Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Carbon Inc.

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
2
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
§102 only2 (40%)
§112 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
60% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
40% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LEE, EDMUND H 1 69.2% +17.6%
SERGENT, RABON A 1 54.2% +24.7%
IRVIN, THOMAS W 1 77.0% +15.0%
AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K 1 70.8% +26.0%
LEE, MICHELLE J 1 40.2% +61.2%

Interview Candidates (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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18302227 LIGHT SOURCE VARIABILITY CORRECTION IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K 32d overdue
18552805 HYBRID SURFACE LATTICES FOR ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS IRVIN, THOMAS W 5d
18296489 PROTECTIVE MOUTHGUARD LEE, MICHELLE J 5d
18562951 METHODS FOR THE RAPID PRODUCTION OF BLOCKED PREPOLYMERS SERGENT, RABON A 8d
18788298 RESINS INCLUDING COVALENTLY BOUND FILLERS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING LEE, EDMUND H 33d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1744 1
1765 1
3616 1
1743 1
3786 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18788298 RESINS INCLUDING COVALENTLY BOUND FILLERS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING LEE, EDMUND H 1744 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jul 30, 2024
18562951 METHODS FOR THE RAPID PRODUCTION OF BLOCKED PREPOLYMERS SERGENT, RABON A 1765 §112 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Nov 21, 2023
18552805 HYBRID SURFACE LATTICES FOR ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS IRVIN, THOMAS W 3616 §102 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Sep 27, 2023
18302227 LIGHT SOURCE VARIABILITY CORRECTION IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K 1743 §102 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2023
18296489 PROTECTIVE MOUTHGUARD LEE, MICHELLE J 3786 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Apr 06, 2023

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