Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (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 | 4 (80%) |
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEKA, ABIY | 1 | 84.7% | +10.3% |
| LANE, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 65.6% | +6.2% |
| MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | 1 | 45.3% | +35.7% |
| LEITE, PAULO ROBERTO GONZ | 1 | 51.1% | +14.9% |
| SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO | 1 | 44.5% | +13.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839350 | BRAKE SYSTEM FOR A RAIL VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SUCH A BRAKE SYSTEM | TEKA, ABIY | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839350 | BRAKE SYSTEM FOR A RAIL VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SUCH A BRAKE SYSTEM | TEKA, ABIY | — |
| 17782900 | CONTROL OF THE DISPENSING OF AN ADHESION-INCREASING AGENT FOR A RAIL VEHICLE | MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | — |
| 17599513 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AND/OR MONITORING OPERATING DATA OF A COMPRESSED AIR SUPPLY, COMPRESSED AIR SUPPLY, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING OPERATING DATA AND/OR FOR MONITORING THE FUNCTIONALITY OF A COMPRESSED AIR SUPPLY | LEITE, PAULO ROBERTO GONZ | — |
| 16472655 | METHOD FOR MAINTAINING TOTAL BRAKING POWER OF A TRAIN WHILE TAKING THE AVAILABLE FRICTION CONDITIONS INTO CONSIDERATION | SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 3 |
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18839350 | BRAKE SYSTEM FOR A RAIL VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SUCH A BRAKE SYSTEM | TEKA, ABIY | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18280331 | INTERFACE ADAPTER FOR A CONTROL VALVE AND CONTROL VALVE WITH AN INTERFACE ADAPTER | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 17782900 | CONTROL OF THE DISPENSING OF AN ADHESION-INCREASING AGENT FOR A RAIL VEHICLE | MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2022 |
| 17599513 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AND/OR MONITORING OPERATING DATA OF A COMPRESSED AIR SUPPLY, COMPRESSED AIR SUPPLY, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING OPERATING DATA AND/OR FOR MONITORING THE FUNCTIONALITY OF A COMPRESSED AIR SUPPLY | LEITE, PAULO ROBERTO GONZ | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2021 |
| 16472655 | METHOD FOR MAINTAINING TOTAL BRAKING POWER OF A TRAIN WHILE TAKING THE AVAILABLE FRICTION CONDITIONS INTO CONSIDERATION | SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2019 |
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