Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 1 of 9 (11%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 1 | 55.0% | +56.3% |
| BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1 | 75.9% | +42.1% |
| NGUYEN, LAM S | 1 | 78.8% | +0.9% |
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1 | 63.6% | +11.1% |
| CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | 1 | 83.3% | +26.2% |
| GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1 | 67.3% | +53.5% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 28.9% | +61.6% |
| OSMAN, SOMMER YOUSEF | 1 | 43.2% | +45.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18336212 | LIQUID INTERFACE ESTIMATION FOR LIQUID ASPIRATION | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17630037 | FLUID CONTAINER COVER | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 4d overdue |
| 18575712 | MULTICHANNEL PIPETTING HEAD | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | — |
| 18390556 | PIPETTE TIP ADAPTER | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | — |
| 18541491 | Cartridge, Electrowetting Sample Processing System and Feeding Thereof | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | — |
| 18535589 | METHOD FOR CLOSING INCOMPLETE AREA OF INTEREST MARKINGS AND FOR FACILITATING TISSUE TREATMENT | CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD | — |
| 17470669 | CARTRIDGE, DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROL AND MANIPULATION OF LIQUIDS | OSMAN, SOMMER YOUSEF | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17630037 | FLUID CONTAINER COVER | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 4d overdue |
| 18090579 | PIPETTE TIP EXTENSION | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 54d |
| 18575712 | MULTICHANNEL PIPETTING HEAD | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | — |
| 18390556 | PIPETTE TIP ADAPTER | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | — |
| 18541491 | Cartridge, Electrowetting Sample Processing System and Feeding Thereof | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | — |
| 18336212 | LIQUID INTERFACE ESTIMATION FOR LIQUID ASPIRATION | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | — |
| 17470669 | CARTRIDGE, DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROL AND MANIPULATION OF LIQUIDS | OSMAN, SOMMER YOUSEF | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 2 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18575712 | MULTICHANNEL PIPETTING HEAD | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18390556 | PIPETTE TIP ADAPTER | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18543685 | Classifying pipetting procedures with median of pressure curves | NGUYEN, LAM S | 2853 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18541491 | Cartridge, Electrowetting Sample Processing System and Feeding Thereof | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1795 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18535589 | METHOD FOR CLOSING INCOMPLETE AREA OF INTEREST MARKINGS AND FOR FACILITATING TISSUE TREATMENT | CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD | 2667 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18336212 | LIQUID INTERFACE ESTIMATION FOR LIQUID ASPIRATION | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | 1797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18090579 | PIPETTE TIP EXTENSION | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 54d | AI Ready | Dec 29, 2022 |
| 17630037 | FLUID CONTAINER COVER | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 25, 2022 |
| 17470669 | CARTRIDGE, DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROL AND MANIPULATION OF LIQUIDS | OSMAN, SOMMER YOUSEF | 1794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2021 |
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