Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUANDT, MICHAEL M | 1 | 62.7% | +19.4% |
| LEE JR, KENNETH B | 1 | 85.7% | +8.7% |
| NGUYEN, HAU H | 1 | 90.1% | +8.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19478400 | A BACKLIGHT UNIT, A VEHICLE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME | LEE JR, KENNETH B | — |
| 19033420 | METHOD FOR TRACKING MOVEMENTS OF INDUSTRIAL MACHINES, PERCEPTION DEVICES AND ROBOTS | NGUYEN, HAU H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19571618 | BRAKE UNIT HAVING A FLUID RESERVOIR | QUANDT, MICHAEL M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19571618 | BRAKE UNIT HAVING A FLUID RESERVOIR | QUANDT, MICHAEL M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| 2625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19571618 | BRAKE UNIT HAVING A FLUID RESERVOIR | QUANDT, MICHAEL M | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2026 |
| 19478400 | A BACKLIGHT UNIT, A VEHICLE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME | LEE JR, KENNETH B | 2625 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2025 |
| 19033420 | METHOD FOR TRACKING MOVEMENTS OF INDUSTRIAL MACHINES, PERCEPTION DEVICES AND ROBOTS | NGUYEN, HAU H | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
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