Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
24 pending office actions • 10 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 24 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 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. 12 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 + other | 1 (4%) |
| §103 only | 10 (42%) |
| §102 only | 1 (4%) |
| §112 only | 2 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILKINGTON, JAMES | 8 | 70.2% | +35.8% |
| NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 3 | 80.0% | +14.8% |
| BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 2 | 81.0% | +11.8% |
| PATEL, VISHAL A | 1 | 59.1% | +22.1% |
| SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 1 | 45.9% | +48.0% |
| OMORI, MARY I | 1 | 50.8% | +58.7% |
| WAITS, ALAN B | 1 | 68.9% | +29.6% |
| ORTEGA, JOSEPH | 1 | 72.4% | +16.2% |
| CHRISTY, KATHERINE A | 1 | 75.2% | +35.3% |
| CORDERO, LINA M | 1 | 71.3% | +37.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851394 | CAGE AND DEEP GROOVE BALL BEARING | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 5d |
| 18847318 | FIXED-TYPE CONSTANT-VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684345 | PLUNGING TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 35d overdue |
| 18682929 | PISTON RING | PATEL, VISHAL A | 31d overdue |
| 19120094 | BEARING DEVICE AND SPINDLE DEVICE WITH BEARING DEVICE | PILKINGTON, JAMES | — |
| 19169324 | ROLLING BEARING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | — |
| 19111176 | BEARING WITH SENSOR | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | — |
| 19108256 | BEARING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE WHEEL | PILKINGTON, JAMES | — |
| 18993121 | BEARING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE WHEEL | PILKINGTON, JAMES | — |
| 18859832 | BALL BEARING | WAITS, ALAN B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684345 | PLUNGING TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 35d overdue |
| 18682929 | PISTON RING | PATEL, VISHAL A | 31d overdue |
| 18283200 | SEALED ROLLING BEARING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 23d overdue |
| 18872695 | Controller, Terminal Device, Management System, and Management Method | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 16d overdue |
| 18726268 | BEARING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE WHEEL | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 1d overdue |
| 18851394 | CAGE AND DEEP GROOVE BALL BEARING | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 5d |
| 18871307 | ROLLING BEARING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 7d |
| 18684624 | TRANSMISSION SHAFT AND BEARING DEVICE USING SAME | CHRISTY, KATHERINE A | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 10 |
| 1784 | 2 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18682929 | PISTON RING | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19120094 | BEARING DEVICE AND SPINDLE DEVICE WITH BEARING DEVICE | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19169324 | ROLLING BEARING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19111176 | BEARING WITH SENSOR | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19108256 | BEARING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE WHEEL | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18993121 | BEARING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE WHEEL | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18872695 | Controller, Terminal Device, Management System, and Management Method | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 3626 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18871307 | ROLLING BEARING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18864781 | HARD FILM FORMED BODY, MACHINE COMPONENT, AND BEARING | OMORI, MARY I | 1784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18859832 | BALL BEARING | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18851394 | CAGE AND DEEP GROOVE BALL BEARING | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 3617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18847318 | FIXED-TYPE CONSTANT-VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18692949 | FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING AND FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18283200 | SEALED ROLLING BEARING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18729584 | MOBILE HYDROGEN SUPPLY SYSTEM | ORTEGA, JOSEPH | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18726268 | BEARING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE WHEEL | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18684345 | PLUNGING TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 3679 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18684624 | TRANSMISSION SHAFT AND BEARING DEVICE USING SAME | CHRISTY, KATHERINE A | 1784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18243685 | STATE MONITORING SYSTEM | CORDERO, LINA M | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18022163 | SILICON NITRIDE SINTERED BODY, ROLLING ELEMENT USING THE SAME, AND BEARING | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Feb 19, 2023 |
| 18012802 | BEARING APPARATUS | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 3617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
| 17794250 | GREASE COMPOSITION AND GREASE-SEALED BEARING | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jul 20, 2022 |
| 17765772 | EVALUATION TEST METHOD FOR FLAKING CAUSED BY HYDROGEN EMBRITTLEMENT IN ROLLING BEARING | KOLB, NATHANIEL J | 2896 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
| 17764018 | ROLLING BEARING | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 25, 2022 |
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