Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Industry & Academic Cooperation In Chungnam National University has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit.
TRAN, THU THI MINH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The single examination assignment permits a focused response directed to one examiner and one technical unit.
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 (12%) |
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 2 | 46.1% | +38.4% |
| WALLS, CYNTHIA KYUNG SOO | 1 | 71.7% | -0.9% |
| FRICK, EMMA K | 1 | 70.7% | +20.1% |
| COLTON, JENNA XIANXIAN | 1 | — | — |
| STEAR, RYAN JAMES | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| BORGEEST, CHRISTINA M | 1 | 55.7% | +21.4% |
| PROSTOR, ANDREW VICTOR | 1 | 95.2% | +6.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18008851 | HIGH DIELECTRIC FILMS AND SEMICONDUCTOR OR CAPACITOR DEVICES COMPRISING SAME | PROSTOR, ANDREW VICTOR | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18296763 | ADM2 GENE MARKER FOR DIAGNOSIS OR PROGNOSIS PREDICTION OF THYROID CANCER AND USES THEREOF | BORGEEST, CHRISTINA M | 16d overdue |
| 18223188 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING STATE OF CHARGE OF BATTERY | STEAR, RYAN JAMES | 20d |
| 18716152 | PLATFORM STRUCTURE OF ELECTRICALLY-DRIVEN TRACTOR | FRICK, EMMA K | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18296763 | ADM2 GENE MARKER FOR DIAGNOSIS OR PROGNOSIS PREDICTION OF THYROID CANCER AND USES THEREOF | BORGEEST, CHRISTINA M | 16d overdue |
| 19659406 | WOUND DRESSING PATCH | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | — |
| 19659357 | WOUND DRESSING PATCH | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | — |
| 18716152 | PLATFORM STRUCTURE OF ELECTRICALLY-DRIVEN TRACTOR | FRICK, EMMA K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 2 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| 3611 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1675 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19659406 | WOUND DRESSING PATCH | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 3786 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2026 |
| 19659357 | WOUND DRESSING PATCH | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 3786 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2026 |
| 18960685 | SOLID ELECTROLYTE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING SUBSTITUTION ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | WALLS, CYNTHIA KYUNG SOO | 1751 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18716152 | PLATFORM STRUCTURE OF ELECTRICALLY-DRIVEN TRACTOR | FRICK, EMMA K | 3611 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18275459 | FLAME RETARDANT OR NONFLAMMABLE ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | COLTON, JENNA XIANXIAN | 1782 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18223188 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING STATE OF CHARGE OF BATTERY | STEAR, RYAN JAMES | 2857 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 18296763 | ADM2 GENE MARKER FOR DIAGNOSIS OR PROGNOSIS PREDICTION OF THYROID CANCER AND USES THEREOF | BORGEEST, CHRISTINA M | 1675 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
| 18008851 | HIGH DIELECTRIC FILMS AND SEMICONDUCTOR OR CAPACITOR DEVICES COMPRISING SAME | PROSTOR, ANDREW VICTOR | 2812 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialThe Industry & Academic Cooperation in Chungnam National University (IAC) has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 7 examiners.
Caitlin Ann Carreiro has the most, with 2 of The Industry & Academic Cooperation in Chungnam National University (IAC)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
