17 pending office actions • 2 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 17 (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. 17 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. 17 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 | 11 (65%) |
| No statute on record | 6 (35%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 6 | 59.1% | +47.4% |
| DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 3 | 27.3% | +58.3% |
| DELACRUZ, MADELEINE PAULINA | 2 | 64.3% | +39.7% |
| SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 2 | 57.5% | +22.8% |
| KRINKER, YANA B | 2 | 57.9% | +33.5% |
| BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 1 | 40.0% | +22.4% |
| YAARY, ERIC | 1 | 73.9% | +2.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18312061 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH NON-UNIFORM METALLIC FOIL | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 70d overdue |
| 18312070 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH TREATED METALLIC FOIL | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 70d overdue |
| 18307534 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH EMBEDDED HEATING ELEMENT | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 70d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18314321 | SMOKING DEVICE WITH NON-CYLINDRICAL HEATING HOUSING | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 163d overdue |
| 18315068 | SMOKING DEVICE WITH PRESSURIZED CONTACT MECHANISM | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 147d overdue |
| 18303636 | NON-CYLINDRICAL ELONGATE SMOKING CAPSULE | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 113d overdue |
| 18303623 | COLLAPSE-PREVENTION ELEMENT FOR SMOKING CAPSULE | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 103d overdue |
| 18314269 | SMOKING DEVICE WITH PUFF SENSING | DELACRUZ, MADELEINE PAULINA | 78d overdue |
| 18312061 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH NON-UNIFORM METALLIC FOIL | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 70d overdue |
| 18312070 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH TREATED METALLIC FOIL | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 70d overdue |
| 18307534 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH EMBEDDED HEATING ELEMENT | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 70d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 11 |
| 1747 | 6 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18315068 | SMOKING DEVICE WITH PRESSURIZED CONTACT MECHANISM | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18315063 | SMOKING DEVICE WITH MOVEABLE ELECTRODES | DELACRUZ, MADELEINE PAULINA | 1755 | Other | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18315059 | SMOKING DEVICE WITH AXIAL HEATING AND AIRFLOW | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18314269 | SMOKING DEVICE WITH PUFF SENSING | DELACRUZ, MADELEINE PAULINA | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 78d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18314274 | SMOKING DEVICE WITH TWO HEATING MODES | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18314321 | SMOKING DEVICE WITH NON-CYLINDRICAL HEATING HOUSING | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1747 | Other | Non-Final OA | 163d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18312066 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH INSULATING MATERIAL | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 52d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 18312061 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH NON-UNIFORM METALLIC FOIL | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 1755 | Other | Final Rejection | 70d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 18312063 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH INNER LINING | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 18312070 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH TREATED METALLIC FOIL | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 18308162 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH NON-UNIFORM HEATING PROFILE | YAARY, ERIC | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18307534 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH EMBEDDED HEATING ELEMENT | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 1755 | Other | Final Rejection | 70d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
| 18307524 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH PAPER COVERING | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
| 18303636 | NON-CYLINDRICAL ELONGATE SMOKING CAPSULE | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1747 | Other | Non-Final OA | 113d overdue | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18303624 | CYLINDRICAL COLLAPSE-PREVENTION ELEMENTS FOR SMOKING CAPSULE | KRINKER, YANA B | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18303633 | SMOKING CAPSULE THAT PROVIDES METERED DOSE | KRINKER, YANA B | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18303623 | COLLAPSE-PREVENTION ELEMENT FOR SMOKING CAPSULE | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1747 | Other | Final Rejection | 103d overdue | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
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