Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
25 pending office actions • 17 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 25 (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. 25 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. 25 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 | 20 (80%) |
| §102 only | 3 (12%) |
| §112 only | 2 (8%) |
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 | 5 | 70.1% | +35.7% |
| BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 4 | 80.9% | +11.8% |
| PATEL, VISHAL A | 1 | 58.9% | +21.9% |
| JOYCE, WILLIAM C | 1 | 69.4% | +16.2% |
| SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 1 | 46.2% | +48.2% |
| BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | 1 | 46.9% | +30.6% |
| NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 1 | 79.7% | +16.0% |
| CHRISTY, KATHERINE A | 1 | 75.1% | +34.9% |
| BELLINGER, JASON R | 1 | 69.6% | +18.7% |
| RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | 1 | 81.0% | +11.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684300 | PLUNGING TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 43d overdue |
| 18684345 | PLUNGING TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 35d overdue |
| 18685730 | TRIPOD TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 31d overdue |
| 18685716 | TRIPOD TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 31d overdue |
| 18263822 | VIBRATION ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND VIBRATION ANALYSIS SYSTEM | RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | 5d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18561914 | TAPERED ROLLER BEARING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 128d overdue |
| 18835528 | BALL BEARING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 103d overdue |
| 18684300 | PLUNGING TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 43d overdue |
| 18684345 | PLUNGING TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 35d overdue |
| 18682929 | PISTON RING | PATEL, VISHAL A | 31d overdue |
| 18685730 | TRIPOD TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 31d overdue |
| 18685716 | TRIPOD TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 31d overdue |
| 18283200 | SEALED ROLLING BEARING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 23d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 6 |
| 3679 | 4 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18682929 | PISTON RING | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19265648 | PARALLEL LINK MECHANISM AND LINK OPERATION DEVICE | JOYCE, WILLIAM C | 3618 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 18872695 | Controller, Terminal Device, Management System, and Management Method | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 3626 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18871307 | ROLLING BEARING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18870857 | CONTROLLER, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD | BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | 3684 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18851394 | CAGE AND DEEP GROOVE BALL BEARING | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 3617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18283200 | SEALED ROLLING BEARING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18835528 | BALL BEARING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 103d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18726268 | BEARING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE WHEEL | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18685730 | TRIPOD TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18685716 | TRIPOD TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18684624 | TRANSMISSION SHAFT AND BEARING DEVICE USING SAME | CHRISTY, KATHERINE A | 1784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18684300 | PLUNGING TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 3679 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18684345 | PLUNGING TYPE CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 3679 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18576960 | BEARING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE WHEEL | BELLINGER, JASON R | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18561914 | TAPERED ROLLER BEARING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 128d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18263822 | VIBRATION ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND VIBRATION ANALYSIS SYSTEM | RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A | 2857 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18262819 | GRINDING APPARATUS | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18039694 | SPINDLE DEVICE | RAMOS, NICOLE N | 3722 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18027208 | MAGNETIC CORE MATERIAL AND MAGNETIC CORE | BERNATZ, KEVIN M | 1785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
| 18022163 | SILICON NITRIDE SINTERED BODY, ROLLING ELEMENT USING THE SAME, AND BEARING | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 1731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Feb 19, 2023 |
| 17910737 | LIQUID MATERIAL APPLICATION UNIT, LIQUID MATERIAL APPLICATION DEVICE, AND LIQUID MATERIAL APPLICATION METHOD | KITT, STEPHEN A | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
| 17794250 | GREASE COMPOSITION AND GREASE-SEALED BEARING | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 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 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Mar 25, 2022 |
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