Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 3 (75%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEEKS, GLORIA R | 1 | 70.2% | +12.0% |
| SMITH, JACOB A | 1 | 80.9% | +19.6% |
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.0% | +30.9% |
| MCCLAIN, GERALD | 1 | 74.3% | +14.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570238 | METHOD AND TOOL FOR PRODUCING STRAPPED PACKAGES | SMITH, JACOB A | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17672947 | PACKAGING ROBOT AND METHOD USED TO CARRY OUT A PACKAGING PROCESS | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 56d overdue |
| 19105548 | PACKAGING APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING PACKAGING UNITS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PACKAGING UNITS | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 42d overdue |
| 18570238 | METHOD AND TOOL FOR PRODUCING STRAPPED PACKAGES | SMITH, JACOB A | 12d |
| 17914143 | PACKAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 61d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 3 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19105548 | PACKAGING APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING PACKAGING UNITS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PACKAGING UNITS | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 3731 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18570238 | METHOD AND TOOL FOR PRODUCING STRAPPED PACKAGES | SMITH, JACOB A | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 17914143 | PACKAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Sep 23, 2022 |
| 17672947 | PACKAGING ROBOT AND METHOD USED TO CARRY OUT A PACKAGING PROCESS | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 3652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Feb 16, 2022 |
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