Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Proto Labs Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This prosecution activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused and limited set of active proceedings. Such a narrow distribution means that the company's current patent office interactions are confined to 1 technical channel and 1 decision-maker.
SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action constitutes the entirety of the 1 pending office actions currently tracked for the company. For the practitioner, this concentration means that the success of the current prosecution cycle relies on the specific relationship with SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the administrative complexity of the portfolio is currently low, focusing resources on the 1 matter.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 1 | 67.4% | +32.9% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18588397 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DIMENSIONING AND MODIFYING A PART TO BE MANUFACTURED | SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2116 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18588397 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DIMENSIONING AND MODIFYING A PART TO BE MANUFACTURED | SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 2116 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
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