Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 1 | 83.5% | +13.0% |
| KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1 | 64.5% | +10.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282129 | MULTI-MATERIAL RAIL PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 2d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282129 | MULTI-MATERIAL RAIL PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 2d overdue |
| 17768713 | Production of Fragments of Lignin with Functional Groups | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18282129 | MULTI-MATERIAL RAIL PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 17768713 | Production of Fragments of Lignin with Functional Groups | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Apr 13, 2022 |
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