Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (57%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUDWIG, PETER L | 3 | 35.2% | +23.2% |
| SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | 1 | 57.1% | +43.2% |
| ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE | 1 | 40.7% | -25.5% |
| HULS, NATALIE F | 1 | 76.8% | +21.8% |
| RACIC, MILENA | 1 | 48.1% | +44.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18511523 | SCALABLE POSITION TRACKING SYSTEM FOR TRACKING POSITION IN LARGE SPACES | HULS, NATALIE F | — |
| 18170727 | System and method for electronically associating an item to a rack that stores the item | LUDWIG, PETER L | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18170745 | System and method for electronically checking planogram conformance of an item | RACIC, MILENA | 2d overdue |
| 18639512 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING PRODUCT COUNT OF AN ITEM STORED IN A RACK USING SENSORS | LUDWIG, PETER L | 9d |
| 19049872 | System and method for determining product theft information using magnetic sensors | LUDWIG, PETER L | — |
| 18984065 | Detecting and Identifying Misplaced Items Using a Sensor Array | SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | — |
| 18511523 | SCALABLE POSITION TRACKING SYSTEM FOR TRACKING POSITION IN LARGE SPACES | HULS, NATALIE F | — |
| 18170727 | System and method for electronically associating an item to a rack that stores the item | LUDWIG, PETER L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3627 | 3 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19049872 | System and method for determining product theft information using magnetic sensors | LUDWIG, PETER L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 18984065 | Detecting and Identifying Misplaced Items Using a Sensor Array | SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | 3688 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18639512 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING PRODUCT COUNT OF AN ITEM STORED IN A RACK USING SENSORS | LUDWIG, PETER L | 3627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18520330 | Action Detection During Image Tracking | ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE | 2666 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18511523 | SCALABLE POSITION TRACKING SYSTEM FOR TRACKING POSITION IN LARGE SPACES | HULS, NATALIE F | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18170745 | System and method for electronically checking planogram conformance of an item | RACIC, MILENA | 3627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
| 18170727 | System and method for electronically associating an item to a rack that stores the item | LUDWIG, PETER L | 3627 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
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