Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALONE, BAYAN | 1 | 76.1% | +17.3% |
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 1 | 78.0% | +16.2% |
| HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 1 | 69.2% | +51.0% |
| EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18310910 | SLIT CHAMBER AND ATOMIZING APPARATUS | EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18900029 | PROCESSING SYSTEM | SALONE, BAYAN | — |
| 18676368 | CAVITATION PROCESSING METHOD | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18900029 | PROCESSING SYSTEM | SALONE, BAYAN | — |
| 18676368 | CAVITATION PROCESSING METHOD | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | — |
| 18601110 | LATERAL PROCESSING MACHINE | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 4100 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18900029 | PROCESSING SYSTEM | SALONE, BAYAN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18676368 | CAVITATION PROCESSING METHOD | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18601110 | LATERAL PROCESSING MACHINE | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 3726 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18310910 | SLIT CHAMBER AND ATOMIZING APPARATUS | EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
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