Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kepler Fusion Inc. manages a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently includes 2 pending office actions. These filings are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a spread of intellectual property across different technical classifications within the broader category.
Sharon M Davis is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This specific examiner is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. The presence of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions shows that each examiner is handling 1 matter, suggesting no concentration of workload under a single individual beyond the identified busiest examiner.
Practitioners should note that the 2 distinct art units involved may require different specialized arguments even within the same general technology area. With 2 pending office actions to address, the company maintains a divided prosecution pipeline. The involvement of Sharon M Davis as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action highlights the primary point of contact for 1 of the current outstanding USPTO matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, SHARON M | 1 | 68.0% | +26.8% |
| DOWNES, NATHANAEL JASON | 1 | 62.5% | +16.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17974516 | Systems, Methods and Apparatus for Manufacturing Helium-3 from a Beam of Protons | DOWNES, NATHANAEL JASON | 138d overdue |
| 18354637 | Systems, Methods and Apparatus of an Experimental Nuclear Fusion Reactor having a Hollow Toroidal Interior Chamber with a Rifled Interior Surface | DAVIS, SHARON M | 47d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17974516 | Systems, Methods and Apparatus for Manufacturing Helium-3 from a Beam of Protons | DOWNES, NATHANAEL JASON | 138d overdue |
| 18354637 | Systems, Methods and Apparatus of an Experimental Nuclear Fusion Reactor having a Hollow Toroidal Interior Chamber with a Rifled Interior Surface | DAVIS, SHARON M | 47d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3646 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18354637 | Systems, Methods and Apparatus of an Experimental Nuclear Fusion Reactor having a Hollow Toroidal Interior Chamber with a Rifled Interior Surface | DAVIS, SHARON M | 3646 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 47d | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 17974516 | Systems, Methods and Apparatus for Manufacturing Helium-3 from a Beam of Protons | DOWNES, NATHANAEL JASON | 1794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 138d overdue | Pending | Oct 26, 2022 |
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