Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Grenova Inc. has 2 pending office actions currently under review. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, resulting in a direct correlation between the number of pending actions and the number of examiners.
DONALD R SPAMER is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With 0 distinct art units recorded, the prosecution footprint remains highly concentrated despite the involvement of multiple examiners.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPAMER, DONALD R | 1 | 59.2% | +32.1% |
| ZHANG, RICHARD Z | 1 | 65.9% | +64.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18986043 | PIPETTE TIP WASHING DEVICE | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19062426 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STERILIZING AND STORAGE OF LABORATORY CONSUMABLES | SPAMER, DONALD R | — |
| 18986043 | PIPETTE TIP WASHING DEVICE | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19062426 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STERILIZING AND STORAGE OF LABORATORY CONSUMABLES | SPAMER, DONALD R | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 18986043 | PIPETTE TIP WASHING DEVICE | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
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