Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Stéphane Le Bars currently has 1 pending office action active at the patent office. This single matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, DOYLE, GRACE ELIZABETH. The prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a focused scope for this specific patent activity. With only 1 pending action, the portfolio represents a concentrated interaction with the examination process.
DOYLE, GRACE ELIZABETH is the busiest examiner for this profile, as she is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution environment is entirely centralized. This profile shows a specific volume of 1 active patent office interaction, requiring no coordination across different examiners or units.
The presence of 1 pending office action suggests that the applicant is currently managing a limited number of active matters. Since the action is confined to 1 art unit, the technical review is specialized. Practitioners handling this case will only need to interact with a single examiner to address the requirements of the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOYLE, GRACE ELIZABETH | 1 | 93.7% | +3.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35527036 | Belt clothing | DOYLE, GRACE ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2951 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35527036 | Belt clothing | DOYLE, GRACE ELIZABETH | 2951 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialStéphane Le Bars has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Grace Elizabeth Doyle has the most, with 1 of Stéphane Le Bars's pending office actions.