Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 6 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 1 | 73.5% | +32.6% |
| KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1 | 64.5% | +9.9% |
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 53.9% | +23.9% |
| RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1 | 45.4% | +32.7% |
| PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1 | 41.4% | +36.7% |
| FIGG, LAURA B | 1 | 57.6% | +23.6% |
| BUTTNER, DAVID J | 1 | 63.9% | +4.0% |
| SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | 1 | 64.5% | +38.4% |
| BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1 | 71.2% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18004684 | ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS OF WASTE CELLULOSE | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 9d |
| 17999787 | BIODEGRADABLE POLYESTER AND ADHERENT PACKAGING FILMS MADE THEREFROM | BUTTNER, DAVID J | 54d |
| 18263737 | PROCESS FOR BRANCHED POLYESTERS FOR EXTRUSION COATING AND RELATED PRODUCTS | BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18002269 | PACKAGING FILMS WITH ANTI-FOGGING AGENT | FIGG, LAURA B | 111d overdue |
| 18005414 | REUSE OF BIOPLASTICS IN POLYMERISATION | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 100d overdue |
| 18258816 | HIGH-DISINTEGRATION MULTILAYER BIODEGRADABLE FILM | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 66d overdue |
| 17996233 | BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER COMPOSITION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MOLDED ITEMS | SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | 26d overdue |
| 18004684 | ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS OF WASTE CELLULOSE | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 9d |
| 18263737 | PROCESS FOR BRANCHED POLYESTERS FOR EXTRUSION COATING AND RELATED PRODUCTS | BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | — |
| 17788419 | POLYMER COMPOSITION FOR FILMS HAVING IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND DEGRADABILITY | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 2 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18263737 | PROCESS FOR BRANCHED POLYESTERS FOR EXTRUSION COATING AND RELATED PRODUCTS | BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 1766 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18263755 | PROCESS FOR BRANCHED POLYESTERS FOR FOAMING AND RELATED PRODUCTS | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18258816 | HIGH-DISINTEGRATION MULTILAYER BIODEGRADABLE FILM | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18005414 | REUSE OF BIOPLASTICS IN POLYMERISATION | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 18004684 | ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS OF WASTE CELLULOSE | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1738 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jan 09, 2023 |
| 18002269 | PACKAGING FILMS WITH ANTI-FOGGING AGENT | FIGG, LAURA B | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 111d overdue | Pending | Dec 18, 2022 |
| 17999787 | BIODEGRADABLE POLYESTER AND ADHERENT PACKAGING FILMS MADE THEREFROM | BUTTNER, DAVID J | 1765 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
| 17996233 | BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER COMPOSITION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MOLDED ITEMS | SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | 1762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
| 17788419 | POLYMER COMPOSITION FOR FILMS HAVING IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND DEGRADABILITY | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2022 |
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