Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 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 (86%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAND, MICHAEL A | 2 | 44.8% | +55.4% |
| OTT, PATRICK S | 1 | 66.5% | +20.8% |
| LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1 | 56.2% | +19.8% |
| GILLIAM, BARBARA LEE | 1 | 20.0% | +12.9% |
| YANG, ZHEREN J | 1 | 57.4% | +53.4% |
| BERMAN, JASON | 1 | 63.3% | +21.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18014228 | Method for manufacturing a solid-state battery | GILLIAM, BARBARA LEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17433203 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING TARGETS FOR PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION (PVD) | BERMAN, JASON | 2d overdue |
| 18858996 | COATING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT COMPONENTS | OTT, PATRICK S | 12d |
| 17761777 | SUBSTRATE WITH A MOLYBDENUM NITRIDE LAYER SYSTEM, AND COATING METHOD FOR PRODUCING A LAYER SYSTEM | YANG, ZHEREN J | 22d |
| 17613065 | PVD COATINGS COMPRISING MULTI-ANION HIGH ENTROPY ALLOY OXY-NITRIDES | BAND, MICHAEL A | 22d |
| 18257414 | HARD CUBIC AL-RICH ALTIN COATING LAYERS PRODUCED BY PVD FROM CERAMIC TARGETS | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 41d |
| 18247670 | HARD CARBON COATINGS WITH IMPROVED ADHESION STRENGTH BY MEANS OF HIPIMS AND METHOD THEREOF | BAND, MICHAEL A | 84d |
| 18014228 | Method for manufacturing a solid-state battery | GILLIAM, BARBARA LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 4 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18858996 | COATING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT COMPONENTS | OTT, PATRICK S | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18257414 | HARD CUBIC AL-RICH ALTIN COATING LAYERS PRODUCED BY PVD FROM CERAMIC TARGETS | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18247670 | HARD CARBON COATINGS WITH IMPROVED ADHESION STRENGTH BY MEANS OF HIPIMS AND METHOD THEREOF | BAND, MICHAEL A | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 18014228 | Method for manufacturing a solid-state battery | GILLIAM, BARBARA LEE | 1727 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
| 17761777 | SUBSTRATE WITH A MOLYBDENUM NITRIDE LAYER SYSTEM, AND COATING METHOD FOR PRODUCING A LAYER SYSTEM | YANG, ZHEREN J | 1781 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Mar 18, 2022 |
| 17613065 | PVD COATINGS COMPRISING MULTI-ANION HIGH ENTROPY ALLOY OXY-NITRIDES | BAND, MICHAEL A | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Nov 21, 2021 |
| 17433203 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING TARGETS FOR PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION (PVD) | BERMAN, JASON | 1794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2021 |
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