Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 1 | 77.7% | +13.3% |
| BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 1 | 49.4% | +55.0% |
| TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 1 | 46.2% | +31.1% |
| SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 1 | 5.6% | +50.0% |
| MONAHAN, MEGAN ELIZABETH | 1 | 58.2% | +17.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17960187 | LIGHT APPLICATOR FOR THE EXECUTION OF A TRANSCUTANEOUS PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY (PDT) | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 33d |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17291836 | ENDOSCOPIC INSTRUMENT | MONAHAN, MEGAN ELIZABETH | 58d overdue |
| 18560443 | BIOPSY SYSTEM | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 50d overdue |
| 18841464 | TARGET DEVICE FOR THE TARGETED GUIDANCE OF A HOLLOW NEEDLE DURING AN ENDOSCOPIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 33d |
| 17960187 | LIGHT APPLICATOR FOR THE EXECUTION OF A TRANSCUTANEOUS PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY (PDT) | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 33d |
| 18559593 | BIOPSY SYSTEM | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 75d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 2 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841464 | TARGET DEVICE FOR THE TARGETED GUIDANCE OF A HOLLOW NEEDLE DURING AN ENDOSCOPIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18560443 | BIOPSY SYSTEM | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18559593 | BIOPSY SYSTEM | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 17960187 | LIGHT APPLICATOR FOR THE EXECUTION OF A TRANSCUTANEOUS PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY (PDT) | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Oct 05, 2022 |
| 17291836 | ENDOSCOPIC INSTRUMENT | MONAHAN, MEGAN ELIZABETH | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2021 |
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