Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

7
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (43%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (57%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
43% of docket
2
Information Tech
29% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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
SHEN, YANXIN NMN 1 83.3% +27.8%
JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE 1 83.3% +27.8%
CHERN, CHRISTINA 1 38.7% +41.5%
ANTISKAY, BRIAN MICHAEL 1 67.0% +39.6%
CHEN, ALAN S 1 91.2% +6.3%
GIRI, PURSOTTAM 1 18.8% +12.1%
WHITE, JAY MICHAEL 1 46.7% +93.3%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17956759 SIMULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FIRE EVACUATION GIRI, PURSOTTAM 46d overdue
19072286 SOLAR CELLS AND DEVICES USING TRIVALENT METAL DOPING CHERN, CHRISTINA 7d
19214669 GENE THAT CONTROLS PARTHENOCARPIC FRUIT FORMATION AND USES THEREOF SHEN, YANXIN NMN
19209251 TISSUE-SPECIFIC PROMOTER AND USES THEREOF JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE
19045995 TRANSPARENT AND FLEXIBLE BILAYER BIOELECTRODE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND ELECTRODE SENSOR COMPRISING THE SAME ANTISKAY, BRIAN MICHAEL
18090223 QUANTUM FOURIER TRANSFORMATION CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME CHEN, ALAN S
17511692 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCELERATING SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING WHITE, JAY MICHAEL

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
17956759 SIMULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FIRE EVACUATION GIRI, PURSOTTAM 46d overdue
19072286 SOLAR CELLS AND DEVICES USING TRIVALENT METAL DOPING CHERN, CHRISTINA 7d
19214669 GENE THAT CONTROLS PARTHENOCARPIC FRUIT FORMATION AND USES THEREOF SHEN, YANXIN NMN
19209251 TISSUE-SPECIFIC PROMOTER AND USES THEREOF JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE
19045995 TRANSPARENT AND FLEXIBLE BILAYER BIOELECTRODE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND ELECTRODE SENSOR COMPRISING THE SAME ANTISKAY, BRIAN MICHAEL
17511692 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCELERATING SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING WHITE, JAY MICHAEL

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1663 1
1662 1
1722 1
3794 1
2186 1
2188 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19214669 GENE THAT CONTROLS PARTHENOCARPIC FRUIT FORMATION AND USES THEREOF SHEN, YANXIN NMN 1663 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 21, 2025
19209251 TISSUE-SPECIFIC PROMOTER AND USES THEREOF JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE 1662 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 15, 2025
19072286 SOLAR CELLS AND DEVICES USING TRIVALENT METAL DOPING CHERN, CHRISTINA 1722 §102§112 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Mar 06, 2025
19045995 TRANSPARENT AND FLEXIBLE BILAYER BIOELECTRODE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND ELECTRODE SENSOR COMPRISING THE SAME ANTISKAY, BRIAN MICHAEL 3794 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 05, 2025
18090223 QUANTUM FOURIER TRANSFORMATION CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME CHEN, ALAN S §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 28, 2022
17956759 SIMULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FIRE EVACUATION GIRI, PURSOTTAM 2186 §101§103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2022
17511692 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCELERATING SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING WHITE, JAY MICHAEL 2188 §101§102§112 Final Rejection Pending Oct 27, 2021

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