Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 4 (80%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TECCO, ANDREW M | 1 | 65.1% | +25.0% |
| TILL, TERRENCE R | 1 | 81.0% | +34.2% |
| RUSHING, MARK S | 1 | 76.6% | +24.4% |
| KINSAUL, ANNA KATHRYN | 1 | 42.7% | +57.3% |
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.0% | +30.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18789161 | FILLING UNIT FOR FILLING A SUCCESSION OF TUBULAR WRAPPERS OF THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY | TILL, TERRENCE R | 181d 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18789161 | FILLING UNIT FOR FILLING A SUCCESSION OF TUBULAR WRAPPERS OF THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY | TILL, TERRENCE R | 181d overdue |
| 18925566 | GROUPING UNIT FOR A CARTONING MACHINE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A PACKAGE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF PACKS FOR SMOKING ARTICLES AND AN INSERT, CARTONING MACHINE PROVIDED WITH SAID GROUPING UNIT, METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A PACKAGE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF PACKS FOR SMOKING ARTICLES AND AN INSERT AND PACKAGE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF PACKS FOR SMOKING ARTICLES AND AN INSERT | TECCO, ANDREW M | 81d overdue |
| 18718594 | A PRODUCT- OR CONTAINER-INLET STATION FOR AN OPERATING MACHINE | RUSHING, MARK S | 24d overdue |
| 18006565 | CONTROL METHOD IN A PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR ARTICLES AND A PRODUCTION APPARATUS FOR ARTICLES OPERATING ACCORDING TO THIS METHOD | KINSAUL, ANNA KATHRYN | 8d overdue |
| 17798140 | A MACHINE AND METHOD FOR MAKING A CONTINUOUS TUBULAR ELEMENT WITH FILLING HAVING A SPACER AND/OR FILTER FUNCTION | TAWFIK, SAMEH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 3 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18925566 | GROUPING UNIT FOR A CARTONING MACHINE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A PACKAGE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF PACKS FOR SMOKING ARTICLES AND AN INSERT, CARTONING MACHINE PROVIDED WITH SAID GROUPING UNIT, METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A PACKAGE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF PACKS FOR SMOKING ARTICLES AND AN INSERT AND PACKAGE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF PACKS FOR SMOKING ARTICLES AND AN INSERT | TECCO, ANDREW M | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 81d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18789161 | FILLING UNIT FOR FILLING A SUCCESSION OF TUBULAR WRAPPERS OF THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY | TILL, TERRENCE R | 3993 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 181d overdue | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18718594 | A PRODUCT- OR CONTAINER-INLET STATION FOR AN OPERATING MACHINE | RUSHING, MARK S | 2689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18006565 | CONTROL METHOD IN A PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR ARTICLES AND A PRODUCTION APPARATUS FOR ARTICLES OPERATING ACCORDING TO THIS METHOD | KINSAUL, ANNA KATHRYN | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 17798140 | A MACHINE AND METHOD FOR MAKING A CONTINUOUS TUBULAR ELEMENT WITH FILLING HAVING A SPACER AND/OR FILTER FUNCTION | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2022 |
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