Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 4 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCLAIN, GERALD | 2 | 74.2% | +14.8% |
| ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 1 | 69.5% | +40.3% |
| WILEY, DANIEL J | 1 | 71.5% | +37.6% |
| MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | 1 | 52.4% | +79.4% |
| MERCADO, RAMON A | 1 | 81.5% | +18.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18373464 | METHOD FOR HANDLING OBJECTS, AND HANDLING SYSTEM | MERCADO, RAMON A | 46d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19209370 | COMPRESSED-AIR-DRIVEN VACUUM GENERATION DEVICE AND AREA SUCTION GRIPPER | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | — |
| 18785266 | Device for Handling Objects, Handling System, Method for Handling Objects | MCCLAIN, GERALD | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18373464 | METHOD FOR HANDLING OBJECTS, AND HANDLING SYSTEM | MERCADO, RAMON A | 46d overdue |
| 18630901 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A HANDLING SYSTEM AND HANDLING SYSTEM | MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | 23d overdue |
| 19209370 | COMPRESSED-AIR-DRIVEN VACUUM GENERATION DEVICE AND AREA SUCTION GRIPPER | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | — |
| 18796977 | HANDLING SYSTEM COMPRISING TUBE LIFTER AND MANIPULATOR WITH CONTROL LEVER | WILEY, DANIEL J | — |
| 18785266 | Device for Handling Objects, Handling System, Method for Handling Objects | MCCLAIN, GERALD | — |
| 18479250 | HANDLING DEVICE | MCCLAIN, GERALD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 3 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19209370 | COMPRESSED-AIR-DRIVEN VACUUM GENERATION DEVICE AND AREA SUCTION GRIPPER | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 3746 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 18796977 | HANDLING SYSTEM COMPRISING TUBE LIFTER AND MANIPULATOR WITH CONTROL LEVER | WILEY, DANIEL J | 3652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18785266 | Device for Handling Objects, Handling System, Method for Handling Objects | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 3652 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18630901 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A HANDLING SYSTEM AND HANDLING SYSTEM | MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | 3656 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18479250 | HANDLING DEVICE | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 3652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18373464 | METHOD FOR HANDLING OBJECTS, AND HANDLING SYSTEM | MERCADO, RAMON A | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
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