Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 (75%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STANEK, KELSEY L | 1 | 80.7% | +15.9% |
| KIM, JAMES JAY | 1 | 70.4% | +27.1% |
| RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W | 1 | 72.5% | +23.7% |
| HUYNH, HAI H | 1 | 93.4% | +7.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19409383 | VALVE GUIDE FOR GUIDING A VALVE STEM | STANEK, KELSEY L | — |
| 18424675 | SPARK PLUG CONNECTOR | HUYNH, HAI H | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19409383 | VALVE GUIDE FOR GUIDING A VALVE STEM | STANEK, KELSEY L | — |
| 19227301 | COMBUSTION ENGINE | KIM, JAMES JAY | — |
| 18641303 | APPLICATOR TOOL POSITIONABLE WITHIN A VALVE SEAT BORE OF A CYLINDER HEAD FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19409383 | VALVE GUIDE FOR GUIDING A VALVE STEM | STANEK, KELSEY L | 3741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2025 |
| 19227301 | COMBUSTION ENGINE | KIM, JAMES JAY | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 18641303 | APPLICATOR TOOL POSITIONABLE WITHIN A VALVE SEAT BORE OF A CYLINDER HEAD FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18424675 | SPARK PLUG CONNECTOR | HUYNH, HAI H | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
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