Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (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. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERTS, HERBERT K | 1 | 68.2% | +13.0% |
| TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1 | 28.6% | +26.5% |
| VAN, QUANG T | 1 | 74.2% | +8.3% |
| SMITH, CHAIM A | 1 | 39.2% | +51.2% |
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.2% |
| LE, EMILY M | 1 | 17.6% | -3.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18366248 | MICROWAVE FOOD PRODUCT WITH VENT FOR ROASTING | SMITH, CHAIM A | 71d overdue |
| 18807441 | SPROUTED POPCORN AND METHOD FOR MAKING SPROUTED POPCORN | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | — |
| 18769652 | WATER ABSORBERS AND SEPARATION MECHANISMS FOR APPLICATION TO HIGH MOISTURE FOODSTUFFS | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
| 18530834 | MICROWAVE COOKING PACKAGE | VAN, QUANG T | — |
| 16891461 | PLANT OIL BASED FAT SPREAD | LE, EMILY M | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18366248 | MICROWAVE FOOD PRODUCT WITH VENT FOR ROASTING | SMITH, CHAIM A | 71d overdue |
| 18807441 | SPROUTED POPCORN AND METHOD FOR MAKING SPROUTED POPCORN | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | — |
| 18769652 | WATER ABSORBERS AND SEPARATION MECHANISMS FOR APPLICATION TO HIGH MOISTURE FOODSTUFFS | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
| 18206883 | FLUOROCHEMICAL-FREE MICROWAVE POPCORN PACKAGE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18807441 | SPROUTED POPCORN AND METHOD FOR MAKING SPROUTED POPCORN | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18769652 | WATER ABSORBERS AND SEPARATION MECHANISMS FOR APPLICATION TO HIGH MOISTURE FOODSTUFFS | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18530834 | MICROWAVE COOKING PACKAGE | VAN, QUANG T | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18366248 | MICROWAVE FOOD PRODUCT WITH VENT FOR ROASTING | SMITH, CHAIM A | 1791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
| 18206883 | FLUOROCHEMICAL-FREE MICROWAVE POPCORN PACKAGE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 16891461 | PLANT OIL BASED FAT SPREAD | LE, EMILY M | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2020 |
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