Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (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. 11 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. 11 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 only | 2 (18%) |
| §103 only | 7 (64%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROMER, ANDREW J | 1 | 76.3% | +17.6% |
| LAZARO, DAVID R | 1 | 86.9% | +3.5% |
| MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 1 | 73.3% | +10.5% |
| MASSAD, ABE L | 1 | 56.5% | +65.4% |
| BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 1 | 83.5% | +13.0% |
| TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 1 | 65.1% | +28.2% |
| KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 1 | 78.0% | +17.9% |
| NGUYEN, MISA H | 1 | 67.2% | +15.6% |
| MOORE, REVA R | 1 | 52.7% | +50.7% |
| BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 1 | 87.1% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851381 | CONVEYANCE SYSTEM | LAZARO, DAVID R | 14d |
| 18288234 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM, UNITARY UNIT, AND GRID-PATTERNED TRACK | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 28d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18023842 | TRANSPORT VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING TRANSPORT VEHICLE | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 12d |
| 18844567 | AUTOMATED STORAGE SYSTEM AND LOAD STORAGE METHOD | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18033853 | TRAVEL TEACHING RECORDING METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS TRAVELING BODY, AUTONOMOUS TRAVELING BODY, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | NGUYEN, MISA H | 97d overdue |
| 18031895 | AUTOMATED STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE SELECTION METHOD | MOORE, REVA R | 42d overdue |
| 18256374 | CONVEYANCE SYSTEM | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 36d overdue |
| 18277447 | PURGE DEVICE | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 3d overdue |
| 18023842 | TRANSPORT VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING TRANSPORT VEHICLE | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 12d |
| 18834644 | ARTICLE SHELF | MASSAD, ABE L | 19d |
| 18844567 | AUTOMATED STORAGE SYSTEM AND LOAD STORAGE METHOD | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 22d |
| 18288234 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM, UNITARY UNIT, AND GRID-PATTERNED TRACK | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3627 | 2 |
| 3615 | 2 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 2455 | 1 |
| 3634 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18857663 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM | CROMER, ANDREW J | 3667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18851381 | CONVEYANCE SYSTEM | LAZARO, DAVID R | 2455 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18844567 | AUTOMATED STORAGE SYSTEM AND LOAD STORAGE METHOD | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 3627 | §101 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18834644 | ARTICLE SHELF | MASSAD, ABE L | 3634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18288234 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM, UNITARY UNIT, AND GRID-PATTERNED TRACK | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 3615 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18277447 | PURGE DEVICE | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18256374 | CONVEYANCE SYSTEM | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18033853 | TRAVEL TEACHING RECORDING METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS TRAVELING BODY, AUTONOMOUS TRAVELING BODY, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | NGUYEN, MISA H | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 97d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
| 18031895 | AUTOMATED STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE SELECTION METHOD | MOORE, REVA R | 3627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 18023842 | TRANSPORT VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING TRANSPORT VEHICLE | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 3655 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 18008340 | LASER MACHINING TOOL AND WORKPIECE MACHINING METHOD | CHOU, JIMMY | 3761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
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