Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 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%) |
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHENG, LOIS L | 3 | 67.7% | +13.2% |
| ZHANG, HAI Y | 1 | 67.7% | +43.5% |
| FLETCHER III, WILLIAM P | 1 | 76.2% | +16.6% |
| WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1 | 54.8% | +17.5% |
| WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1 | 54.0% | +46.9% |
| DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 1 | 53.8% | +75.7% |
| JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1 | 34.7% | +44.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17428679 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR APPLYING SILANE-BASED COATINGS ON SOLID SURFACES, IN PARTICULAR ON METAL SURFACES | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 59d overdue |
| 18000972 | Phosphonate-Free, Aqueous Pickling Compositions and Their Use | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 37d overdue |
| 18250478 | TREATMENT OF METALLIC SURFACES BY OH-FUNCTIONAL COPOLYMER CONTAINING ACIDIC AQUEOUS COMPOSITIONS | ZHENG, LOIS L | 22d overdue |
| 17904969 | ONE-STEP PRETREATMENT METHOD OF METALLIC SUBSTRATES FOR METAL COLD FORMING | ZHENG, LOIS L | 17d overdue |
| 18251614 | TREATMENT OF METALLIC SURFACES BY COPOLYMER CONTAINING ACIDIC AQUEOUS COMPOSITIONS | WEISS, PAMELA HL | 8d overdue |
| 18602585 | PRE-TREATING ALUMINUM SURFACES WITH ZIRCONIUM- AND MOLYBDENUM-CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS | ZHANG, HAI Y | 1d overdue |
| 18003662 | Improved Activation Agent for Manganese Phosphating Processes | ZHENG, LOIS L | 16d |
| 18556479 | AQUEOUS COMPOSITION FOR METALLIC SURFACE TREATMENT AND THE APPLICATION THEREOF | FLETCHER III, WILLIAM P | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 3 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18602585 | PRE-TREATING ALUMINUM SURFACES WITH ZIRCONIUM- AND MOLYBDENUM-CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS | ZHANG, HAI Y | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18556479 | AQUEOUS COMPOSITION FOR METALLIC SURFACE TREATMENT AND THE APPLICATION THEREOF | FLETCHER III, WILLIAM P | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18549258 | ONE-STEP PRETREATMENT METHOD OF METALLIC SUBSTRATES AT NON-NEUTRAL PH VALUES FOR METAL COLD FORMING | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | DP | Non-Final OA | 85d | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18251614 | TREATMENT OF METALLIC SURFACES BY COPOLYMER CONTAINING ACIDIC AQUEOUS COMPOSITIONS | WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 18250478 | TREATMENT OF METALLIC SURFACES BY OH-FUNCTIONAL COPOLYMER CONTAINING ACIDIC AQUEOUS COMPOSITIONS | ZHENG, LOIS L | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
| 18003662 | Improved Activation Agent for Manganese Phosphating Processes | ZHENG, LOIS L | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
| 18000972 | Phosphonate-Free, Aqueous Pickling Compositions and Their Use | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 17904969 | ONE-STEP PRETREATMENT METHOD OF METALLIC SUBSTRATES FOR METAL COLD FORMING | ZHENG, LOIS L | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2022 |
| 17428679 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR APPLYING SILANE-BASED COATINGS ON SOLID SURFACES, IN PARTICULAR ON METAL SURFACES | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 59d overdue | Pending | Aug 05, 2021 |
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