Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
12 pending office actions • 8 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 5 (42%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHENG, LOIS L | 2 | 67.7% | +12.8% |
| ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 2 | 76.3% | +7.8% |
| LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | 1 | 66.7% | +11.2% |
| DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 1 | 77.9% | +13.7% |
| LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 1 | 56.9% | +43.0% |
| SIDDIQUI, ADIL ABDUL WAJID | 1 | 54.6% | +13.0% |
| LEONG, NATHAN T | 1 | 71.3% | +24.1% |
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 1 | 78.0% | +16.2% |
| LIANG, ANTHONY M | 1 | 83.5% | +9.7% |
| STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 1 | 67.9% | +20.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17758859 | ENGINEERED CAN BODY STOCK AND CAN END STOCK AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING SAME | LIANG, ANTHONY M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17998590 | ALUMINUM ALLOY PRETREATMENT WITH PHOSPHORUS- CONTAINING ORGANIC ACIDS FOR SURFACE MODIFICATION | ZHENG, LOIS L | 16d overdue |
| 17811158 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMING A DOUBLE DOME CONTAINER | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 79d |
| 18832102 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THREADING IN A ROLLING MILL | LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | — |
| 18668608 | EXTRUSION SINGLE LAYER COATINGS | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | — |
| 18556164 | LAMINATED CAN END STOCK | LEONG, NATHAN T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17998590 | ALUMINUM ALLOY PRETREATMENT WITH PHOSPHORUS- CONTAINING ORGANIC ACIDS FOR SURFACE MODIFICATION | ZHENG, LOIS L | 16d overdue |
| 18645922 | METAL PRODUCTS HAVING IMPROVED SURFACE PROPERTIES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | SIDDIQUI, ADIL ABDUL WAJID | 42d |
| 17811158 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMING A DOUBLE DOME CONTAINER | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 79d |
| 18832102 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THREADING IN A ROLLING MILL | LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | — |
| 18726538 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR DECOATER CYCLONE DUST AND RELATED METHODS | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | — |
| 18668608 | EXTRUSION SINGLE LAYER COATINGS | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | — |
| 18556164 | LAMINATED CAN END STOCK | LEONG, NATHAN T | — |
| 18555576 | ROLL STEERING CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TANDEM MILLS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 3 |
| 1733 | 2 |
| 1759 | 2 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18832102 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THREADING IN A ROLLING MILL | LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18726538 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR DECOATER CYCLONE DUST AND RELATED METHODS | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18668608 | EXTRUSION SINGLE LAYER COATINGS | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 1787 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18645922 | METAL PRODUCTS HAVING IMPROVED SURFACE PROPERTIES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | SIDDIQUI, ADIL ABDUL WAJID | 1735 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18556164 | LAMINATED CAN END STOCK | LEONG, NATHAN T | 1718 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18555576 | ROLL STEERING CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TANDEM MILLS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3725 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18041297 | FUNCTIONALLY GRADIENT ALUMINUM ALLOY PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF MAKING | ZHENG, LOIS L | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
| 18157932 | METAL CASTING AND ROLLING LINE | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 17998590 | ALUMINUM ALLOY PRETREATMENT WITH PHOSPHORUS- CONTAINING ORGANIC ACIDS FOR SURFACE MODIFICATION | ZHENG, LOIS L | 1733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Nov 11, 2022 |
| 17995431 | ALUMINUM ALLOYS PRODUCED FROM RECYCLED ALUMINUM ALLOY SCRAP | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1759 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2022 |
| 17758859 | ENGINEERED CAN BODY STOCK AND CAN END STOCK AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING SAME | LIANG, ANTHONY M | 1734 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2022 |
| 17811158 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMING A DOUBLE DOME CONTAINER | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
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