Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEUTEL, WILLIAM A | 1 | 70.3% | +21.1% |
| SMITH, SEAN THOMAS | 1 | 85.7% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271666 | MEDIA PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM | SMITH, SEAN THOMAS | 17d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271655 | MEDIA PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM | BEUTEL, WILLIAM A | 84d overdue |
| 18271666 | MEDIA PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM | SMITH, SEAN THOMAS | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2616 | 1 |
| 2659 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18271655 | MEDIA PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM | BEUTEL, WILLIAM A | 2616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 84d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18271666 | MEDIA PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM | SMITH, SEAN THOMAS | 2659 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
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