Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| §102 only | 2 (25%) |
| §112 only | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUFFA, NICHOLAS JOHN | 2 | 99.0% | +1.1% |
| GIRMA, FEKADESELASS | 1 | 76.9% | +17.8% |
| GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | 1 | 82.9% | +16.6% |
| SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE | 1 | 58.7% | +71.1% |
| VAKILI, DANIEL EDWARD | 1 | 67.9% | +14.4% |
| SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1 | 55.8% | +18.7% |
| DAVISON, CHARLOTTE INKERI | 1 | 48.7% | +20.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18288474 | FILTER SEGMENT, AEROSOL-GENERATING ARTICLE, AND SYSTEM COMPRISING SAME | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | 8d |
| 35525866 | Electronic cigarette | BUFFA, NICHOLAS JOHN | — |
| 35525846 | Electronic cigarette | BUFFA, NICHOLAS JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284956 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR RELEASING EMULSION AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF | SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE | 10d overdue |
| 18276970 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING AEROSOL | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284956 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR RELEASING EMULSION AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF | SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE | 10d overdue |
| 17275127 | CIGARETTE FILTER CONTAINING NATURAL PLANT MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND CIGARETTE INCLUDING THE FILTER | DAVISON, CHARLOTTE INKERI | 10d overdue |
| 18288474 | FILTER SEGMENT, AEROSOL-GENERATING ARTICLE, AND SYSTEM COMPRISING SAME | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | 8d |
| 18280119 | IGNITION SYSTEM FOR CIGARETTE STICK AND CIGARETTE STICK EQUIPPED THEREWITH | VAKILI, DANIEL EDWARD | 83d |
| 18572418 | AEROSOL GENERATING DEVICE AND PAYMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | GIRMA, FEKADESELASS | — |
| 18276970 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING AEROSOL | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2951 | 2 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 1747 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| 1755 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35525866 | Electronic cigarette | BUFFA, NICHOLAS JOHN | 2951 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 35525846 | Electronic cigarette | BUFFA, NICHOLAS JOHN | 2951 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18572418 | AEROSOL GENERATING DEVICE AND PAYMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | GIRMA, FEKADESELASS | 3619 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18288474 | FILTER SEGMENT, AEROSOL-GENERATING ARTICLE, AND SYSTEM COMPRISING SAME | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | 1745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18284956 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR RELEASING EMULSION AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF | SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE | 3741 | §101§102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18280119 | IGNITION SYSTEM FOR CIGARETTE STICK AND CIGARETTE STICK EQUIPPED THEREWITH | VAKILI, DANIEL EDWARD | 1747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18276970 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING AEROSOL | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1700 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 17275127 | CIGARETTE FILTER CONTAINING NATURAL PLANT MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND CIGARETTE INCLUDING THE FILTER | DAVISON, CHARLOTTE INKERI | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
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