Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Seoul National University R&Db Foundation

68 pending office actions • 54 art units • 67 examiners • 0 of 68 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 158 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

68
Total Pending OAs
37
Non-Final OAs
22
Final Rejections
9
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 64 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

33
Overdue
5
Due this week
19
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 64 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (33)Due ≤ 7 days (5)Due ≤ 30 days (19)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (4)

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.

3
Hard (4%)
57
Medium (84%)
5
Easy (7%)
3
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (4%)
§103 only44 (65%)
§102 only13 (19%)
§112 only5 (7%)
No statute on record3 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

30
Life Sciences
44% of docket
12
Information Tech
18% of docket
5
Communications
7% of docket
9
Semiconductors
13% of docket
12
Mechanical / Eng
18% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

680 h
Manual time on pending OAs
136 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
238 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WALLS, CYNTHIA KYUNG SOO 2 71.8% -0.6%
HOLCOMB, MARK 1 34.2% +40.7%
GO, JOHN PHILIP 1 34.3% +44.3%
JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE 1 100.0% +0.0%
WONG, TITUS 1 77.6% +20.1%
HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 1 90.7% +6.6%
SONG, HOSUK 1 94.8% +2.7%
NGUYEN, VAN THU T 1 82.7% +6.6%
MUELLER, PAUL JOSEPH 1 76.2% +33.7%
CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL 1 59.7% +36.9%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18915995 PRACTICAL SORTING ON LARGE-SCALE ENCRYPTED DATA SONG, HOSUK 30d overdue
18696468 ADVANCED RECOMBINANT VECTOR BASED ON CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE 4d overdue
18796752 NEUROMORPHIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF NGUYEN, VAN THU T 12d
18956157 ON DEVICE-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING LEAKAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION AND FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED RESPONSE HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 27d

