Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 | 7 (70%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (10%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1 | 8.3% | -9.1% |
| MELLER, MICHAEL V | 1 | 46.1% | +28.6% |
| STEVENS, MARK V | 1 | 65.4% | +42.8% |
| LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE | 1 | 33.9% | +35.7% |
| PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | 1 | 37.5% | +83.3% |
| GOTFREDSON, GAREN | 1 | 40.0% | +29.1% |
| RODGERS, ARIEL M | 1 | 12.5% | +20.0% |
| VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE | 1 | 46.7% | +22.1% |
| KASSA, TIGABU | 1 | 36.5% | +28.6% |
| KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1 | 17.7% | +16.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17793223 | MICROENCAPSULATION WITH PLANT PROTEIN | RODGERS, ARIEL M | 112d overdue |
| 16617314 | CARBOHYDRATE-BASED FLAVOR-CONTAINING GRANULES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 97d overdue |
| 18552935 | HYDROGEL ENCAPSULATIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 66d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18043818 | SQUALENE HOPENE CYCLASE DERIVATIVES AND USE THEREOF FOR PRODUCING AMBROX | PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | 113d overdue |
| 17793223 | MICROENCAPSULATION WITH PLANT PROTEIN | RODGERS, ARIEL M | 112d overdue |
| 16617314 | CARBOHYDRATE-BASED FLAVOR-CONTAINING GRANULES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 97d overdue |
| 17340132 | Consumer Products with Improved Aesthetics | KASSA, TIGABU | 44d overdue |
| 18255652 | ANTIOXIDANT COMPOSITIONS | STEVENS, MARK V | 35d overdue |
| 18281782 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING ABSOLUTES | MELLER, MICHAEL V | 15d overdue |
| 17570498 | BIO-DEGRADABLE MICROCAPSULES | VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE | 3d overdue |
| 18245022 | NATURAL LACTONES AND HYDROXY FATTY ACIDS AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE | 39d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 3 |
| 1619 | 2 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1631 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1636 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18552935 | HYDROGEL ENCAPSULATIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18281782 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING ABSOLUTES | MELLER, MICHAEL V | 1655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18255652 | ANTIOXIDANT COMPOSITIONS | STEVENS, MARK V | 1613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18245022 | NATURAL LACTONES AND HYDROXY FATTY ACIDS AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Mar 13, 2023 |
| 18043818 | SQUALENE HOPENE CYCLASE DERIVATIVES AND USE THEREOF FOR PRODUCING AMBROX | PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | 1631 | Other | Non-Final OA | 113d overdue | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
| 17962770 | RELOADABLE MICROCAPSULES | GOTFREDSON, GAREN | 1619 | DPOther | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Oct 10, 2022 |
| 17793223 | MICROENCAPSULATION WITH PLANT PROTEIN | RODGERS, ARIEL M | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | Jul 15, 2022 |
| 17570498 | BIO-DEGRADABLE MICROCAPSULES | VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE | 1636 | Other | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jan 07, 2022 |
| 17340132 | Consumer Products with Improved Aesthetics | KASSA, TIGABU | 1619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2021 |
| 16617314 | CARBOHYDRATE-BASED FLAVOR-CONTAINING GRANULES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 97d overdue | Pending | Nov 26, 2019 |
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