Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 7 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REMAVEGE, CHRISTOPHER | 2 | 57.5% | +26.6% |
| MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | 1 | 63.0% | +24.5% |
| CHEN, KEATH T | 1 | 30.3% | +24.5% |
| NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1 | 44.0% | +40.0% |
| SWEELY, KURT D | 1 | 53.2% | +34.4% |
| FORD, NATHAN K | 1 | 32.6% | +35.6% |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17400271 | SUBSTRATE TREATING APPARATUS | FORD, NATHAN K | 131d overdue |
| 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 |
| 18462386 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING SUBSTRATE | REMAVEGE, CHRISTOPHER | 2d overdue |
| 18268198 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | REMAVEGE, CHRISTOPHER | 19d |
| 18278678 | LOAD LOCK CHAMBER AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE | CHEN, KEATH T | 30d |
| 18724150 | SUBSTRATE TREATMENT APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE TREATMENT METHOD | MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 3 |
| 1713 | 2 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18724150 | SUBSTRATE TREATMENT APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE TREATMENT METHOD | MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN | 1794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18462386 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING SUBSTRATE | REMAVEGE, CHRISTOPHER | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18278678 | LOAD LOCK CHAMBER AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING SUBSTRATE | CHEN, KEATH T | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18268198 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS | REMAVEGE, CHRISTOPHER | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jun 16, 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 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
| 17400271 | SUBSTRATE TREATING APPARATUS | FORD, NATHAN K | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | 131d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 2021 |
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