Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 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 | 3 (43%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WELLS, KENNETH B | 1 | 86.2% | +2.2% |
| ADAMS, GREGORY W | 1 | 75.2% | +23.8% |
| LEONG, NATHAN T | 1 | 71.3% | +24.1% |
| CROWELL, ANNA M | 1 | 44.7% | +30.8% |
| MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | 1 | 63.4% | +24.4% |
| NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1 | 44.5% | +40.0% |
| SWEELY, KURT D | 1 | 52.7% | +35.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17710269 | PLASMA GENERATION UNIT, AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE WITH THE SAME | SWEELY, KURT D | 26d overdue |
| 18710931 | SUBSTRATE TREATMENT APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE TREATMENT METHOD | WELLS, KENNETH B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18026528 | UPPER ELECTRODE UNIT AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 45d overdue |
| 17710269 | PLASMA GENERATION UNIT, AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE WITH THE SAME | SWEELY, KURT D | 26d overdue |
| 18685190 | APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE AND SUBSTRATE INSPECTION METHOD IN LOAD LOCK CHAMBER | ADAMS, GREGORY W | — |
| 18462385 | APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE | LEONG, NATHAN T | — |
| 18352506 | APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE | CROWELL, ANNA M | — |
| 18270804 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 2 |
| 1716 | 2 |
| 2842 | 1 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18710931 | SUBSTRATE TREATMENT APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE TREATMENT METHOD | WELLS, KENNETH B | 2842 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18685190 | APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE AND SUBSTRATE INSPECTION METHOD IN LOAD LOCK CHAMBER | ADAMS, GREGORY W | 3652 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18462385 | APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE | LEONG, NATHAN T | 1718 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18352506 | APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE | CROWELL, ANNA M | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 18270804 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
| 18026528 | UPPER ELECTRODE UNIT AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
| 17710269 | PLASMA GENERATION UNIT, AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE WITH THE SAME | SWEELY, KURT D | 1718 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
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