Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
53 pending office actions • 26 art units • 50 examiners • 0 of 53 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days
Uif (university Industry Foundation), Yonsei University has 53 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 26 distinct art units and 50 distinct examiners. This indicates that nearly every pending action is being reviewed by a different examiner. With 53 pending office actions, the portfolio is highly decentralized across its 50 distinct examiners.
ALTVATER, NATALIE RAQUEL is the busiest examiner with 3 pending office actions. With 53 pending office actions and 50 distinct examiners, the portfolio is characterized by a high ratio of examiners to actions. The 26 distinct art units represent a wide variety of technical sub-specialties within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The 3 pending office actions with ALTVATER, NATALIE RAQUEL are the only significant point of examiner concentration.
Practitioners must be prepared for 50 different examiner styles across the 53 pending office actions. The 26 distinct art units suggest that the company's research is spread across many different areas of biotechnology. For the 53 pending office actions, the prosecution team must develop individualized strategies that account for both the specific examiner and the art unit standards to ensure success.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 only | 2 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 9 (17%) |
| §103 only | 14 (26%) |
| §102 only | 1 (2%) |
| §112 only | 4 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 20 (38%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (2%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALTVATER, NATALIE RAQUEL | 3 | — | — |
| KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY | 2 | 87.5% | +27.3% |
| ADJAGBE, MAXIME M | 1 | 84.2% | +9.6% |
| GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA | 1 | 73.6% | +14.2% |
| RIGOL, YAIMA | 1 | 75.5% | +17.6% |
| THOMAS, SOUMYA | 1 | 60.0% | -16.7% |
| YANG, HAN | 1 | 92.0% | +11.8% |
| LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 1 | 76.7% | +23.3% |
| NASHER, AHMED ABDULLALIM-M | 1 | 79.1% | +32.5% |
| BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN | 1 | 62.6% | +33.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18986202 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY ADJUSTING REFRESH TIMING OF CIM BASED ON EDRAM | YANG, HAN | — |
| 18110439 | COMPUTATION APPARATUS IN MEMORY CAPABLE OF COMPUTATION OF SIGNED WEIGHT | KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17521156 | AUTOMATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGULAR EXPRESSION ENGINES USING GLUSHKOV AUTOMATA GENERATION AND HYBRID MATCHING | KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY | 5d |
| 18536448 | FLOW FIELD-FLOW FRACTIONATION DEVICE INCLUDING THICKNESS-TAPERED CHANNEL BLOCK | MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | 16d |
| 17674055 | STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING VIRTUAL GRID | TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI | 21d |
| 18339817 | NOVEL CYCLIC PEPTIDES BASED ON NANOBIOSTRUCTURAL CONTROL, PEPTIDESOMES WITH CORE/SHELL STRUCTURE COMPRISING SAME, AND USES THEREOF | REYNOLDS, FRED H | 60d |
| 19434446 | RING SEGMENT COOLING STRUCTURE, RING SEGMENT INCLUDING SAME, AND GAS TURBINE | ADJAGBE, MAXIME M | — |
| 19094659 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGE | GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA | — |
| 18976412 | RETRACTOR MOUNTING DEVICE FOR SURGERY | LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | — |
| 18972670 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND TRAINING METHOD FOR SCREENING ASD AND ASD SYMPTOM SEVERITY BASED ON RETINAL IMAGES | NASHER, AHMED ABDULLALIM-M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17521156 | AUTOMATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGULAR EXPRESSION ENGINES USING GLUSHKOV AUTOMATA GENERATION AND HYBRID MATCHING | KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY | 5d |
| 19094659 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGE | GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA | — |
| 19060889 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD WITH PROCESSING IN MEMORY OPERATION | RIGOL, YAIMA | — |
| 18986202 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY ADJUSTING REFRESH TIMING OF CIM BASED ON EDRAM | YANG, HAN | — |
| 18976412 | RETRACTOR MOUNTING DEVICE FOR SURGERY | LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | — |
| 18972670 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND TRAINING METHOD FOR SCREENING ASD AND ASD SYMPTOM SEVERITY BASED ON RETINAL IMAGES | NASHER, AHMED ABDULLALIM-M | — |
| 18958703 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING WET AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION | BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN | — |
