Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
13 pending office actions • 7 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 80 patents granted in the last 365 days
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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 5 (38%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (31%) |
| §103 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (23%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUN, XIUQIN | 2 | 72.5% | +3.7% |
| OBAID, HAMZEH M | 1 | 38.2% | +22.3% |
| SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 1 | 11.1% | +14.7% |
| KASSA, ELIZABETH | 1 | 80.2% | -6.3% |
| WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 1 | 18.7% | +18.7% |
| PATTON, SPENCER D | 1 | 73.8% | +21.4% |
| LEE, SANGKYUNG | 1 | 60.5% | +9.7% |
| RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY | 1 | 4.7% | +7.9% |
| LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 1 | 22.2% | +29.8% |
| ULLAH, ARIF | 1 | 47.2% | +36.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19216788 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS (IIOT) BASED ON CLOUD PLATFORMS | KASSA, ELIZABETH | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18485307 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MAINTENANCE TIME OF PIPE NETWORKS OF NATURAL GAS | SUN, XIUQIN | 212d overdue |
| 18331149 | METHODS AND INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEMS FOR SMART GAS PLATFORM WORK ORDER FULFILLMENT | ULLAH, ARIF | 121d overdue |
| 19169026 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING GAS REGULATORY INFORMATION | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 21d |
| 18321764 | METHODS AND INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEMS FOR CREATING SMART GAS CALL CENTER WORK ORDERS | NGUYEN, TAN D | 26d |
| 18332646 | METHODS, INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEMS AND MEDIUM FOR OPTIMIZING SMART GAS WORK ORDER SCHEDULING | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 83d |
| 19299289 | METHOD AND INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATING MAINTENANCE TASKS BASED ON SMART GAS | OBAID, HAMZEH M | — |
| 19277430 | SMART GAS INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEM FOR MONITORING TARGET PIPELINE | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18743063 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING PIPELINE FAILURES BASED ON SMART GAS INTERNET OF THINGS | SUN, XIUQIN | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18331149 | METHODS AND INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEMS FOR SMART GAS PLATFORM WORK ORDER FULFILLMENT | ULLAH, ARIF | 121d overdue |
| 19169026 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING GAS REGULATORY INFORMATION | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 21d |
| 18332646 | METHODS, INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEMS AND MEDIUM FOR OPTIMIZING SMART GAS WORK ORDER SCHEDULING | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 83d |
| 19299289 | METHOD AND INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATING MAINTENANCE TASKS BASED ON SMART GAS | OBAID, HAMZEH M | — |
| 19277430 | SMART GAS INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEM FOR MONITORING TARGET PIPELINE | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | — |
| 19169028 | INSPECTION METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF UNDERGROUND PIPELINE CORRIDOR BASED ON SMART GAS REGULATORY INTERNET OF THINGS | PATTON, SPENCER D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 3 |
| 2857 | 3 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3621 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19299289 | METHOD AND INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATING MAINTENANCE TASKS BASED ON SMART GAS | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 3624 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 19277430 | SMART GAS INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEM FOR MONITORING TARGET PIPELINE | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 3621 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 19216788 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS (IIOT) BASED ON CLOUD PLATFORMS | KASSA, ELIZABETH | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19169026 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING GAS REGULATORY INFORMATION | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 3629 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19169028 | INSPECTION METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF UNDERGROUND PIPELINE CORRIDOR BASED ON SMART GAS REGULATORY INTERNET OF THINGS | PATTON, SPENCER D | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 18743063 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING PIPELINE FAILURES BASED ON SMART GAS INTERNET OF THINGS | SUN, XIUQIN | 2857 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18510593 | METHOD, INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ASSESSING SMART GAS EMERGENCY PLAN | LEE, SANGKYUNG | 3663 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18497992 | METHOD, INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SMART GAS ABNORMAL DATA ANALYSIS | RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY | 2857 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18485307 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MAINTENANCE TIME OF PIPE NETWORKS OF NATURAL GAS | SUN, XIUQIN | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 212d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18332646 | METHODS, INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEMS AND MEDIUM FOR OPTIMIZING SMART GAS WORK ORDER SCHEDULING | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 3629 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 18331149 | METHODS AND INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEMS FOR SMART GAS PLATFORM WORK ORDER FULFILLMENT | ULLAH, ARIF | 3625 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 121d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18321764 | METHODS AND INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEMS FOR CREATING SMART GAS CALL CENTER WORK ORDERS | NGUYEN, TAN D | 3629 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18152742 | METHOD AND INTERNET OF THINGS SYSTEM FOR DEPLOYING NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION POINTS IN A SMART CITY | ALHIJA, SAIF A | 2186 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2023 |
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