Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 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 | 7 (64%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 2 | 72.7% | +27.4% |
| LIN, CHUN-NAN | 1 | 87.2% | +15.9% |
| LU, WILLIAM | 1 | 71.5% | +7.9% |
| KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 1 | 89.4% | +11.4% |
| HONG, SEAHEE | 1 | 68.5% | +29.9% |
| AKANBI, ISIAKA O | 1 | 76.6% | +22.9% |
| DANIELS, ANTHONY J | 1 | 79.7% | +16.8% |
| COOK, JONATHON | 1 | 81.8% | +16.8% |
| HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 1 | 79.2% | +13.5% |
| WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 1 | 81.9% | +12.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19006855 | LIQUID CRYSTAL MODULATOR DESIGN USING HYBRID ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUES FOR VOLTAGE IMAGE TECHNOLOGY | LIN, CHUN-NAN | — |
| 18212036 | WHITE LIGHT INTERFEROMETRIC INSPECTION USING TILTED REFERENCE BEAM AND SPATIAL FILTERING | COOK, JONATHON | — |
| 18035283 | Multi Pattern Maskless Lithography Method and System | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747380 | FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 50d overdue |
| 18239005 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED INSPECTION OF SURFACES WITH SPECULAR REFLECTION | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 16d overdue |
| 18477158 | MULTI-PHASE INTERFEROMETER FOR 3D METROLOGY | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 28d |
| 18640913 | SINGLE ACTUATOR PANEL LIFT AND CLAMP SYSTEM | HONG, SEAHEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747380 | FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 50d overdue |
| 18426610 | NON-DESTRUCTIVE MULTIPLE LAYERS CROSS-SECTION FIB-LIKE VISUALIZATION | DANIELS, ANTHONY J | 16d overdue |
| 18239005 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED INSPECTION OF SURFACES WITH SPECULAR REFLECTION | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 16d overdue |
| 18477158 | MULTI-PHASE INTERFEROMETER FOR 3D METROLOGY | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 28d |
| 19006855 | LIQUID CRYSTAL MODULATOR DESIGN USING HYBRID ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUES FOR VOLTAGE IMAGE TECHNOLOGY | LIN, CHUN-NAN | — |
| 18640913 | SINGLE ACTUATOR PANEL LIFT AND CLAMP SYSTEM | HONG, SEAHEE | — |
| 18622193 | Multi-Modal Wide-Angle Illumination Employing a Compound Beam Combiner | AKANBI, ISIAKA O | — |
| 18212036 | WHITE LIGHT INTERFEROMETRIC INSPECTION USING TILTED REFERENCE BEAM AND SPATIAL FILTERING | COOK, JONATHON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 3 |
| 2629 | 1 |
| 2624 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| 2637 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19006855 | LIQUID CRYSTAL MODULATOR DESIGN USING HYBRID ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUES FOR VOLTAGE IMAGE TECHNOLOGY | LIN, CHUN-NAN | 2629 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18898124 | IMAGE FREEZING FOR PCB AND SEMICONDUCTOR INSPECTION | LU, WILLIAM | 2624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18747380 | FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | KNIEF, THOMAS RAY | 2853 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18640913 | SINGLE ACTUATOR PANEL LIFT AND CLAMP SYSTEM | HONG, SEAHEE | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18622193 | Multi-Modal Wide-Angle Illumination Employing a Compound Beam Combiner | AKANBI, ISIAKA O | 2882 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18426610 | NON-DESTRUCTIVE MULTIPLE LAYERS CROSS-SECTION FIB-LIKE VISUALIZATION | DANIELS, ANTHONY J | 2637 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18477158 | MULTI-PHASE INTERFEROMETER FOR 3D METROLOGY | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18239005 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED INSPECTION OF SURFACES WITH SPECULAR REFLECTION | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18212036 | WHITE LIGHT INTERFEROMETRIC INSPECTION USING TILTED REFERENCE BEAM AND SPATIAL FILTERING | COOK, JONATHON | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18315998 | UNIVERSAL DYNAMIC BEAM SHAPER | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18035283 | Multi Pattern Maskless Lithography Method and System | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
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