Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMAM, TANZIM | 1 | 71.3% | +27.1% |
| LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 1 | 78.7% | +33.2% |
| AWAIS, MUHAMMAD SUMRAIZ | 1 | 81.7% | +9.3% |
| MARSH, STEVEN M | 1 | 79.4% | +8.0% |
| RODDEN, JOSHUA E | 1 | 58.6% | +51.3% |
| CHEN, CHANGRU | 1 | 49.5% | +37.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835548 | TRANSPORT DEVICE FOR TRANSPORTING PRODUCTS, AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORTING PRODUCTS BY MEANS OF A TRANSPORT DEVICE | AWAIS, MUHAMMAD SUMRAIZ | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19368432 | METERING DEVICE FOR A PACKAGING MACHINE, PACKAGING MACHINE WITH SUCH A METERING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A METERING DEVICE | IMAM, TANZIM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19368432 | METERING DEVICE FOR A PACKAGING MACHINE, PACKAGING MACHINE WITH SUCH A METERING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A METERING DEVICE | IMAM, TANZIM | — |
| 18862603 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INSPECTING CYLINDRICAL CONTAINERS | LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18563032 | GRIPPING DEVICE AND SYSTEM COMPRISING A GRIPPING DEVICE | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | — |
| 17797307 | STERILIZING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STERILIZING AN OUTER FACE OF A RECEPTACLE | CHEN, CHANGRU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19368432 | METERING DEVICE FOR A PACKAGING MACHINE, PACKAGING MACHINE WITH SUCH A METERING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A METERING DEVICE | IMAM, TANZIM | 3731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2025 |
| 18862603 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INSPECTING CYLINDRICAL CONTAINERS | LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18835548 | TRANSPORT DEVICE FOR TRANSPORTING PRODUCTS, AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORTING PRODUCTS BY MEANS OF A TRANSPORT DEVICE | AWAIS, MUHAMMAD SUMRAIZ | 3651 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18419958 | HANDLING SYSTEM FOR A CLEANROOM, A CLEANROOM AND A METHOD FOR LIFTING OFF COVER LAYERS | MARSH, STEVEN M | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18563032 | GRIPPING DEVICE AND SYSTEM COMPRISING A GRIPPING DEVICE | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 17797307 | STERILIZING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STERILIZING AN OUTER FACE OF A RECEPTACLE | CHEN, CHANGRU | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2022 |
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