Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 5 (83%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1 | 8.3% | -9.1% |
| ROBERTS, LEZAH | 1 | 48.7% | +36.3% |
| LIU, TRACY | 1 | 54.9% | +28.0% |
| JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1 | 25.5% | +31.8% |
| LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1 | 2.6% | -3.2% |
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1 | 23.0% | +31.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17778329 | TASTE MODIFYING COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 22d overdue |
| 18254146 | KOKUMI TASTE ENHANCEMENT AND RELATED SCREENING METHODS | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 17d overdue |
| 18562730 | POLYCATIONIC SALTS OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 5d |
| 18271414 | SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING MOGROSIDES AND USES THEREOF | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 50d |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562250 | COMPOSITIONS THAT ENHANCE THE COOLING EFFECT | ROBERTS, LEZAH | 24d overdue |
| 17778329 | TASTE MODIFYING COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 22d overdue |
| 18260829 | COMPOSITIONS THAT ENHANCE THE COOLING EFFECT | LIU, TRACY | 4d overdue |
| 18271414 | SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING MOGROSIDES AND USES THEREOF | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 50d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 3 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18562730 | POLYCATIONIC SALTS OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18562250 | COMPOSITIONS THAT ENHANCE THE COOLING EFFECT | ROBERTS, LEZAH | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18260829 | COMPOSITIONS THAT ENHANCE THE COOLING EFFECT | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | Other | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18271414 | SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING MOGROSIDES AND USES THEREOF | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 18254146 | KOKUMI TASTE ENHANCEMENT AND RELATED SCREENING METHODS | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 17778329 | TASTE MODIFYING COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | May 19, 2022 |
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