Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mitegen LLC has 1 pending office action currently active at the USPTO. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH. The data shows that 0 distinct art units are associated with this pending matter, which may indicate that the application is in a preliminary stage or has not yet been assigned to a specific technical group for reporting purposes. The count of 0 art units represents a unique state for this active prosecution.
KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. As this is the only pending matter in the portfolio, the company's entire prosecution focus is on this single interaction. The concentration of 1 pending action with 1 examiner simplifies the management of the intellectual property docket, as there are no competing examiner styles or art unit requirements to consider.
For Mitegen LLC, the resolution of 1 pending office action is the primary goal of its current patent strategy. Practitioners should focus on the specific feedback and requirements of KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH to move the application forward. The absence of multiple examiners or art units allows for a targeted and efficient response to the USPTO while the matter remains in its current classification.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 32.6% | +58.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18707296 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR ACHIEVING SUITABLE SAMPLE THICKNESS FOR SINGLE PARTICLE CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18707296 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR ACHIEVING SUITABLE SAMPLE THICKNESS FOR SINGLE PARTICLE CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18707296 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR ACHIEVING SUITABLE SAMPLE THICKNESS FOR SINGLE PARTICLE CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
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