Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Korus Patent, LLC

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

8 pending office actions • 7 clients • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

KORUS Patent, LLC handles Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and has 864 career applications. Its current docket contains 8 pending office actions, showing ongoing prosecution within an established application record.

The resolved allowance rate is 78.77%, and the average is 2.09 office actions per allowance. The profile therefore reflects an allowance outcome that can be reviewed together with a relatively limited number of examination exchanges associated with allowed matters.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=864 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

78.8%
Allowance Rate
n=864
+0.46σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=864
2.1
OAs to Allowance
n=627
-0.75σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=627
770 days
Time to Allowance
n=627
+9.3pp
Interview Lift
n=864
13.8%
RCE Rate
n=864
1.8%
Appeal Rate
n=864

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

63.5%
§101 Overcome
n=85
71.7%
§102 Overcome
n=247
71.6%
§103 Overcome
n=450
73.1%
§112 Overcome
n=402

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G06Q, H04R
Top CPC Subclasses
9%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=864
1
Practitioners
n=864
864.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=864

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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.

5
Hard (62%)
1
Medium (12%)
2
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (25%)
§112 only2 (25%)
Double-patenting + other1 (12%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (38%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL 1 28.6% +51.3%
MOSS, NATALIE M 1 30.7% +17.2%
KIM, ERIN ASA 1 69.0% +34.3%
TEJANI, ANKIT D 1 81.0% +16.3%
CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET 1 57.4% +40.2%
TOICH, SARA KATHERINE 1 49.5% +47.6%
EMCH, GREGORY S 1 48.0% +43.2%
DARRIGRAND, EMILY ANN 1 — —

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18461870 HEALTH-PROMOTING FUNCTIONAL SHOE HAVING FUNCTION OF STIMULATING SOLAR PLEXUS POINT TOICH, SARA KATHERINE 22d
18624742 MEDICAL CUTTING INSTRUMENT INCLUDING BURR GUIDE PROTECTOR TEJANI, ANKIT D 26d
18795800 PLASMA AIR PURIFYING APPARATUS SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL —
18141239 IMMUNOGENICITY PREDICTION DEVICE, IMMUNOGENICITY PREDICTION METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SYNTHETIC LONG PEPTIDE DESIGN EMCH, GREGORY S —
17909866 METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PREDICTING NEOANTIGEN BY USING PEPTIDE SEQUENCE AND HLA ALLELE SEQUENCE DARRIGRAND, EMILY ANN —

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
18461870 HEALTH-PROMOTING FUNCTIONAL SHOE HAVING FUNCTION OF STIMULATING SOLAR PLEXUS POINT TOICH, SARA KATHERINE 22d
18624742 MEDICAL CUTTING INSTRUMENT INCLUDING BURR GUIDE PROTECTOR TEJANI, ANKIT D 26d
18795800 PLASMA AIR PURIFYING APPARATUS SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL —
18727799 COMPOSITION FOR CULTRING NK CELLS, COMPRISING ALLOFERON, AND METHOD FOR CULTURING NK CELLS USING SAME MOSS, NATALIE M —
18700353 BODY-WORN URINAL FOR FEMALE PATIENT KIM, ERIN ASA —
18614968 MULTIPURPOSE SLIDING APPARATUS CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET —
18141239 IMMUNOGENICITY PREDICTION DEVICE, IMMUNOGENICITY PREDICTION METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SYNTHETIC LONG PEPTIDE DESIGN EMCH, GREGORY S —

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17581
16531
37811
37961
36341
37851
16781
16861

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18795800 PLASMA AIR PURIFYING APPARATUS Junsys Co., Ltd. SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL 1758 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 06, 2024
18727799 COMPOSITION FOR CULTRING NK CELLS, COMPRISING ALLOFERON, AND METHOD FOR CULTURING NK CELLS USING SAME Nk Medics Inc. MOSS, NATALIE M 1653 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 10, 2024
18700353 BODY-WORN URINAL FOR FEMALE PATIENT Mediruns Co., Ltd. KIM, ERIN ASA 3781 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 11, 2024
18624742 MEDICAL CUTTING INSTRUMENT INCLUDING BURR GUIDE PROTECTOR Techcord Co., Ltd. TEJANI, ANKIT D 3796 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending Apr 02, 2024
18614968 MULTIPURPOSE SLIDING APPARATUS Hankook Rail System Co., Ltd. CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET 3634 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 25, 2024
18461870 HEALTH-PROMOTING FUNCTIONAL SHOE HAVING FUNCTION OF STIMULATING SOLAR PLEXUS POINT Shoealls Co., Ltd. TOICH, SARA KATHERINE 3785 §103§112 Final Rejection 22d Pending Sep 06, 2023
18141239 IMMUNOGENICITY PREDICTION DEVICE, IMMUNOGENICITY PREDICTION METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SYNTHETIC LONG PEPTIDE DESIGN Theragen Bio Co., Ltd. EMCH, GREGORY S 1678 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 28, 2023
17909866 METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PREDICTING NEOANTIGEN BY USING PEPTIDE SEQUENCE AND HLA ALLELE SEQUENCE Theragen Bio Co., Ltd. DARRIGRAND, EMILY ANN 1686 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 07, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Korus Patent, LLC's patent allowance rate?

78.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Korus Patent, LLC were allowed, across 864 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Korus Patent, LLC average before allowance?

2.09 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Korus Patent, LLC have?

8 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 7 clients, before 8 examiners in 8 art units.

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