Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IP, JASON M | 1 | 54.9% | +25.1% |
| TAYLOR, APRIL ALICIA | 1 | 78.7% | +8.6% |
| YOON, CHANEL J | 1 | 52.9% | +39.2% |
| MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 1 | 60.0% | +44.2% |
| DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 1 | 74.9% | +15.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17880013 | ACOUSTIC OTOSCOPE | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 56d |
| 18476263 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTICAL ILLUMINATION IN A SPECULUM TIP | TAYLOR, APRIL ALICIA | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18935201 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MEMBRANE CHARACTERIZATION WITH ULTRASOUND AND OPTICAL ILLUMINATION | IP, JASON M | 46d |
| 17880013 | ACOUSTIC OTOSCOPE | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 56d |
| 18358762 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED PNEUMATIC OTOSCOPY | YOON, CHANEL J | — |
| 18065103 | OTOSCOPE SEAL DEVICES AND METHODS | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 3 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18935201 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MEMBRANE CHARACTERIZATION WITH ULTRASOUND AND OPTICAL ILLUMINATION | IP, JASON M | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18476263 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTICAL ILLUMINATION IN A SPECULUM TIP | TAYLOR, APRIL ALICIA | 2876 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18358762 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED PNEUMATIC OTOSCOPY | YOON, CHANEL J | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18065103 | OTOSCOPE SEAL DEVICES AND METHODS | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 17880013 | ACOUSTIC OTOSCOPE | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Aug 03, 2022 |
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