Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
16 pending office actions • 9 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 51 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 13 (81%) |
| §102 only | 2 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (6%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANG, HUNG Q | 1 | 68.4% | +18.2% |
| ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 1 | 35.6% | +24.3% |
| DISTEFANO, GREGORY A | 1 | 69.3% | +22.8% |
| WALSH, KATHLEEN M. | 1 | 80.1% | +17.6% |
| LIU, SHAN | 1 | 72.4% | +39.0% |
| CHAPEL, DEREK S | 1 | 70.2% | +22.0% |
| ZHANG, WAYNE | 1 | 56.5% | +34.9% |
| AHMED, JAMIL | 1 | 82.2% | +14.9% |
| MARTIN, PAUL C | 1 | 41.8% | +21.7% |
| SVEIVEN, MICHAEL CAMERON | 1 | 36.4% | +56.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715747 | MICROSCOPE CONTROL ARRANGEMENT, MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MICROSCOPE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | WALSH, KATHLEEN M. | — |
| 18424944 | CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE AND A METHOD OF ADJUSTING A CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE | AHMED, JAMIL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18644158 | LINEAR DRIVE FOR MOVING A FUNCTIONAL UNIT OF A MICROSCOPE AND MICROSCOPE | LIU, SHAN | 55d |
| 19276024 | OBLIQUE PLANE MICROSCOPE AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING AN ABERRATION IN AN OBLIQUE PLANE MICROSCOPE | DANG, HUNG Q | — |
| 19071790 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE FOR EXTRACTING AT LEAST ONE SIGNAL IN A REGION OF AN IMAGE USING A CROSSTALK QUANTITY | ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | — |
| 18715754 | MICROSCOPE CONTROL ARRANGEMENT, MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MICROSCOPE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | DISTEFANO, GREGORY A | — |
| 18715747 | MICROSCOPE CONTROL ARRANGEMENT, MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MICROSCOPE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | WALSH, KATHLEEN M. | — |
| 18610320 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR MANUAL FOCUS ADJUSTMENT OF A MICROSCOPE AND MICROSCOPES WITH MANUAL FOCUS ADJUSTMENT | CHAPEL, DEREK S | — |
| 18424944 | CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE AND A METHOD OF ADJUSTING A CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE | AHMED, JAMIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 5 |
| 2871 | 2 |
| 2483 | 1 |
| 2482 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19276024 | OBLIQUE PLANE MICROSCOPE AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING AN ABERRATION IN AN OBLIQUE PLANE MICROSCOPE | DANG, HUNG Q | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19071790 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE FOR EXTRACTING AT LEAST ONE SIGNAL IN A REGION OF AN IMAGE USING A CROSSTALK QUANTITY | ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 2483 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 18715754 | MICROSCOPE CONTROL ARRANGEMENT, MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MICROSCOPE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | DISTEFANO, GREGORY A | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18715747 | MICROSCOPE CONTROL ARRANGEMENT, MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MICROSCOPE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | WALSH, KATHLEEN M. | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 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 |
| 18610320 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR MANUAL FOCUS ADJUSTMENT OF A MICROSCOPE AND MICROSCOPES WITH MANUAL FOCUS ADJUSTMENT | CHAPEL, DEREK S | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 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 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18424944 | CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE AND A METHOD OF ADJUSTING A CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE | AHMED, JAMIL | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18560940 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGING A BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE | MARTIN, PAUL C | 1653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18290463 | MARKER, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYZING A BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE | SVEIVEN, MICHAEL CAMERON | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18287315 | MICROSCOPE | NGUYEN, THONG Q | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18332001 | METHOD FOR ANALYSING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES | HILL, GRACELYN MARKHAM | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 18019831 | BEAM SPLITTING DEVICE | GAGNON, GRANT A | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 17876584 | MICROSCOPE SYSTEM | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
| 17783963 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING AN AUTOMATED MICROSCOPE, MEANS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD, AND MICROSCOPE SYSTEM | DHOOGE, DEVIN J | 2677 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2022 |
| 17636050 | CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MICROSCOPE, MICROSCOPE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | MUHAMMAD, KEY | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2022 |
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