Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 1 | 82.0% | +16.6% |
| BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 1 | 83.5% | +13.0% |
| LIN, CHENG XI | 1 | 84.5% | +14.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280867 | GROUNDING CONTACT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 31d overdue |
| 18546151 | Positioning Unit and Contacting Method | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 15d overdue |
| 18355193 | LOCKING DEVICE FOR A PANTOGRAPH | LIN, CHENG XI | 8d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280867 | GROUNDING CONTACT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 31d overdue |
| 18546151 | Positioning Unit and Contacting Method | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 15d overdue |
| 18355193 | LOCKING DEVICE FOR A PANTOGRAPH | LIN, CHENG XI | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18280867 | GROUNDING CONTACT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18546151 | Positioning Unit and Contacting Method | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18355193 | LOCKING DEVICE FOR A PANTOGRAPH | LIN, CHENG XI | 3615 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
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