Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH JR., JIMMY R | 1 | 64.7% | +43.7% |
| ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1 | 76.3% | +7.8% |
| DERUSSO, JOHN J | 1 | 80.6% | +14.7% |
| WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 53.8% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281808 | TECHNIQUE FOR REMOVING POWDER AND/OR PARTICLES FROM A POWDER BED | DERUSSO, JOHN J | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19039052 | METHOD OF OPERATING AN APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORK PIECE AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORK PIECE | SMITH JR., JIMMY R | — |
| 18281808 | TECHNIQUE FOR REMOVING POWDER AND/OR PARTICLES FROM A POWDER BED | DERUSSO, JOHN J | — |
| 18035220 | APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORK PIECE | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19039052 | METHOD OF OPERATING AN APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORK PIECE AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORK PIECE | SMITH JR., JIMMY R | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18695075 | GENERATIVE LAYER-BUILDING PROCESS WITH VARIOUS RAW-MATERIAL POWDERS, AND INSTALLATION THEREFOR | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | — | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18281808 | TECHNIQUE FOR REMOVING POWDER AND/OR PARTICLES FROM A POWDER BED | DERUSSO, JOHN J | 1744 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18035220 | APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORK PIECE | WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1734 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
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