Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (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 | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUMAR, NATHAN | 2 | 78.7% | +14.6% |
| NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 1 | 66.2% | +19.6% |
| MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 1 | 30.6% | +20.9% |
| MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 1 | 67.3% | +11.4% |
| LEE, JENNIFER V | 1 | 25.3% | +40.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18502690 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR MANAGING WORK ON LAVATORY EQUIPMENT | MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 128d overdue |
| 18697912 | LOCKING DEVICE, UNLOCKING KEY, AND DOOR | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 43d overdue |
| 17538768 | ONLINE CUSTOMER SERVING SYSTEM AND TERMINAL DEVICE | LEE, JENNIFER V | 30d overdue |
| 18686715 | KEY | CUMAR, NATHAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18502690 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR MANAGING WORK ON LAVATORY EQUIPMENT | MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 128d overdue |
| 18697912 | LOCKING DEVICE, UNLOCKING KEY, AND DOOR | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 43d overdue |
| 17538768 | ONLINE CUSTOMER SERVING SYSTEM AND TERMINAL DEVICE | LEE, JENNIFER V | 30d overdue |
| 18282336 | FOAM SUPPLYING DEVICE FOR BATHROOM | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 20d |
| 18686715 | KEY | CUMAR, NATHAN | — |
| 19204891 | CYLINDER LOCK | CUMAR, NATHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 3 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18686715 | KEY | CUMAR, NATHAN | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19204891 | CYLINDER LOCK | CUMAR, NATHAN | 3675 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 18697912 | LOCKING DEVICE, UNLOCKING KEY, AND DOOR | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18502690 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR MANAGING WORK ON LAVATORY EQUIPMENT | MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 3625 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 128d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18282336 | FOAM SUPPLYING DEVICE FOR BATHROOM | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 17538768 | ONLINE CUSTOMER SERVING SYSTEM AND TERMINAL DEVICE | LEE, JENNIFER V | 3688 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2021 |
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