Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rogers BV currently manages 1 pending office action within its patent portfolio. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HUNTER, JOHN S, who is also identified as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the entire active portfolio is concentrated under this 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution strategy is highly centralized.
For the practitioner, this means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action depends entirely on the review of HUNTER, JOHN S. There are no other examiners currently involved to provide a baseline for comparison. This 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the total current engagement with the patent office for this company.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUNTER, JOHN S | 1 | 82.9% | +22.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564294 | METHOD FOR FORMING A BUSBAR HAVING A CONTACT ELEMENT, A BUSBAR HAVING A CONTACT ELEMENT AND POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM HAVING SUCH A BUSBAR | HUNTER, JOHN S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564294 | METHOD FOR FORMING A BUSBAR HAVING A CONTACT ELEMENT, A BUSBAR HAVING A CONTACT ELEMENT AND POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM HAVING SUCH A BUSBAR | HUNTER, JOHN S | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18564294 | METHOD FOR FORMING A BUSBAR HAVING A CONTACT ELEMENT, A BUSBAR HAVING A CONTACT ELEMENT AND POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM HAVING SUCH A BUSBAR | HUNTER, JOHN S | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
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