Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Government of the United States of America, As Represented By the Secretary of Commerce, holds a portfolio in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. There are 7 pending office actions currently active. These actions are concentrated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting a focused technical scope for the current pending matters reviewed by a limited number of specialized groups.
Prosecution is distributed among 7 distinct examiners. PETTITT, JOHN F is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The use of 7 distinct examiners for 7 pending office actions shows that the workload is fully decentralized across different individuals. Even though the pending matters are limited to 2 distinct art units, the involvement of 7 distinct examiners ensures that each matter is being handled by a different person.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETTITT, JOHN F | 1 | 26.0% | +21.8% |
| BERHANE, ADOLF D | 1 | 88.4% | -1.8% |
| ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | 1 | 89.0% | +16.7% |
| MCMAHON, DANIEL F | 1 | 89.7% | +2.3% |
| RODDEN, JOSHUA E | 1 | 58.6% | +51.0% |
| CAI, PHUONG HAU | 1 | 76.9% | +26.4% |
| FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 1 | 76.0% | +30.7% |
| FORDE, DELMA ROSA | 1 | 76.6% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19040763 | Superconducting Switch | BERHANE, ADOLF D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709705 | DETECTING FACE MORPHING BY ONE-TO-MANY FACE RECOGNITION | CAI, PHUONG HAU | 35d |
| 19048303 | CRYOCOOLING SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| 19013583 | SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGING VIA PHOTON ENUMERATION | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | — |
| 18913257 | ERROR-CORRECTING CODES FOR FERMIONIC QUANTUM SIMULATION | MCMAHON, DANIEL F | — |
| 18745476 | CHIP TWEEZERS | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | — |
| 18408456 | ULTRA-STABLE INTEGRATED LASER ON SILICON | FORDE, DELMA ROSA | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709705 | DETECTING FACE MORPHING BY ONE-TO-MANY FACE RECOGNITION | CAI, PHUONG HAU | 35d |
| 19048303 | CRYOCOOLING SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| 19013583 | SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGING VIA PHOTON ENUMERATION | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | — |
| 18745476 | CHIP TWEEZERS | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | — |
| 18426179 | CHRONOGRAPHY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING REDUNDANT MEASUREMENT OF PROJECTILE VELOCITY | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | — |
| 18408456 | ULTRA-STABLE INTEGRATED LASER ON SILICON | FORDE, DELMA ROSA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 2111 | 1 |
| 2673 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19048303 | CRYOCOOLING SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19040763 | Superconducting Switch | BERHANE, ADOLF D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 19013583 | SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGING VIA PHOTON ENUMERATION | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18913257 | ERROR-CORRECTING CODES FOR FERMIONIC QUANTUM SIMULATION | MCMAHON, DANIEL F | 2111 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18745476 | CHIP TWEEZERS | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18709705 | DETECTING FACE MORPHING BY ONE-TO-MANY FACE RECOGNITION | CAI, PHUONG HAU | 2673 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18426179 | CHRONOGRAPHY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING REDUNDANT MEASUREMENT OF PROJECTILE VELOCITY | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18408456 | ULTRA-STABLE INTEGRATED LASER ON SILICON | FORDE, DELMA ROSA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
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