Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OH, HARRY Y | 1 | 85.1% | +17.0% |
| LOWE, MICHAEL S | 1 | 66.8% | +19.9% |
| MALATEK, KATHERYN A | 1 | 86.7% | +42.9% |
| MCCAFFREY, KAYLA M | 1 | 76.8% | +16.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18162064 | ARC WELDING CONTROL METHOD | MALATEK, KATHERYN A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19205395 | Robot System | OH, HARRY Y | — |
| 18058096 | WELDING TORCH | MCCAFFREY, KAYLA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19205395 | Robot System | OH, HARRY Y | — |
| 18491768 | TRANSPORT APPARATUS | LOWE, MICHAEL S | — |
| 18162064 | ARC WELDING CONTROL METHOD | MALATEK, KATHERYN A | — |
| 18058096 | WELDING TORCH | MCCAFFREY, KAYLA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19205395 | Robot System | OH, HARRY Y | 3657 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 18491768 | TRANSPORT APPARATUS | LOWE, MICHAEL S | 3652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2023 |
| 18162064 | ARC WELDING CONTROL METHOD | MALATEK, KATHERYN A | 3741 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
| 18058096 | WELDING TORCH | MCCAFFREY, KAYLA M | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2022 |
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