Hard Cases (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17769768 METHOD FOR CALCULATING TIME HISTORY WIND LOAD IN ACCORDANCE WITH CORRELATION TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI 16d overdue
18396002 EMPLOYING CHATBOTS WITH GRAPHICONS FOR SURVEY METHOD AND SYSTEM WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J 8d overdue
18360229 APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH OUT-OF-DISTRIBUTION DATA DETECTION KASSIM, IMAD MUTEE 9d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18674218 METHOD FOR GENERATING SUMMARY AND SYSTEM THEREOF MUELLER, PAUL JOSEPH 35d overdue
18643796 ANGLE-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETER USING SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR AND THICKNESS MEASURING METHOD FOR THIN FILM CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL 17d overdue
19086276 BREAST CANCER RISK PREDICTION DEVICE AND METHOD HOLCOMB, MARK 23d
18976477 MEMORY DEVICE PERFORMING IN-MEMORY COMPUTING WONG, TITUS 30d
19033974 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING PRICE INFORMATION FOR HEALTH DATA GO, JOHN PHILIP 71d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 3
1631 3
1751 3
2435 2
1613 2
2893 2
3785 2
1729 2
1653 2
2125 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19086276 BREAST CANCER RISK PREDICTION DEVICE AND METHOD HOLCOMB, MARK 3685 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Mar 21, 2025
19033974 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING PRICE INFORMATION FOR HEALTH DATA GO, JOHN PHILIP 3681 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Jan 22, 2025
18696468 ADVANCED RECOMBINANT VECTOR BASED ON CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE 1662 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Dec 26, 2024
18976477 MEMORY DEVICE PERFORMING IN-MEMORY COMPUTING WONG, TITUS 2181 §102 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Dec 11, 2024
18956157 ON DEVICE-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING LEAKAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION AND FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED RESPONSE HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 2433 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Nov 22, 2024
18915995 PRACTICAL SORTING ON LARGE-SCALE ENCRYPTED DATA SONG, HOSUK 2435 §112 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 15, 2024
18796752 NEUROMORPHIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF NGUYEN, VAN THU T 2824 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Aug 07, 2024
18674218 METHOD FOR GENERATING SUMMARY AND SYSTEM THEREOF MUELLER, PAUL JOSEPH 2657 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending May 24, 2024
18643796 ANGLE-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETER USING SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR AND THICKNESS MEASURING METHOD FOR THIN FILM CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL 2877 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Apr 23, 2024
18696496 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTER-CENTRAL UNIT (CU) HANDOVER OF INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) NODE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HONG, DUNG 2643 §102 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18695398 LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMER PRECURSOR SOLUTION MATERIAL AND PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION APPARATUS FOR PREPARING LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMER WITH THE SAME STOFFA, WYATT A 2881 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Mar 26, 2024
18681600 COMPOSITION FOR GENERATING NITROGEN MONOXIDE CHANG, KYUNG SOOK 1613 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Feb 06, 2024
18575994 MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF YUSHIN, NIKOLAY K 2893 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jan 02, 2024
18574597 MICRO LED DRIVING CIRCUIT COMPRISING DOUBLE GATE TRANSISTOR AND MICRO LED DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING THEREOF MANDEVILLE, JASON M 2623 §103 Final Rejection 141d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18396002 EMPLOYING CHATBOTS WITH GRAPHICONS FOR SURVEY METHOD AND SYSTEM WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J 3622 §101 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Dec 26, 2023
18571781 MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF TORNOW, MARK W 2891 §102 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18535439 METHOD FOR MULTIMODAL EMBEDDING AND SYSTEM THEREFOR PARK, SOO JIN 2675 §102 Final Rejection 28d Pending Dec 11, 2023
18488916 SYNAPTIC ARRAY STRUCTURE BASED ON CMOS INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SYNAPTIC ARRAY STRUCTURE CAMPBELL, SHAUN M 2893 §112 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Oct 17, 2023
18481471 X-RAY IMAGING DEVICE FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY KLEIN, BROOKE L 3797 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Oct 05, 2023
18477000 SMART SHIRTS FOR ASSISTING LUMBAR SPINE AND ITS CONTROL METHOD BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN 3791 §112 Final Rejection 96d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18284239 COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCING PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFICACY OF LACTIC ACID BACTERIA LANKFORD JR, LEON B 1657 §103 Final Rejection 39d Pending Sep 26, 2023
18278164 ACOUSTIC MATCHING MEMBER, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF AND ULTRASOUND DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2023
18452144 HIP JOINT AND ANKLE CONNECTING TYPE GAIT ASSISTANCE APPARATUS SIPPEL, RACHEL T 3785 §112 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Aug 18, 2023
18276596 ECO-FRIENDLY CAPSULE MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR STABLE LOADING OF ANTISEPTIC DISINFECTANT AND ECO-FRIENDLY CAPSULE MANUFACTURED THEREFROM SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN 1615 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Aug 09, 2023
18360160 APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH MULTIPLE NEURAL PROCESSING UNITS FOR NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION ZEE, EDWARD 2435 §102 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 27, 2023
18360229 APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH OUT-OF-DISTRIBUTION DATA DETECTION KASSIM, IMAD MUTEE 2129 §101 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 27, 2023
18358535 CATHODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM-AIR BATTERY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CATHODE USING SAME CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J 1729 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jul 25, 2023
18353432 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH NEURAL NETWORK OPTIMIZATION WHITAKER, ANDREW B 3629 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2023
18271294 DRIED CELL SECRETOME-BASED THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR OSTEOARTHRITIS TREATMENT RAHMAN, MASUDUR 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jul 07, 2023
18271131 SPRAY-TYPE HYDROGEL GULLEDGE, BRIAN M 1699 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 06, 2023
18336578 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH TEXT CLASSIFICATION BASED ON SALIENT WORD REPLACEMENT LERNER, MARTIN 2658 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Jun 16, 2023
18320896 APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH QUANTIZATION CONFIGURATOR PHAM, JESSICA THUY 2121 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending May 19, 2023
