Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 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 | 5 (62%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELL, SPENCER E | 2 | 63.4% | +12.4% |
| CARLSON, MARC | 1 | 71.1% | +23.4% |
| WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY S | 1 | 70.0% | +18.9% |
| CAMPBELL, THOR S | 1 | 74.9% | +0.6% |
| COHEN, BRIAN W | 1 | 54.4% | +47.8% |
| CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 1 | 45.8% | +65.0% |
| CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 1 | 56.9% | +40.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT A CLEANING PROCESS FOR A CLEANING APPLIANCE, AND CLEANING APPLIANCE | BELL, SPENCER E | 37d overdue |
| 18267263 | HEATING DEVICE FOR HEATING WATER, AND WATER CONDUCTING APPLIANCE COMPRISING A HEATING DEVICE | CAMPBELL, THOR S | 2d overdue |
| 18267048 | WATER-USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A WATER-USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE | COHEN, BRIAN W | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267258 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A WATER-CONDUCTING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE AND WATER-CONDUCTING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE | BELL, SPENCER E | 72d overdue |
| 18684697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT A CLEANING PROCESS FOR A CLEANING APPLIANCE, AND CLEANING APPLIANCE | BELL, SPENCER E | 37d overdue |
| 18853140 | BASKET DEVICE | WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY S | 28d overdue |
| 17535905 | MOBILE ROBOT OPERATION CONTROL METHOD BASED ON FLOOR ENVIRONMENT SENSING AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 7d |
| 19101063 | VACUUM CLEANER | CARLSON, MARC | — |
| 18267048 | WATER-USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A WATER-USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE | COHEN, BRIAN W | — |
| 17816323 | 3D LIDAR BASED TARGET OBJECT RECOGNIZING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MOBILE OBJECT USING THE SAME | CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 2 |
| 1711 | 2 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19101063 | VACUUM CLEANER | CARLSON, MARC | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18853140 | BASKET DEVICE | WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY S | 3637 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18684697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT A CLEANING PROCESS FOR A CLEANING APPLIANCE, AND CLEANING APPLIANCE | BELL, SPENCER E | 1711 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18267263 | HEATING DEVICE FOR HEATING WATER, AND WATER CONDUCTING APPLIANCE COMPRISING A HEATING DEVICE | CAMPBELL, THOR S | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18267258 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A WATER-CONDUCTING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE AND WATER-CONDUCTING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE | BELL, SPENCER E | 1711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18267048 | WATER-USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A WATER-USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE | COHEN, BRIAN W | 1759 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 17816323 | 3D LIDAR BASED TARGET OBJECT RECOGNIZING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MOBILE OBJECT USING THE SAME | CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
| 17535905 | MOBILE ROBOT OPERATION CONTROL METHOD BASED ON FLOOR ENVIRONMENT SENSING AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Nov 26, 2021 |
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