Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 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 | 4 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1 | 59.1% | +47.4% |
| SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 1 | 63.1% | +16.3% |
| HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | 1 | 42.4% | +80.2% |
| PHAM, VU PHI | 1 | 35.3% | +16.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17920253 | INHALER, ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR INHALING INHALATION MEDIUM ENRICHED WITH ACTIVE INGREDIENTS AND/OR AROMATIC SUBSTANCES, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN INHALER | HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | 127d overdue |
| 18257735 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE NICOTINE CONTENT IN AN E-CIGARETTE AEROSOL | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 113d overdue |
| 17918789 | INHALER | PHAM, VU PHI | 36d overdue |
| 18246088 | ASSEMBLY FOR GENERATING AEROSOL | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 2 |
| 1747 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18257735 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE NICOTINE CONTENT IN AN E-CIGARETTE AEROSOL | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 113d overdue | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18246088 | ASSEMBLY FOR GENERATING AEROSOL | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 17920253 | INHALER, ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR INHALING INHALATION MEDIUM ENRICHED WITH ACTIVE INGREDIENTS AND/OR AROMATIC SUBSTANCES, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN INHALER | HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 127d overdue | Pending | Feb 15, 2023 |
| 17918789 | INHALER | PHAM, VU PHI | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial