Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Smeg S P A has 3 pending office actions currently active in its portfolio. These matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each action is being reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio also spans 2 distinct art units.
PHAM, RICKY NGOC is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the 3 total pending office actions. With the distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the company's current prosecution is spread across multiple points of review within the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, RICKY NGOC | 1 | 97.5% | +2.6% |
| CLARK-RASHEED, COURTNEY JANELLE | 1 | 95.6% | +4.7% |
| JENNISON, BRIAN W | 1 | 71.9% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35524756 | Oven | CLARK-RASHEED, COURTNEY JANELLE | 34d |
| 35527031 | Electric grill | PHAM, RICKY NGOC | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409433 | VENTILATED OVEN AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A VENTILATED OVEN IN AIR FRY MODE | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2951 | 1 |
| 2921 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35527031 | Electric grill | PHAM, RICKY NGOC | 2951 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 35524756 | Oven | CLARK-RASHEED, COURTNEY JANELLE | 2921 | §112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18409433 | VENTILATED OVEN AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A VENTILATED OVEN IN AIR FRY MODE | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
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