Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
10 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 5 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAND, MICHAEL A | 2 | 44.9% | +55.5% |
| KLUNK, MARGARET D | 2 | 44.0% | +31.5% |
| BENNETT, CHARLEE | 1 | 58.2% | +35.7% |
| LU, HUA | 1 | 68.9% | +27.0% |
| WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | 1 | 54.3% | +18.1% |
| LUND, JEFFRIE ROBERT | 1 | 60.4% | +29.3% |
| ZERVIGON, RUDY | 1 | 66.7% | -5.9% |
| MOORE, KARLA A | 1 | 43.2% | +14.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16366392 | DEGASSING METHOD, DEGASSING CHAMBER, AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING APPARATUS | MOORE, KARLA A | 50d overdue |
| 18258499 | MAGNETRON SPUTTERING APPARATUS | BAND, MICHAEL A | 8d overdue |
| 18768381 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT AND CARRIER DEVICE THEREOF | BENNETT, CHARLEE | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16366392 | DEGASSING METHOD, DEGASSING CHAMBER, AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING APPARATUS | MOORE, KARLA A | 50d overdue |
| 18258499 | MAGNETRON SPUTTERING APPARATUS | BAND, MICHAEL A | 8d overdue |
| 18516653 | CARRIER DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT | KLUNK, MARGARET D | 28d |
| 18768381 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT AND CARRIER DEVICE THEREOF | BENNETT, CHARLEE | — |
| 18725412 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS APPARATUS SCHEDULING CONTROL METHOD AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS APPARATUS | LU, HUA | — |
| 18626331 | REACTION CHAMBER COMPONENT, PREPARATION METHOD, AND REACTION CHAMBER | WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | — |
| 18291988 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE AND GAS INLET APPARATUS | LUND, JEFFRIE ROBERT | — |
| 18390612 | BIAS MAGNETIC FIELD CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL DEVICE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS EQUIPMENT | BAND, MICHAEL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 5 |
| 1794 | 2 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18768381 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT AND CARRIER DEVICE THEREOF | BENNETT, CHARLEE | 1718 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18725412 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS APPARATUS SCHEDULING CONTROL METHOD AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS APPARATUS | LU, HUA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18626331 | REACTION CHAMBER COMPONENT, PREPARATION METHOD, AND REACTION CHAMBER | WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18291988 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE AND GAS INLET APPARATUS | LUND, JEFFRIE ROBERT | 1716 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18390612 | BIAS MAGNETIC FIELD CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL DEVICE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS EQUIPMENT | BAND, MICHAEL A | 1794 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18516653 | CARRIER DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT | KLUNK, MARGARET D | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18554624 | PLASMA-ENHANCED ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF | ZERVIGON, RUDY | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
| 18258499 | MAGNETRON SPUTTERING APPARATUS | BAND, MICHAEL A | 1794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18313027 | CARRIER DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR REACTION CHAMBER | KLUNK, MARGARET D | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 16366392 | DEGASSING METHOD, DEGASSING CHAMBER, AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING APPARATUS | MOORE, KARLA A | 1716 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2019 |
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