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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLISER, THERON S | 1 | 51.9% | +32.3% |
| LAU, TUNG S | 1 | 82.8% | +14.4% |
| COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 1 | 21.2% | +29.8% |
| HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1 | 50.4% | +31.4% |
| WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1 | 66.7% | +68.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702228 | PIPETTE CALIBRATION MANAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LAU, TUNG S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557017 | SYSTEM INCLUDING HAND-HELD PIPETTING DEVICE | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | — |
| 18262150 | INCUBATOR AND METHOD | HASSAN, LIBAN M | — |
| 18245251 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING LABWARE | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18770061 | DEVICE FOR MECHANICALLY FASTENING A MODULE TO A WALL OF A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT HAVING A MOUNTING OPENING THAT RECEIVES THE MODULE | MILLISER, THERON S | — |
| 18702228 | PIPETTE CALIBRATION MANAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LAU, TUNG S | — |
| 18557017 | SYSTEM INCLUDING HAND-HELD PIPETTING DEVICE | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | — |
| 18262150 | INCUBATOR AND METHOD | HASSAN, LIBAN M | — |
| 18245251 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING LABWARE | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2841 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18770061 | DEVICE FOR MECHANICALLY FASTENING A MODULE TO A WALL OF A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT HAVING A MOUNTING OPENING THAT RECEIVES THE MODULE | MILLISER, THERON S | 2841 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18702228 | PIPETTE CALIBRATION MANAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LAU, TUNG S | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18557017 | SYSTEM INCLUDING HAND-HELD PIPETTING DEVICE | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 3686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18262150 | INCUBATOR AND METHOD | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1799 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18245251 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING LABWARE | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1798 | §101§102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
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