Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
14 pending office actions • 12 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 52 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 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. 14 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 | 12 (86%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANCE, ROBERT J | 1 | 66.1% | +21.7% |
| LIU, SHAN | 1 | 72.0% | +39.7% |
| LEE, PAUL CHANG | 1 | 74.8% | +14.0% |
| BROWN JR, HOWARD D | 1 | 87.9% | +6.9% |
| ZHANG, WAYNE | 1 | 59.1% | +31.6% |
| PARBADIA, BALRAM T | 1 | 74.2% | +20.0% |
| CHOI, MICHAEL W | 1 | 77.8% | +29.2% |
| KIM, YOUNG J | 1 | 64.8% | +17.9% |
| BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1 | 76.6% | +38.7% |
| PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | 1 | 83.6% | +10.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18327088 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT FOR AN IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD | PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | 8d overdue |
| 18443399 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR A DIGITAL IMAGING DEVICE, MICROSCOPE AND MICROSCOPY METHOD | BROWN JR, HOWARD D | 55d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279632 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING FUNCTIONALITIES | CHOI, MICHAEL W | 60d overdue |
| 18452628 | MARKER AND METHOD FOR ANALYSING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES | KIM, YOUNG J | 43d overdue |
| 18698024 | IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LEE, PAUL CHANG | 15d overdue |
| 18327088 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT FOR AN IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD | PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | 8d overdue |
| 18437278 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR ADJUSTING A FIRST AND A SECOND MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL AND FOR PROCESSING A SET OF IMAGES, IMAGING SYSTEM | ZHANG, WAYNE | 12d |
| 18396914 | CONTROLLER FOR A MICROSCOPE, MICROSCOPE SYSTEM AND CORRESPONDING METHOD | PARBADIA, BALRAM T | 14d |
| 18349224 | IMAGING DEVICE | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 15d |
| 18644158 | LINEAR DRIVE FOR MOVING A FUNCTIONAL UNIT OF A MICROSCOPE AND MICROSCOPE | LIU, SHAN | 55d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2871 | 2 |
| 2872 | 2 |
| 3992 | 1 |
| 2488 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 1681 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19329351 | Microscope Objective | HANCE, ROBERT J | 3992 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 18644158 | LINEAR DRIVE FOR MOVING A FUNCTIONAL UNIT OF A MICROSCOPE AND MICROSCOPE | LIU, SHAN | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18698024 | IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LEE, PAUL CHANG | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18443399 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR A DIGITAL IMAGING DEVICE, MICROSCOPE AND MICROSCOPY METHOD | BROWN JR, HOWARD D | 2488 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18437278 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR ADJUSTING A FIRST AND A SECOND MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL AND FOR PROCESSING A SET OF IMAGES, IMAGING SYSTEM | ZHANG, WAYNE | 2672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18396914 | CONTROLLER FOR A MICROSCOPE, MICROSCOPE SYSTEM AND CORRESPONDING METHOD | PARBADIA, BALRAM T | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18279632 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING FUNCTIONALITIES | CHOI, MICHAEL W | 2116 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18452628 | MARKER AND METHOD FOR ANALYSING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES | KIM, YOUNG J | 1681 | Other | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18349224 | IMAGING DEVICE | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18327088 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT FOR AN IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD | PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18019831 | BEAM SPLITTING DEVICE | GAGNON, GRANT A | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 18154890 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND MACHINE LEARNING PRODUCT FOR COMPUTING A BASELINE ESTIMATE | HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | 2667 | §103 | Final Rejection | 83d | Pending | Jan 16, 2023 |
| 17959315 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A MARKER IN A BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE | GABEL, GAILENE | 1678 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Oct 04, 2022 |
| 17741565 | CONTROLLING SYSTEM AND EXAMINATION SYSTEM FOR MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION OF A SAMPLE AND CORRESPONDING METHODS | EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | May 11, 2022 |
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