Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
8 pending office actions • 2 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 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 | 3 (38%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIEVES, NELSON J | 1 | 75.2% | +16.6% |
| JONES, GORDON A | 1 | 60.7% | +38.0% |
| TANENBAUM, TZVI SAMUEL | 1 | 68.2% | +9.6% |
| PHAN, AN BACH | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SMITH, COURTNEY L | 1 | 85.5% | +11.8% |
| WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | 1 | 84.6% | +14.4% |
| FRANK, RODNEY T | 1 | 72.8% | +3.5% |
| MARTIN, TRAVIS LYNDEN | 1 | 58.5% | +43.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18806016 | SERVER | SMITH, COURTNEY L | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18806087 | LIQUID LEAKAGE PROTECTION DEVICE | PHAN, AN BACH | — |
| 18805939 | LIQUID LEAKAGE DETECTION BAND | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | — |
| 18805977 | LIQUID LEAKAGE DETECTION DEVICE AND LIQUID LEAKAGE DETECTION SENSOR | FRANK, RODNEY T | — |
| 17739144 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | MARTIN, TRAVIS LYNDEN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18878946 | HEAT DISSIPATION ELEMENT AND THERMOSIPHON RADIATOR | NIEVES, NELSON J | — |
| 18863272 | COOLING DEVICE | JONES, GORDON A | — |
| 18806016 | SERVER | SMITH, COURTNEY L | — |
| 18805939 | LIQUID LEAKAGE DETECTION BAND | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | — |
| 17739144 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | MARTIN, TRAVIS LYNDEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 2 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18878946 | HEAT DISSIPATION ELEMENT AND THERMOSIPHON RADIATOR | NIEVES, NELSON J | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18863272 | COOLING DEVICE | JONES, GORDON A | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18814638 | LIQUID COLLECTING DEVICE | TANENBAUM, TZVI SAMUEL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18806087 | LIQUID LEAKAGE PROTECTION DEVICE | PHAN, AN BACH | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18806016 | SERVER | SMITH, COURTNEY L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18805939 | LIQUID LEAKAGE DETECTION BAND | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18805977 | LIQUID LEAKAGE DETECTION DEVICE AND LIQUID LEAKAGE DETECTION SENSOR | FRANK, RODNEY T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 17739144 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | MARTIN, TRAVIS LYNDEN | 1721 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2022 |
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