| 18110439 | COMPUTATION APPARATUS IN MEMORY CAPABLE OF COMPUTATION OF SIGNED WEIGHT | KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1654 | 2 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 2135 | 1 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 2675 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2825 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19434446 | RING SEGMENT COOLING STRUCTURE, RING SEGMENT INCLUDING SAME, AND GAS TURBINE | ADJAGBE, MAXIME M | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2025 |
| 19094659 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGE | GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19060889 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD WITH PROCESSING IN MEMORY OPERATION | RIGOL, YAIMA | 2135 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19029770 | APPARATUS FOR DENOISING IMAGE OBTAINED THROUGH MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING SENSOR AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | THOMAS, SOUMYA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18986202 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY ADJUSTING REFRESH TIMING OF CIM BASED ON EDRAM | YANG, HAN | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18976412 | RETRACTOR MOUNTING DEVICE FOR SURGERY | LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 3795 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18972670 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND TRAINING METHOD FOR SCREENING ASD AND ASD SYMPTOM SEVERITY BASED ON RETINAL IMAGES | NASHER, AHMED ABDULLALIM-M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18958703 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING WET AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION | BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18942995 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR COMPILING AND METHODS THEREOF | TOKARCZYK, CHRISTOPHER B | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18934117 | MULTIMODAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD BASED ON VISION-LANGUAGE MODEL | WELLS, HEATH E | 2664 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18934160 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AI-BASED NLOS (NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT) IMAGING RECONSTRUCTION | CASCAIS, JUSTIN PHILIP | 2674 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18934108 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OBJECT-CENTERED REPRESENTATION LEARNING THROUGH UNSUPERVISED SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION | VAUGHN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18934175 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGES THROUGH PIXEL LEVEL CLASSIFICATION | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18933613 | PERSONALIZED QUESTION AND ANSWER APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON DUAL SEARCH AUGMENTED KNOWLEDGE FUSION | SAINT-VIL, EDDY | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18931876 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF TISSUE | JANG, CHRISTIAN Y | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18884397 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRAINING MODEL FOR HUMAN IDENTIFICATION | SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18882268 | PULSE SIGNAL GENERATOR TO REDUCE POWER CONSUMPTION OF SRAM AND SRAM HAVING THE SAME | BRASWELL, DONALD H.B. | 2825 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18809580 | Solid-liquid Composite Electrolyte including Sulfide-based Solid Electrolyte and Liquid Electrolyte, and Semi-solid-state Rechargeable Batteries | ALTVATER, NATALIE RAQUEL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18778015 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SPATIAL REUSE IN WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT | CHEEMA, HASAN ALI | 2465 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18776013 | Pharmaceutical composition for antibacterial wound healing comprising chia seeds and biodegradable materials | AFREMOVA, VERA | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18724591 | LONG NON-CODING RNA BIOMARKER IN EXOSOMES FOR DIAGNOSING ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND USE THEREOF | SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA | 1682 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18753283 | NANOSCALE MOLECULARLY IMPRINTED POLYMER THIN FILMS FOR SMALL MOLECULE DETECTION | XU, XIAOYUN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18678724 | ANOMALY DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM | STORK, KYLE R | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18659583 | CELL POWDER TYPE CULTURED MEAT AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18624483 | Epitaxial wafer, Method of manufacturing the epitaxial wafer, and Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using the epitaxial wafer | BELL, LAUREN R | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18617846 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EXECUTION PLANS OF MULTIPLE MIXED-PRECISION DEEP LEARNING MODELS BASED ON MULTI-PRECISION NPU | ONAT, UMUT | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18610995 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH NEURAL NETWORK MODEL TRAINING | ASEGDEW, NATNAEL AREGA | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18590219 | GAS