Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 12 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 98 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 + other | 1 (7%) |
| §103 only | 7 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAEK, JONGHWAN NMN | 2 | 60.0% | +0.0% |
| ALBERS, KEVIN S | 1 | 26.6% | +49.7% |
| LEONARD, SAMUEL HAYDEN | 1 | 81.1% | +14.0% |
| WEBB, WALTER E | 1 | 46.3% | +18.8% |
| KRETZER, KYLE W. | 1 | 64.8% | +41.5% |
| LEFF, STEVEN N | 1 | 41.3% | +7.9% |
| ZOU, NIANXIANG | 1 | 64.1% | +24.8% |
| KOSAR, ANDREW D | 1 | 42.0% | +31.8% |
| HOBAN, MELISSA A | 1 | 62.8% | +13.7% |
| LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 1 | 34.5% | +39.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917616 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESTRICTING SMART DEVICE CAMERA USE | LEONARD, SAMUEL HAYDEN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17115183 | METHOD FOR DETECTING HEAVY METAL POLLUTANTS USING A FLUORESCENT MATERIAL FROM BACILLUS ENDOPHYTICUS AND METHOD FOR MAKING | DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | 38d overdue |
| 18647298 | DENTAL POLISHING PASTE CONTAINING NANOPARTICLES | WEBB, WALTER E | 3d overdue |
| 17981063 | HIP KNEE RANGE OF MOTION MEASUREMENT DEVICE | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 16d |
| 18362386 | DINUCLEAR PHOSPHANE GOLD(I) COMPLEXES FOR TREATING CANCER | KOSAR, ANDREW D | 22d |
| 18154083 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC ARM BASED ON BRAIN ACTIVITIES | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 29d |
| 18972136 | SUPPORT VEST FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS | ALBERS, KEVIN S | — |
| 18618470 | FLUID MONITORING APPARATUS AND FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR VENOUS SYSTEM OF HUMAN BODY | KRETZER, KYLE 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18647298 | DENTAL POLISHING PASTE CONTAINING NANOPARTICLES | WEBB, WALTER E | 3d overdue |
| 17981063 | HIP KNEE RANGE OF MOTION MEASUREMENT DEVICE | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 16d |
| 18362386 | DINUCLEAR PHOSPHANE GOLD(I) COMPLEXES FOR TREATING CANCER | KOSAR, ANDREW D | 22d |
| 18154083 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC ARM BASED ON BRAIN ACTIVITIES | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 29d |
| 18972136 | SUPPORT VEST FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS | ALBERS, KEVIN S | — |
| 18917616 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESTRICTING SMART DEVICE CAMERA USE | LEONARD, SAMUEL HAYDEN | — |
| 18618470 | FLUID MONITORING APPARATUS AND FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR VENOUS SYSTEM OF HUMAN BODY | KRETZER, KYLE W. | — |
| 18415814 | METHOD OF DETECTING SARS-COV IN A SAMPLE | ZOU, NIANXIANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 1618 | 2 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 2649 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1671 | 1 |
| 1625 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 2128 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18972136 | SUPPORT VEST FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS | ALBERS, KEVIN S | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18917616 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESTRICTING SMART DEVICE CAMERA USE | LEONARD, SAMUEL HAYDEN | 2649 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18647298 | DENTAL POLISHING PASTE CONTAINING NANOPARTICLES | WEBB, WALTER E | 1612 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18618470 | FLUID MONITORING APPARATUS AND FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR VENOUS SYSTEM OF HUMAN BODY | KRETZER, KYLE W. | 3791 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18428121 | COFFEE BREWING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF BREWING COFFEE | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18415814 | METHOD OF DETECTING SARS-COV IN A SAMPLE | ZOU, NIANXIANG | 1671 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18363915 | METHOD FOR OXIDATIVELY DEHYDROGENATING ALKANES | BAEK, JONGHWAN NMN | 1618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18363852 | HIERARCHIAL SILICA OXIDATION DEHYDROGENATION CATALYST | BAEK, JONGHWAN NMN | 1618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18362386 | DINUCLEAR PHOSPHANE GOLD(I) COMPLEXES FOR TREATING CANCER | KOSAR, ANDREW D | 1625 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18154083 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC ARM BASED ON BRAIN ACTIVITIES | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 17981063 | HIP KNEE RANGE OF MOTION MEASUREMENT DEVICE | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
| 17853044 | AUTOMATIC PARKINSONS DISEASE DETECTION BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF LONG-TERM ACOUSTIC FEATURES AND MEL FREQUENCY COEFFICIENTS (MFCCs) | LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 2128 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2022 |
| 17507309 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ACCURATE AND RAPID EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF COVID-19 FROM CHEST X RAY | BARNES JR, CARL E | 2178 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Oct 21, 2021 |
| 17115183 | METHOD FOR DETECTING HEAVY METAL POLLUTANTS USING A FLUORESCENT MATERIAL FROM BACILLUS ENDOPHYTICUS AND METHOD FOR MAKING | DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | 1657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Dec 08, 2020 |
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