Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 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 (75%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYUB, HINA F | 1 | 84.8% | +17.5% |
| CHAPEL, DEREK S | 1 | 70.1% | +22.0% |
| GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | 1 | 76.4% | +18.9% |
| GREECE, JAMES R | 1 | 86.7% | +10.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18934213 | PHASE DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPTICAL ELEMENT | AYUB, HINA F | — |
| 18676455 | UNIT CELL, PHASE-TUNABLE METASURFACE AND OPTICAL SYSTEM | GREECE, JAMES R | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18934213 | PHASE DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPTICAL ELEMENT | AYUB, HINA F | — |
| 18760051 | METASURFACE, DESIGN METHOD, DESIGN DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD | CHAPEL, DEREK S | — |
| 18732501 | ENDOSCOPIC PROBE, ENDOSCOPE AND METHOD OF SCANNING CONTROL | GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | — |
| 18676455 | UNIT CELL, PHASE-TUNABLE METASURFACE AND OPTICAL SYSTEM | GREECE, JAMES R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18934213 | PHASE DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPTICAL ELEMENT | AYUB, HINA F | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18760051 | METASURFACE, DESIGN METHOD, DESIGN DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD | CHAPEL, DEREK S | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18732501 | ENDOSCOPIC PROBE, ENDOSCOPE AND METHOD OF SCANNING CONTROL | GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18676455 | UNIT CELL, PHASE-TUNABLE METASURFACE AND OPTICAL SYSTEM | GREECE, JAMES R | 2875 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
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