Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 3 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 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 | 3 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 1 | 85.1% | +3.5% |
| BEMKO, TARAS P | 1 | 84.4% | +19.3% |
| KATCOFF, MATTHEW GORDON | 1 | 69.6% | +15.7% |
| BUI, DUNG H | 1 | 77.8% | +25.4% |
| LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M | 1 | 83.9% | +19.8% |
| GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 1 | 67.0% | +36.2% |
| LIETHEN, KURT PHILIP | 1 | 79.6% | +9.5% |
| BULLOCK, IN SUK C | 1 | 51.0% | +28.6% |
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001712 | INSTRUMENT PANEL REINFORCEMENT | BEMKO, TARAS P | — |
| 18764694 | CANISTER | LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19039117 | BODY MEMBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BODY MEMBER | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | — |
| 18933301 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PRESS-FORMED PRODUCT | KATCOFF, MATTHEW GORDON | — |
| 18761666 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIPE | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17899805 | METHOD OF RESISTANCE SPOT WELDING AND RESISTANCE SPOT WELDING APPARATUS | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 33d |
| 19001712 | INSTRUMENT PANEL REINFORCEMENT | BEMKO, TARAS P | — |
| 18933301 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PRESS-FORMED PRODUCT | KATCOFF, MATTHEW GORDON | — |
| 18774536 | CANISTER | BUI, DUNG H | — |
| 18764694 | CANISTER | LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M | — |
| 18761666 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIPE | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | — |
| 18610677 | FORMED ADSORBER FOR CANISTER | BULLOCK, IN SUK C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19039117 | BODY MEMBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BODY MEMBER | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19001712 | INSTRUMENT PANEL REINFORCEMENT | BEMKO, TARAS P | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18933301 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PRESS-FORMED PRODUCT | KATCOFF, MATTHEW GORDON | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18774536 | CANISTER | BUI, DUNG H | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18764694 | CANISTER | LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18761666 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIPE | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 3725 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18758000 | EVAPORATED FUEL TREATMENT DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF EVAPORATED FUEL TREATMENT DEVICE | LIETHEN, KURT PHILIP | 3747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 138d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18610677 | FORMED ADSORBER FOR CANISTER | BULLOCK, IN SUK C | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 17899805 | METHOD OF RESISTANCE SPOT WELDING AND RESISTANCE SPOT WELDING APPARATUS | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Aug 31, 2022 |
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