Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY

19 pending office actions • 18 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 50 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
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. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 30 days (5)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%)
17
Medium (89%)
2
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (74%)
§102 only3 (16%)
§112 only2 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
21% of docket
7
Information Tech
37% of docket
4
Communications
21% of docket
2
Semiconductors
11% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
11% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HAQUE, MD NAZMUL 1 82.9% +15.9%
NGUYEN, KATHLEEN V 1 65.9% +26.2%
CHNG, JOY POH AI 1 60.6% +18.8%
WALSH, KATHLEEN M. 1 79.8% +18.2%
MANDEVILLE, JASON M 1 55.5% +46.7%
CHANG, DANIEL 1 63.6% +12.1%
HESS, MICHAEL J 1 43.9% +7.9%
LEE, JOHN J 1 92.8% +6.5%
HANSEN, CONNOR LEVI 1 78.1% +27.9%
DOAN, JENNIFER 1 90.7% +6.0%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18569866 OPTICAL DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF DOAN, JENNIFER 15d overdue
18439934 INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM USING MULTI-LAYER SATELLITE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD USING THE SAME LEE, JOHN J 3d overdue
19021079 INTER PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SAME HAQUE, MD NAZMUL 36d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18543075 METHOD FOR LEARNING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION AND COMPUTING DEVICE FOR EXECUTING THE SAME HANSEN, CONNOR LEVI 46d overdue
18744023 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED CHANG, DANIEL 44d overdue
18929071 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIGNALING PREDICTION MODE-RELATED SIGNAL IN INTRA PREDICTION WALSH, KATHLEEN M. 14d
18949948 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING/DECODING VIDEO, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM NGUYEN, KATHLEEN V 23d
18848581 DISPLAY PIXEL CIRCUIT USING FERROELECTRIC THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF MANDEVILLE, JASON M 26d
18933257 MORTALITY PREDICTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRAUMA PATIENTS CHNG, JOY POH AI 33d
19021079 INTER PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SAME HAQUE, MD NAZMUL 36d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2487 2
2486 1
3686 1
2482 1
2623 1
2481 1
2649 1
2672 1
2874 1
1629 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19021079 INTER PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SAME HAQUE, MD NAZMUL 2487 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Jan 14, 2025
18949948 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING/DECODING VIDEO, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM NGUYEN, KATHLEEN V 2486 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Nov 15, 2024
18933257 MORTALITY PREDICTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRAUMA PATIENTS CHNG, JOY POH AI 3686 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Oct 31, 2024
18929071 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIGNALING PREDICTION MODE-RELATED SIGNAL IN INTRA PREDICTION WALSH, KATHLEEN M. 2482 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Oct 28, 2024
18848581 DISPLAY PIXEL CIRCUIT USING FERROELECTRIC THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF MANDEVILLE, JASON M 2623 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Sep 19, 2024
18744023 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED CHANG, DANIEL 2487 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2024
18644631 ENCODING METHOD AND DECODING METHOD, AND DEVICE USING SAME HESS, MICHAEL J 2481 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2024
18439934 INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM USING MULTI-LAYER SATELLITE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD USING THE SAME LEE, JOHN J 2649 §102 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2024
18543075 METHOD FOR LEARNING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION AND COMPUTING DEVICE FOR EXECUTING THE SAME HANSEN, CONNOR LEVI 2672 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2023
18569866 OPTICAL DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF DOAN, JENNIFER 2874 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2023
18281480 COMPOSITION FOR TREATMENT OF ANTICANCER AGENT-RESISTANT CANCER SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 1629 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Sep 11, 2023
18112403 METHOD, APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE USING FEATURE MAP OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN 2669 §112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Feb 21, 2023
17908064 NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME RAMOS RIVERA, GILBERTO 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2022
17801408 COMPOSITION FOR INDUCING BROWNING, CONTAINING MILK EXOSOMES PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA 1631 §102 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2022
17859565 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SHARING A CANDIDATE LIST WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §112 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2022
17789999 FIBROCARTILAGE PREPARATION METHOD USING TENSILE STIMULATION TICHY, JENNIFER M.H. 1653 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jun 29, 2022
17778890 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GAIT ANALYSIS MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 3791 §102 Final Rejection 92d overdue Pending May 23, 2022
17634944 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE BY USING PARTITIONING RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR 2426 §103 Final Rejection 74d overdue Pending Feb 11, 2022
17296373 LIGHT SOURCE USING PHOTONIC CRYSTAL STRUCTURE ZHU, SHENG-BAI 2897 §103 Non-Final OA 155d overdue Pending May 24, 2021

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