Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
3D AT Depth Inc. currently has 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, resulting in a decentralized prosecution environment where no two pending matters are handled by the same person. This distribution requires the company to tailor its responses to 4 unique examiner styles and backgrounds.
The portfolio is further spread across 3 distinct art units, which indicates institutional variety for the 4 pending actions. This suggests that the company's mechanical and e-commerce innovations touch upon several different specialized classifications within the patent office. Practitioners must be prepared for 3 different sets of internal guidelines and prior art focuses across these units.
LAIL A KLEINMAN is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. Since 1 is the maximum number of actions held by any single examiner, the workload is distributed across the 4 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration means that the progress of the 3D AT Depth Inc. portfolio is not dependent on the schedule or tendencies of any single individual.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KLEINMAN, LAIL A | 1 | 70.1% | +16.6% |
| PIHULIC, DANIEL T | 1 | 87.2% | -6.3% |
| RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | 1 | 87.3% | +10.3% |
| MERLIN, JESSICA M | 1 | 61.7% | +24.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18618818 | OPTIMIZED MONOSTATIC LiDAR | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18928796 | UNDERWATER OPTICAL METROLOGY SYSTEM | PIHULIC, DANIEL T | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18374768 | LASER INSPECTION AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MERLIN, JESSICA M | 12d |
| 18941210 | UNDERWATER OPTICAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | KLEINMAN, LAIL A | — |
| 18618818 | OPTIMIZED MONOSTATIC LiDAR | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3668 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18941210 | UNDERWATER OPTICAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | KLEINMAN, LAIL A | 3668 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18928796 | UNDERWATER OPTICAL METROLOGY SYSTEM | PIHULIC, DANIEL T | 3645 | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18618818 | OPTIMIZED MONOSTATIC LiDAR | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18374768 | LASER INSPECTION AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MERLIN, JESSICA M | 2871 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
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