Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1 | 65.4% | +42.6% |
| ALABI, OYELEYE A | 1 | 84.3% | +24.7% |
| NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1 | 64.0% | +36.6% |
| HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1 | 69.7% | +36.4% |
| BARRON, SEAN C | 1 | 53.3% | +30.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17063637 | Droplet-Generating Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 72d |
| 18898377 | Apparatuses for Contactless Loading and Imaging of Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
| 18754373 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING 2-DIMENSIONAL DROP ARRAYS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | — |
| 18054326 | Systems and Methods for Loading Reagent-Containing Microfluidic Chips Having Single-Use Valves | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17063637 | Droplet-Generating Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 72d |
| 18898377 | Apparatuses for Contactless Loading and Imaging of Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
| 18754373 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING 2-DIMENSIONAL DROP ARRAYS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | — |
| 18054326 | Systems and Methods for Loading Reagent-Containing Microfluidic Chips Having Single-Use Valves | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
| 16998646 | Methods for Screening and Subsequent Processing of Samples Taken from Non-Sterile Sites | BARRON, SEAN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18898377 | Apparatuses for Contactless Loading and Imaging of Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18754373 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING 2-DIMENSIONAL DROP ARRAYS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | 1797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18054326 | Systems and Methods for Loading Reagent-Containing Microfluidic Chips Having Single-Use Valves | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
| 17063637 | Droplet-Generating Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 72d | Pending | Oct 05, 2020 |
| 16998646 | Methods for Screening and Subsequent Processing of Samples Taken from Non-Sterile Sites | BARRON, SEAN C | 1653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2020 |
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