS AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT | WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 1622 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18231130 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY PANEL WITH NO COLOR UNEVENNESS USING INKJET | BARZYKIN, VICTOR V | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
| 18225232 | DEVICE FOR ACQUIRING PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGE AND ULTRASONIC IMAGE AND METHOD THEREOF | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18164240 | DETECTION KIT, DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DETECTION KIT | TAI, XIUYU | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 18085147 | SLAM SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLES USING BUMPER-MOUNTED DUAL LIDAR | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | 3669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
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