Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation is managing 8 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 8 distinct examiners, which indicates a decentralized prosecution strategy. This spread ensures that the foundation's patent applications are being evaluated by a variety of different individuals at the patent office.
The foundation's pending matters are situated across 6 distinct art units. This presence in 6 units reflects the technical variety of the portfolio within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector. Navigating 6 different art units requires the foundation to address the specific expertise and procedural requirements of multiple administrative divisions.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Since this examiner is responsible for only 1 of the pending office actions, the workload is evenly distributed across the distinct examiners. This lack of concentration means that the overall progress of the portfolio is not dependent on the pace or style of any single examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 3 (38%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 1 | 87.5% | +21.9% |
| CHERN, CHRISTINA | 1 | 39.1% | +41.3% |
| ANTISKAY, BRIAN MICHAEL | 1 | 67.2% | +39.3% |
| ZARA, JANE J | 1 | 71.0% | +16.1% |
| CHEN, ALAN S | 1 | 91.0% | +6.7% |
| SHIN, DANA H | 1 | 27.0% | +27.0% |
| GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 1 | 19.3% | +11.5% |
| WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | 1 | 47.1% | +100.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18090223 | QUANTUM FOURIER TRANSFORMATION CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | CHEN, ALAN S | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17956759 | SIMULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FIRE EVACUATION | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 46d overdue |
| 18079262 | Nucleic acid-based membrane constructs for RNA polymerase detection | SHIN, DANA H | 4d overdue |
| 19072286 | SOLAR CELLS AND DEVICES USING TRIVALENT METAL DOPING | CHERN, CHRISTINA | 7d |
| 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 | — |
| 18700687 | Composition for inducing direct reprogramming comprising self-assembled RNA construct | ZARA, JANE J | — |
| 17511692 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCELERATING SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17956759 | SIMULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FIRE EVACUATION | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 46d overdue |
| 18079262 | Nucleic acid-based membrane constructs for RNA polymerase detection | SHIN, DANA H | 4d overdue |
| 19072286 | SOLAR CELLS AND DEVICES USING TRIVALENT METAL DOPING | CHERN, CHRISTINA | 7d |
| 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 | — |
| 18700687 | Composition for inducing direct reprogramming comprising self-assembled RNA construct | ZARA, JANE J | — |
| 17511692 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCELERATING SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 1635 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18700687 | Composition for inducing direct reprogramming comprising self-assembled RNA construct | ZARA, JANE J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18090223 | QUANTUM FOURIER TRANSFORMATION CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | CHEN, ALAN S | — | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
| 18079262 | Nucleic acid-based membrane constructs for RNA polymerase detection | SHIN, DANA H | 1635 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 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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