Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
OSG Corporation currently has 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 4 pending office actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is reviewed by a different person, ensuring that no single examiner manages multiple cases for the company.
The prosecution activity is concentrated within 2 distinct art units. This count of 2 distinct art units is lower than the 4 distinct examiners, meaning that multiple examiners are reviewing applications within the same specialized groups. VITALE, MICHAEL J is the busiest examiner for the company, with a busiest examiner pending count of 1. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 is consistent across all examiners involved.
For practitioners, the 4 pending office actions represent a focused technical scope within the Chemistry & Materials area. The use of 4 distinct examiners within 2 distinct art units provides a variety of individual perspectives within a limited number of technical departments. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that the workload is evenly spread across the examination staff.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VITALE, MICHAEL J | 1 | 67.2% | +34.7% |
| RAMOS, NICOLE N | 1 | 81.4% | +9.9% |
| YANG, ZHEREN J | 1 | 57.4% | +52.4% |
| RUFO, RYAN C | 1 | 58.9% | +40.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19100259 | THREAD MILL | VITALE, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18878874 | THREAD FORMING TAP | RAMOS, NICOLE N | — |
| 18254728 | END MILL | RUFO, RYAN C | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19100259 | THREAD MILL | VITALE, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18689332 | HARD COATING, HARD-COATING COATED TOOL, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR HARD COATING | YANG, ZHEREN J | — |
| 18254728 | END MILL | RUFO, RYAN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19100259 | THREAD MILL | VITALE, MICHAEL J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18878874 | THREAD FORMING TAP | RAMOS, NICOLE N | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18689332 | HARD COATING, HARD-COATING COATED TOOL, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR HARD COATING | YANG, ZHEREN J | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18254728 | END MILL | RUFO, RYAN C | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
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