Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 69 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (11%) |
| §103 only | 2 (22%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUGO, CARLOS | 3 | 74.9% | +14.0% |
| TULLIA, STEVEN A | 1 | 73.8% | +19.3% |
| MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 1 | 64.5% | +31.4% |
| FRENCH, CORRELL T | 1 | 46.2% | +33.5% |
| BOLOURCHI, NADER | 1 | 81.9% | +12.2% |
| MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 1 | 53.0% | +27.9% |
| NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 1 | 66.1% | +19.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18636956 | SEAMLESS ACCESS CONTROL | BOLOURCHI, NADER | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621333 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOUNTING OBJECTS TO A FRAME | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 118d overdue |
| 19240794 | INDICATOR LEVER | LUGO, CARLOS | — |
| 19097359 | LOCK STATUS INDICATORS | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | — |
| 19076445 | LEVER HANDING SELECTION | LUGO, CARLOS | — |
| 18894823 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR LEVERAGING MACHINE LEARNING FOR CUSTOMIZED INSTALLATION OF ACCESS CONTROL HARDWARE | FRENCH, CORRELL T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621333 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOUNTING OBJECTS TO A FRAME | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 118d overdue |
| 17859451 | CUT RESISTANT PORTABLE LOCK APPARATUS | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 86d |
| 19240838 | LOCK MODULE WITH MECHANICAL OVERRIDE | TULLIA, STEVEN A | — |
| 19240794 | INDICATOR LEVER | LUGO, CARLOS | — |
| 19097359 | LOCK STATUS INDICATORS | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | — |
| 19076445 | LEVER HANDING SELECTION | LUGO, CARLOS | — |
| 18894823 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR LEVERAGING MACHINE LEARNING FOR CUSTOMIZED INSTALLATION OF ACCESS CONTROL HARDWARE | FRENCH, CORRELL T | — |
| 18636956 | SEAMLESS ACCESS CONTROL | BOLOURCHI, NADER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 4 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2631 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19240838 | LOCK MODULE WITH MECHANICAL OVERRIDE | TULLIA, STEVEN A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19240794 | INDICATOR LEVER | LUGO, CARLOS | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19097359 | LOCK STATUS INDICATORS | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19076445 | LEVER HANDING SELECTION | LUGO, CARLOS | 3675 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 18894823 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR LEVERAGING MACHINE LEARNING FOR CUSTOMIZED INSTALLATION OF ACCESS CONTROL HARDWARE | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18636956 | SEAMLESS ACCESS CONTROL | BOLOURCHI, NADER | 2631 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18630599 | LOCK DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LUGO, CARLOS | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18621333 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOUNTING OBJECTS TO A FRAME | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 3734 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 118d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 17859451 | CUT RESISTANT PORTABLE LOCK APPARATUS | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 86d | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
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