Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 | 7 (70%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| §112 only | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 2 | 44.0% | +40.0% |
| TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE | 1 | 75.0% | +20.7% |
| EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 1 | 66.7% | +17.1% |
| PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C | 1 | 79.1% | +21.3% |
| KLUNK, MARGARET D | 1 | 43.7% | +30.6% |
| BAND, MICHAEL A | 1 | 44.8% | +55.4% |
| SEOANE, TODD MICHAEL | 1 | 61.5% | +52.4% |
| CHAN, LAUREEN | 1 | 58.1% | +54.7% |
| MOORE, KARLA A | 1 | 43.1% | +14.5% |
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 |
| 17926413 | UPPER ELECTRODE MECHANISM, CURRENT CONTROL METHOD FOR RADIO FREQUENCY COIL, AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING APPARATUS | SEOANE, TODD MICHAEL | 19d overdue |
| 18258499 | MAGNETRON SPUTTERING APPARATUS | BAND, MICHAEL A | 8d overdue |
| 18719084 | PIPELINE TEMPERATURE CONTROL EQUIPMENT AND PIPELINE TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 3d overdue |
| 18573756 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOVING PARTS THEREOF | PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C | 8d |
| 17941923 | REACTION CHAMBER | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 14d |
| 18846849 | VACUUMING STSTEM, SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE AND VACUUMING METHOD THEREOF | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 27d |
| 18516653 | CARRIER DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT | KLUNK, MARGARET D | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 5 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18859025 | VAPORIZATION SYSTEM AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS EQUIPMENT | TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18846849 | VACUUMING STSTEM, SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE AND VACUUMING METHOD THEREOF | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18719084 | PIPELINE TEMPERATURE CONTROL EQUIPMENT AND PIPELINE TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 3761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18573756 | SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOVING PARTS THEREOF | PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C | 2116 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18516653 | CARRIER DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT | KLUNK, MARGARET D | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18258499 | MAGNETRON SPUTTERING APPARATUS | BAND, MICHAEL A | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 17926413 | UPPER ELECTRODE MECHANISM, CURRENT CONTROL METHOD FOR RADIO FREQUENCY COIL, AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING APPARATUS | SEOANE, TODD MICHAEL | 1718 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
| 17959052 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND GAS DISTRIBUTOR OF SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS | CHAN, LAUREEN | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Oct 03, 2022 |
| 17941923 | REACTION CHAMBER | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
| 16366392 | DEGASSING METHOD, DEGASSING CHAMBER, AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING APPARATUS | MOORE, KARLA A | 1716 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2019 |
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