Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 6 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JENNISON, BRIAN W | 1 | 71.8% | +22.1% |
| WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 1 | 59.7% | +38.5% |
| LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | 1 | 48.6% | +43.1% |
| ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 1 | 55.1% | +25.5% |
| KIRKWOOD, SPENCER HAMMETT | 1 | 50.8% | +12.0% |
| SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 1 | 72.7% | +27.4% |
| HATTEN, DANIEL WARD | 1 | 77.3% | +19.7% |
| KERR, ELIZABETH M | 1 | 65.1% | +28.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18558907 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A LASER WELDING PROCESS, AND ASSOCIATED LASER WELDING SYSTEM | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
| 18047859 | PROCESS SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION AND ANOMALY DETECTION IN LASER MACHINING PROCESSES | LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17910948 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PIERCING A WORKPIECE BY MEANS OF A LASER BEAM | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 119d overdue |
| 17801157 | METHOD FOR ANALYSING A WELD DURING LASER WELDING OF WORKPIECES | KIRKWOOD, SPENCER HAMMETT | 44d overdue |
| 18558907 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A LASER WELDING PROCESS, AND ASSOCIATED LASER WELDING SYSTEM | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
| 17923414 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING A LASER MACHINING PROCESS, SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING A LASER MACHINING PROCESS, AND LASER MACHINING SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A SYSTEM | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | — |
| 18047859 | PROCESS SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION AND ANOMALY DETECTION IN LASER MACHINING PROCESSES | LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | — |
| 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 | — |
| 17635468 | ALIGNMENT UNIT, SENSOR MODULE COMPRISING SAME, AND LASER WORKING SYSTEM COMPRISING THE SENSOR MODULE | HATTEN, DANIEL WARD | — |
| 17585749 | LASER PROCESSING HEAD HAVING A DIAPHRAGM TO INCREASE SCAN FIELD OF THE LASER BEAM | KERR, ELIZABETH M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 5 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18558907 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A LASER WELDING PROCESS, AND ASSOCIATED LASER WELDING SYSTEM | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 17923414 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING A LASER MACHINING PROCESS, SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING A LASER MACHINING PROCESS, AND LASER MACHINING SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A SYSTEM | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 18047859 | PROCESS SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION AND ANOMALY DETECTION IN LASER MACHINING PROCESSES | LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | 2117 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
| 17910948 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PIERCING A WORKPIECE BY MEANS OF A LASER BEAM | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 119d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17801157 | METHOD FOR ANALYSING A WELD DURING LASER WELDING OF WORKPIECES | KIRKWOOD, SPENCER HAMMETT | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Aug 19, 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 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2022 |
| 17635468 | ALIGNMENT UNIT, SENSOR MODULE COMPRISING SAME, AND LASER WORKING SYSTEM COMPRISING THE SENSOR MODULE | HATTEN, DANIEL WARD | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 15, 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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