Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 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. 9 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 | 8 (89%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VETERE, ROBERT A | 2 | 60.8% | +13.3% |
| OSTERHOUT, SHELLEY MARIE | 1 | 65.2% | +29.5% |
| GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1 | 35.3% | +46.0% |
| ROLLAND, ALEX A | 1 | 47.0% | +26.5% |
| CAIN, AARON G | 1 | 41.2% | +27.9% |
| TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M | 1 | 66.0% | +6.7% |
| BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1 | 56.3% | +16.3% |
| WANG, MICHAEL H | 1 | 52.1% | +25.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18222355 | HYBRID MOTION PLANNING FOR ROBOTIC DEVICES | CAIN, AARON G | 215d overdue |
| 18793710 | LOW-THRUST PROPULSION VEHICLE WITH TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION USING MINIMUM TIME TRANSFER | OSTERHOUT, SHELLEY MARIE | 35d overdue |
| 18935224 | MASKLESS TOUCH UP TOOL FOR SURFACE COATINGS | VETERE, ROBERT A | 22d overdue |
| 17555035 | MMOD PROTECTION STRUCTURES FOR AEROSPACE VEHICLES, ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | WANG, MICHAEL H | 13d |
| 18464849 | HEATING AND DEPOSITION FOR BENEFICIATION OF LUNAR REGOLITH | ROLLAND, ALEX A | 14d |
| 18398547 | SYSTEMS FOR BONDING OBJECTS USING ENERGETIC WELDING | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 28d |
| 18632095 | MASKLESS TOUCH UP TOOL FOR SURFACE COATINGS | VETERE, ROBERT A | 43d |
| 17801181 | CONTROLLING THE THICKNESS AND WIDTH OF A CRYSTALLINE SHEET FORMED ON THE SURFACE OF A MELT USING COMBINED SURFACE COOLING AND MELT HEATING | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 49d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 2 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18935224 | MASKLESS TOUCH UP TOOL FOR SURFACE COATINGS | VETERE, ROBERT A | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18793710 | LOW-THRUST PROPULSION VEHICLE WITH TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION USING MINIMUM TIME TRANSFER | OSTERHOUT, SHELLEY MARIE | 3669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18632095 | MASKLESS TOUCH UP TOOL FOR SURFACE COATINGS | VETERE, ROBERT A | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18398547 | SYSTEMS FOR BONDING OBJECTS USING ENERGETIC WELDING | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1735 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18464849 | HEATING AND DEPOSITION FOR BENEFICIATION OF LUNAR REGOLITH | ROLLAND, ALEX A | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18222355 | HYBRID MOTION PLANNING FOR ROBOTIC DEVICES | CAIN, AARON G | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 215d overdue | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 18310464 | SYSTEM AND TECHNIQUE FOR FABRICATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPOSITE STRUCTURE | TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M | 1743 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | May 01, 2023 |
| 17801181 | CONTROLLING THE THICKNESS AND WIDTH OF A CRYSTALLINE SHEET FORMED ON THE SURFACE OF A MELT USING COMBINED SURFACE COOLING AND MELT HEATING | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1714 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | Aug 19, 2022 |
| 17555035 | MMOD PROTECTION STRUCTURES FOR AEROSPACE VEHICLES, ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | WANG, MICHAEL H | 3642 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Dec 17, 2021 |
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