Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

The Catholic University of Korea Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation

17 pending office actions • 13 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

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.

7
Hard (41%)
9
Medium (53%)
1
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (6%)
§101 + other3 (18%)
§103 only8 (47%)
§102 only1 (6%)
§112 only1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (18%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
59% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
6% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
18% of docket
3
Business / Other
18% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA 1 78.1% +11.7%
REILLY, SOPHIA JANE 1 60.6% +49.1%
TATGE, LEXUS MARC 1 50.0% +100.0%
BOWERS, ERIN M 1 55.1% +10.5%
LEE, TSU-CHANG 1 72.8% +14.4%
CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL 1 64.0% +51.7%
CORDAS, EMILY ANN 1 50.4% +58.1%
DONOHUE, SEAN R 1 41.4% +21.1%
FABIAN JR, ROBERTO 1 70.3% +26.5%
COUGHLIN, DANIEL F 1 39.0% +18.5%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18297805 SOLUBLE TREM2 PROTEIN AND USES THEREOF BUNNER, BRIDGET E 10d overdue
19001104 EYELID SPECULUM HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA
18778440 DIAGNOSIS OF IMMUNITY REDUCTION THROUGH INTESTINAL MICROFLORA ANALYSIS OF STOMACH CANCER PATIENTS, AND THERAGNOSTIC COMPOSITION USING INTESTINAL MICROFLORA REILLY, SOPHIA JANE
18658276 EXTRAMAMMARY PAGET DISEASE BIOMARKERS AND USES THEREOF BOWERS, ERIN M
18623731 METHOD FOR GENERATING INFECTIOUS DISEASE PREDICTION KEYWORD THAT CHANGES OVER TIME BASED ON WORD EMBEDDING AND APPARATUS PERFORMING THE SAME LEE, TSU-CHANG
18535296 SPECIMEN CYTOLOGY SUPPORTING DEVICE AND METHOD ACCORDING TO CELL STAINING METHOD CORDAS, EMILY ANN
18288667 CANCER-SPECIFIC POLYPEPTIDE AND USE THEREOF DONOHUE, SEAN R

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18377504 DEVICE MEASURING THE DEFOCUS CURVE OF A MULTIFOCAL INTRAOCULAR LENS FABIAN JR, ROBERTO 30d overdue
19001104 EYELID SPECULUM HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA
18778440 DIAGNOSIS OF IMMUNITY REDUCTION THROUGH INTESTINAL MICROFLORA ANALYSIS OF STOMACH CANCER PATIENTS, AND THERAGNOSTIC COMPOSITION USING INTESTINAL MICROFLORA REILLY, SOPHIA JANE
18659711 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING COLON CANCER INCLUDING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES LOADED WITH MACC1 INHIBITOR AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT TATGE, LEXUS MARC
18658276 EXTRAMAMMARY PAGET DISEASE BIOMARKERS AND USES THEREOF BOWERS, ERIN M
18623731 METHOD FOR GENERATING INFECTIOUS DISEASE PREDICTION KEYWORD THAT CHANGES OVER TIME BASED ON WORD EMBEDDING AND APPARATUS PERFORMING THE SAME LEE, TSU-CHANG
18417720 IMMUNOMODULATING COMPOSITION CONTAINING GASSERI CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL
18535296 SPECIMEN CYTOLOGY SUPPORTING DEVICE AND METHOD ACCORDING TO CELL STAINING METHOD CORDAS, EMILY ANN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1634 2
3773 1
1653 1
1645 1
1632 1
1618 1
2877 1
1619 1
3682 1
1615 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19001104 EYELID SPECULUM HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA 3773 §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 24, 2024
18778440 DIAGNOSIS OF IMMUNITY REDUCTION THROUGH INTESTINAL MICROFLORA ANALYSIS OF STOMACH CANCER PATIENTS, AND THERAGNOSTIC COMPOSITION USING INTESTINAL MICROFLORA REILLY, SOPHIA JANE §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 19, 2024
18659711 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING COLON CANCER INCLUDING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES LOADED WITH MACC1 INHIBITOR AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT TATGE, LEXUS MARC §112 Non-Final OA Pending May 09, 2024
18658276 EXTRAMAMMARY PAGET DISEASE BIOMARKERS AND USES THEREOF BOWERS, ERIN M 1653 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 08, 2024
18623731 METHOD FOR GENERATING INFECTIOUS DISEASE PREDICTION KEYWORD THAT CHANGES OVER TIME BASED ON WORD EMBEDDING AND APPARATUS PERFORMING THE SAME LEE, TSU-CHANG §101 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 01, 2024
18417720 IMMUNOMODULATING COMPOSITION CONTAINING GASSERI CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL 1645 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 19, 2024
18535296 SPECIMEN CYTOLOGY SUPPORTING DEVICE AND METHOD ACCORDING TO CELL STAINING METHOD CORDAS, EMILY ANN 1632 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 11, 2023
18288667 CANCER-SPECIFIC POLYPEPTIDE AND USE THEREOF DONOHUE, SEAN R 1618 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Oct 27, 2023
18377504 DEVICE MEASURING THE DEFOCUS CURVE OF A MULTIFOCAL INTRAOCULAR LENS FABIAN JR, ROBERTO 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 06, 2023
18370598 COMPOSITION FOR IMMUNE TREATMENT OF ALLERGIC DISEASES COMPRISING HOUSE DUST MITE ANTIGENS AND HYALURONIC ACID HYDROGELS AS ACTIVE INGREDIENTS COUGHLIN, DANIEL F 1619 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 20, 2023
18450703 METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE OCCURRENCE OF POSTOPERATIVE ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY AND SYSTEM THEREOF VAN DUZER, ALEXIS KIM 3682 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2023
18342930 LUNG CANCER MODELING USING NORMAL LUNG ORGANOID WITH LUNG CANCER CELLS CANDELARIA, JULIANA IRENE 1634 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 28, 2023
18254912 METHOD FOR FABRICATING MICROROBOT FOR DELIVERY OF CELL THERAPY PRODUCT AND MICROROBOT ACCORDING THERETO MACH, ANDRE 1615 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending May 30, 2023
18297805 SOLUBLE TREM2 PROTEIN AND USES THEREOF BUNNER, BRIDGET E 1647 §101§102§112 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Apr 10, 2023
18191756 EYEBALL AND EYELID PROTECTOR SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA 3792 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Mar 28, 2023
17794823 NOVEL COMPOUND AND USE THEREOF CORNET, JEAN P 1628 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2022
17268635 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATING CARTILAGE DAMAGE, COMPRISING NASAL SEPTUM CHONDROCYTES RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO 1634 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 16, 2021

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