Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
16 pending office actions • 6 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 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. 16 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 | 14 (88%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (6%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRINKER, YANA B | 4 | 57.9% | +33.5% |
| FELTON, MICHAEL J | 2 | 59.1% | +14.8% |
| CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 1 | 62.1% | +39.3% |
| CHU, KING M | 1 | 75.4% | +13.1% |
| SZEWCZYK, CYNTHIA | 1 | 73.7% | +9.9% |
| WILL, KATHERINE A | 1 | 66.5% | +20.7% |
| MOORE, STEPHANIE LYNN | 1 | 60.4% | +37.4% |
| SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 1 | 33.3% | +40.2% |
| NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | 1 | 65.2% | +18.7% |
| SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1 | 57.5% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17605608 | Cigarillo | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | 45d overdue |
| 18730077 | PACKAGES AND WRAPPER | CHU, KING M | 28d overdue |
| 17630342 | COMBUSTIBLE TOBACCO PRODUCT DESIGN SYSTEM AND METHOD | SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 23d overdue |
| 16666508 | INHALATION DEVICE AND COMPONENT FOR AN INHALATION DEVICE | KRINKER, YANA B | 18d overdue |
| 16632566 | Tobacco constituent releasing components | KRINKER, YANA B | 4d overdue |
| 15754818 | APPARATUS FOR HEATING SMOKABLE MATERIAL | KRINKER, YANA B | 3d overdue |
| 16755511 | AEROSOLIZABLE PRODUCT | KRINKER, YANA B | 6d |
| 17755762 | TOBACCO TREATMENT | MOORE, STEPHANIE LYNN | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 6 |
| 1747 | 5 |
| 3735 | 2 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 1685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18730181 | A PACKAGE | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18730077 | PACKAGES AND WRAPPER | CHU, KING M | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18006814 | MODULAR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A CONSUMABLE UNIT FOR AN INHALATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECONFIGURING SAID APPARATUS | SZEWCZYK, CYNTHIA | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
| 18152916 | METHOD OF EXTRACTING VOLATILE COMPOUNDS FROM TOBACCO MATERIAL | FELTON, MICHAEL J | 1747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Jan 11, 2023 |
| 17905567 | DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | WILL, KATHERINE A | 1747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
| 17755762 | TOBACCO TREATMENT | MOORE, STEPHANIE LYNN | 1747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | May 06, 2022 |
| 17630342 | COMBUSTIBLE TOBACCO PRODUCT DESIGN SYSTEM AND METHOD | SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 1685 | Other | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2022 |
| 17605608 | Cigarillo | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | 1747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Oct 22, 2021 |
| 17601644 | SMOKING ARTICLE | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Oct 05, 2021 |
| 17423797 | TOBACCO CONSTITUENT RELEASING COMPONENTS, METHODS OF MAKING THE COMPONENTS AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE COMPONENTS | MARTIN, JOHN MITCHELL | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jul 16, 2021 |
| 17173687 | FLAVOURING COMPONENT, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A FLAVOURING COMPONENT | FELTON, MICHAEL J | 1747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Feb 11, 2021 |
| 16755511 | AEROSOLIZABLE PRODUCT | KRINKER, YANA B | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Apr 10, 2020 |
| 16632566 | Tobacco constituent releasing components | KRINKER, YANA B | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 21, 2020 |
| 16666508 | INHALATION DEVICE AND COMPONENT FOR AN INHALATION DEVICE | KRINKER, YANA B | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Oct 29, 2019 |
| 16609112 | A PACK | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 3735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 89d overdue | Pending | Oct 28, 2019 |
| 15754818 | APPARATUS FOR HEATING SMOKABLE MATERIAL | KRINKER, YANA B | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2018 |
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