Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 1 | 72.9% | +14.6% |
| WONG, ERIC K | 1 | 84.1% | +9.4% |
| MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1 | 71.4% | +11.1% |
| VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | 1 | 28.8% | +47.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18523375 | POLYMER-COMPOSITE MATERIAL WITH LIGHT CONCENTRATING AND SPECTRAL SHIFTING PROPERTIES | WONG, ERIC K | 1d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16612647 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING THE PRESENCE OF ALLELIC DROPOUT USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS | VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573512 | STEERABLE ROBOTIC NEEDLES WITH TUNABLE STIFFNESS SEGMENTS FOR LARGE CURVATURE MANEUVERS | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 168d overdue |
| 18140075 | SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY WITH FERROMAGNETIC POLYMER PILLARS CAPABLE OF MOVEMENT IN RESPONSE TO MAGNETIC FIELDS | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 11d overdue |
| 16612647 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING THE PRESENCE OF ALLELIC DROPOUT USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS | VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573512 | STEERABLE ROBOTIC NEEDLES WITH TUNABLE STIFFNESS SEGMENTS FOR LARGE CURVATURE MANEUVERS | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | — | Non-Final OA | 168d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18523375 | POLYMER-COMPOSITE MATERIAL WITH LIGHT CONCENTRATING AND SPECTRAL SHIFTING PROPERTIES | WONG, ERIC K | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18140075 | SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY WITH FERROMAGNETIC POLYMER PILLARS CAPABLE OF MOVEMENT IN RESPONSE TO MAGNETIC FIELDS | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 16612647 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING THE PRESENCE OF ALLELIC DROPOUT USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS | VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | 1687 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2019 |
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