Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
3 pending office actions • 2 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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YAO, THEODORE N | 1 | 66.9% | +38.7% |
| ANDREWS, DAVID L | 1 | 71.6% | +16.2% |
| PATEL, NEEL G | 1 | 61.8% | +35.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19280684 | DOWNHOLE TOOLS AND SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | ANDREWS, DAVID L | — |
| 18923147 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTISTAGE FRACTURING | PATEL, NEEL G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19436507 | DOWNHOLE TOOL AND SETTING SYSTEM FOR USE IN A WELLBORE | YAO, THEODORE N | — |
| 19280684 | DOWNHOLE TOOLS AND SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | ANDREWS, DAVID L | — |
| 18923147 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTISTAGE FRACTURING | PATEL, NEEL G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 2 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19436507 | DOWNHOLE TOOL AND SETTING SYSTEM FOR USE IN A WELLBORE | YAO, THEODORE N | 3676 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2025 |
| 19280684 | DOWNHOLE TOOLS AND SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | ANDREWS, DAVID L | 3672 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 18923147 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTISTAGE FRACTURING | PATEL, NEEL G | 3676 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
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