18032754 ELECTROLYTE FOR LITHIUM-SULFUR BATTERY AND LITHIUM-SULFUR BATTERY COMPRISING SAME MELFI, OLIVIA MASON 1729 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Apr 19, 2023
18301823 QUANTUM DOT COMPOSITION, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE USING THE QUANTUM DOT COMPOSITION, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE STARK, JARRETT J 2898 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Apr 17, 2023
17915956 ROBOTIC LEG ORTHOSIS FOR GAIT REHABILITATION TRAINING, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND AUTONOMOUS DRIVING LUGGAGE CARRIER JONES, AISLINN MOIRA 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2023
18028932 PEPTIDE FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING SAME CHERNYSHEV, OLGA N 1675 §102 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Mar 28, 2023
18119442 ANODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T 1727 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 09, 2023
18042378 Composition For Treating or Preventing Clostridium Difficile Infection IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN 1653 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 21, 2023
18021262 Pharmaceutical Composition Comprising Hepatitis B Virus-Derived Polypeptide for Prevention or Treatment of Cancer BARRERA, IMMACULADA 1671 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2023
18105396 METHOD AND DEVICE WITH CHECKPOINTING HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL 2124 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2023
18162617 NEURON CIRCUIT AND NEUROMORPHIC DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING FOR CHANGE IN SYNAPTIC PROPERTIES VAUGHN, RYAN C 2125 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2023
18090000 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING CONTROL BASED ON ROAD GRAPHICAL NEURAL NETWORK SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO 3663 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2022
18002871 COMPOSITE CATALYST PHYSICALLY MIXED WITH NICKEL OXIDE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY 1738 §102 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Dec 22, 2022
18011365 NOVEL GAIN-OF-FUNCTION MUTANT OF BMPR2 GENE AND USE THEREOF BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER 1631 Other Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2022
18079695 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION OF A BATTERY CELL PATEL, SUHANI JITENDRA 1783 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending Dec 12, 2022
17991891 STACKED STRUCTURE THIN FILM, ELECTROCHEMICAL BATTERY COMPRISING STACKED STRUCTURE THIN FILM, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF LUO, KAN 1751 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2022
17989320 DEVICE AND METHOD WITH STATE TRANSITION LINEARIZATION CHEN, ALAN S 2125 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Nov 17, 2022
17979507 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH PRUNING PARK, GRACE A 2144 §102 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Nov 02, 2022
17996541 GENETICALLY-MODIFIED CELL LINE FOR NK CELL ACTIVATION AND AMPLIFICATION, AND USE THEREOF GONZALES, JOSEPHINE MARIA 1631 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Oct 19, 2022
17996569 GENETICALLY MANIPULATED CELL STRAIN FOR ACTIVATING AND AMPLIFYING NK CELLS AND USE THEREOF SPENCER, ANDREA LYNNE MORRIS 1631 Other Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2022
17915405 CELL CAPSULATING LAYER, CAPSULATED CELLS, CELL CAPSULATING COMPOSITION AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR EIX, EMILY FAY 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2022
17930569 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING RESPIRATORY STATE, AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SLEEP DISORDER HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL 3791 §102 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Sep 08, 2022
17897821 LED DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE LED DEVICE, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING THE LED DEVICE HSIEH, HSIN YI 2899 §102 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 29, 2022
17888775 3D STACKABLE SYNAPSE STRING, 3D STACKABLE SYNAPSE ARRAY USING THE STRING AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE STRING KOLB, THADDEUS J 2817 §103 Final Rejection 132d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2022
17788058 MYCOSPORINE-LIKE AMINO ACID-PRODUCING MICROORGANISM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF MYCOSPORINE-LIKE AMINO ACIDS BY USING SAME EPSTEIN, TODD MATTHEW 1652 §102 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jun 22, 2022
17833095 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING CANCER MCANANY, JOHN D 1625 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 06, 2022
17662464 POLYMER LAYER AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME DILLON, DANIEL P 1783 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending May 09, 2022
17769768 METHOD FOR CALCULATING TIME HISTORY WIND LOAD IN ACCORDANCE WITH CORRELATION TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI 2189 §101 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2022
17761830 NOVEL P62 LIGAND COMPOUND, AND COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAME FOR PREVENTING, AMELIORATING, OR TREATING PROTEINOPATHIES YOO, SUN JAE 1621 Final Rejection Pending Mar 18, 2022
17684884 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENE AMPLIFICATION LOPEZLIRA, ASHLEY NICOLE 1799 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Mar 02, 2022
17511576 MECHANICAL METAMATERIAL-TETHERED BREATHABLE ELECTRONIC SKIN SENSOR PATCH SIMS, JASON M 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2021
17605283 BONE-SPECIFIC COMPLEX COMPRISING BONE CELL TRANSFORMATION RECOMBINANT PROTEIN AND BONE-TARGETING MOLECULE ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA 1654 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Oct 21, 2021
17148676 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH ACCELERATOR PROCESSING YI, HYUNGJUN B 2146 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jan 14, 2021
16858516 POSITIVE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY, METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME, AND RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME WALLS, CYNTHIA KYUNG SOO 1751 §103 Non-Final OA 96d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2020
16623167 INTEGRAL BIOMATERIAL FOR REGENERATION OF BONE TISSUE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREFOR HAGOPIAN, CASEY SHEA 1617 §112 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Dec 16, 2019
16677307 POSITIVE ACTIVE MATERIAL, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME WALLS, CYNTHIA KYUNG SOO 1751 §102 Final Rejection 80d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2019
16603359 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR CANCER TREATMENT PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC 1613 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 07, 2019
16174759 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF NANODISC COMPRISING AN OLFACTORY RECEPTOR PROTEIN AND NANODISC COMPRISING AN OLFACTORY RECEPTOR PROTEIN MANUFACTURED BY THE SAME KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 1635 §103 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2018

Managing Seoul National University R&Db Foundation's Patent Portfolio?

IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.

Start Free Trial

Sign in with your work email

Enter your email to receive a magic link. No password needed.

Personal email addresses (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) are not accepted.

Free tier: 3 strategy analyses per month