Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 9 (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. 5 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. 5 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 (44%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 3 | 24.5% | -3.6% |
| NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | 2 | 24.2% | +29.6% |
| HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 1 | 79.0% | +10.8% |
| KEYWORTH, PETER | 1 | 58.3% | +24.0% |
| WILSON, GREGORY A | 1 | 81.9% | +6.7% |
| COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1 | 79.1% | +15.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18072759 | PLANT AND METHOD FOR TREATING SOLID MATERIAL | WILSON, GREGORY A | 11d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17265003 | Flotation Cell | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | 6d |
| 18012263 | FLOTATION ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD RELATED THERETO | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 22d |
| 17918016 | A FILTER PLATE FOR A HORIZONTAL PLATE AND FRAME-TYPE FILTER, SUCH AS A TOWER PRESS | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 22d |
| 18013102 | Fluidized-Bed Flotation Unit, Mineral Processing Apparatus, and Fluidized-Bed Flotation Method | KEYWORTH, PETER | — |
| 17790200 | REMOVAL OF AMINES FROM AQUEOUS STREAMS | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | — |
| 17627933 | FLOTATION CELL | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17265003 | Flotation Cell | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | 6d |
| 17919821 | MIXING ARRANGEMENT, MIXER SETTLER UNIT AND USE | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 61d |
| 19036893 | CHUTE LINER | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | — |
| 18013102 | Fluidized-Bed Flotation Unit, Mineral Processing Apparatus, and Fluidized-Bed Flotation Method | KEYWORTH, PETER | — |
| 17627933 | FLOTATION CELL | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 4 |
| 1779 | 2 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19036893 | CHUTE LINER | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18013102 | Fluidized-Bed Flotation Unit, Mineral Processing Apparatus, and Fluidized-Bed Flotation Method | KEYWORTH, PETER | 1777 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
| 18012263 | FLOTATION ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD RELATED THERETO | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1777 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
| 18072759 | PLANT AND METHOD FOR TREATING SOLID MATERIAL | WILSON, GREGORY A | 3762 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2022 |
| 17919821 | MIXING ARRANGEMENT, MIXER SETTLER UNIT AND USE | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
| 17918016 | A FILTER PLATE FOR A HORIZONTAL PLATE AND FRAME-TYPE FILTER, SUCH AS A TOWER PRESS | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1777 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Oct 10, 2022 |
| 17790200 | REMOVAL OF AMINES FROM AQUEOUS STREAMS | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1777 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
| 17627933 | FLOTATION CELL | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | 1779 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2022 |
| 17265003 | Flotation Cell | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | 1779 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Feb 01, 2021 |
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