Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
120 pending office actions • 74 art units • 118 examiners • 0 of 120 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 188 patents granted in the last 365 days
Seoul National University R&DB Foundation manages a portfolio of 119 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are spread across 72 distinct art units, indicating a distribution of research and development activities across many specialized groups. The prosecution involves 116 distinct examiners, which shows that the majority of cases are being handled by different individuals at the patent office.
MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 3 pending office actions currently assigned. Even with this assignment, the busiest examiner handles a small fraction of the 119 total pending actions. This distribution highlights a prosecution landscape where interaction with the patent office is spread across many different examiners and art units.
The 72 distinct art units represent a count of technical specializations, requiring the foundation to navigate many different examination standards. With 116 distinct examiners involved, the foundation must manage a wide variety of examiner perspectives. This volume of 119 pending office actions reflects an active patenting strategy in the biotechnology sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 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. 20 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 | 19 (16%) |
| §103 only | 35 (29%) |
| §102 only | 3 (2%) |
| §112 only | 6 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 54 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S | 3 | 56.7% | +7.7% |
| PECHE, JORGE O | 1 | 80.7% | +16.8% |
| HERRERA, MICHAEL J | 1 | 65.2% | +28.0% |
| YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR | 1 | 93.8% | +17.4% |
| LINDLOF, JOHN M | 1 | 68.0% | +16.9% |
| GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | 1 | 45.0% | +47.1% |
| KENERLY, TERRANCE L | 1 | 73.6% | +15.2% |
| HOLCOMB, MARK | 1 | 33.5% | +40.4% |
| BENNETT, JENNIFER D | 1 | 73.6% | +18.1% |
| WEISFELD, MATTHIAS S | 1 | 61.9% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17915405 | CELL CAPSULATING LAYER, CAPSULATED CELLS, CELL CAPSULATING COMPOSITION AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | EIX, EMILY FAY | 89d overdue |
| 16174759 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF NANODISC COMPRISING AN OLFACTORY RECEPTOR PROTEIN AND NANODISC COMPRISING AN OLFACTORY RECEPTOR PROTEIN MANUFACTURED BY THE SAME | KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE | 37d overdue |
| 17605283 | BONE-SPECIFIC COMPLEX COMPRISING BONE CELL TRANSFORMATION RECOMBINANT PROTEIN AND BONE-TARGETING MOLECULE | ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA | 18d overdue |
| 18021262 | Pharmaceutical Composition Comprising Hepatitis B Virus-Derived Polypeptide for Prevention or Treatment of Cancer | BARRERA, IMMACULADA | 8d overdue |
| 18271131 | SPRAY-TYPE HYDROGEL | GULLEDGE, BRIAN M | 3d overdue |
| 18105396 | METHOD AND DEVICE WITH CHECKPOINTING | HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | 3d overdue |
| 18276596 | ECO-FRIENDLY CAPSULE MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR STABLE LOADING OF ANTISEPTIC DISINFECTANT AND ECO-FRIENDLY CAPSULE MANUFACTURED THEREFROM | SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | 5d |
| 18796752 | NEUROMORPHIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 12d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19086276 | BREAST CANCER RISK PREDICTION DEVICE AND METHOD | HOLCOMB, MARK | 23d |
| 19249393 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF PLANNING MOVING PATH OF ROBOT | PECHE, JORGE O | — |
| 19249157 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD WITH AUTONOMOUS DRIVING PATH PLANNING | HERRERA, MICHAEL J | — |
| 19210766 | COUPLER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR | — |
| 19130244 | SoC FOR LOW POWER EDGE AI SUPPORT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING SoC | LINDLOF, JOHN M | — |
| 19129864 | ELECTRONIC UMBRELLA DEVICE FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD | GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | — |
| 19089300 | HAPTIC ACTUATOR MODULE AND ASSEMBLY USING ELECTROSTATIC ATTRACTION AND PIN STIMULATION | KENERLY, TERRANCE L | — |
| 19072387 | LINE SPECTROSCOPIC REFLECTOMETRY | BENNETT, JENNIFER D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2639 | 2 |
| 2897 | 2 |
| 2123 | 2 |
| 3785 | 2 |
| 1653 | 2 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| 2183 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19249393 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF PLANNING MOVING PATH OF ROBOT | PECHE, JORGE O | 3656 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19249157 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD WITH AUTONOMOUS DRIVING PATH PLANNING | HERRERA, MICHAEL J | 3668 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19210766 | COUPLER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19130244 | SoC FOR LOW POWER EDGE AI SUPPORT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING SoC | LINDLOF, JOHN M | 2183 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19129864 | ELECTRONIC UMBRELLA DEVICE FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD | GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19089300 | HAPTIC ACTUATOR MODULE AND ASSEMBLY USING ELECTROSTATIC ATTRACTION AND PIN STIMULATION | KENERLY, TERRANCE L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19086276 | BREAST CANCER RISK PREDICTION DEVICE AND METHOD | HOLCOMB, MARK | 3685 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19072387 | LINE SPECTROSCOPIC REFLECTOMETRY | BENNETT, JENNIFER D | 2878 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19058240 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HANDLING EXTERNAL ABNORMALITY IN AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM | WEISFELD, MATTHIAS S | 3661 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19103586 | COMPENSATION METHOD OF STRETCHABLE MICRO LED DISPLAY | GUPTA, PARUL H | 2627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19051397 | POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS AND HOME APPLIANCE INCLUDING THE SAME | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 18730160 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE USING CONDUCTIVE FLOATING MASK | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1718 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18875024 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR BEAM MANAGEMENT IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | BROCKMAN, ANGEL T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18282298 