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Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
DANBURY MISSION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. These 3 actions are being handled by 3 distinct examiners. Furthermore, the matters are distributed across 3 distinct art units. This structure shows that every pending application is being reviewed by a unique examiner in a unique art unit, suggesting a diverse range of chemical or material innovations.
MELLOTT, JAMES M is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This examiner is one of the 3 distinct examiners currently reviewing the company's filings. Because each of the 3 pending office actions is in a different art unit, the company must navigate three distinct technical environments. The prosecution of these 3 pending office actions will require distinct specialized approaches tailored to the specific examiners and art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1 | 51.1% | +44.2% |
| MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 1 | 66.3% | +12.8% |
| ABDUR, RAHMAN | 1 | 74.0% | +17.8% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18614877 | ACTUATORS FOR CONVERTING ROTATIONAL INPUT TO AXIAL OUTPUT | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 23d overdue |
| 18200289 | OPTICAL ELEMENT SHAPING SYSTEMS | ABDUR, RAHMAN | 21d |
| 19037966 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURE OF OPTICAL COMPONENTS | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19037966 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURE OF OPTICAL COMPONENTS | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1759 | Other | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18614877 | ACTUATORS FOR CONVERTING ROTATIONAL INPUT TO AXIAL OUTPUT | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 3618 | §102§112DP | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18200289 | OPTICAL ELEMENT SHAPING SYSTEMS | ABDUR, RAHMAN | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
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