Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Applied Physics, Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are handled by 3 distinct examiners, meaning every pending action is assigned to a different individual. This distribution prevents any single examiner from having a dominant influence over the current portfolio status.
The pending office actions are situated within 2 distinct art units. KING, JOHN B is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This structure suggests a decentralized prosecution environment across the 2 distinct art units, which may lead to varying procedural experiences depending on the specific art unit and examiner assigned to each case.
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 only | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KING, JOHN B | 1 | 80.8% | +37.3% |
| HARRIS, WESLEY G | 1 | 73.3% | +22.0% |
| MILEF, ELDA G | 1 | 41.1% | +8.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19212542 | ENCRYPTION WITH INFINITE LATTICE CRYPTOGRAPHY | KING, JOHN B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18426185 | WAVE AND PARTICLE BASED CELL TARGETING TREATMENTS | HARRIS, WESLEY G | — |
| 18402534 | MACHINE LEARNING EVALUATION OF CRYPTOGRPHICALLY SIGNED TRANSACTIONS AND ASSET TOKENIZATION | MILEF, ELDA G | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19212542 | ENCRYPTION WITH INFINITE LATTICE CRYPTOGRAPHY | KING, JOHN B | — |
| 18426185 | WAVE AND PARTICLE BASED CELL TARGETING TREATMENTS | HARRIS, WESLEY G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19212542 | ENCRYPTION WITH INFINITE LATTICE CRYPTOGRAPHY | KING, JOHN B | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 18426185 | WAVE AND PARTICLE BASED CELL TARGETING TREATMENTS | HARRIS, WESLEY G | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18402534 | MACHINE LEARNING EVALUATION OF CRYPTOGRPHICALLY SIGNED TRANSACTIONS AND ASSET TOKENIZATION | MILEF, ELDA G | 3694 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
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