Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
15 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days
Darwin Precisions Corporation has 16 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 10 distinct art units, demonstrating a broad technical reach within the materials science sector. The 16 pending office actions are being handled by 14 distinct examiners, which indicates that the workload is distributed across many individuals.
BRIGGS, NATHANAEL R is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. With 10 distinct art units involved, the prosecution strategy must account for the varied standards and practices of many different USPTO departments. The use of 14 distinct examiners suggests a wide distribution of the company's intellectual property across the Chemistry & Materials field. This diversity in art units and examiners requires a multifaceted approach to managing active matters, with 2 pending office actions assigned to the busiest examiner, BRIGGS, NATHANAEL R.
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 | 6 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 2 (13%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRIGGS, NATHANAEL R | 2 | 76.2% | +11.3% |
| MOORE, KARLA A | 2 | 43.1% | +14.0% |
| GARBER, ERIN R | 1 | 82.7% | +17.7% |
| FRISBY, KESHA | 1 | 52.8% | +23.2% |
| LEWIS-TAYLOR, DAYTON A. | 1 | 81.1% | +2.7% |
| CHANG, AUDREY Y | 1 | 46.5% | +20.4% |
| FAROKHROOZ, FATIMA N | 1 | 49.1% | +32.7% |
| STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 55.0% | +26.8% |
| DILLON, DANIEL P | 1 | 26.2% | +29.9% |
| DODDS, SCOTT | 1 | 68.1% | +34.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19207335 | CONTACTLESS BUTTON AND BUTTON | GARBER, ERIN R | — |
| 19026547 | EXTENSIONS DEVICE AND CONTROL SIGNAL CONVERSION METHOD THEREOF | LEWIS-TAYLOR, DAYTON A. | — |
| 19021280 | DISPLAY DEVICE | BRIGGS, NATHANAEL R | — |
| 18402784 | METAL MASK STRUCTURE, PHOTOMASK FOR PREPARING SHIELDING LAYER, AND METHOD FOR PREPARING METAL MASK STRUCTURE BY USING PHOTOMASK | MOORE, KARLA A | — |
| 18383486 | MASK AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | DILLON, DANIEL P | — |
| 18198854 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF METAL MASK AND METAL MASK THEREOF | MOORE, KARLA A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18923720 | BACKLIGHT MODULE | FAROKHROOZ, FATIMA N | 44d overdue |
| 18584475 | DISPLAY APPARATUS | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 27d |
| 19207335 | CONTACTLESS BUTTON AND BUTTON | GARBER, ERIN R | — |
| 19026533 | BIONIC ORGAN DEVICE | FRISBY, KESHA | — |
| 19021280 | DISPLAY DEVICE | BRIGGS, NATHANAEL R | — |
| 18940894 | HOLOGRAM PROJECTION DEVICE | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — |
| 18651722 | MICRO-STRUCTURE FILM AND LIGHT EMITTING MODULE | BRIGGS, NATHANAEL R | — |
| 18402784 | METAL MASK STRUCTURE, PHOTOMASK FOR PREPARING SHIELDING LAYER, AND METHOD FOR PREPARING METAL MASK STRUCTURE BY USING PHOTOMASK | MOORE, KARLA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 3 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1713 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19207335 | CONTACTLESS BUTTON AND BUTTON | GARBER, ERIN R | 2878 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19026533 | BIONIC ORGAN DEVICE | FRISBY, KESHA | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19026547 | EXTENSIONS DEVICE AND CONTROL SIGNAL CONVERSION METHOD THEREOF | LEWIS-TAYLOR, DAYTON A. | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19021280 | DISPLAY DEVICE | BRIGGS, NATHANAEL R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18940894 | HOLOGRAM PROJECTION DEVICE | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18923720 | BACKLIGHT MODULE | FAROKHROOZ, FATIMA N | 2875 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18651722 | MICRO-STRUCTURE FILM AND LIGHT EMITTING MODULE | BRIGGS, NATHANAEL R | 2871 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18584475 | DISPLAY APPARATUS | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 2872 | §112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18402784 | METAL MASK STRUCTURE, PHOTOMASK FOR PREPARING SHIELDING LAYER, AND METHOD FOR PREPARING METAL MASK STRUCTURE BY USING PHOTOMASK | MOORE, KARLA A | 1716 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18383486 | MASK AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | DILLON, DANIEL P | 1713 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18381191 | METAL MASK STRUCTURE | DODDS, SCOTT | 1746 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18377316 | METAL MASK STRUCTURE | TUROCY, DAVID P | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18369851 | MICRONEEDLE PATCH AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | HARRIS, WESLEY G | 3783 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
| 18198854 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF METAL MASK AND METAL MASK THEREOF | MOORE, KARLA A | 1716 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
| 18125137 | METAL MASK | CHEN, KEATH T | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
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