Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 4 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT | 2 | 57.9% | +16.8% |
| GEIST, RICHARD EDWIN | 1 | 61.5% | +45.5% |
| UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 62.2% | +9.6% |
| LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| THOMPSON, JR, OTIS L | 1 | 88.9% | +9.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17961555 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION ESTABLISHMENT METHOD | THOMPSON, JR, OTIS L | 35d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17964922 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DATA USAGE METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER | 12d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17787595 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FEEDBACK OF ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT | 125d overdue |
| 18480496 | FLIGHT SPEAKER, OUTPUT POSITION IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | GEIST, RICHARD EDWIN | 119d overdue |
| 19190744 | ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT AND METHOD OF DETECTING PERCUSSION POSITION | SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 2 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 2496 | 1 |
| 2477 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19190744 | ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT AND METHOD OF DETECTING PERCUSSION POSITION | SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Apr 27, 2025 |
| 18480496 | FLIGHT SPEAKER, OUTPUT POSITION IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | GEIST, RICHARD EDWIN | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 119d overdue | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18114149 | PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT, DRUMHEAD FOR PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT, MOLD FOR MANUFACTURE OF DRUMHEAD, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF DRUMHEAD | UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J | 3619 | Other | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 17964922 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DATA USAGE METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER | 2496 | §102 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
| 17961555 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION ESTABLISHMENT METHOD | THOMPSON, JR, OTIS L | 2477 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
| 17787595 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FEEDBACK OF ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT | 2837 | §103 | Final Rejection | 125d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2022 |
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