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TACTILE MEDIUM | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 3798 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18979112 | METHOD AND DEVICE WITH IMAGE ENHANCEMENT | POTTS, RYAN PATRICK | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18872978 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING METABOLIC DISEASES CONTAINING DEMETHYLZEYLASTERAL | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 1626 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18946506 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | PHAM, KAITLYN HUNG | 2133 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18946398 | MULTI-BIO-SIGNAL-BASED GERIATRIC COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND DEVICE | ADAMS, WILLIAM PATRICK | — | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18936484 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRAG-BASED IMAGE EDITING | BARHAM, RYAN ALLEN | 2613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18931966 | FAST MULTIDIMENSIONAL PARTIAL FOURIER TRANSFORM METHOD AND APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING AUTOMATIC HYPERPARAMETER SELECTION | DUONG, HUY | 2182 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18931075 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING UPLINK RESOURCE THROUGH BUFFER ESTIMATION AND BASE STATION DEVICE USING THE METHOD | FUENTES, RUDY CRISTOFER | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18926687 | INTEGRATED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR HEAT PUMP TO OPTIMIZE ENERGY OF SOLAR POWER BUILDING | ALIZADA, OMEED | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18923346 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD THEROF AND METHOD OF TRAINING NEURAL NETWORK | LIEW, ALEX KOK SOON | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18923021 | IMAGE DATA OBTAINMENT DEVICE AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | SPINKS, ANTOINETTE T | 2639 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18897370 | IMAGE PREPROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PREPROCESSING METHOD | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18850547 | Beam Control Method Using Multi-Sensor in Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz-Wave Wireless Communication System, and Recording Medium and Device for Performing Same | KHAN, MEHMOOD B | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18884286 | THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | HAWKINS, IHSAN TAIWO | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18830876 | METHOD OF MEASURING MOISTURE CONTENT OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS AND SAMPLE COMPRESSOR FOR MEASURING SAME | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 2884 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18823135 | DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING ANTENNAE AND ANTENNA CIRCUIT BOARD | SIVJI, NIZAR N | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18811886 | METHOD OF RECONFIGURING OXYGEN CONCENTRATION ON METAL OXIDE AND METHOD OF OPERATING GAS SENSORS USING THE METHOD | TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH | 1794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18840382 | SYNTHESIS METHOD FOR ALKYLENE CARBONATE | PATEL, SAGAR S | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18838251 | NANOCATENANE STRUCTURE AND NANOMACHINE INCLUDING NANOCATENANE STRUCTURE | KHAN, TAHSEEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18798400 | INSTRUMENTATION AMPLIFIER CAPABLE OF COMPENSATING OFFSET VOLTAGE | RETEBO, METASEBIA T | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18796752 | NEUROMORPHIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 2824 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18836118 | PEPTIDE HAVING ANTIBACTERIAL, ANTI-INFLAMMATORY OR TISSUE REGENERATION ABILITY AND USE THEREOF | COFFA, SERGIO | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18795391 | ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK PERFORMANCE PREDICTION METHOD AND DEVICE ACCORDING TO DATA FORMAT | KASSIM, HAFIZ A | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18780911 | REINFORCEMENT LEARNING METHOD APPLYING TODDLER-INSPIRED SEQUENTIAL REWARD TRANSITION, AND REINFORCEMENT LEARNING APPARATUS PERFORMING THE SAME | WENG, PEI YONG | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18781765 | LAMINATE FOR RADIATIONAL COOLING, AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME | CHAU, LINDA N | 1742 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18774088 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CAMERA CALIBRATION ALGORITHM USING UNBIASED CONIC ESTIMATOR CONSIDERING DISTORTION | DHOOGE, DEVIN J | 2677 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18771477 | INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF USING REFLECTED LIGHT | ALCON, FERNANDO | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18756296 | LINK PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS USING ACCURATE LINK PREDICTION MODEL BASED ON POSITIVE-UNLABELED DATA LEARNING | ALI, NAYMUR RAHMAN | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18680748 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION THROUGH THE MOBILE TERMINAL | FAN, GUOXING | 2462 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18714850 | METHOD FOR PREPARING OXIME DERIVATIVE | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18663969 | METHOD AND DEVICE WITH CONTINUAL LEARNING | ASHRAF, WASEEM | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18707525 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING REACTIVITY TO ANTICANCER DRUGS BY ANALYZING GENOMIC DNA METHYLATION STATUS | DAUNER, JOSEPH G | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18654937 | ATYPICAL METASURFACE, WAVEGUIDE IMAGE COMBINER AND AUGMENTED REALITY DEVICE USING ATYPICAL METASURFACE | LAU, EDMOND C | 2871 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18647745 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH MAGNETIC BODY MEASUREMENT | TIMILSINA, SHARAD | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18640765 | Storage System for Simulation of Quantum Circuit | HENN, TIMOTHY J | 2639 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18635211 | RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | NGUYEN, DUY T V | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18626303 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING SUBSURFACE VELOCITY MODEL | KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSeoul National University R&DB Foundation has 120 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 74 art units and 118 examiners.
Devika S Maharaj has the most, with 3 of Seoul National University R&DB Foundation's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.