Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 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 | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RILEY, JONATHAN G | 1 | 51.9% | +30.1% |
| MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 1 | 50.1% | +42.7% |
| UTECH, BENJAMIN L | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17885148 | FOOD PRODUCT FORMING MACHINE | UTECH, BENJAMIN L | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17936354 | FOOD PRODUCT GRIPPING ASSEMBLY FOR A FOOD PRODUCT SLICING APPARATUS | RILEY, JONATHAN G | 51d overdue |
| 17936351 | PIVOTING LOADING TRAY ASSEMBLY FOR FOOD PRODUCT SLICING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17936354 | FOOD PRODUCT GRIPPING ASSEMBLY FOR A FOOD PRODUCT SLICING APPARATUS | RILEY, JONATHAN G | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 17936351 | PIVOTING LOADING TRAY ASSEMBLY FOR FOOD PRODUCT SLICING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 3724 | §102 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 17885148 | FOOD PRODUCT FORMING MACHINE | UTECH, BENJAMIN L | 1700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2022 |
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