SENSOR, SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS MICROSCOPE, AND METHOD OF PREPARING GAS SENSOR | QIAN, SHIZHI | 1795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18410669 | MICROFLUIDIC CHIP AND LAMP GENE AMPLIFICATION METHOD | MUI, CHRISTINE T | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18399450 | TRAINING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MOLECULAR GENERATION MODEL | MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18396778 | SILICON/CARBON ANODE COMPOSITE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING THE SAME | BULLOCK, IN SUK C | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18539499 | ANODE-SOLID ELECTROLYTE SUB-ASSEMBLY FOR ALL-SOLID SECONDARY BATTERY, ALL-SOLID SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18536448 | FLOW FIELD-FLOW FRACTIONATION DEVICE INCLUDING THICKNESS-TAPERED CHANNEL BLOCK | MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18530899 | METAL-AQUEOUS BATTERY AND HYDROGEN GENERATION AND CARBON DIOXIDE STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING SAME | ORDUNA, TAMARA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18523235 | Solid-Liquid Composite Electrolyte Including Sulfide-based Solid Electrolyte and High-kosmotropicity Salt-containing Liquid Electrolyte, and Semi-solid-state Rechargeable Batteries | ALTVATER, NATALIE RAQUEL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18523229 | METHOD FOR GENERATING TIME SERIES DATA AND SYSTEM THEREFOR | PHAM, KHANH B | — | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18523013 | Solid-Liquid Composite Electrolyte Including Sulfide-based Solid Electrolyte and High-concentration Liquid Electrolyte, and Semi-solid-state Rechargeable Batteries | ALTVATER, NATALIE RAQUEL | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18517548 | PEPTIDE HAVING INDEPENDENTLY STABILIZED HYDROPHOBIC ALPHA HELIX, PEPTIDE COMPLEX COMPRISING SAME AND USES THEREOF | D' AMBROSIO, THEA | 1654 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18517693 | SECONDARY BATTERY SEPARATOR COMPRISING CELLULOSE COATING LAYER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | RESTO OQUENDO, NATHALY MARIE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18240838 | SWITCHING ANTENNA FOR UWB COMMUNICATION FOR VEHICLE | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 3646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18011363 | COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING, AMELIORATING, OR TREATING COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION DISEASE, COMPRISING PEPTIDE HAVING SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY CONTROL FUNCTION | HA, JULIE | 1654 | §112Other | Final Rejection | 77d | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18229807 | FUEL ELECTRODE FOR SOLID OXIDE ELECTROLYSIS CELL WITH IMPROVED HIGH-TEMPERATURE ELECTROLYSIS EFFICIENCY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | SYLVESTER, KEVIN | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18357144 | RECONFIGURABLE AMBIPOLAR TRANSISTOR | MARUF, SHEIKH | 2897 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jul 23, 2023 |
| 18339817 | NOVEL CYCLIC PEPTIDES BASED ON NANOBIOSTRUCTURAL CONTROL, PEPTIDESOMES WITH CORE/SHELL STRUCTURE COMPRISING SAME, AND USES THEREOF | REYNOLDS, FRED H | 1658 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18337526 | Sodium Halide-based Nanocomposite, Preparing Method Thereof, and Positive Electrode Active Material, Solid Electrolyte, and All-solid-state Battery Comprising the Same | LAIOS, MARIA J | 1727 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18323142 | METHOD OF PREDICTING DENDRITE GENERATION IN LITHIUM ION BATTERY | KHAN, IFTEKHAR A | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18130874 | SELF-HEALABLE CHEMICAL DETECTING SENSOR EMBEDDING TRANSITION METAL-ADSORBED PAA-PVA-BORAX FIBER-GEL | HAQ, SHAFIQUL | 1678 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
| 18110458 | SRAM READ YIELD TRAINING METHOD, SRAM READ YIELD PREDICTION METHOD AND COMPUTING APPARATUS | NGUYEN, NHA T | 2851 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Feb 16, 2023 |
| 18110439 | COMPUTATION APPARATUS IN MEMORY CAPABLE OF COMPUTATION OF SIGNED WEIGHT | KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2023 |
| 18073317 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM-RICH SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C | 1723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2022 |
| 17674055 | STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING VIRTUAL GRID | TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI | 2189 | §101 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Feb 17, 2022 |
| 17521156 | AUTOMATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGULAR EXPRESSION ENGINES USING GLUSHKOV AUTOMATA GENERATION AND HYBRID MATCHING | KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY | 2182 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Nov 08, 2021 |
| 17520130 | BIOLOGICAL DATA ACQUISITION APPARATUS AND BIOLOGICAL DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS USING THE SAME | AGAHI, PUYA | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2021 |
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