Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
24 pending office actions • 6 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 24 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 (4%) |
| §103 only | 13 (54%) |
| §102 only | 1 (4%) |
| §112 only | 1 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 4 | 40.0% | +13.0% |
| CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 4 | 24.5% | +5.7% |
| SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 3 | 63.1% | +15.4% |
| KRATT, JUSTIN M | 2 | 86.8% | +5.7% |
| SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 2 | 48.6% | +38.1% |
| YAARY, ERIC | 2 | 73.7% | +3.2% |
| MCKANE, ELIZABETH L | 1 | 62.9% | +26.0% |
| KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 1 | 64.5% | +22.2% |
| JUENGST, BRENDON THOMAS | 1 | — | — |
| FULTON, MICHAEL TIMOTHY | 1 | 71.2% | +1.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17211135 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE USER SETTABLE MODES OF OPERATION | KRATT, JUSTIN M | 4d overdue |
| 18773197 | Aerosol Delivery Device With An Air Flow Passage Having Two Airflow Branches | KRATT, JUSTIN M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. 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 |
| 17697072 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 8d overdue |
| 17679852 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | DIYAN, OLUWATOSIN OLUWATUMININ | 4d overdue |
| 18648047 | AEROSOL DELIVERY SYSTEM | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18694950 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | — |
| 18692275 | A SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | — |
| 18692283 | AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE/SYSTEM | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | — |
| 17698542 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE COMPONENT | FULTON, MICHAEL TIMOTHY | — |
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 |
| 17686020 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 30d overdue |
| 17243074 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE CONSUMABLE | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 28d |
| 18648047 | AEROSOL DELIVERY SYSTEM | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18694957 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | — |
| 18694950 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | — |
| 18692279 | A SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | — |
| 18692275 | A SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 6 |
| 1747 | 5 |
| 2831 | 2 |
| 3991 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18773197 | Aerosol Delivery Device With An Air Flow Passage Having Two Airflow Branches | KRATT, JUSTIN M | 2831 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18659502 | Smoking Substitute Device and System for Managing a Smoking Substitute Device | MCKANE, ELIZABETH L | 3991 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 127d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18648047 | AEROSOL DELIVERY SYSTEM | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18694957 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18694950 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18694406 | AEROSOL DELIVERY ARTICLE WITH AN INFRARED HEATER | JUENGST, BRENDON THOMAS | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18692284 | AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE/SYSTEM | YAARY, ERIC | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18692279 | A SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18692275 | A SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18692283 | AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE/SYSTEM | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 17923553 | A SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE | YAARY, ERIC | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 17698542 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE COMPONENT | FULTON, MICHAEL TIMOTHY | 1747 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2022 |
| 17697136 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE COMPONENT | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1747 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2022 |
| 17697072 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Mar 17, 2022 |
| 17696368 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2022 |
| 17696467 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2022 |
| 17695423 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2022 |
| 17686020 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE APPARATUS | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 1755 | §112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2022 |
| 17679852 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | DIYAN, OLUWATOSIN OLUWATUMININ | 1700 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2022 |
| 17242791 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE CONSUMABLE | BUCKMAN, JEFFREY ALAN | 1755 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2021 |
| 17243074 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE CONSUMABLE | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Apr 28, 2021 |
| 17211135 | SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE USER SETTABLE MODES OF OPERATION | KRATT, JUSTIN M | 2831 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 24, 2021 |
| 17126404 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING RECONSTITUTED PLANT MATERIAL | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 1755 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2020 |
| 17002139 | SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING SMOKING SUBSTITUTE DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | PHAM, QUANG | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2020 |
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