Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKER, LORI LYNN | 2 | 78.6% | +6.6% |
| LE, MINH Q | 1 | 80.5% | +16.4% |
| SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 1 | 61.6% | +20.1% |
| GANEY, STEVEN J | 1 | 82.2% | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19216929 | WATERWAY INSTALLATION STRUCTURE IN A TOILET | LE, MINH Q | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18901766 | TOILET BIDET DEVICE AND TOILET | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | — |
| 18215065 | NOZZLE STRUCTURE AND SPRAY PIPE ASSEMBLY | GANEY, STEVEN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19216929 | WATERWAY INSTALLATION STRUCTURE IN A TOILET | LE, MINH Q | — |
| 18901766 | TOILET BIDET DEVICE AND TOILET | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | — |
| 18215065 | NOZZLE STRUCTURE AND SPRAY PIPE ASSEMBLY | GANEY, STEVEN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 3 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19216929 | WATERWAY INSTALLATION STRUCTURE IN A TOILET | LE, MINH Q | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 18901766 | TOILET BIDET DEVICE AND TOILET | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 3754 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18747858 | SEAT, SEAT DEVICE, WATER PIPE, SHAFT SLEEVE STRUCTURE, SEAT REAR BASE, SEAT STRUCTURE, AND TOILET | BAKER, LORI LYNN | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18734572 | SEAT RING, CLEANING ASSEMBLY, TOILET, AND CONTROL METHOD OF TOILET | BAKER, LORI LYNN | 3754 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18215065 | NOZZLE STRUCTURE AND SPRAY PIPE ASSEMBLY | GANEY, STEVEN J | 3752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
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