Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
11 pending office actions • 6 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 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. 11 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 (9%) |
| §103 only | 9 (82%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (9%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCKANE, ELIZABETH L | 1 | 62.1% | +25.5% |
| VU, TUAN A | 1 | 73.4% | +21.1% |
| YAARY, ERIC | 1 | 73.9% | +2.6% |
| LE, TOBEY CHOU | 1 | 32.1% | +65.2% |
| CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1 | 25.6% | +5.8% |
| SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 1 | 63.1% | +16.3% |
| SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1 | 57.5% | +22.8% |
| KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1 | 55.4% | +15.6% |
| VAKILI, DANIEL EDWARD | 1 | 68.0% | +11.0% |
| BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 1 | 40.0% | +22.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17697072 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 8d overdue |
| 17679852 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18659502 | Smoking Substitute Device and System for Managing a Smoking Substitute Device | MCKANE, ELIZABETH L | 127d overdue |
| 17685101 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 110d overdue |
| 17244462 | Elongated Smoking Article | VAKILI, DANIEL EDWARD | 107d overdue |
| 18639467 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE | VU, TUAN A | 44d overdue |
| 17686020 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 30d overdue |
| 17679852 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 4d overdue |
| 17243074 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE CONSUMABLE | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 28d |
| 17820105 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE SYSTEM | LE, TOBEY CHOU | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 4 |
| 1747 | 3 |
| 3991 | 1 |
| 2193 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18659502 | Smoking Substitute Device and System for Managing a Smoking Substitute Device | MCKANE, ELIZABETH L | 3991 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 127d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18639467 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE | VU, TUAN A | 2193 | Other | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 17923553 | A SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE | YAARY, ERIC | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 17820105 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE SYSTEM | LE, TOBEY CHOU | 1747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Aug 16, 2022 |
| 17697072 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Mar 17, 2022 |
| 17686020 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2022 |
| 17685101 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 110d overdue | Pending | Mar 02, 2022 |
| 17679852 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1700 | §101 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2022 |
| 17244462 | Elongated Smoking Article | VAKILI, DANIEL EDWARD | 1747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 107d overdue | Pending | Apr 29, 2021 |
| 17243074 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE CONSUMABLE | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Apr 28, 2021 |
| 17002139 | SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | PHAM, QUANG | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2020 |
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