Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
14 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 46 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 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. 13 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 11 (79%) |
| §112 only | 3 (21%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURCH, MELODY M | 2 | 64.1% | +26.0% |
| FRISBY, KEITH J | 1 | 77.5% | +1.5% |
| NGUYEN, NGOC T | 1 | 83.1% | +19.8% |
| KIDANU, GEDEON M | 1 | 81.3% | +14.5% |
| WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 1 | 78.6% | +14.1% |
| ENGLISH, PETER C | 1 | 32.7% | +26.2% |
| LIN, ERICA S Y | 1 | 85.9% | +2.3% |
| PETTIEGREW, TOYA R | 1 | 62.2% | +19.8% |
| TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | 1 | 82.6% | +7.6% |
| MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 1 | 67.9% | +13.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292834 | UNBALANCE MEASURING DEVICE, PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A WORKPIECE | KIDANU, GEDEON M | 58d overdue |
| 19107154 | CYLINDER HEAD COVER, AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING A CYLINDER HEAD COVER | NGUYEN, NGOC T | 32d overdue |
| 18275883 | COMPRESSOR, IN PARTICULAR REFRIGERANT COMPRESSOR, REFRIGERATION MACHINE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COMPRESSOR | TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | 30d overdue |
| 18284048 | CONTROL PROCESS FOR CONTROLLING CALCINATION OF CLAYS FOR THE CEMENT INDUSTRY | LIN, ERICA S Y | 70d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281066 | SYSTEM | PETTIEGREW, TOYA R | 98d overdue |
| 18292834 | UNBALANCE MEASURING DEVICE, PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A WORKPIECE | KIDANU, GEDEON M | 58d overdue |
| 19107154 | CYLINDER HEAD COVER, AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING A CYLINDER HEAD COVER | NGUYEN, NGOC T | 32d overdue |
| 18038926 | METHOD FOR MINIMIZING NITROGEN OXIDE EMISSIONS OF A STEAM REFORMING PLANT AND STEAM REFORMING PLANT THEREFOR | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 22d overdue |
| 17991388 | END-STOP CONTROL VALVES FOR PROVIDING PROGESSIVE DAMPING FORCES IN VIBRATION DAMPERS | BURCH, MELODY M | 18d overdue |
| 18538928 | VIBRATION DAMPER FOR A VEHICLE | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 8d overdue |
| 18384793 | VIBRATION DAMPER, BICYCLE FORK, SPRING STRUT, AND USE OF A VIBRATION DAMPER | ENGLISH, PETER C | 63d |
| 17991003 | END-STOP CONTROL VALVES FOR PROVIDING PROGESSIVE DAMPING FORCES IN VIBRATION DAMPERS | BURCH, MELODY M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 3 |
| 3614 | 2 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19074597 | STEERING COLUMN FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | FRISBY, KEITH J | 3614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19107154 | CYLINDER HEAD COVER, AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING A CYLINDER HEAD COVER | NGUYEN, NGOC T | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18292834 | UNBALANCE MEASURING DEVICE, PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A WORKPIECE | KIDANU, GEDEON M | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 58d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18538928 | VIBRATION DAMPER FOR A VEHICLE | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 3616 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18384793 | VIBRATION DAMPER, BICYCLE FORK, SPRING STRUT, AND USE OF A VIBRATION DAMPER | ENGLISH, PETER C | 3993 | §103 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18284048 | CONTROL PROCESS FOR CONTROLLING CALCINATION OF CLAYS FOR THE CEMENT INDUSTRY | LIN, ERICA S Y | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18281066 | SYSTEM | PETTIEGREW, TOYA R | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 98d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18275883 | COMPRESSOR, IN PARTICULAR REFRIGERANT COMPRESSOR, REFRIGERATION MACHINE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COMPRESSOR | TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18038926 | METHOD FOR MINIMIZING NITROGEN OXIDE EMISSIONS OF A STEAM REFORMING PLANT AND STEAM REFORMING PLANT THEREFOR | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18143480 | STEER-BY-WIRE STEERING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A STEER-BY-WIRE STEERING SYSTEM IN A NORMAL OPERATING MODE AND IN A SPECIAL OPERATING MODE | TAYLOR JR, ANTHONY D | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 18099587 | STEERING COLUMN FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | STRICKLER, SCOTT LAWRENCE | 3614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 88d overdue | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
| 18014600 | POWER-ASSISTED STEERING FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 3611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 74d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
| 17991388 | END-STOP CONTROL VALVES FOR PROVIDING PROGESSIVE DAMPING FORCES IN VIBRATION DAMPERS | BURCH, MELODY M | 3616 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
| 17991003 | END-STOP CONTROL VALVES FOR PROVIDING PROGESSIVE DAMPING FORCES IN VIBRATION DAMPERS | BURCH, MELODY M | 3616 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
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