Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 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 | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALCZAK, DAVID J | 1 | 74.2% | +17.7% |
| HUYNH, BRYANT KHIEM | 1 | — | — |
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1 | 63.1% | +39.2% |
| LIOTT, CAROLINE DUSHECK | 1 | 56.1% | -6.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18833689 | WRITING INSTRUMENT REFILL | HUYNH, BRYANT KHIEM | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284517 | ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE IN WRITING INSTRUMENT, WRITING INSTRUMENT, AND SOFT MEMBER | WALCZAK, DAVID J | — |
| 18028272 | REVERSIBLY THERMOCHROMIC COMPOSITION AND REVERSIBLY THERMOCHROMIC MICROCAPSULE PIGMENT ENCAPSULATING THE SAME | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18284517 | ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE IN WRITING INSTRUMENT, WRITING INSTRUMENT, AND SOFT MEMBER | WALCZAK, DAVID J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18833689 | WRITING INSTRUMENT REFILL | HUYNH, BRYANT KHIEM | 3754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18028272 | REVERSIBLY THERMOCHROMIC COMPOSITION AND REVERSIBLY THERMOCHROMIC MICROCAPSULE PIGMENT ENCAPSULATING THE SAME | HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 18022852 | WATER-BASED INK COMPOSITION FOR WRITING INSTRUMENTS, WRITING INSTRUMENT, AND CARTRIDGE INK FOR WRITING INSTRUMENTS | LIOTT, CAROLINE DUSHECK | 1732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
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