Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTT, PATRICK S | 1 | 67.8% | +22.2% |
| VAN OUDENAREN, MATTHEW W | 1 | 77.5% | +11.9% |
| HARRIS, MARY GRACE | 1 | 69.0% | +32.3% |
| HANSEN, JARED A | 1 | 54.6% | +46.8% |
| GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | 1 | 68.6% | +27.8% |
| KERNS, KEVIN P | 1 | 79.0% | +21.0% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18319078 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF PARALLEL CONNECTED FUEL CELL SYSTEMS | HANSEN, JARED A | 44d overdue |
| 18342128 | UNIT CELL ARCHITECTURE FOR WATER MANAGEMENT IN A FUEL CELL | HARRIS, MARY GRACE | 50d |
| 18503975 | BIPOLAR PLATES WITH FLOW CHANNELS FOR DIRECT DIFFUSION LAYER REACTANT INJECTION | VAN OUDENAREN, MATTHEW W | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18319078 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF PARALLEL CONNECTED FUEL CELL SYSTEMS | HANSEN, JARED A | 44d overdue |
| 17833482 | FASTENERLESS FUEL CELL STACK ENCLOSURE | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 34d |
| 18342128 | UNIT CELL ARCHITECTURE FOR WATER MANAGEMENT IN A FUEL CELL | HARRIS, MARY GRACE | 50d |
| 18573315 | DILUTION CIRCUITRY FOR FUEL CELL VEHICLES WITH COMBINED FUEL CELL EXHAUST SYSTEMS | OTT, PATRICK S | — |
| 18503975 | BIPOLAR PLATES WITH FLOW CHANNELS FOR DIRECT DIFFUSION LAYER REACTANT INJECTION | VAN OUDENAREN, MATTHEW W | — |
| 17898188 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO MEASURE OR CONTROL FUEL CELL STACK EXCESS HYDROGEN FLOW | GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | — |
| 17837721 | OPERATING SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING A PROPORTIONAL CONTROL VALVE IN A FUEL CELL SYSTEM | KERNS, KEVIN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1729 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573315 | DILUTION CIRCUITRY FOR FUEL CELL VEHICLES WITH COMBINED FUEL CELL EXHAUST SYSTEMS | OTT, PATRICK S | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18503975 | BIPOLAR PLATES WITH FLOW CHANNELS FOR DIRECT DIFFUSION LAYER REACTANT INJECTION | VAN OUDENAREN, MATTHEW W | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18342128 | UNIT CELL ARCHITECTURE FOR WATER MANAGEMENT IN A FUEL CELL | HARRIS, MARY GRACE | 1729 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18319078 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF PARALLEL CONNECTED FUEL CELL SYSTEMS | HANSEN, JARED A | 1723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
| 17898188 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO MEASURE OR CONTROL FUEL CELL STACK EXCESS HYDROGEN FLOW | GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | 1724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2022 |
| 17837721 | OPERATING SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING A PROPORTIONAL CONTROL VALVE IN A FUEL CELL SYSTEM | KERNS, KEVIN P | 1735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
| 17833482 | FASTENERLESS FUEL CELL STACK ENCLOSURE | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 06, 2022 |
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