Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 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 (67%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOWELL, MARC C | 1 | 68.5% | +24.7% |
| WILKINS III, HARRY D | 1 | 62.5% | +18.6% |
| GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1 | 23.4% | -9.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18046075 | METHOD OF TREATING BALLAST WATER | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563950 | SMART GRANULAR RAW MATERIAL CONVEYANCE SYSTEM AND SMART GRANULAR RAW MATERIAL CONVEYANCE METHOD | HOWELL, MARC C | — |
| 18185062 | SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE PRODUCING SYSTEM | WILKINS III, HARRY D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18563950 | SMART GRANULAR RAW MATERIAL CONVEYANCE SYSTEM AND SMART GRANULAR RAW MATERIAL CONVEYANCE METHOD | HOWELL, MARC C | 1774 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2023 |
| 18185062 | SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE PRODUCING SYSTEM | WILKINS III, HARRY D | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 18046075 | METHOD OF TREATING BALLAST WATER | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1777 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2022 |
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