Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KELLY, CATHERINE A | 1 | 60.0% | +28.0% |
| HESS, DOUGLAS A | 1 | 88.8% | +10.7% |
| PALMER, ALEX ROBERT | 1 | 58.7% | +8.5% |
| GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 59.1% | +23.1% |
| MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 1 | 68.2% | +13.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17618794 | A THERMALLY CONTROLLED HOUSING ASSEMBLY FOR ELECTRICAL CELLS | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 9d overdue |
| 18990609 | RUN CHANNEL FOR A MOVABLE WINDOW FRAME OF A VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | KELLY, CATHERINE A | 4d overdue |
| 18865558 | TRANSMISSION BELT FOR A ROLLER CONVEYOR HAVING ROLLERS WITH CONCAVE GROOVES, AND ASSOCIATED CONVEYOR | HESS, DOUGLAS A | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17618794 | A THERMALLY CONTROLLED HOUSING ASSEMBLY FOR ELECTRICAL CELLS | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 9d overdue |
| 18990609 | RUN CHANNEL FOR A MOVABLE WINDOW FRAME OF A VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | KELLY, CATHERINE A | 4d overdue |
| 18865558 | TRANSMISSION BELT FOR A ROLLER CONVEYOR HAVING ROLLERS WITH CONCAVE GROOVES, AND ASSOCIATED CONVEYOR | HESS, DOUGLAS A | — |
| 18249570 | CONNECTING ROD HAVING CURVED SLATS | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18990609 | RUN CHANNEL FOR A MOVABLE WINDOW FRAME OF A VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | KELLY, CATHERINE A | 3619 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18865558 | TRANSMISSION BELT FOR A ROLLER CONVEYOR HAVING ROLLERS WITH CONCAVE GROOVES, AND ASSOCIATED CONVEYOR | HESS, DOUGLAS A | 3651 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18943734 | RUN-FLAT DEVICE | PALMER, ALEX ROBERT | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18249570 | CONNECTING ROD HAVING CURVED SLATS | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 3632 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 17618794 | A THERMALLY CONTROLLED HOUSING ASSEMBLY FOR ELECTRICAL CELLS | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 1725 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2022 |
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