Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
59 pending office actions • 22 art units • 50 examiners • 0 of 59 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 205 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 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. 21 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (7%) |
| §103 only | 21 (36%) |
| §102 only | 4 (7%) |
| §112 only | 3 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 24 (41%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 3 | 54.2% | +38.3% |
| TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 2 | 83.6% | +9.0% |
| BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | 2 | 83.9% | +11.8% |
| MALEVIC, DJURA | 2 | 78.1% | +10.5% |
| LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2 | 63.7% | +9.4% |
| LEE JR, WOODY A | 2 | 84.9% | +13.2% |
| WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 2 | 42.4% | +41.3% |
| NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 2 | 32.0% | +36.8% |
| YODER III, CHRISS S | 1 | 75.1% | +21.7% |
| STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1 | 88.3% | +8.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725840 | RADIATION DETECTOR AND RADIATION DETECTOR ARRAY | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 9d |
| 19119885 | IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE, INSPECTION DEVICE, AND IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD | STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | — |
| 18881824 | SPECTROMETRY DEVICE, AND SPECTROMETRY METHOD | BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | — |
| 18014819 | LASER MACHINING DEVICE AND LASER MACHINING METHOD | LEE JR, WOODY A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18104340 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND DISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID | 24d overdue |
| 18277643 | MASS SPECTROMETRY DEVICE AND MASS SPECTROMETRY METHOD | NGUYEN, KIET TUAN | 17d overdue |
| 18706789 | WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENT METHOD | AMARA, MOHAMED K | 8d |
| 18432346 | MIRROR DEVICE | NIGAM, NATASHA | 29d |
| 18023145 | DISTANCE IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE AND DISTANCE IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 33d |
| 17914806 | QUANTUM-CASCADE LASER ELEMENT AND QUANTUM-CASCADE LASER DEVICE | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 57d |
| 18014363 | DIAGNOSTIC AGENT FOR PANCREATIC FUNCTION | LIU, TRACY | 70d |
| 18998316 | IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE AND IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716232 | CRYSTAL GROWTH METHOD, AND CRYSTAL GROWTH DEVICE | MALEVIC, DJURA | 43d overdue |
| 17701899 | QUANTUM CASCADE LASER | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 42d overdue |
| 18032407 | IMAGING UNIT AND IMAGING SYSTEM | MALEVIC, DJURA | 8d |
| 18108177 | QUANTUM CASCADE LASER ELEMENT AND QUANTUM CASCADE LASER DEVICE | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 29d |
| 18266842 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE AND LASER PROCESSING METHOD | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 33d |
| 17914806 | QUANTUM-CASCADE LASER ELEMENT AND QUANTUM-CASCADE LASER DEVICE | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 57d |
| 19130242 | PHOTODETECTOR, CAMERA AND IMAGING SYSTEM | YODER III, CHRISS S | — |
| 18881824 | SPECTROMETRY DEVICE, AND SPECTROMETRY METHOD | BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 7 |
| 2828 | 6 |
| 2877 | 5 |
| 2884 | 3 |
| 2881 | 3 |
| 2872 | 2 |
| 2898 | 2 |
| 3645 | 2 |
| 2638 | 1 |
| 2484 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19130242 | PHOTODETECTOR, CAMERA AND IMAGING SYSTEM | YODER III, CHRISS S | 2638 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19119885 | IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE, INSPECTION DEVICE, AND IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD | STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19104769 | OPTICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND OPTICAL MEASUREMENT METHOD | SHIBRU, HELEN | 2484 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18998316 | IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE AND IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18881824 | SPECTROMETRY DEVICE, AND SPECTROMETRY METHOD | BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18879964 | LIGHT IRRADIATION DEVICE, MEASUREMENT DEVICE, OBSERVATION DEVICE, AND FILM THICKNESS MEASUREMENT DEVICE | BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18878759 | RADIATION DETECTOR, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND RADIATION DETECTION METHOD | LEE, SHUN K | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18875262 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING REGION OF CELL THAT HAS UNDERGONE PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH, DEVICE COMPRISING DETERMINATION UNIT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM INCLUDING DETERMINATION STEP | CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18859670 | OPTICAL-VORTEX CONTROL DEVICE AND OPTICAL-VORTEX CONTROL METHOD | NUR, ABDULLAHI | 2877 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18895599 | ELECTRON TUBE AND SPECTROSCOPE | SMYTH, ANDREW P | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18845461 | LOWER EXTREMITY VASCULAR LESION EVALUATION DEVICE AND LOWER EXTREMITY VASCULAR LESION EVALUATION METHOD | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18841829 | ENERGY BEAM DETECTING SYSTEM | KO, TONY | 2878 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18795589 | SEMICONDUCTOR FAULT ANALYSIS DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR FAULT ANALYSIS METHOD | MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18834600 | PHOTODETECTOR | MENZ, DOUGLAS M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18728112 | SPECIMEN SUPPORT, IONIZATION METHOD, AND MASS SPECTROMETRY METHOD | VANORE, DAVID A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18726138 | LASER PROCESSING METHOD AND LASER PROCESSING DEVICE | SMITH, BRADLEY | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18725840 | RADIATION DETECTOR AND RADIATION DETECTOR ARRAY | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18722784 | SAMPLE SUPPORT BODY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAMPLE SUPPORT BODY | WANG, JING | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18716232 | CRYSTAL GROWTH METHOD, AND CRYSTAL GROWTH DEVICE | MALEVIC, DJURA | 2884 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18708663 | SAMPLE SUPPORT UNIT, AND SAMPLE IONIZATION METHOD | MACCHIAROLO, PETER J | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18706789 | WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENT METHOD | AMARA, MOHAMED K | 2877 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18641606 | MEASUREMENT UNIT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MEASUREMENT UNIT, AND BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE MEASUREMENT METHOD | XU, XIAOYUN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18698876 | AUTOFOCUS ASSISTANCE METHOD, AUTOFOCUS ASSISTANCE DEVICE, AND AUTOFOCUS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | TON, TRI T | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18683921 | ESTIMATION METHOD, ESTIMATION PROGRAM, AND ESTIMATION DEVICE | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | — | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18439947 | ABNORMALITY DETECTION METHOD AND ACTUATOR DEVICE | VU, PHU | 2871 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18432346 | MIRROR DEVICE | NIGAM, NATASHA | 2872 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18432299 | MIRROR DEVICE | DUNNING, RYAN S | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18291611 | FIBER LASER DEVICE AND FIBER MODULE FOR FIBER LASER DEVICE | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | — | §103§112DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18545069 | GRAPHENE MANUFACTURING METHOD | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18529176 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL DETECTION ELEMENT AND OPTICAL DETECTION ELEMENT | NADAV, ORI | 2811 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18389287 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PROSTATE CANCER | WALLENHORST, MAUREEN | 1797 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18285954 | OPTICAL CORRECTION COEFFICIENT PREDICTION METHOD, OPTICAL CORRECTION COEFFICIENT PREDICTION DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, MACHINE LEARNING PREPROCESSING METHOD, AND TRAINED LEARNING MODEL | BREENE, PAUL J | 2129 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18285967 | LIGHT CORRECTION COEFFICIENT PREDICTION METHOD, LIGHT CORRECTION COEFFICIENT PREDICTION DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, PRE-PROCESSING METHOD IN MACHINE LEARNING, AND TRAINED LEARNING MODEL | LAU, TUNG S | 2857 | §112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18285292 | MEASURING DEVICE | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18243753 | PHOTODETECTOR | SCHODDE, CHRISTOPHER A | 2898 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18279953 | LASER DEVICE | KING, JOSHUA | 2828 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18277643 | MASS SPECTROMETRY DEVICE AND MASS SPECTROMETRY METHOD | NGUYEN, KIET TUAN | 2881 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18275680 | LASER MEDIUM UNIT AND LASER DEVICE | MANNO, JESSICA S | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18269318 | ACTIVE ENERGY IRRADIATION DEVICE AND ACTIVE ENERGY IRRADIATION SYSTEM | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18268383 | LASER MACHINING METHOD | LEE JR, WOODY A | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18266842 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE AND LASER PROCESSING METHOD | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 3761 | §102 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18265287 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT AND LASER MODULE | NIU, XINNING | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 18195508 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND LIGHT RECEIVING AND EMITTING MODULE | DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN | 2666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18032407 | IMAGING UNIT AND IMAGING SYSTEM | MALEVIC, DJURA | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
| 18023145 | DISTANCE IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE AND DISTANCE IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 18108177 | QUANTUM CASCADE LASER ELEMENT AND QUANTUM CASCADE LASER DEVICE | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
| 18104340 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND DISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Feb 01, 2023 |
| 18018314 | SAMPLE SUPPORT, IONIZATION METHOD, AND MASS SPECTROMETRY METHOD | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 18014819 | LASER MACHINING DEVICE AND LASER MACHINING METHOD | LEE JR, WOODY A | 3761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
| 18014363 | DIAGNOSTIC AGENT FOR PANCREATIC FUNCTION | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jan 04, 2023 |
| 17925409 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT DETECTION ELEMENT | SHEKER, RHYS PONIENTE | 2813 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
| 17964034 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT | SRINIVASAN, SESHA SAIRAMAN | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 85d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2022 |
| 17914836 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING QUANTUM CASCADE LASER ELEMENT | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
| 17914806 | QUANTUM-CASCADE LASER ELEMENT AND QUANTUM-CASCADE LASER DEVICE | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 2828 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
| 17910075 | LASER MACHINING DEVICE AND LASER MACHINING METHOD | BURNS, KRISTINA BABINSKI | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2022 |
| 17910060 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE AND LASER PROCESSING METHOD | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 3761 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2022 |
| 17795062 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE AND LASER PROCESSING METHOD | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2022 |
| 17701899 | QUANTUM CASCADE LASER | NELSON, HUNTER JARED | 2828 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Mar 23, 2022 |
| 17642998 | INSPECTION DEVICE AND INSPECTION METHOD | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2022 |
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