Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HINDI, NABIL Z | 2 | 87.4% | +8.9% |
| AGUSTIN, PETER VINCENT | 1 | 83.9% | +12.6% |
| TRINH, MINH N | 1 | 85.5% | +9.8% |
| RENNER, CRAIG A | 1 | 84.2% | +17.6% |
| CHAU, LINDA N | 1 | 44.6% | +16.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18122362 | Self-Aligned Side Gap Insulator For A Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer | RENNER, CRAIG A | 23d |
| 19359507 | Noble Metal Coated Plasmonic Waveguide Blocker For Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Head | HINDI, NABIL Z | — |
| 19355198 | Tapered Optical And Magnetic Elements For Improved Writing In Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording | HINDI, NABIL Z | — |
| 19354502 | Parabolic Shaped Plasmonic Waveguide Blocker For Heat Assisted Recording Head | AGUSTIN, PETER VINCENT | — |
| 18384788 | Seamless Main Pole Electroplating For A Magnetic Recording Write Head | TRINH, MINH N | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18122362 | Self-Aligned Side Gap Insulator For A Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer | RENNER, CRAIG A | 23d |
| 19354502 | Parabolic Shaped Plasmonic Waveguide Blocker For Heat Assisted Recording Head | AGUSTIN, PETER VINCENT | — |
| 17985698 | Gold-Copper Alloy In A Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording Writer | CHAU, LINDA N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 4 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19359507 | Noble Metal Coated Plasmonic Waveguide Blocker For Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Head | HINDI, NABIL Z | 2688 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19355198 | Tapered Optical And Magnetic Elements For Improved Writing In Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording | HINDI, NABIL Z | 2688 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 19354502 | Parabolic Shaped Plasmonic Waveguide Blocker For Heat Assisted Recording Head | AGUSTIN, PETER VINCENT | 2688 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 18384788 | Seamless Main Pole Electroplating For A Magnetic Recording Write Head | TRINH, MINH N | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18122362 | Self-Aligned Side Gap Insulator For A Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer | RENNER, CRAIG A | 2688 | §102 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 17985698 | Gold-Copper Alloy In A Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording Writer | CHAU, LINDA N | 1785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2022 |
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