Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 1 | 82.0% | +16.6% |
| LIN, CHENG XI | 1 | 84.5% | +14.4% |
| KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 1 | 78.0% | +17.9% |
| SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 83.8% | +12.7% |
| MEDANI, MOHAMED NMN | 1 | 75.0% | +18.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18180460 | CONVOLUTE FOR A BELLOWS OF A GANGWAY AND BELLOWS OF A GANGWAY | LIN, CHENG XI | 10d overdue |
| 18372809 | COUPLER ARRANGEMENT FOR RAIL VEHICLE | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 5d |
| 18008885 | COUPLER FOR A RAIL VEHICLE AND A RAIL VEHICLE WITH A COUPLER | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 12d |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17924864 | CONVOLUTE FOR A BELLOWS FOR A GANGWAY, BELLOWS FOR A GANGWAY AND MULTI-CAR VEHICLE | MEDANI, MOHAMED NMN | 73d overdue |
| 18180460 | CONVOLUTE FOR A BELLOWS OF A GANGWAY AND BELLOWS OF A GANGWAY | LIN, CHENG XI | 10d overdue |
| 18372809 | COUPLER ARRANGEMENT FOR RAIL VEHICLE | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 5d |
| 18008885 | COUPLER FOR A RAIL VEHICLE AND A RAIL VEHICLE WITH A COUPLER | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 12d |
| 18011778 | DEVICE FOR DEFLECTION OF A COUPLER OF A TRAIN VEHICLE, COUPLER OF A TRAIN, CAR OF A MULTI-CAR VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR COUPLING A FIRST CAR OF A MULTI-CAR VEHICLE TO A SECOND CAR OF A MULTI-CAR VEHICLE | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 72d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 4 |
| 3611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18372809 | COUPLER ARRANGEMENT FOR RAIL VEHICLE | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 3615 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18180460 | CONVOLUTE FOR A BELLOWS OF A GANGWAY AND BELLOWS OF A GANGWAY | LIN, CHENG XI | 3615 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
| 18011778 | DEVICE FOR DEFLECTION OF A COUPLER OF A TRAIN VEHICLE, COUPLER OF A TRAIN, CAR OF A MULTI-CAR VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR COUPLING A FIRST CAR OF A MULTI-CAR VEHICLE TO A SECOND CAR OF A MULTI-CAR VEHICLE | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 3615 | §102 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 18008885 | COUPLER FOR A RAIL VEHICLE AND A RAIL VEHICLE WITH A COUPLER | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 17924864 | CONVOLUTE FOR A BELLOWS FOR A GANGWAY, BELLOWS FOR A GANGWAY AND MULTI-CAR VEHICLE | MEDANI, MOHAMED NMN | 3611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Nov 11, 2022 |
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