Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, MICHAEL G | 1 | 51.8% | +15.9% |
| KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1 | 45.7% | +48.9% |
| HOWELL, MARC C | 1 | 68.3% | +24.8% |
| MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | 1 | 32.1% | +44.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18538190 | EDUCTORS HAVING HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES AND METHODS OF REDUCING DEPOSITION OF A FRICTION REDUCER ON A SURFACE | HOWELL, MARC C | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19302556 | METHOD FOR SURFACE-INITIATED POLYMERIZATION ON SURFACES AND COATED SUBTRATED FORMED THEREBY | MILLER, MICHAEL G | — |
| 18668499 | COATED SUBSTRATES THAT DEMONSTRATE SUPERHYDROPHILICITY, SUITABLE FOR USE AS MEDICAL DEVICES | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | — |
| 18538190 | EDUCTORS HAVING HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES AND METHODS OF REDUCING DEPOSITION OF A FRICTION REDUCER ON A SURFACE | HOWELL, MARC C | — |
| 18077453 | COATED SUBSTRATES THAT DEMONSTRATE PREFERENTIAL PERMEABILITY TO WATER, SUITABLE AS MEMBRANES FOR SEPARATING OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS | MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19302556 | METHOD FOR SURFACE-INITIATED POLYMERIZATION ON SURFACES AND COATED SUBTRATED FORMED THEREBY | MILLER, MICHAEL G | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 18668499 | COATED SUBSTRATES THAT DEMONSTRATE SUPERHYDROPHILICITY, SUITABLE FOR USE AS MEDICAL DEVICES | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18538190 | EDUCTORS HAVING HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES AND METHODS OF REDUCING DEPOSITION OF A FRICTION REDUCER ON A SURFACE | HOWELL, MARC C | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18077453 | COATED SUBSTRATES THAT DEMONSTRATE PREFERENTIAL PERMEABILITY TO WATER, SUITABLE AS MEMBRANES FOR SEPARATING OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS | MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | 1773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
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