Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
16 pending office actions • 14 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 52 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 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. 15 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 | 14 (88%) |
| §102 only | 2 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIETHEN, KURT PHILIP | 1 | 79.1% | +9.3% |
| MEHARI, YEMANE | 1 | 89.4% | +6.3% |
| RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 1 | 83.2% | +15.7% |
| AUNG, SAI | 1 | 88.5% | +4.5% |
| BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 1 | 52.0% | -15.0% |
| LEE, KYUNG S | 1 | 87.3% | +7.9% |
| JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | 1 | 73.1% | +26.9% |
| SAETHER, FLEMMING | 1 | 64.9% | +28.4% |
| BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G | 1 | 75.3% | +30.3% |
| SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 83.8% | +12.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728941 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DRIVE SYSTEM OF A RAIL VEHICLE | MEHARI, YEMANE | 8d |
| 18694055 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A TRANSMISSION OF DATA ASSIGNED TO DIFFERENT CLASSES OF TRAFFIC | AUNG, SAI | 8d |
| 18694051 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING BRAKING-BEHAVIOR-RELEVANT PARAMETERS | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 29d |
| 18258868 | RAIL VEHICLE CAR HAVING A TANK | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 56d |
| 18549012 | MULTILAYER BRAKING RESISTANCE DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE | LEE, KYUNG S | 84d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263752 | WASHER FOR COVERING SLOTS | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 13d |
| 18343963 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNITION OF OBSTACLES IN A DANGER ZONE, RAILROAD CROSSING, PLATFORM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND PROVISION APPARATUS | BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G | 27d |
| 18694051 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING BRAKING-BEHAVIOR-RELEVANT PARAMETERS | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 29d |
| 18263748 | MOUNTING INTERFACE AND BUFFER SYSTEM FOR A RAIL VEHICLE | JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | 29d |
| 18258868 | RAIL VEHICLE CAR HAVING A TANK | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 2 |
| 3675 | 2 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2416 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 3613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18861292 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE APPARATUS OF A RAIL VEHICLE | LIETHEN, KURT PHILIP | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18728941 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DRIVE SYSTEM OF A RAIL VEHICLE | MEHARI, YEMANE | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18694051 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING BRAKING-BEHAVIOR-RELEVANT PARAMETERS | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18694055 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A TRANSMISSION OF DATA ASSIGNED TO DIFFERENT CLASSES OF TRAFFIC | AUNG, SAI | 2416 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18559098 | VEHICLE FOR PASSENGER TRANSPORT WITH AN ELECTRIC, COOLED DRIVE DEVICE | BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 3763 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18549012 | MULTILAYER BRAKING RESISTANCE DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE | LEE, KYUNG S | 2831 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18263748 | MOUNTING INTERFACE AND BUFFER SYSTEM FOR A RAIL VEHICLE | JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18263752 | WASHER FOR COVERING SLOTS | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18343963 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNITION OF OBSTACLES IN A DANGER ZONE, RAILROAD CROSSING, PLATFORM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND PROVISION APPARATUS | BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G | 2674 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18258868 | RAIL VEHICLE CAR HAVING A TANK | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 3613 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18257344 | PROCESS FOR THE MODULAR MANUFACTURING OF A CAR BODY SHELL OF A RAIL VEHICLE, AND CAR BODY SHELL | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18039336 | SAFETY SYSTEM FOR AN ENCLOSURE | BROWN, EMILY GAIL | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18245922 | DISPLAYING A GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF INFORMATION | MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE | 3669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
| 17910886 | QUALITY ASSURANCE METHOD FOR AN EXAMPLE-BASED SYSTEM | AFSHAR, KAMRAN | 2125 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17783342 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING DATA | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 2186 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2022 |
| 17615243 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE AND VEHICLE | CARRICO, ROBERT SCOTT | 1727 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2021 |
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