Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
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 (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
71% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
29% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SHERMAN, STEPHEN G 1 82.1% +17.2%
ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE 1 42.9% -11.1%
HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE 1 60.4% +23.0%
TAUFIQ, FARAH N 1 62.2% +26.1%
OTERO, KENNETH MAX 1 46.2% +26.7%
CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT 1 66.2% +32.5%
SONG, KEVIN 1 71.0% +20.2%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17967749 HYBRID SOLID ELECTROLYTE SHEET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME OTERO, KENNETH MAX 10d overdue
18651429 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING BATTERY, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM SHERMAN, STEPHEN G 4d overdue
17865284 ANODE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING STABLE SOLID ELECTROLYTE INTERPHASE LAYER AND ELECTROLYTE COMPOSITION FOR MANUFACTURING SAME SONG, KEVIN 9d
18147870 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF CARBON PRECURSOR FIBER FOR GAS DIFFUSION LAYER TAUFIQ, FARAH N 20d
17918845 SEPARATOR FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT 26d
18566904 NANOVESICLE REACTOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE 40d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2621 1
2666 1
1612 1
1754 1
1725 1
1727 1
1728 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18651429 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING BATTERY, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM SHERMAN, STEPHEN G 2621 Other Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2024
18651105 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING BATTERY, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE 2666 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Apr 30, 2024
18566904 NANOVESICLE REACTOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Dec 04, 2023
18147870 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF CARBON PRECURSOR FIBER FOR GAS DIFFUSION LAYER TAUFIQ, FARAH N 1754 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Dec 29, 2022
17967749 HYBRID SOLID ELECTROLYTE SHEET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME OTERO, KENNETH MAX 1725 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Oct 17, 2022
17918845 SEPARATOR FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT 1727 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 13, 2022
17865284 ANODE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING STABLE SOLID ELECTROLYTE INTERPHASE LAYER AND ELECTROLYTE COMPOSITION FOR MANUFACTURING SAME SONG, KEVIN 1728 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 14, 2022

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