Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
21 pending office actions • 13 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days
ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY has 3 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and distinct art units. This indicates a range of technical subjects and examination environments within the broader biotechnology field. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that each pending matter is being evaluated by a different specialized group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner, HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE, is currently managing 1 pending office action. With each distinct examiner handling a pending office action, the workload is distributed. Practitioners should note that the 3 pending office actions are not concentrated under a single examiner. This variety in the prosecution landscape requires a tailored approach for each application in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector. The lack of concentration may lead to different timelines for the 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner.
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.
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.
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 | 4 (19%) |
| §103 only | 6 (29%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, LINH V | 1 | 89.1% | +2.4% |
| XU, ZUJIA | 1 | 68.4% | +75.7% |
| TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH | 1 | 31.6% | +45.2% |
| CHU, YONG LIANG | 1 | 74.9% | +3.1% |
| NGUYEN, BRANDON A | 1 | — | — |
| HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 1 | 64.7% | +22.6% |
| KAUR, JASPREET | 1 | 77.8% | +37.5% |
| GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M | 1 | 80.6% | +12.9% |
| GRABER, JAMES J | 1 | 46.7% | +57.7% |
| NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V | 1 | 55.3% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18385168 | METHOD OF PERFORMING COLOR CALIBRATION OF MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS | GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564423 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING OBJECT FROM DISTORTED IMAGE | KAUR, JASPREET | 89d overdue |
| 18643136 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EVALUATING IMMUNE CELLS USING MAGNETIC PARTICLES | TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH | 28d overdue |
| 17368470 | NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION APPARATUS AND QUANTIZATION METHOD | VANWORMER, SKYLAR K | 6d |
| 18337629 | Lithium Halide-based Nanocomposite, Preparing Method Thereof, and Positive Electrode Active Material, Solid Electrolyte, and All-solid-state Battery Comprising the Same | WHITE, SADIE | 23d |
| 17012614 | MAGNETIC IMMUNO-PARTICLE AND USE THEREOF | DICKINSON, PAUL W | 30d |
| 18983671 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH WEIGHT ENCODING AND DECODING | NGUYEN, LINH V | — |
| 18679467 | THREAD ALLOCATION METHOD, THREAD ALLOCATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | XU, ZUJIA | — |
| 18398922 | TRAINING SYSTEMS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | NGUYEN, BRANDON A | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564423 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING OBJECT FROM DISTORTED IMAGE | KAUR, JASPREET | 89d overdue |
| 18643136 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EVALUATING IMMUNE CELLS USING MAGNETIC PARTICLES | TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH | 28d overdue |
| 17911018 | COMPOSITION FOR INDUCING APOPTOSIS OF CELLS HAVING GENOMIC SEQUENCE VARIATION AND METHOD FOR INDUCING APOPTOSIS OF CELLS BY USING COMPOSITION | GRABER, JAMES J | 18d overdue |
| 18679467 | THREAD ALLOCATION METHOD, THREAD ALLOCATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | XU, ZUJIA | — |
| 18525394 | METHOD OF SAFELY USING CONTROLLED COOLING SYSTEMS AND DEVICES | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | — |
| 18385168 | METHOD OF PERFORMING COLOR CALIBRATION OF MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS | GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M | — |
| 17540036 | ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME | NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 2 |
| 1677 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 1631 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 2154 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18983671 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH WEIGHT ENCODING AND DECODING | NGUYEN, LINH V | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18679467 | THREAD ALLOCATION METHOD, THREAD ALLOCATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | XU, ZUJIA | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18643136 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EVALUATING IMMUNE CELLS USING MAGNETIC PARTICLES | TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH | 1677 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18414811 | AMORPHOUS BORON NITRIDE FILM, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR INCLUDING SAME, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BORON NITRIDE FILM | CHU, YONG LIANG | 1714 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18398922 | TRAINING SYSTEMS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | NGUYEN, BRANDON A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18525394 | METHOD OF SAFELY USING CONTROLLED COOLING SYSTEMS AND DEVICES | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 3794 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18564423 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING OBJECT FROM DISTORTED IMAGE | KAUR, JASPREET | 2662 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 89d overdue | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18385168 | METHOD OF PERFORMING COLOR CALIBRATION OF MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS | GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 17911018 | COMPOSITION FOR INDUCING APOPTOSIS OF CELLS HAVING GENOMIC SEQUENCE VARIATION AND METHOD FOR INDUCING APOPTOSIS OF CELLS BY USING COMPOSITION | GRABER, JAMES J | 1631 | §102§112DP | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17540036 | ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME | NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V | 1724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2021 |
| 18910204 | METHOD OF PROCESSING RADAR SIGNAL, RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18654164 | MOLECULAR SOLID ELECTROLYTE AND LITHIUM METAL BATTERY CONTAINING THE SAME | SCHULER, JACOB JEROME | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18641543 | SPIRAL GRAPHENE NANOCRYSTAL, GRAPHENE FILM, INTERCONNECTSTRUCTURE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING SAME, AND METHOD OF FABRICATING INTERCONNECT STRUCTURE | JUNG, MICHAEL YOO LIM | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18640113 | MONOCRYSTALLINE METAL FOIL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1734 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18337629 | Lithium Halide-based Nanocomposite, Preparing Method Thereof, and Positive Electrode Active Material, Solid Electrolyte, and All-solid-state Battery Comprising the Same | WHITE, SADIE | 1721 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18314512 | DEVICE AND METHOD WITH QUANTIZATION PARAMETER | ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | 2154 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18000892 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FORMIC ACID USING CARBON MONOXIDE DEHYDROGENASE AND FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE | FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | 1652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
| 17986303 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH QUANTIZATION SCHEME IMPLEMENTATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK | DUONG, HUY | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2022 |
| 17368470 | NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION APPARATUS AND QUANTIZATION METHOD | VANWORMER, SKYLAR K | 2146 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Jul 06, 2021 |
| 17012614 | MAGNETIC IMMUNO-PARTICLE AND USE THEREOF | DICKINSON, PAUL W | 1618 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Sep 04, 2020 |
| 16641168 | ELECTROLYTE COMPLEX FOR LITHIUM-SULFUR BATTERY, ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | BERMUDEZ, CHARLENE | 1721 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2020 |
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