Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
3 pending office actions • 0 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Thia St Co. has 3 pending office actions currently under review. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each of the 3 pending office actions is being handled by a different individual. This distribution creates a variety of perspectives even within a small portfolio. OBERLY, VAN HONG is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The data indicates 0 distinct art units associated with these filings. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the company must manage three separate prosecution tracks. The outcome for each case will depend on the specific interaction with each of the 3 distinct examiners, including OBERLY, VAN HONG.
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 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OBERLY, VAN HONG | 1 | 75.2% | +15.5% |
| SARKER, SANCHIT K | 1 | 78.5% | +46.0% |
| HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C | 1 | 76.7% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19088247 | SENSITIVE DATA PROTECTION USING AN AUXILIARY MACHINE-LEARNING TOOL | SARKER, SANCHIT K | — |
| 19088242 | FINGERPRINT SECURITY OF A MACHINE-LEARNING TOOL | HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19269365 | COPILOT IMPLEMENTATION: RESTRICTING OPERATION TO A DOMAIN OF COMPETENCE | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — |
| 19088247 | SENSITIVE DATA PROTECTION USING AN AUXILIARY MACHINE-LEARNING TOOL | SARKER, SANCHIT K | — |
| 19088242 | FINGERPRINT SECURITY OF A MACHINE-LEARNING TOOL | HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19269365 | COPILOT IMPLEMENTATION: RESTRICTING OPERATION TO A DOMAIN OF COMPETENCE | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19088247 | SENSITIVE DATA PROTECTION USING AN AUXILIARY MACHINE-LEARNING TOOL | SARKER, SANCHIT K | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19088242 | FINGERPRINT SECURITY OF A MACHINE-LEARNING TOOL | HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
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