Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
15 pending office actions • 2 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 89 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 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. 15 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 (47%) |
| §102 only | 4 (27%) |
| §112 only | 3 (20%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREHE, WILLIAM R | 3 | 59.9% | +41.3% |
| MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 3 | 67.1% | +23.2% |
| VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 2 | 68.2% | +27.9% |
| VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 1 | 52.2% | +12.9% |
| DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 1 | 76.3% | +27.0% |
| HALL, DEANNA K | 1 | 75.8% | +15.4% |
| FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 1 | 78.9% | +15.2% |
| ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | 1 | 86.4% | +18.2% |
| MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 1 | 51.8% | +54.7% |
| SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 1 | 58.7% | +36.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17569291 | SAFETY DEVICE FOR A PRE-FILLED SYRINGE AND AN INJECTION DEVICE | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | 27d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18159719 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 53d overdue |
| 19022302 | Auto-Injector | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 44d overdue |
| 17227944 | Auto-Injector | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 36d overdue |
| 17385535 | MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 26d overdue |
| 17945632 | Device and Method for Determining Information Related to a Medical Device | VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 8d overdue |
| 18469706 | Needle Arrangement | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 3d overdue |
| 18451572 | Auto-Injector Device | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 7d |
| 18757830 | Medicament Delivery Device and Actuation Mechanism for a Drug Delivery Device | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 14 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19022302 | Auto-Injector | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18757830 | Medicament Delivery Device and Actuation Mechanism for a Drug Delivery Device | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 3783 | §112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18758133 | Medicament Delivery Device and Actuation Mechanism for a Drug Delivery Device | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 3783 | §112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18757999 | Medicament Delivery Device and Actuation Mechanism for a Drug Delivery Device | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 3783 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18469706 | Needle Arrangement | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
| 18451572 | Auto-Injector Device | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 3783 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18137138 | DATA COLLECTION APPARATUS FOR ATTACHMENT TO AN INJECTION DEVICE | HALL, DEANNA K | 3783 | §102 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18159719 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
| 17945632 | Device and Method for Determining Information Related to a Medical Device | VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Sep 15, 2022 |
| 17886279 | PEN-TYPE DRUG INJECTION DEVICE WITH CONTROLLER AND TIME LOCK-OUT MECHANISM FOR ITS DRIVE | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Aug 11, 2022 |
| 17569291 | SAFETY DEVICE FOR A PRE-FILLED SYRINGE AND AN INJECTION DEVICE | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | 3783 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jan 05, 2022 |
| 17453601 | Cap Assembly for a Medicament | VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 3783 | §102 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Nov 04, 2021 |
| 17385535 | MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 3682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Jul 26, 2021 |
| 17227944 | Auto-Injector | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 3783 | Other | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2021 |
| 16990126 | Supplemental Device for Attachment to an Injection Device | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Aug 11, 2020 |
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