Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 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 | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAITS, ALAN B | 1 | 68.9% | +29.6% |
| COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | 1 | 57.6% | +39.0% |
| DHAKAL, BICKEY | 1 | 84.3% | +16.4% |
| ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 1 | 83.4% | +10.7% |
| KIM, SANG K | 1 | 81.4% | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747790 | IMPELLER FOR A RADIAL FAN | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977316 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FLOW PRODUCING SYSTEM ALS WELL AS A FLOW PRODUCING SYSTEM | COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | — |
| 18947242 | MULTI-MOTOR CONVERTER | DHAKAL, BICKEY | — |
| 18201518 | DOWNSTREAM GUIDE DEVICE AND FAN WITH DOWNSTREAM GUIDE DEVICE | KIM, SANG K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19042082 | COOLED AERODYNAMIC THRUST BEARING AS WELL AS TURBOCOMPRESSOR WITH SUCH A THRUST BEARING | WAITS, ALAN B | — |
| 18977316 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FLOW PRODUCING SYSTEM ALS WELL AS A FLOW PRODUCING SYSTEM | COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | — |
| 18947242 | MULTI-MOTOR CONVERTER | DHAKAL, BICKEY | — |
| 18747790 | IMPELLER FOR A RADIAL FAN | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | — |
| 18201518 | DOWNSTREAM GUIDE DEVICE AND FAN WITH DOWNSTREAM GUIDE DEVICE | KIM, SANG K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19042082 | COOLED AERODYNAMIC THRUST BEARING AS WELL AS TURBOCOMPRESSOR WITH SUCH A THRUST BEARING | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18977316 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FLOW PRODUCING SYSTEM ALS WELL AS A FLOW PRODUCING SYSTEM | COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | 3746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18947242 | MULTI-MOTOR CONVERTER | DHAKAL, BICKEY | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18747790 | IMPELLER FOR A RADIAL FAN | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18201518 | DOWNSTREAM GUIDE DEVICE AND FAN WITH DOWNSTREAM GUIDE DEVICE | KIM, SANG K | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
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