Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 6 (75%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUCK, MATTHEW R | 2 | 83.2% | +14.5% |
| BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | 2 | 69.2% | +36.4% |
| HALL, KRISTYN A | 1 | 81.8% | -6.3% |
| MICHENER, BLAKE E | 1 | 77.0% | +25.6% |
| WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 1 | 78.3% | +11.4% |
| ANDRISH, SEAN D | 1 | 71.5% | +32.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18559308 | DIAPHRAGM WALL CUTTER AND METHOD FOR CUTTING A CUTTING TRENCH IN THE GROUND | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 35d overdue |
| 18682958 | GRAB DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A GRAB DEVICE | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 4d overdue |
| 19114109 | CIVIL ENGINEERING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A CIVIL ENGINEERING MACHINE | HALL, KRISTYN A | 70d |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18559308 | DIAPHRAGM WALL CUTTER AND METHOD FOR CUTTING A CUTTING TRENCH IN THE GROUND | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 35d overdue |
| 17997017 | WORKING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR WORKING THE GROUND | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 17d overdue |
| 18682958 | GRAB DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A GRAB DEVICE | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 4d overdue |
| 18472379 | CIVIL ENGINEERING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR CREATING A FOUNDATION IN THE GROUND | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 8d |
| 18644740 | DRILLING TOOL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A BORE IN THE GROUND | MICHENER, BLAKE E | 12d |
| 18294276 | GRAB DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A GRAB DEVICE | BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | 22d |
| 18548494 | TRENCH WALL CUTTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CUTTING A CUTTING TRENCH IN THE GROUND | BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | 61d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 3 |
| 3671 | 2 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19114109 | CIVIL ENGINEERING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A CIVIL ENGINEERING MACHINE | HALL, KRISTYN A | 3672 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 18644740 | DRILLING TOOL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A BORE IN THE GROUND | MICHENER, BLAKE E | 3676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18682958 | GRAB DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A GRAB DEVICE | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 3672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18294276 | GRAB DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A GRAB DEVICE | BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | 3671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18559308 | DIAPHRAGM WALL CUTTER AND METHOD FOR CUTTING A CUTTING TRENCH IN THE GROUND | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18472379 | CIVIL ENGINEERING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR CREATING A FOUNDATION IN THE GROUND | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 3672 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18548494 | TRENCH WALL CUTTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CUTTING A CUTTING TRENCH IN THE GROUND | BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | 3671 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 17997017 | WORKING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR WORKING THE GROUND | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 3678 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
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