Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 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 | 4 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, TIFFANY T | 1 | 59.4% | +48.6% |
| CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 1 | 62.1% | +42.4% |
| LAZO, THOMAS E | 1 | 86.8% | +8.9% |
| TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 1 | 42.6% | +48.6% |
| NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 1 | 73.8% | +37.0% |
| DODSON, JUSTIN C | 1 | 46.8% | +35.6% |
| SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 1 | 69.0% | +6.1% |
| KERR, ELIZABETH M | 1 | 64.7% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17791788 | MONITORING OF A LASER MACHINING PROCESS USING A NEUROMORPHIC IMAGE SENSOR | DODSON, JUSTIN C | 15d |
| 18276698 | A METHOD FOR OPTIMISING A MACHINING TIME OF A LASER MACHINING PROCESS, METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A LASER MACHINING PROCESS ON A WORKPIECE, AND LASER MACHINING SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR CARRYING OUT THIS PROCESS | TRAN, TIFFANY T | — |
| 18346611 | LASER MACHINING HEAD WITH OVERHEAT PROTECTION DEVICE | LAZO, THOMAS E | — |
| 18023969 | Method for Analyzing a Workpiece Surface for a Laser Machining Process and Analysis Device for Analyzing a Workpiece Surface | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17801157 | METHOD FOR ANALYSING A WELD DURING LASER WELDING OF WORKPIECES | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 44d overdue |
| 17791788 | MONITORING OF A LASER MACHINING PROCESS USING A NEUROMORPHIC IMAGE SENSOR | DODSON, JUSTIN C | 15d |
| 18276698 | A METHOD FOR OPTIMISING A MACHINING TIME OF A LASER MACHINING PROCESS, METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A LASER MACHINING PROCESS ON A WORKPIECE, AND LASER MACHINING SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR CARRYING OUT THIS PROCESS | TRAN, TIFFANY T | — |
| 18349352 | LASER MACHINING HEAD AND METHOD FOR MACHINING A WORKPIECE | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | — |
| 18023969 | Method for Analyzing a Workpiece Surface for a Laser Machining Process and Analysis Device for Analyzing a Workpiece Surface | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | — |
| 17585749 | LASER PROCESSING HEAD HAVING A DIAPHRAGM TO INCREASE SCAN FIELD OF THE LASER BEAM | KERR, ELIZABETH M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 6 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18276698 | A METHOD FOR OPTIMISING A MACHINING TIME OF A LASER MACHINING PROCESS, METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A LASER MACHINING PROCESS ON A WORKPIECE, AND LASER MACHINING SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR CARRYING OUT THIS PROCESS | TRAN, TIFFANY T | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18349352 | LASER MACHINING HEAD AND METHOD FOR MACHINING A WORKPIECE | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18346611 | LASER MACHINING HEAD WITH OVERHEAT PROTECTION DEVICE | LAZO, THOMAS E | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
| 18023969 | Method for Analyzing a Workpiece Surface for a Laser Machining Process and Analysis Device for Analyzing a Workpiece Surface | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 17801157 | METHOD FOR ANALYSING A WELD DURING LASER WELDING OF WORKPIECES | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Aug 19, 2022 |
| 17791788 | MONITORING OF A LASER MACHINING PROCESS USING A NEUROMORPHIC IMAGE SENSOR | DODSON, JUSTIN C | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jul 08, 2022 |
| 17767642 | LASER WORKING SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING A WORKING PROCESS ON A WORKPIECE BY MEANS OF A LASER BEAM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A WORKING PROCESS ON A WORKPIECE BY MEANS OF A LASER BEAM | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2022 |
| 17585749 | LASER PROCESSING HEAD HAVING A DIAPHRAGM TO INCREASE SCAN FIELD OF THE LASER BEAM | KERR, ELIZABETH M | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2022 |
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