Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
6 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 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 | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 3 (50%) |
| §112 only | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | 2 | 63.0% | +17.2% |
| FATIMA, UROOJ | 1 | 80.0% | +33.3% |
| WALLENHORST, MAUREEN | 1 | 78.9% | +5.4% |
| GORDON, BRIAN R | 1 | 65.0% | +18.7% |
| SCHUBERG, LAURA J | 1 | 23.9% | +37.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18818011 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF HISTOPATHOLOGY IMAGES | FATIMA, UROOJ | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18020310 | XYLENE-FREE TISSUE PROCESSOR AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TISSUE | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18818011 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF HISTOPATHOLOGY IMAGES | FATIMA, UROOJ | — |
| 18570194 | CASSETTE FOR HOLDING AND ORIENTING TISSUE SAMPLE | SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | — |
| 18570294 | CASSETTE FOR HOLDING AND ORIENTING TISSUE SAMPLE | SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | — |
| 18570154 | CASSETTE AND TISSUE EMBEDDING METHOD USING SAME | GORDON, BRIAN R | — |
| 18020310 | XYLENE-FREE TISSUE PROCESSOR AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TISSUE | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18818011 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF HISTOPATHOLOGY IMAGES | FATIMA, UROOJ | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18570125 | CASSETTE FOR HOLDING AND ORIENTING TISSUE SAMPLE | WALLENHORST, MAUREEN | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18570194 | CASSETTE FOR HOLDING AND ORIENTING TISSUE SAMPLE | SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18570294 | CASSETTE FOR HOLDING AND ORIENTING TISSUE SAMPLE | SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18570154 | CASSETTE AND TISSUE EMBEDDING METHOD USING SAME | GORDON, BRIAN R | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18020310 | XYLENE-FREE TISSUE PROCESSOR AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TISSUE | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | 1631 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2023 |
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