Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
AmerUs Group Inc. has 1 pending office action. WILLIAM D NEWLON is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending office action. This examiner is the only 1 distinct examiner listed for the portfolio. No technology area or art unit data is available for this single pending matter, which is currently under the review of the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWLON, WILLIAM D | 1 | 46.6% | +28.2% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19224581 | GESTURE-ENABLED INTERFACES, SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPLICATIONS FOR CUSTOM DESIGNING NON-LEVEL LIFE INSURANCE BENEFITS POLICIES AND SUPPORTING CUSTOMIZED PRICING | NEWLON, WILLIAM D | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19224581 | GESTURE-ENABLED INTERFACES, SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPLICATIONS FOR CUSTOM DESIGNING NON-LEVEL LIFE INSURANCE BENEFITS POLICIES AND SUPPORTING CUSTOMIZED PRICING | NEWLON, WILLIAM D | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
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